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1. Reasonable challenges and limitations do create a ripe environment for breakthroughs. Budget constraints sometimes send you in directions you would not have explored otherwise. When the constraints are too far out of balance you end up with DL's current Tomorrowland. You are right, unlimited cash does not guarantee a great show. Unlimited paint does not mean great art. To the contrary, you have to instinctively know when the painting is done and stop. If you go back a page or two to an earlier response to your post, I bring up the fact that informed compromise is how you succeed in this delicate budget driven maze.2. Hmmm. You could cherry pick something isolated or think broader. I think solving the balance of experience would be the biggest bang for the idea. Balancing the food, merchandise and attraction mix relative to how much show value they all need to carry would be of huge impact to the park. Your DDP article draws attention to the food's business model impacting the experience. If the food and shops were treated more as "attractions" subsidized by the admission, not stocked as repetitive "stand alone businesses" (or entitlement centers!), then the guest satisfaction and desire to return would go through the roof. Look at the "treasure hunt" of a shopping experience at old New Orlean's or old Liberty Square (cooking, silver, jewelry, and real antique stores) or exotic dining at Tahitian Terrace, or Aladdin's Oasis? More unique signature items like Dole Whip? What a day you had just by walking around and eating. The best thing an Imagineer could do is to work with the other divisions to think holistically of what would make the whole thing come together more as a show. I had a taste of getting to do that in the 90's at DL, and it can be done. Trust has to be built. Those in the other divisions are only limited by their marching orders. The priorities and business goals would need to be more aligned to make it possible.
1. Reasonable challenges and limitations do create a ripe environment for breakthroughs. Budget constraints sometimes send you in directions you would not have explored otherwise. When the constraints are too far out of balance you end up with DL's current Tomorrowland. You are right, unlimited cash does not guarantee a great show. Unlimited paint does not mean great art. To the contrary, you have to instinctively know when the painting is done and stop. If you go back a page or two to an earlier response to your post, I bring up the fact that informed compromise is how you succeed in this delicate budget driven maze.
2. Hmmm. You could cherry pick something isolated or think broader. I think solving the balance of experience would be the biggest bang for the idea. Balancing the food, merchandise and attraction mix relative to how much show value they all need to carry would be of huge impact to the park. Your DDP article draws attention to the food's business model impacting the experience. If the food and shops were treated more as "attractions" subsidized by the admission, not stocked as repetitive "stand alone businesses" (or entitlement centers!), then the guest satisfaction and desire to return would go through the roof. Look at the "treasure hunt" of a shopping experience at old New Orlean's or old Liberty Square (cooking, silver, jewelry, and real antique stores) or exotic dining at Tahitian Terrace, or Aladdin's Oasis? More unique signature items like Dole Whip? What a day you had just by walking around and eating. The best thing an Imagineer could do is to work with the other divisions to think holistically of what would make the whole thing come together more as a show. I had a taste of getting to do that in the 90's at DL, and it can be done. Trust has to be built. Those in the other divisions are only limited by their marching orders. The priorities and business goals would need to be more aligned to make it possible.
