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[ParadoxPortals]

Question for the pixie dusters and shills:

If everything is so great at the world's largest themed resort, why can't Disney operate both of their award-winning waterparks during the peak waterpark season?

@Sirwalterraleigh please no hints for our contestants.

I mean regardless of how well you're doing financially, if you have more water parks open than you have demand for water park experiences by guests, it would make sense to shutter one park and keep the other open to save money. I'm not happy about this at all, in fact I hate but, but it objectively isn't a sign that Disney is struggling financially these days. They're just cheap and wanna reduce as many expenses as possible to make final profits as high as can be

 

[Dranth]

But the parks are MOBBED!!!

So they have to raise prices!!!

Never mind cheap cost cutting moves such as this. College programmers just too much


Isn’t that the narrative of the last men left inside bobs Alamo defending him?

Sure, it is a cheap and easy cost cutting move, but one I don't blame them for using.

Not that is wouldn't be nice to have both running but it is so far down the line for most people that it is kind of funny we are even having this discussion. Disney is now giving days away to the water parks so few people go. It isn't just Disney either. Water parks in general, at least in North America, have low attendance levels.

Bottom line, there are a TON of other things Disney could do to engender some good will or reverse course that will have a far larger impact than this.

 

[Dranth]

Those days are long gone. Their water park marketshare plummeted and they essentially just handed the business to Volcano Bay. It's now at the point where you'd struggle to get one of them to capacity let alone 2.

As usual all down to refusal to invest and incompetence.

I don't believe VB is doing all that great either. It was pretty close but the last year we have numbers for, TL had more visitors than VB despite not being opened as much.

I think water parks in general are just very limited in their appeal since the early 2000s. Not that there isn't a very supportive group, it just isn't that big or growing.

 

[Sirwalterraleigh]

Next to nothing has been done to compromise those themes bar the frozen retheme of tikes peak which was unnecessary but that’s it.

I don’t recall attempting to make a point otherwise?

 

[Sirwalterraleigh]

Ok I would argue that things are at least slightly better than the chapek years but in any case what you said does not disprove my point .

There were no “chapek years”

But that’s where it gets complicated

 

[Mr. Sullivan]

When it gets to the level of intentionally keeping a park closed, you're being disingenuous by just simply shrugging it off and labeling a person a hater.

This is not like keeping a restaurant or attraction/pavilion or part of a hotel closed where you can just pretend it's not a problem.

Has anyone in this thread gone to any length to justify it being closed? Who are you yelling at exactly?

Also, isn’t it possible that some of us don’t really care if it’s open or closed or not because we just don’t like water parks? I’m not gonna sit here and go on and on about thinking it’s stupid to not have both open at the same time when the reality is far as I’m concerned they could close and never re-open both of them and my life would go on.

I’m happy for those that enjoy them, but even when they were both open they were hardly attendance monsters. I just don’t know that the majority of people going on a WDW trip are factoring in the water parks. Hell, I wouldn’t be shocked if a large number don’t even know they’re there.

It isn’t being a shill or a pixie duster to not break out into fits of hysteria over every dumb choice the company makes.

 

[Sirwalterraleigh]

Sure, it is a cheap and easy cost cutting move, but one I don't blame them for using.

Not that is wouldn't be nice to have both running but it is so far down the line for most people that it is kind of funny we are even having this discussion. Disney is now giving days away to the water parks so few people go. It isn't just Disney either. Water parks in general, at least in North America, have low attendance levels.

Bottom line, there are a TON of other things Disney could do to engender some good will or reverse course that will have a far larger impact than this.

Demand certainly isn’t as high as it was…and they’ve stated their “distaste” for a lot of the day to day clientele more than a few times…

…but it looks cheap. Who wants to pay high prices to go anywhere with mothballing? Which goes against the crap they’ve been pushing for 10 years.

There is a value beyond the dollar…bad managers miss it here

 

[monothingie]

I mean regardless of how well you're doing financially, if you have more water parks open than you have demand for water park experiences by guests, it would make sense to shutter one park and keep the other open to save money. I'm not happy about this at all, in fact I hate but, but it objectively isn't a sign that Disney is struggling financially these days. They're just cheap and wanna reduce as many expenses as possible to make final profits as high as can be

Has anyone in this thread gone to any length to justify it being closed? Who are you yelling at exactly?

Also, isn’t it possible that some of us don’t really care if it’s open or closed or not because we just don’t like water parks? I’m not gonna sit here and go on and on about thinking it’s stupid to not have both open at the same time when the reality is far as I’m concerned they could close and never re-open both of them and my life would go on.

Operationally it is too expensive to operate two water parks at the same time. Demand has also dried up because pricing is too high. Guests are foregoing water parks because it is a non-necessary component of a visit to WDW and simply not worth the added expense on top of already expensive tickets.

I’m happy for those that enjoy them, but even when they were both open they were hardly attendance monsters. I just don’t know that the majority of people going on a WDW trip are factoring in the water parks. Hell, I wouldn’t be shocked if a large number don’t even know they’re there.

During the summer season not too long ago, both water parks would be packed. Admission was also half the price. The company is worried about operational expenses but opens the water park in the winter when it barely makes it into the 60s to tens of people.

It isn’t being a shill or a pixie duster to not break out into fits of hysteria over every dumb choice the company makes.

There’s sadly a lot of celebration of Disney stupidity on the socials.