No worries. FYI, the finnancial problems are getting better. The park is no longer under threat of closure (as it unbelievebly was in `94 by Eisner, as a threat to the restructuring) and profits are up - though the debt from construction is still being paid off.
In a nutshell, WDI built the ultimate Magic Kingdom. Half as big again as Orlandos. Each attraction was taken back to basics and rebuilt, improved, expanded with state of the art technology; an example - PotC is on THREE floors! Eager not to repeat the Anaheim and to a lesser extent Orlando experiences with not enough hotel rooms on site and 3rd parties taking guests, and revenue, away, it was decided to build 7 resorts for day one. This was dropped to 6 just before construction, but the resorts were like the park - no expense spared. The Newport Bay was the largest in Europe when it opened.
The park was very popular from day one; indeed Indiana Jones and the Temple of Peril was an off the shelf stop gap to take the strain of ThunderMountain whilst Discovery/Space Mountain was finalised; Indy was greenlit, bought, installed and themed in less than 6 months for the 1993 summer season. The 1992 summer was mayhem. Park closures were the norm. However, the projected figures for hotel occupancy never happened; the price was too high, people didn`t stay as long as Eisner had hoped (he envisaged a mini WDW from day one) and indeed the Newport was mothballed over winter. The park was doing a roaring trade; the hotels were hemmoraging money. Europe was in a recession. All the while the banks had to be paid back the $5-6 BILLION EuroDisneyland had cost to open in April 1992.
And they are still paying off the loans.
