LaughingGravy
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I wonder how Tokyo DL would handle the Brazilian tour groups and their antics.
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Is Disney's World Wide Expansion Hurting American Parks?
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Figment632
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Yep, Tokyo is entirely separate, and entirely better.
Thats why I dont get a CM discount on tickets :brick::brick::brick:
Until the US parks get some clones from around the world I will say yes.
EPCOT Explorer
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Can you say culture shock?:zipit:
MousDad
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Soooo...WDI creative talent does consultant work for OLC, and most work in the rest of the Disney parks is done by creative consultants who work for managers at WDI.
Makes perfect sense.
For the moment, anyway. :lol:
EPCOT Explorer
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UGH. The truth in that has me squirming.:dazzle:
DisneyDellsDude
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I sure hope that doesn't happen.
I'd rather have some unique experiences at all of Disney's resorts worldwide.
And I really, really hope Shanghi is the last disney resort that will pop up for at least 50 years.
There is so much that has to be maintained and done to all of the current resorts/parks.
mickeyPSU
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No. That's a common misconception. Building DLP didn't hamper WDW's budget. When DLP was under construction, this was the time when WDW and WDI were still Eisner's darlings and could get just about anything they wanted. And WDI did. They had an almost unlimited budget when building DLP.
What forever altered WDI, Parks and Resorts, and created the "dark ages" that the parks are still (hopefully) crawling out of was the failure of DLP. This wasn't the fault of the Imagineers or their budget, but in several decisions that Eisner made (often flying in the face of his advisors) as far as the park's location and the number of hotels that would be present on opening. Despite the park being massively successful, the hotels didn't fill up. This killed the park's return on investment, and the Euro Disney disaster made headline news.
Someone's head had to roll to appease the shareholders, and it sure as heck wasn't going to be Eisner. He blamed it on WDI. They abused their budget and went overboard, he said, so the park's failure was their fault. Eisner severely restricted their budget and put them under intense oversight from strategic planning (which thankfully, because of Iger, no longer exists). He also reversed their role whereas previously WDI had had a degree of ownership over the parks, they essentially became consultants to P&R Management. This combined with Eisner's propensity at the time to put people in P&R Management who had never worked in the parks, didn't care about them, and knew nothing about them was disastrous.
This is how DLP killed WDW. Not because the park development cost too much and took away from WDW's budget, but because its failure was blamed on WDI and forever altered WDI's budget and the dynamic between WDI and P&R.
More on this here and here.
Personally I think the domestic parks benefit from the innovation that comes from building new parks/attractions abroad. Would I like it if the WDC/WDI only focused on the U.S. parks? Yes. But when it comes to the WDC overextending itself, I'm much more worried about the fact that the WDC is now a gigantic, global multimedia conglomerate that comprises a ton of "non-Disney brands" than I am that they're building Disney parks in China.
DisneysRedHead
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Oh man, I feel like this is a gag that the japanese would film and then put on television. Plant the tour groups and watch the chaos ensue on the unsuspecting park goers. Maybe I should send this idea to someone.