So here’s the question, what if shovels are in the ground at the start of FY 2025? D23 is August 9-11. FY 2025 starts October 1st 2024…
Would any of you admit excessive pessimism?
Some pessimism is warranted, but “sky is falling, Iger is evil” is laughable.
Yes, imagineering was gutted, but the job postings for Disney positions have been astronomical over the last several months.
Plus, theme park projects are considered “expedited design,” and someone will insert some quip about ridiculous construction timelines, but the industry builds and designs simultaneously, which means the timeline from ideation to completion becomes greatly reduced.
In other words, there doesn’t need to be much pre-development time as you might expect.
Yes, there’s a lot, but for the complexity and custom nature of the projects, ideation to completion timelines can be surprisingly short.