1.5 years to redo an exciting attraction way to go Disney
I know this won't happen but I think they should suspend Genie+ at DAK during the works.
Not sure they give much concern about APs anymore?
They haven’t cared about anniversaries for years really…even the compound anniversary was so bad it felt like they couldn’t be bothered?
I know…showering with feint praise
Not defending WDW, just mentioning that it's more than doable to give DAK a "new" attraction sooner than 2028 (which is a reasonable time frame for their typical construction timelines).
Well, if your 4th park is struggling to incentivize guests to visit in favor of the other 3 WDW parks while giving an additional day to Universal next year... I'm sure they will fall in love again with APs lol
Yeah…but they want rid of them
They don't want to get rid of all of them... just control when they visit
That means they don’t want the money they spend in the parks…so you end up in the same spot. The choice has been madeThey don't want to get rid of all of them... just control when they visit
Keep in mind this is a lot more to do. I don't think you are opening a partial land. And even if they are, they still need the retheming all the way to the ride done as well (not just the ride). I mean, theoretically that's completely doable, but Disney needs to buck the trends of their builds for it (and they may feel the pressure to do so, who knows).
Well they doubled the price of day tickets also, didn't they? The real difference is that now AP's don't get FP+ for free. They have to pay for G+ if they want line skips. I don't think they actually want to get rid of APs at WDW.
Obviously, but Disney's isn't a stranger to running an operating theme park with heavy construction going on (DCA redo).
APs never got “free” anything more than anyone else…
Sure, but unless they speed up, you aren't talking 1.5 years, you are talking 3-5 years. And I'm just not convinced they care enough to add a bunch of other things to make up for even less to do. As someone said before we saw the permits, there's a chance they are assuming DAK is going to be cut from most people's budgets for the next few years due to Epic. It could be they are accepting that and are just going to build so that when the novelty of Epic wears off a bit, DAK can swoop in.
Of course that's the other thing, it could be they aren't taking out Dinosaur, they may build that way first (which won't be as noticeable) and then move on to Dinosaur once they have those things up.
This makes total sense. Probably why it wont happen!!! Marie
Yes, but as the most experienced users of fastpass who paid far less to get them each time they tap in, those guests were decidedly less "desirable". Now on weekends or holidays they are far more likely to pay for upsells than before. And on lower crowd days the company just wants bodies in the park to sell Mickey Bars and pretzels.
