News D23 Expo 2022

[CaptainAmerica]

Can I just please just say something really important that everyone should keep in mind:

I'm really not at all excited for the Hatbox Ghost. meh.

It's not that cool. It's one of a hundred effects. I don't get the obsession with it.

 

[Cmdr_Crimson]

Welp.....Guess it all boils down to it...

 

[fgmnt]

The worst part is that two years from now, forumites will still be continuously and breathlessly asking for and expecting lots of specific details and news from D23.

Lesson won't be learned.

Being disappointed by this must suck. I'm over here slightly amused that we got 20 minutes of chatting about someone's artstation portfolio as meaningful announcement content. The C-suite equivalent of realizing your term paper was due one evening and you had not yet started it.

I guess, cards on the table, I am disappointed that they are slow rolling the reopening of WDWRR, but at least I also get to be amused that it will have taken them 6 turns of the calendar to open a single cloned roller coaster.

 

[Henry Mystic]

I really hope universal knocks it outta the park… Disney needs to play catch-up again… guess they didn’t learn from Potter

Fingers crossed.

 

[BubbaisSleep]

I'm so exhausted after that. Blue Sky only ideas? Lets throw Moana in another park just cause. The other site egging those foolish enough to believe those PM rumors again after decades.

 

[Doberge]

There's an intruder invading Orlando and Disney is choosing to play dead.

 

[trainplane3]

Can I just please just say something really important that everyone should keep in mind:

I'm really not at all excited for the Hatbox Ghost. meh.

I mean, I'm not either but it's minor addition. It's not hurting something and another AA is great to have.

My favorite announcement was Harmonious is ending.
Figment M&G is nice but with the ride the way it is sucks. Should've been something for Epcot 40. Really inexcusable honestly.

 

[GhostHost1000]

The best part of today. HEA coming back


Do I look into selling some of my DVC contracts now?

 

[danv3]

At the end of the day, they know people will keep going to WDW and pay the asking price. They may not be the same people, but they won’t run out of guests in the short to medium term.

Nothing will change drastically until that no longer happens.

This is it right here. There's no investment at WDW because there doesn't need to be from Bob's point of view. As long as the money machine goes BRRRRRRR why would they make major investments?

But given that, Harm and Enchantment must be getting really, really bad guest scores to be replaced already.

 

[UpAllNight]

Not sure on the intention of purposely neglecting Disneyworld.

 

[jaxonp]

Instead of adding a small thing of Disney Villians in MK, I think a 5th park all about villians would be pretty awesome.

No 5th park. Stop trying to make a 5th park happen… it is never going to happen.


It’s meet and greet season

 

[Casper Gutman]

The worst part about this is that more people will start coming to Universal, prices will increase, and there’s every chance Comcast will get as foolish and complacent about theme parks as Disney. Stay away, darn it! Universal’s mine!!!

 

[Cmdr_Crimson]

Soooo...Nothing even about Fantasmic!

 

[marni1971]

 

[Sirwalterraleigh]

At the end of the day, they know people will keep going to WDW and pay the asking price. They may not be the same people, but they won’t run out of guests in the short to medium term.

Nothing will change drastically until that no longer happens.

They’re just not learning round here, Martin. Nothing today was “surprising” at all.

…I am still sorry about Brazil though

This is exactly what I was thinking. They don't see any reason to spend more money at WDW right now, unless it's a relatively small amount that helps push merchandise.

Exactly. It’s the truth.
But when you say it…you’re a “hater”…which is just fancy talk for “a realist that happens to be an adult”

 

[jaxonp]

Soooo...Nothing even about Fantasmic!

Fantastic meet and greet will be announced soon.

 

[WonderWab]

TRUUUE

 

[Mouse3268]

After this panel, I feel less bad about choosing to skip Disney to go to Epic Universe when that opens.

This sealed my desire to do Universal/Sea World in the future over Disney. If I do any Disney park in the near future it would be Disneyland.

 

[Sirwalterraleigh]

People should stop going to wdw- literally could spend the same amount or less and go to a superior park in Tokyo.

The customers determine what gets built. Too many just aren’t getting what that means.

 

[Andrew C]

I think y’all are underselling the plan to expand behind big thunder and redo Dinoland. They aren’t gonna throw that out without it being an actual plan to do something in those areas. We kinda thought dinoland was gonna happen eventually but the MK expansion definitely wasn’t on my radar.