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ImperfectPixie

ImperfectPixie

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Sirwalterraleigh said:
It depends if they can balance the financial realities while still being a fan.

JJ abrams was a big “fan”: of
1. money
2. Spielberg (and his buddy and secretary by extension)
3. Playing it “safe”...which leads to a blowup when you don’t understand what you’re dealing with...

There’s no doubt Kevin smith would have done much better...so that means we live in a grey world
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Agreed. Every Walt needs a Roy.
 
CosmicRays

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Sirwalterraleigh said:
It depends if they can balance the financial realities while still being a fan.

JJ abrams was a big “fan”: of
1. money
2. Spielberg (and his buddy and secretary by extension)
3. Playing it “safe”...which leads to a blowup when you don’t understand what you’re dealing with...

There’s no doubt Kevin smith would have done much better...so that means we live in a grey world



that’s almost “next exit on the Highway” at this point...isn’t it?



Reinvestment leads to value...which is what they won’t address and use the “can’t always grow” excuse
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It is awfully close - I can tell you this year for me it is "next exit".
 
T

Touchdown

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Focusing on per caps leads to failure in the amusement park industry over and over again. See Cedar Fair early 2010s, Six Flags 1990s, Disneyland late 1990s. It just doesn’t work, thankfully it only takes 2-3 years for the genius who thought it up to be pink slipped either by firing or by bankruptcy.
 
marni1971

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Sirwalterraleigh said:
but...capacity is the focus here. If the parks are a mess...or they take the prices off the “reasonable” cliff...it will be due to mismanaged capacity.
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You ain’t kidding. How often have we spitballed relatively easy and cheaper ways to increase it?

But instead they blow half a billion on a roller coaster that is behind in the race already with it being a replacement and not a new build.
 
Sirwalterraleigh

Sirwalterraleigh

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marni1971 said:
You ain’t kidding. How often have we spitballed relatively easy and cheaper ways to increase it?

But instead they blow half a billion on a roller coaster that is behind in the race already with it being a replacement and not a new build.
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...that will probably be too short/low capacity...which is the failure of the “test of wdw”
 
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CosmicRays

CosmicRays

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marni1971 said:
You ain’t kidding. How often have we spitballed relatively easy and cheaper ways to increase it?

But instead they blow half a billion on a roller coaster that is behind in the race already with it being a replacement and not a new build.
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Just like when a highway is built but is already way behind the curve.
 
cmb5002

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Sirwalterraleigh said:
73 year reigning champion as “worst Highway in the country” as voted by truckers
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I've got to provide some context on this because while Penndot and the PA Turnpike are far from perfect, there's a combination of issues that make maintaining their road difficult. Between the number of bridges, the age of the roads, the amount of truck traffic, and the freeze-thaw cycle they experience, it's darn difficult to maintain the roads. One road where I grew up, over the course of ~5 years, had a 2-3' diameter rock slowly force its way through the pavement. Sure they have management and money issues, but their job isn't exactly an easy one.

Now, I'm not going to say building roads in Florida is easier, but if I had to choose between farming rocks on mountains, or fighting groundwater and running sand, I'll pick the latter every time.
 
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Sirwalterraleigh

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cmb5002 said:
I've got to provide some context on this because while Penndot and the PA Turnpike are far from perfect, there's a combination of issues that make maintaining their road difficult. Between the number of bridges, the age or the roads, the amount of truck traffic, and the freeze-thaw cycle they experience, it's darn difficult to maintain the roads. One road where I grew up, over the course of ~5 years, had a 2-3' diameter rock slowly force its way through the pavement. Sure they have management and money issues, but their job isn't exactly an easy one.

Now, I'm not going to say building roads in Florida is easier, but if I had to choose between farming rocks on mountains, or fighting groundwater and running sand, I'll pick the latter every time.
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Yeah...I’ve lived my whole life within a stones throw of that road...with the exception of my time in Florida...
Started in the west...then the center...now at the east end...

perhaps it would be a better road if it wasn’t built by guys who snuck white envelopes under pies like Shawshank for decades? But you never know...I guess?
 
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Goofyernmost

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Sirwalterraleigh said:
73 year reigning champion as “worst Highway in the country” as voted by truckers
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I have to admit they do some very stupid things. I remember going through Pennsylvania to go to Vermont for a high school reunion in 2016. there was a stretch of 81, I believe, that was under some construction. They had made the highway a single lane in each direction over 20 miles. The barricades were just barely over the width of one lane for that entire distance. If you didn't have a breakdown or an accident it was fine. I was fortunate to be heading north when there was either an accident or a breakdown in the south bound lane. It was near the end of the construction area and cars were lined up and stopped completely for the entire length of that because Pennsylvania wasn't intelligent enough to take into consideration that if that happened there was no where or way to clear the lane. Emergency vehicles could only get to it from one direction and you couldn't even push the car off the road so the rest of the traffic could move. Total genius!
 
Disney Analyst

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Haven’t paid much attention to this discussion, but - ???


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