I agree. I alao feel like disney parks need more rides like this. Rides like tron and rotr likely attract far more people to the park than they actually add in capacity thus the whole park actually is worse off from a crowd and wait time angle. But thats what disney likes those super hyped up marketing machine of a ride types. I mean look at rat legitimately not opening it because marketing. Less woah rides are great filler and i think are vital to a healthy park portfolio.
Problem is, these days, they treat the opening of a "less woah ride" like the second coming of Christ in their marketing anyway and that makes everything worse... but maybe if they were opening more quality stuff more regularly, they woudln't feel the need to do that.
I know I've brought this up many times but that ad spot during the SUPER BOWL for the opening of Toy Story Land with the bouncing ball?
I don't remember a huge ad campaign for Aladdin's Flying Carpets and that at least opened with a water feature to keep you cool in the Florida heat.
If they'd open the lesser stuff and just let it open the way
most other places do when they know it's not a headliner, this wouldn't be a problem but they don't and again, in my opinion, it's because the really great additions are so few and far between their marketing team feels it's all they have to work with a lot of the time, now.
Two better quality versions of state fair level rides (I'm counting the launch on sdd and the lack of rust on both as part of that better quality) did not deserve even a billboard on I4 - especially since the anchor of their
new land was a decade+ attraction that was already at maximum capacity every day and didn't need the extra attention.
I'm not arguing they shouldn't have been added, in this post, at least* but that their approach and what they did with the rollout was wholly inappropriate.
*Although SDD is still a tough sell to me as is the whole TSL concept in general. That we allegedly got the best version of this crappy land is hardly reason to celebrate.
