his views seem to average like 25 or 30k, that video itself has 45k views now.
The past year has wreaked havoc on everything. Hopefully your retirement will coincide with a "phoenix rising" esque time of renewal, including at Disney.
Firstly, congratulations on your soon-to-be retirement. It sounds like you both deserve it. Florida is a fantastic place and even outside of Disney I am sure you will have a great time.
I agree completely. This has gotten way too complicated. It's a Frankenstein's monster mashup of fastpass, maxpass, lotteries, congestion pricing, and old fashioned pay per ride tickets. And everything is subject a confusing array of rules, timetables, limits and exceptions, some of which overlap, none of which are the same across the board for all attractions and all guests. Lightning Lane, virtual queues, boarding groups, tiers, Fastpass, Fastpass plus, Max Pass, Disney Genie, Disney Genie plus. . . am I forgetting anything?
Over the years it has become apparent that a large percentage of people on these boards do not have a breaking point on price when it comes to visiting the parks. There is no amount where @DisFanatic2TheExtreme from Nebraska won't book their trip with their 2 kids every other year. $5k is now $7k? Thats unfortunate but what can you do. A lifetime DVC contract signed 13 years ago when prices and park visits were still on the simpler side? Thats unfortunate but what can you do. The questions you reference only matter if the answers hold some type of sway. The price-sensitive people dropped out about 5 years ago. Most of these details are just pebbles to step over on the way up Main St to get our castle pic. And you can't really put a price on that.
Ye of little faith. Disney can put a price on ANYTHING.
This would just mean accelerating the problematic vicious cycle in which Disney is already stuck. Marquee attractions induce too much demand leading to more crowding. The parks need smaller scale attractions that can provide breathing room for the people already in the parks.
Yes, they will see how profitable it is to monetize rides. But they will also realize how much higher the profit margin is when you take it all as pure profit rather than build a bunch of new stuff.
I agree. We're at the point where they're going to try to squeeze every single penny they can out of every attraction and guest.
I certainly fear that. But I’m hoping that maybe the potential for ongoing direct monetizing (with more rides) plus the press from Uni with Epic Universe will inspire them to build some additional stuff in upcoming years
Clearly they're not afraid to monetize (at least temporarily) non-marquee attractions as well given the plans for Ratatouille. I wouldn't be mad if more rides of a similar scope and IP profile cropped up.
Ratatouille is a marquee ride with a commensurate scale and cost.
Then ... what do you consider a non-marquee attraction in EPCOT aside from Tres Caballeros, Imagination (mostly due to neglect), and the various theaters? I'd wager practically every attraction there would cost as much or more for the Imagineering of today.
That’s the problem.
I guess I'm probably seeing it the wrong way, but I don't view the total sunk cost as being indicative of whether or not it's truly a headliner. Like, Living with the Land would obviously be tremendously expensive to build and I love riding it, but I'm not sure I'd consider it a marquee attraction; it's more of a backstage tour that people aren't going to queue up for over and over again unless they really need to steal a lot of cucumbers for their collection. In the same way, Ratatouille feels to me like a modern screen-heavy incarnation of a classic Fantasyland ride using a moderately popular franchise. It won't draw the repeat crowds of Frozen Ever After because, well, it doesn't have Idina Menzel belting out a power ballad, but it's a fun one-and-done that will relieve pressure elsewhere in the park after the initial sparkle wears off.
