Turn it around...
Citing mistakes does nothing constructive.
Instead we should concentrate on making good suggestions on how to make each park better. Disney, does listen to us, and this board (I've found) is the most positive minded Disney board I've visited. This is also the board that the CMs seem to know about. So we can make a difference.
For instance, I've always growled about why Ariel doesn't do meet and greets.
That having her with fins in the grotto is what doesn't make sense since at the end of the movie she was given legs by her father. In fact it was in the last 2 - 3 months that I suggested here that perhaps Germany should start up their own Princess breakfast and "hire" Ariel and their own Snow White, and the dwarfs.
And now Ariel appears at the Princess Storybook Lunch and Dinner...do you think my suggestion had anything to do with it? Perhaps...
Here are my suggestions:
MK:
Big: convert raceway into tooncars, move to opposite side of tracks, make track much longer, behind toontown, you drive through a friendly toon village, then stretching behind Fantasyland you enter a scary villain's forest and town, then back to the friendly toon village.
The racecars never fit into any theme, are noisy and smelly (they could be turned into electric toon cars), and less fun since that moron sued Disney forcing Disney to put up the real big no bumping signs everywhere.
This frees up a huge chunk of "wasted space", for future expansion in Tomorrowland (like an advanced amphitheatre), allows the path to toontown to be straightening up and widening, and the addition of more toontown things on both sides of the path....which would then better define Fantasyland as ending at the Mad Tea Party, which before sort of stuck into Tomorrowland.
Then, of course the development of the Villian's area of Fantasyland, behind Fantasyland...all of these ideas would vastly increase the capacity of the park, which means they could fit more people in every day and make more money to justify the financing of the changes/additions.
Little: Can't think of any little thing since MK is so perfect, now...
but, if the villian's area was built, bringing back Mr. Toad would fit quite well in that area, since you go to hell at the end.
Epcot:
Big: Change funding requirements so that several new countries get added to World Showcase...or start funding them (and assume 100% of the profits).
Add more eating options to Wonders of Life, so that it becomes a magnet for people later in the day like the Land is....basically find some way to get the people in there instead of leaving it to rot...the attractions are great.
Little: better transportation to cut down on walking. I get tired of hearing all the CMs joking how EPCOT stands for Everyone Comes Out Tired. I feel for the people walking in from the Epcot resorts needing to get to the opposite side of the lagoon. If the friendship boats crossed to the opposite docks, then they'd save more steps and time. The way it is now, you can actually walk to the other side faster than the boats. If they added a dock between Norway and China, then they could add another route between it and the International Gateway.
MGM:
Big: Muppetland, Harry Potter land,
Little: build a new stage for Hunchback and bring it back
bring back character dining at Hollywood and Vine...the only place where you could "Dine with the Stars".
AK:
Big: Beastly Kingdom (newly designed)
Little: lower gaming fees in Dinoland to almost nothing...it's simply not right for Disney to be raking in dough on what is suppose to be an attraction...a much needed addition to AK. What, are we funding Everest here??? I don't see them charging $3-$4 per turn at the shooting gallery in Frontierland. If the games were more like $1 per adult, .25 per child, then they'd still pay for the cheap, non-Disney plush that you could win. Then this area would quickly become a favorite...a gaming area where you could go and NOT get ripped off and just have some fun....the kind of carnival we dream of.
Sorry, but throwing down $3-$4 to watch my daughter roll 3 balls into holes is ludicrous, or take 3 BasketBall shots. Except for the "lucky" ball roll game, a kid has no chance to win anything on their own, so you have to shell out at least $6 for kid and a parent to play to at least have a chance to win something. And not even the biggest dino-plush would cost Disney more then $5. Better yet, install a token system, where dad can get 6 tokens for $5, and 5 kids tokens for $1.
The only time we've ever played these games is when it was free (at the passholders party, and when they gave us 3 free games tokens at breakfast) and only ONCE we paid for ONE game when it 1st opened (I managed to beat the other parents in the water gun-gas pump game), and my daughter never ever played with the big dino I won. I think it was only $2 a head back then, now it's $3?
If I was in charge, I'd quickly end this horrible rip off, and even add some more games (to handle the expected surge of interest). And I'd monitor the games so that they just break even (adding more shots to the BB game, more balls per turn in the Comet game)...Break even would, though, include CM pay and maintenance, so that no one would consider closing the area as a result of cost cutting.
WDW:
Big: extend monorail from Epcot, to International Gateway, to MGM, to Blizzard Beach, to Animal Kingdom. At AK the train would arrive on one track and switch over to the other track to create a dual "loop" between AK and MK. On the MK side, I'd build a big Parking Garage in the parking lot of the TaTC, to consolodate all the parking into one compact area (no trams). I'd integrate the new monorail line, and tickets into the parking garage. I'd extend/rebuild the 2 tracks from Epcot to both pass through the new PG then loop around the existing monorail system. It would also need to pass through the CR and stop at a new station at the MK then loop back around to complete the AK to MK circuit. The existing monorail system would then be devoted to resort guests only (and visiting them), allowing for the addition of additional resorts, the first of which I'd build in the current site of the TaTC which would be a large character themed value resort, The House of Mouse, or something like that.
This would eliminate the longer bus routes...all the resorts would simply bus to the nearest hub...AKL to AK, All-Stars to BlizzardBeach stop, Caribean, PC to MGM...
They could then use smaller busses (during light times) and trams (during heavy congestion).
Little: Weekly parking passes...with Disney looking for ways to keep visitors on-site, weekly discounted parking passes could help (another ticket add-on?). $7 (or is it $8 now) a day parking adds up. If you can get your guests to commit to a discounted week of parking, then maybe they'd be less prone to spend yet another $8 for parking at Universal when you've already paid for parking at WDW. As another ticket add-on, it would be another good reason to buy your tickets ahead of time, making yet another commitment to WDW for your entire stay. I would discount a dollar off each day...$7 for 1st, $6 for 2nd, $5 for 3rd, $4 for 4th, $3 for 5th, $2 for 6th, $1 for 7th, free for the rest of your ticketed stay.
Even if the current price was $8, I'd charge only $7 for the 1st day ticket, since it is paid for in advance.
Note: I am an annual passport holder, so this doesn't affect me, but if I were in charge, that's what I'd consider for the benefit of the park and to reward the guests.
