"Disneyland looking to ‘amplify’ its lands following Bayou Country retheme"

[Professortango1]

Personally I think its too small for it to be a proper pay-for-entertainment seated venue.

Go into Tropical hideaway and see how tiny that space is and know there was a stage with a large Cave of Wonders in that footprint as well, and they made that work. Golden Horseshoe has a larger stage, piano, plenty of seating, and even a balcony level. You could easily seat 80 in there. That's a minimum of $3,600 a show. Add in upsell items like deserts or alcohol and preferred seating bumps and you're grossing even more.

Let's stick with a baseline of $3,600 multiplied by 8 shows and you are pulling in almost $30,000 a day.

Put some funny and talented singers in there, a magician doing a good parlor show. I'd happily pay to see it. I pay more to attend seances or parlor shows in far worse venues.

 

[truecoat]

Go into Tropical hideaway and see how tiny that space is and know there was a stage with a large Cave of Wonders in that footprint as well, and they made that work. Golden Horseshoe has a larger stage, piano, plenty of seating, and even a balcony level. You could easily seat 80 in there. That's a minimum of $3,600 a show. Add in upsell items like deserts or alcohol and preferred seating bumps and you're grossing even more.

Let's stick with a baseline of $3,600 multiplied by 8 shows and you are pulling in almost $30,000 a day.

Put some funny and talented singers in there, a magician doing a good parlor show. I'd happily pay to see it. I pay more to attend seances or parlor shows in far worse venues.

This Disney isn't going to do that. The place probably does at least 15 grand without all the extra employees and performers.

 

[AJFireman]

Wasn't there an announcement earlier this year or last that said electric cars are coming to Autopia?

In April of this year this excerpt was added to a Disney Park Blog article. Nothing further.

"And we can’t leave out one of our opening day attractions – Autopia – which is on the road to electrification in the next few years. We look forward to sharing more about that in the future."

 

[Disney Irish]

Go into Tropical hideaway and see how tiny that space is and know there was a stage with a large Cave of Wonders in that footprint as well, and they made that work. Golden Horseshoe has a larger stage, piano, plenty of seating, and even a balcony level. You could easily seat 80 in there. That's a minimum of $3,600 a show. Add in upsell items like deserts or alcohol and preferred seating bumps and you're grossing even more.

Let's stick with a baseline of $3,600 multiplied by 8 shows and you are pulling in almost $30,000 a day.

Put some funny and talented singers in there, a magician doing a good parlor show. I'd happily pay to see it. I pay more to attend seances or parlor shows in far worse venues.

Its the same size as an old skool "two drink minimum" comedy club too. Still doesn't mean I see it as a proper venue for that type of service.

I'm fine with adding entertainment back in there like it used to have. But to turn it into a pay-for-service venue, nope not what I want for the spot.

 

[Phroobar]

In April of this year this excerpt was added to a Disney Park Blog article. Nothing further.

"And we can’t leave out one of our opening day attractions – Autopia – which is on the road to electrification in the next few years. We look forward to sharing more about that in the future."

Thanks! That is what I thought.

 

[Professortango1]

Its the same size as an old skool "two drink minimum" comedy club too. Still doesn't mean I see it as a proper venue for that type of service.

I'm fine with adding entertainment back in there like it used to have. But to turn it into a pay-for-service venue, nope not what I want for the spot.

Well, between no entertainment with an empty venue and entertainment in venue I need to pay to enter; I'll take the latter. We know that Disney has been more and more unwilling to provide entertainment or to utilize these spaces. The only thing they seem motivated by is money. So if that's what it takes to enjoy a show at the Golden Horseshoe, that's what I support.

Especially if it gets a higher quality act in the park. No offense to the magician who worked in Big Thunder Ranch's Halloween show for a few years, but he lacked personality and storytelling.

 

[Disney Irish]

Well, between no entertainment with an empty venue and entertainment in venue I need to pay to enter; I'll take the latter. We know that Disney has been more and more unwilling to provide entertainment or to utilize these spaces. The only thing they seem motivated by is money. So if that's what it takes to enjoy a show at the Golden Horseshoe, that's what I support.

Especially if it gets a higher quality act in the park. No offense to the magician who worked in Big Thunder Ranch's Halloween show for a few years, but he lacked personality and storytelling.

Disagree, if its between a place to sit with no entertainment and turning it into an up-charge venue just so it has entertainment, I'll take the place to sit down with no entertainment any day of the week (and I figure so would most people). There is already a lack of places to sit for a bit and enjoy a quick snack. I rather not lose another place just because you want some entertainment back.

 

[el_super]

Charge $45 a meal and $55 for preferred seating and you could print money.

Oh yeah definitely. I don't think there'e anything wrong with converting it into a paid entertainment space (and I thought maybe WDW or DLRP already did this to their saloon?) I think in this particular case they had just prioritized having indoor QSR seating capacity over the entertainment cost/potential earnings.

Think of it as the Frontierland version of ripping out all your stores in Adventureland to make sure there was additional QSR seating.

 

[ajrwdwgirl]

The Indy pinball machine is missing in Adventureland. If they fixed it and brought it back out I'd consider that 'amplifying' the land.

It's gone again?! It was there in early August when I was there. I was going to play but I didn' t have quarters or cash with me to get quarters.

 

[SuddenStorm]

It's gone again?! It was there in early August when I was there. I was going to play but I didn' t have quarters or cash with me to get quarters.

When I went in late August, I played a few games in the morning- then when I came back later that day it was out of order. One of the pop bumpers had broken off.

When I was there a month ago it was gone, and it was taken off of the pinball map website.