The induced demand is likely to be lower than the additional capacity, though. There is a ton of overlap between people who want to see Flight of Passage and Encanto. Especially in a park where people are looking for things to fill out their day with.
The park already has insufficient capacity as it stands. And there’s no way Disney is going to position a big, expensive, multi-hundreds of millions of dollars project to only induce a little demand. The financials wont work.
Induced demand (more guests in the park and selling more tickets) is only one way to earn more money. You can also earn more money by making guests spend more time in the park (by selling more meals, merch, or ILLs. It could also increase revenue by making guests less likely to combine the DAK day with the Epcot day).
Adding one attraction, which will not have enough capacity to serve every single guest, is not going to move the needle that much in terms of length of stay. If it’s slammed, but somehow not inducing more demand, you’re looking at maybe an extra hour in the park but only for a fraction of guests. That’s not really enough given Disney’s costs.
This whole thing is so misguided.
Where did I say anything that suggests that I don’t understand this? My whole point is that drawing more people to Disney's Animal Kingdom would not be a good thing because there is no place to them. Adding one attraction while bringing in more people would largely keep people in the park longer by driving down attractions per guest per hour (higher wait times) which just sours people on their experience making them less likely to make purchases and return.
You are contradicting yourself. You can't claim that more capacity is needed but also that they need to strain the capacity even more. An attraction with a wait is not wasted space. The capacity is being utilized. Bringing more people to the park makes no sense because there's no place to put those new people. Parks need attractions that utilize their capacity but offer lower waits. It is the only way you can ever have sufficient capacity.
They obviously don't care to spruce it up though. You can barely see the preshow video, and the AA is a joke. I think the last time I rode it in March 2023, the sound was so loud that I left it with my ears ringing. Shining a light on the dinos as you pass them is just dumb. The whole ride is garbage. Laughable garbage, just like maelstrom was.
A park should be unbalanced. That's perfectly okay. That's how you average out the day to reach a good attractions per guest per hour and a good overall number of attractions per day. People better accept the long wait at the headliner because other attractions had a minimal wait. You spend one hour only experiencing one attraction and you spend another experiencing two and viola, you have the perfect 1.5 attractions per hour. An attraction with a wait is being utilized. You can't shove more people onto the ride.
IMO Disney relies on data way too much.
Even as part of a resort, inducing more demand onto Disney's Animal Kingdom doesn't serve any positive guest experience purpose. It's the same problem. The park lacks capacity, so pulling people away from the other parks just makes the Disney's Animal Kingdom experience worse. And since the park cannot handle a whole lot more people you're not going to be pulling enough people out of the other parks to noticeably improve their experience. Nor is one ride (because Dinosaur is already full) going to keep people in the park too much longer to stop them from hopping.
To follow up on your point, you do not need one attraction (that basically replaces Dinosaur) but 4 attractions. You need to expand the whole Dino footprint - expand out to the East where there is plenty of buildable land. More land, more attractions, more capacity with more experiences to make patrons happy to stay and spend their money. But do not stop there--expand Pandora, that area could use 2 more attractions and there is back lot area that this land could also be expanded (although could be an issue seeing the back side of some visuals that were made to be seen from one side). What has been discussed ad nauseam is doing something with Rafiki's Planet Watch. A very large area that could be developed into something special with another 3 or so attractions. Again expanding capacity and patron's experience. There is so much opportunity and so little desire to do anything with it.
Data is vital in theme park development. They manipulate data too much. The CEO wants IP so they manipulate data to show the parks need it. RoL failed and it didn’t have IP at the start. Therefore, people hate nighttime spectaculars without IP, right?
Data is vital to an extent. IMO its good for finding out what people like and want in the parks as long as it's not manipulated like Disney does it. Where I disagree with it is with the whole guests need 7.3 rides a day and have waits of less than 20 minutes to be satisfied.
I don't disagree with that. All parks use data. I just Disney goes overboard with some of it. IMO it has hurt the parks.
Except the data your just said is too much is like Theme Park Programming 101.
