What time of year in the before times?
It’s my understanding from reading reports from people currently in the parks that the heat index has been brutal this summer, plus they’ve had some persistent rain. Weather also causes people to leave the parks midday.
Also, memory is selective. We tend to remember the good (we walked on 7DMT at park closing!) and block out the bad (oh, right, we did wait 110 minutes for Soarin’. Forgot about that for a good reason).
Well humans actually tend to remember the bad not good its Psychology 101.
I get it, I like to think I remember the good over bad, but a test in college proved my thoughts on that wrong.
We studied a 50 dollar test where some people won 50, some lost 50 and some won and lost 50 Bucks. Overwhelmingly people remembered and felt the emotion of losing the 50 far more than the winning. There have been numerous test on this, I say just talk to my wife or look at reviews on line.
I could of forgotten milk once in 20 years, my wife remembers the date that happened 20 years ago.
Look at reviews online. When things go as they should most people do not comment. A few will comment when something extraordinary happens giving 5 stars, but if a transaction just ran as it should most times there is no review left at all. BUT, if one little thing goes wrong there are millions of negative reviews. Just like my wife not giving me kudos for going to the store for not forgetting things that as a rule I should do anyhow. These things as greaat as they are do not that warrant compliments in the first place. For the most part she doesn't say oh that day or this day you did right, but she sure remembers the exact day when things went wrong.
Bad memories for most people are just more memorable and numerous studies old and new point to it. That being said sometimes I think why do I remember the good and others remember the bad. My own brother remembers some things in our family history and certain days as bad things that I long forgot and my memories of even those same days I remember as great. Our shared B-day parties come to mind. I was blown away by his negativity and how he remembers the bad seemingly forgetting the good and me exactly the opposite. It made me feel a certain way, like did we even actually live in the same house and grow up together.
I often wonder if this plays a part on people's FP experience. They remember horrible long lines and do not think about the short lines they had with FP. I remember fantastic short FP's lines and never chose to stand in the long lines. The lines that were long I would just go the next day and then use my FP on them. I guess memory plays a role on how we all view Disney vacations possibly even more than our actual experiences in a way.
Oh I agree a 5th Gate Long Term makes sense, but the lack of expansion is the biggest problem now. The 20 years they did nothing to the parks is the problem. If Disney were to build a 5th gate it would take over a Decade at the way Disney works now. Look how long it took to build Pandora. Now Galaxies Edge took 3.5 years which is better than Pandora. But if you compare just building attractions Universal beats them every time. Disney for some reason cant seem to get building new attractions in a timely manner. I am not talking about refurbs or anything like. I mean from the ground up a new attraction. Hagrids which is a great ride at Uni, would have taken Disney twice as long and thats CRAZY at least to me.
Making new theme parks does not take Disney nearly as long as you imply. It takes Disney far longer to add an attraction to existing parks and one large reason is yearly budgets. Other reasons are the current economy during the renovations, on the fly decisions that are not based on getting things built as a priority, existing infrastructure and plans /permits to make changes verse an overall plan and separate budget to start and complete a new theme park.
In short because certain attractions took 3 years or more to build has no bearing at all on how long a brand new theme park from scratch would take. A brand new theme park with a plan wouldn't take but 3 years from breaking ground to opening day.
MK - 1.5 years By the time the Magic Kingdom opened on October 1, 1971, more than 9,000 construction workers had labored for 18 months to build the park, which cost approximately $400 million to create.
EPCOT - 2.2 years- More than 10,000 construction workers labored for 26 months to create the 300-acre, $1.4 billion park in time for the grand opening on October 1, 1982; at the time, EPCOT was the largest commercial construction project on earth.
DHS - Started 1987 opened May 1 1989 - aprox 22 months and1 billion dollars.
AK - Construction crews worked on the Animal Kingdom for three years, opening the 500-acre, $800 million park on April 22, 1998.
. Not quite sure what they were thinking with that one. Sounds like the system is causing larger backups and crowds at the entrance of the rides.
