I gotta say... I'm a bit surprised to see the words "condoms" and "ketchup" in a post that doesn't also include some combination of the words "imagineer," "fanboi," "backstage," or "the fixings bar at Tortuga Tavern that day last September."
The ONLY connection that Carsland would have with Frontierland is similar rockwork and landscaping with BTMRR. Now if they were planning to build Conestoga Wagon Land, it would be a different matter entirely but it might not be the big ticket draw that they need.
Here too, you're not wrong, and I'm not calling you out on it, but the rumors that came out of this were a bit more than the reality. The company will never let control of the parks out of their grip, and the US parks will always remain majority owned by TWDC.
Just winking in agreement of what is common opinion around here. With a much higher profile WDI exec now on-site, certain things may see an up-turn over time as well. If I have info that I can share, I will.
Not sure what Al said, but more accurately to what makes sense, for OLC, the potential Carsland would likely supplement Frontierland and fit into the existing Westernland landscape. Over there, RoA could go, and that would include TSI. That's only for OLC, though.
Here too, you're not wrong, and I'm not calling you out on it, but the rumors that came out of this were a bit more than the reality. The company will never let control of the parks out of their grip, and the US parks will always remain majority owned by TWDC.
Pirates is an E ticket IMO. How tall a drop is does not define whether an attraction is an E ticket or not. Much like the haunted mansion, the themes, story, detail, effects, and immersive environment all contribute to pirates being an e ticket. Jungle cruise is an e ticket as well, for the same reasons as pirates and haunted mansion.
I got it... haha
I don't consider myself a pixie dust sniffer, or a doom and gloomer, but to say Mansion and Pirates aren't E's is a bit off the mark.
More like way, way off the mark.
Really? I know a good many people (myself included) who put Pirates and The Haunted Mansion near the top of their lists of reasons to visit not only the park, but WDW en generale. And besides, back in the day an E-Ticket was not an E-Ticket because of the power it had to bring people to the park, it was because ticket pricing was how attractions recouped their investment. The largest, most expansive attractions were also the most expensive to build, and needed to be priced accordingly. The Tiki Room was an E-Ticket when it opened . . . laughable to some of us now, but think about how much $$$ was sunk into that kind of show in the 60's. Where the Tiki Room's wow-factor has waned considerably in time since, Pirates and Mansion are attractions whose scale and scope still go unmatched by many of the largest new attractions produced in contemporary times. I think they are quite fairly both E-Tickets.
