News Cost Cutting Measures Coming Early 2025

[networkpro]

So I’ll give my thoughts on this. I don’t think Disney is going to cancel these projects. Universal is going to wipe the floor with them if they do.

I just priced out a trip at the Grand Helios with express pass etc and it’s still half the price of a Disney trip.

I have to wait and see how good Epic is but what if it’s amazing ? Who is going to pay double to go to Disney?

True, but Universal is hedging their bets by forcing people that want to go to either be a current passholder who can buy a dated one day admission or others have to buy a package which contains one Epic day and other days at other parks. They don't want any of their current parks to become ghost towns.

 

[Jrb1979]

True, but Universal is hedging their bets by forcing people that want to go to either be a current passholder who can buy a dated one day admission or others have to buy a package which contains one Epic day and other days at other parks. They don't want any of their current parks to become ghost towns.

That's for now. They have already said before park opening they will have day tickets available.

 

[Sirwalterraleigh]

True, but Universal is hedging their bets by forcing people that want to go to either be a current passholder who can buy a dated one day admission or others have to buy a package which contains one Epic day and other days at other parks. They don't want any of their current parks to become ghost towns.

Their parks won’t become ghost towns

Because while epic is the lure…the marketplace has arranged it now where there’s way more value in staying in one compound as opposed to 20 years ago when you could alternate in between without taking a big hit in what you’re paying/getting

And it’s not hard to trace how it got there

 

[Fido Chuckwagon]

followed by improved metrics post Epic..

Maybe. Maybe not.

 

[IanDLBZF]

The last real significant tightening (during normal times) was 2015 against Shanghai. It really did nothing to WDW's capital expenditure plan. Quarterly belt tightening is pretty normal when we know they are having a soft 2 quarters followed by improved metrics post Epic..

Fact check, that was early 2016 AFAIK.

 

[Fido Chuckwagon]

Their parks won’t become ghost towns

Because while epic is the lure…the marketplace has arranged it now where there’s way more value in staying in one compound as opposed to 20 years ago when you could alternate in between without taking a big hit in what you’re paying/getting

And it’s not hard to trace how it got there

WDW’s end of non-expiring tickets was the first of the mutually assured destructive volleys that WDW and Uni flung at each other making combined trips much more expensive.

 

[Jrb1979]

We could reduce 75% of this thread if people understood the difference between operational cost cutting and capital expenditure.

How did we escalate from they are reducing kitchen staff to Tropical Americas is in trouble?

The last real significant tightening (during normal times) was 2015 against Shanghai. It really did nothing to WDW's capital expenditure plan. Quarterly belt tightening is pretty normal when we know they are having a soft 2 quarters followed by improved metrics post Epic..

IMO that's a terrible way to run the parks. I know many of you will say that's normal for most companies now. At one point Disney was the standard and guest satisfaction was almost on the same level as quarterly earnings.