Has WDW managed to be more secretive than USO?

[Progress.City]

Think about it. Everything Uni is doing is has been predicted like clockwork. The attractions - Potter expansion, Kong Frontation. Each of the hotels - one by one, parcel by parcel. The water park, and the Wet N Wild property is next, after that.

WDW, however, is a completely different story. We know WDI has been hard at work for years on planning expansions at the parks. However, all we have now are rumors - good rumors, at best. The only thing substantial so far is the Soaring project and Frozen at EPCOT - and TSMM expansion.

With attractions closed at DHS and other signs, we know why. It's like before a volcano erupts, there are minor earthquakes and geysers. There are minor earthquakes and geysers all over, but no one can predict when WDW will erupt with construction!

Across town, USO has been erupting at spats. We've been accurately able to predict each eruption with relative accuracy. We know she is due for a series of other eruptions soon.

But WDW is years overdue. The longer we wait, the higher the energy build up. And one day, she will explode like O' Yella and BOOM! BILLIONS of dollars in new construction starts!

We wait and we are powerless to predict.

Has Disney learned how to keep a secret better than Universal all of a sudden?

 

[AswaySuller]

I think you're seeing this with rose tinted glasses.
I really don't see an "explosion" like old yella especially the pace Disney builds at.

I hope you're right but I really dint think you are.

 

[Progress.City]

I think you're seeing this with rose tinted glasses.
I really don't see an "explosion" like old yella especially the pace Disney builds at.

I hope you're right but I really dint think you are.

Well, we know that a major $ billion-dollar plus expansion/makeover is in store for DHS and we known Star Wars Land is coming (as a separate project, according to Spirit). And we known there are unannounced items in the works for EPCOT. So, this build-up does amount to an explosion, actually.

 

[mergatroid]

I'm not quite sure why people say Disney's doing nothing. Disney Springs and Avatar Land are currently in construction along with work elsewhere.

 

[AswaySuller]

Not really, if I run the water drip by drip eventually my bath will still be full, but it's hardly niagra falls.

Star Wars and everything else planned hasn't even broken ground it's not going to be here til what 2019 maybe 2020? Look at how long avatar has/is taking. An explosion of construction to me would be like when uni built transformers or even the rate at which they're building kong... That speed costs money and Disney doesn't like spending money like that.

Kong isn't even announced officially yet but will be open before avatar and it started later.
I'm not denying that star wars and everything else will be a lot of construction but we all know it'll take 5 years to build anything of any significance and that's me being generous.

 

[AswaySuller]

I'm not quite sure why people say Disney's doing nothing. Disney Springs and Avatar Land are currently in construction along with work elsewhere.

It's the speed that it takes them to do anything that I think people are disappointed with.

 

[mergatroid]

It's the speed that it takes them to do anything that I think people are disappointed with.

Well I must admit that it's a bit disappointing to see Universal being able to build so quickly and Disney not, still they're not doing nothing.

 

[lazyboy97o]

People can't say exactly what Disney is doing because Disney is so indecisive.

Most of the known Universal projects are rather far along. There is a paper trail and visible construction.

 

[Disneyhead'71]

We know what Uni is doing because they file for permits and start building.

No permits posted for stuff at WDW.

 

[Progress.City]

I'm not quite sure why people say Disney's doing nothing. Disney Springs and Avatar Land are currently in construction along with work elsewhere.

Those were announced long ago and are well under way. The unknowns haven't even been announced, let alone have started construction. When the unknowns are finally announced, they will join Disney Springs, Avatar, Frozen, Soaring, and TSMM already under construction.

 

[Progress.City]

People can't say exactly what Disney is doing because Disney is so indecisive.

Most of the known Universal projects are rather far along. There is a paper trail and visible construction.

Exactly what I was articulating!

 

[Progress.City]

Well I must admit that it's a bit disappointing to see Universal being able to build so quickly and Disney not, still they're not doing nothing.

But the Imagineers are working overtime on things totally invisible to is. They have more cooks in the kitchen than Universal. We know they are back there. Some can even smell the food being cooked back there. But the tables haven't even been cleared, let alone the dishes and silverware hasn't even been brought out!

 

[Progress.City]

It's the speed that it takes them to do anything that I think people are disappointed with.

Combined with the secrecy and indecisiveness, coupled with the fact that we know that the scale of that they are working on is a lot bigger than Universal is chugging out.

 

[Progress.City]

Not really, if I run the water drip by drip eventually my bath will still be full, but it's hardly niagra falls.

Star Wars and everything else planned hasn't even broken ground it's not going to be here til what 2019 maybe 2020? Look at how long avatar has/is taking. An explosion of construction to me would be like when uni built transformers or even the rate at which they're building kong... That speed costs money and Disney doesn't like spending money like that.

Kong isn't even announced officially yet but will be open before avatar and it started later.
I'm not denying that star wars and everything else will be a lot of construction but we all know it'll take 5 years to build anything of any significance and that's me being generous.

Kong is a perfect example of how we are able to predict everything Uni does. Before that, the water park. Before the water park, the hotels.

 

[Progress.City]

We know what Uni is doing because they file for permits and start building.

No permits posted for stuff at WDW.

And then they pull stuff like the latest water tower permits... "Oh, we don't need to move them..."

Makes you wonder how many times they have went back to drawing boards to redo the plans because they changed their mind or are indecisive.

 

[Disneyhead'71]

I think you are very wrong on this point. We know everything that has been green lit at both resorts.

 

[Progress.City]

I think you are very wrong on this point. We know everything that has been green lit at both resorts.

We've also known that DHS expansion and remake has been in the works for YEARS. There are projects we know of that have stuck in development hell! For whatever reason, these projects haven't pulled permits yet. But we know they're coming. And we don't know any details on any of them.

That is better secrecy than Uni.

 

[Siren]

Disney is building new stuff, the new Frozen ride, RoL, night time safari, Avatarland, and possible Toy Story land or Pixar land -- it just takes Disney forever for no reason. I'm sorry but Star Wars Land is just too far out, for it to be a reality for me at this point. Disney and 'explosive' are mutually exclusive, for me. LOL.

Disney is *not* indecisive, that is a highly inaccurate description -- Disney is reactive. Both, The New Fantasyland and Avatarland are reactions to Harry Potter. And, Disney won't build a fully immersive Star Wars land unless they have something to react to -- I really hope I'm wrong about that!

In other news, Cedar Point just built another brand new coaster, I didn't even hear anything about it.

 

[Sassagoula-Rvr]

I think more than anything...Avatar was just announced too early...basically they announced it before it was even planned...what if they hadn't announced it until this last summer/fall just before ground breaking?

 

[Progress.City]

I think more than anything...Avatar was just announced too early...basically they announced it before it was even planned...what if they hadn't announced it until this last summer/fall just before ground breaking?

Good point.