Why is this the answer? How about just improving dinoland and making it awesome? People enjoy the theme. There's no reason to give up on it just to put in Encanto which they could make an excuse to put anywhere at this point anyway.
They should have just plopped a launching coaster called TyrannoCoaster down along the side (and partially over) of the Discovery River. That would‘ve made up for the rest of the land being mid at best.
We’re making a lot of statements bout how “people like Dinoland/Dinosaur,” but I think that if that were true Disney wouldn’t be doing this. They have so much research and so much data. They know more about what the majority of their guests want than we do. We just know what people in the online theme park bubble want.
They chose to lose it. They could have won.
While it’s true that JoW technically contains educational elements, I don’t think that’s what drives its demand. Rather, I think its popularity stems from (a) its ties to a hot IP, (b) the neat water effects, and (c) it being the newest attraction in the park.
As I mentioned above, it's more than the poor showing of two dinosaur movies (especially when you compare theme to Jurassic Park/World).
Guests aren’t clamoring to learn about anything at these parks. They aren’t clamoring to go on SSE to learn about the history of communication. They aren’t clamoring to learn how to “live with the land.” They are clamoring to ride fun attractions and see their favorite characters. Disney is only focused on giving guests what they want. If WDI can find ways to inspire or teach along the way, great. They haven’t been doing much of that lately, but Moana proves that they can if they want to.
I don’t think they could have. I think the brand recognition of the Jurassic series would trounce whatever Disney could do. Sure, they could have the better attractions (they debatably already do), but they’ll never be synonymous with dinosaurs in the way that Universal is. As long as Universal keeps marketing Jurassic Park as a core franchise, nothing original that Disney does would touch it.
Not exactly, but getting much closer.
Disney's aim has always, always been to learn while you're having fun. They have always done what we describe as "edutainment". The idea that this is now being rejected is silly.
People liked Splash Mountain, too (at least before 2020), but that didn't stop them from getting rid of THAT.
So what you're implying is that people who go to theme parks are dumb hicks who hate anything that doesn't have an IP attached to it and clap whenever they see their favorite character in an attraction, even if that attraction is mediocre? I should also point out that Spaceship Earth always has long lines whenever I'm at EPCOT.
Maybe if people had actually seen it or watched it on Disney Plus (I haven't seen it myself, but I doubt it's as bad as everyone makes it out to be), it would have done better.
There’s a lot declarative statements in here with no proof to back them up other than “see what Disney did”. That’s not a smoking gun.
This seems like a myopic way of looking at their business motivations. The main focus is what makes the most profit for less money spent. The IP enables them to sell otherwise irrelevant merchandise that comes with a pretty nice markup. Eg. it’s cheaper for Disney to sell the same generic & non-park specific Encanto merch at multiple parks than custom ride merch at only one park.
I disagree. Jurassic is framed as dinosaurs as monsters/dangerous. Disney absolutely could do counter programming of showing the wonder and inspiration of dinosaurs and human beings’ love affair with them. I honestly don’t get why Disney is just quitting there where it’s absolutely a big enough concept to “share” with Uni.
