durangojim
Well-Known Member
I think that's great! Rarely do we have poor service, it's just that the service we receive isn't often outstanding which for us it used to be. Also this is all subjective.
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"Budget Cuts" - Now Showing at Disney's Hollywood Studios
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Kman101
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LOL. There you go again. It never fails. Can't wait to see your posts when Star Wars Land opens in 2019 and the GMR opens in 2019. But you do you. Don't let facts get in the way.
Well, unless you're working there and monitoring the feet of all workers, you cannot definitively say that there's been no slippage and no one has slipped with all that dirt being moved around.
Sorry, I had to.
I need some humor today to counteract all of the stupidity I'm encountering at work.
GoofGoof
Premium Member
Nobody is arguing that DHS doesn't need capacity now. Closing nearly half the park at the same time to build new stuff was IMHO a foolish plan but it has little to do with cutting costs in 2017. If GMR sat idle for several years before construction started then you might have a case but not if they open the new ride in 2019 as scheduled. They closed it now so they would have enough time to finish the new ride for the SWL push not to cut current operating costs.
...of course its hard to argue logic with someone who still believes SW Land isn't actually being built in FL or at least will be delayed 5 years
RSoxNo1
Well-Known Member
Due to guest demand, PizzeRizzo will be open fewer hours.
I once won a coupon to PizzeRizzo in a Disney trivia contest.
Second place prize was two coupons.
ford91exploder
Resident Curmudgeon
Yes there are still exceptional CM's who give great service but sadly they are the exeception not the rule any longer
ford91exploder
Resident Curmudgeon
Nobody is arguing that DHS doesn't need capacity now. Closing nearly half the park at the same time to build new stuff was IMHO a foolish plan but it has little to do with cutting costs in 2017. If GMR sat idle for several years before construction started then you might have a case but not if they open the new ride in 2019 as scheduled. They closed it now so they would have enough time to finish the new ride for the SWL push not to cut current operating costs.
...of course its hard to argue logic with someone who still believes SW Land isn't actually being built in FL or at least will be delayed 5 years
Yeah, right believe what you want to but DHS STILL has profit targets to make and shutting down an expensive ride helps them make those targets during construction.
The ideal situation would be close DHS for 12-18 months. Reallocate the permanent Disney CM's to other parks and cut back the CP'ers to open slots for them.
But TDO is too cheap to do this.
seabreezept813
Well-Known Member
Ya and they were upfront about it.. I did go to a massive state school so maybe that's how they dealt with it there
GoofGoof
Premium Member
So why not close GMR 6 months ago or even 2 years ago? It wasn't free to run then either and they always had targets to hit. If they close a ride or attraction and the building just sits and rots then it's most likely cost cuttting. When they close a ride or attraction to replace it with another ride or attraction the cost savings during construction are an ancillary benefit but it's highly unlikely that it was a driver of the decision. That seems pretty basic to me.
Kman101
Well-Known Member
That's not at all realistic.
Chef Mickey
Well-Known Member
That's 7-8 months the GMR should have remained open.
I'm the biggest Disney apologist here, but DHS is a joke right now.
But if work on M&MR didn't start until then, then it will not have been open in time for the SW:GE opening. With huge crowds in the park and hours wait to get into SWGE, people would have been just as angry that they waited too long to start work on M&MR since it wouldn't be open to soak up the crowds.
Also, it was in increasingly worse shape and they certainly weren't going to spend money to fix anything that breaks. Then Disney would have been vilified for offering such a broken experience.
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GoofGoof
Premium Member
I agree with this. I know they wanted to have Mickey open the same year as SW Land but maybe they should have either delayed the start of construction until Toy Story Land opened and fast tracked construction (if that's possible) or picked a different location.
Goofyernmost
Well-Known Member
Park Hoppers and multi day tickets. As someone said, if someone pays $100.00+ to go there for one day, then that person is borderline insane, if not completely insane.
GoofGoof
Premium Member
...or really uniformed. I bet some people walk in not knowing that half the park is a construction site.
Kman101
Well-Known Member
So now we're criticizing them for actually getting moving on a project? (And no I don't agree they should have waited, but I do think it should have been a new build and GMR shouldn't have closed but what's done is done).
This thread ... lol
GoofGoof
Premium Member
I actually think it's a valid point. There should have been a bare minimum level of attractions they wouldn't go under and I believe we crossed that point with the closing of GMR. I know it's less than a year before something new opens but it's still poor show for Disney to leave the park the way it is for 6 to 8 months.
Goofyernmost
Well-Known Member
The thing is that if someone has never been there unlike many of us that pick and choose what they are going to see. They can make a day out of it. The shows, the rides the restaurants, Fantasmic show. All can make a day out of it. Tot, RnRC, Muppets, Indy, TSM, Star Tours, the street shows that still exist. Whatever, the reason if they pay $100.00 for the day, they know something about the park and have a target of "must see's" in mind. I don't believe that someone that decides to go for just one day hasn't done some kind of questioning. Therefore, I also don't believe that there are very many single day tickets sold at DHS.
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