el_super
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Ideas for a third Disneyland park.
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mickEblu
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Late Spring 21? This is getting ridiculous. I mean, its been ridiculous but wow.
britain
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Right - but the comment was about bulldozing DLR. Which do you think would bring in more money: Two decades in the red, a couple of years with no revenue at all, or zero revenue until they bulldoze the resort so they can ...I don’t know... sell off the land for...what? Office space and low income housing?
Even if they never want to invest another dime in Anaheim again, the sunk costs of the current Disneyland resort are worth maintaining.
The bulldozing phrasing was to emphasize the possibility of a 3rd gate being the worst it has even been at this time and for the foreseeable future. That anyone would take literally the concept of bulldozing the two current parks is astounding to me. It's like some haven't seen hyperbole used to make a point before.
FCivish3
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Clearly, it is a rumor, since I find no official discussion of that, at all. However, I have a private source who insists that they have discussed this possibility/probability in the parent company Cedar Fair, and have considered leaving California all together. The company is about 1.5 billion dollars in debt. Selling off the roller coasters and then developing the real estate could not only stop a drain on the company, but provide some good income.
Or course, there is no way to know how seriously they are considering this. Any wise company would probably be looking at ALL the possibilities right now, including closing the park permanently. But that doesn't mean that it is actually their current plan.
Stevek
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Heck, I figured summer UNLESS we get a viable vaccine with wide distribution. If that happens, they open earlier.
WDW Pro
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Right - but the comment was about bulldozing DLR. Which do you think would bring in more money: Two decades in the red, a couple of years with no revenue at all, or zero revenue until they bulldoze the resort so they can ...I don’t know... sell off the land for...what? Office space and low income housing?
Even if they never want to invest another dime in Anaheim again, the sunk costs of the current Disneyland resort are worth maintaining.
You can do the math to figure it out. If Disneyland stays closed all the way until next summer, the cost to the company will be somewhere between 6-8 billion for the closure. The longer it stays closed the more expensive it is to reopen everything.
bestcoastracer
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Knotts is one of Cedar Fair's biggest money-making parks and is the only theme park opened year-round. They would sell off other properties and parks before they let Knott's go/or sell Knotts to a competing amusement park company. This isn't a rumor, but something you're fear-mongering because of your disdain for the CA Gov.
NEXT!
britain
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Look the solution is easy, just find a Saudi prince and everything is solved…
George Lucas on a Bench
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I don't even see that happening. In order for them to be able to reopen in the Yellow Terror Alert Level, the cases need to be kept consistently low, otherwise they just downgrade the Terror Alert Level and they'd have to close again. So the point at which they reopen, if they do, cases will have to be zilch with no possibility of ever having to close again as a result of any spikes. They need to be overconfident the China virus doesn't suddenly have a resurgence. The virus will need to burn out. The way things have been going even with deaths trending down, we hear nothing but "cases, cases cases!" and it isn't even clear if we've begun to experience The Second Wave, if there will be more, when CA could ever receive a hypothetical vaccine, as they will not allow it to be distributed until THEY approve it. They're never going to reopen.
mickEblu
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Yeah you re probably right. That’s why I don’t see this not going to court.
George Lucas on a Bench
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I think I'm right, but I'm no Scientist, Doctor or Mathematician. But even if Disneyland was hypothetically in San Francisco, there's no way they'd be considering reopening right now. The operation of the park requires remaining at the Yellow Terror Alert and there's no guarantee cases won't increase and cause them to have to close. How would that even work? There is no way they could realistically open until Covid is completely eradicated or the Color System or requirements for parks are revised.
mickEblu
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Can you imagine if the world operated this way with all of the other viruses and diseases? We d just be sheltering in place in hazmat suits for the rest of our lives.
George Lucas on a Bench
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It's a pretty reasonable fear at this point. Not viruses themselves, but these methods of control.
Maybe they should just split Disneyland up by land so they're considered Small Parks. You can only visit one land!
truecoat
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If we had one as contagious and destructive, we would be.
mickEblu
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Toad hall 25
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Next time garden walk gets in trouble Disney should buy it tear it down and build a modified version of riverside square maybe with an original splash mountain in it. Out of Disneyland but still not forgotten.
Darkbeer1
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But what about Sunday's?