I think the general sentiment is to call out Disney for not settling on something after years of jerking people around with empty promises. And many of their "investments" are also more often akin to a game of musical chairs with the way they like to replace existing entertainment, rather than actually expanding.
Triton class did not cost 2.5 billion each
The sentiment is a troll who claimed Epic Universe wasn’t being built because he didn’t see people manually digging holes with shovels.
I didn't look through their posting history. Regardless, I stand by my comment about said sentiment, divorced from the other person. Disney has made a lot of promises that have come and gone with nothing to show for it.
Nothing wrong with replacing entertainment that has been operating decades non stop with something new.
I am indeed talking actual rides. Despite having AMPLE expansion space at WDW, Disney has far too often chosen the path of ignoring said space and instead gutting and repurposing things that they shouldn't be messing with.
There were significant cost overruns, covid issues, and construction problems with the Wish which caused construction to well exceed the estimated $1.6B cost. The number is closer to $2B.
The sentiment is bull. Disney actually hasn’t cancelled that many projects over the past decade. The vast majority were killed due to COVID and they were lousy projects to boot. It’s the epitome of damned if you do, damned if you don’t. People don’t like the “promises” but then complain that the thing they didn’t like isn’t happening. The sentiment is just anger to create drama, the actual substance and evidence isn’t of consequence.
People not liking any of the projects doesn't change the fact that Disney doesn't want to actually commit to anything and are into jerking everyone around. Also not particularly convinced they actually care all that much whether people like their announcements, they tend to just do what they want and ignore a lot of the things people want them to do. Good example is Villains Land. That is probably the most well received of all the projects they've announced. But it's reportedly the furthest out from happening if it even happens, and it's a very big "if" that it even does happen as it's reportedly the least likely at the moment to survive.
You’re conflating all sorts of different things. The projects being lousy isn’t a measure of them happening. If anything it is a reason to not want things to be happening.
Pretty sure that's exactly what I was saying. Disney just doesn't want to commit to building anything, they don't care whether the plans are viewed as lousy or not. It's largely a matter of convincing the board to spend money, which is increasingly difficult to do.
Again, put aside COVID, and the number of projects not built in the past decade is quite small.
I’m still a big proponent of bringing a parade back to DAK. Mickey’s Jammin’ Jungle parade was a good time.
There is certain group of posters determined to show grievances towards Disney no what they do.
Problem is, most of the projects they have built are either unimpressive (TRON, Ratatouille), budget-cut (Guardians, Communicore Hall), or in the most recent example in Frontierland, an egregious failure to understand basic tenets of attraction design.
Tron and Ratatouille are both solid additions and serve their own purpose.
A Ratatouille attraction belongs in France. I'm fine with that...but the ride itself is quite unimpressive to me. TRON is too short and didn't have to be a clone. I know that from speaking with someone on the team that built it. There was a ton of space to build a longer, more extensive layout, and they just didn't. It's too short and a clone, so I put it in the unimpressive category. If it were a new thing for MK and longer, it would be impressive.
At least my complaint isn't about bringing new stuff in, it's that in that time they've also closed like 10 or 11 attractions as well. Adding stuff (even if I don't really like it) is not a bad thing, but I'm still not a fan of doing that at the expense of other things.The last 8 years: 3 New Lands, 10 new rides (11 with Tiana).
The previous 8 years: 1 New Land. 3 new rides (New Fantasyland & Frozen Ever After)
Yup. It's the current era we should be complaining about
