hopemax
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Me! Because I’ve gone through the other calculations and seen how people react to what is built. My determination is the biggest thing that will get people out of lines for headliners is other headliners. I point to the numbers of Ds& Es in the 70s vs what they have at Epcot and AK. Even MK is a problem because Country Bears and HOP were headliners but now they're not. Plus attendance is now so high that the ratio is out of wack. DHS is the park that I would say really needs well executed smaller stuff. Because there are only so many shows you can watch. Dark ride in Animation Courtyard, Muppets actual ride, something down at the end of Sunset Blvd to give people something other than 2 thrill rides.Plus, no one is advocating for them to solely add E tickets. I would love to see 6 or 7 more rides with the overall attention to detail of Na'vi River Journey added to all the parks. People complain about it, but most of what they complain about would bump it from a C to a D or E (it could use a couple more AAs, but when people say it should be 10+ minutes long with a bunch of AAs, well... they're basically saying they want it to be an E ticket instead of what it is). That would make it better, of course, but it's quite enjoyable as is -- it's just not worth the long wait, and it only has that long wait because of an overall lack of capacity. If Animal Kingdom had 6 or 7 other attractions, NRJ would never have a 2 hour wait.
Finally, look at Universal. Since Hogsmeade opened and their whole game changed they’ve added Kong, Velocicoaster, Hagrid’s, Gringotts, Transformers. These are all D or E. Bourne show upgraded the experience from where it had slipped by Terminator showing its age back up. Upgraded their parade. The changes that weren’t headliner level Fallon and F&F they got creamed for on execution but they weren’t intended as little fill-ins really either based on their virtual queue attempts. They built high capacity, big stuff, and even with the huge Potter growth they kept the parks from unbalancing. Can they keep it up when Disney guests shift over as people are threatening… we’ll see, and we’ll see what type of new things they continue to build.
IMO people are reverse justifying why the additions can’t all be D or E. They *know* Disney won’t build them, so people are trying to justify why they aren’t needed. Same as how others are trying to justify why not building at all is correct. People don’t spend $150 on a ticket to not ride X amount of headliners. Given FP+, that number seems to be 3, before people will even start thinking about riding and being satisfied with anything else. With many people wanting more than 3. So attendance x 3 = minimum amount of daily headliner capacity needed. And if a park is below that, nothing but headliner capacity will help. No matter how much we try to talk our way around it while trying to look “reasonable” in our analysis.
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