It was deserved. He accepted the job as mouthpiece for a woeful project.
Covid induced delay averaged 8 weeks. Any more was at the discretion of Burbank.
Agree to disagree,
mostly. To your second point, legally speaking yes, but the industry as a whole delayed projects, and theme parks weren’t the only industry to do so.
Hindsight is 20/20 though, but remember that there was a time when there was no idea if it would even be possible to return to vacations, and from a business perspective I totally understand pausing/delaying everything as they were bleeding through cash. Now that doesn’t justify the
level of delay for projects like TRON and the Festival Center, and it certainly left money on the table, but it’s sort of ingenuous to think projects weren’t going to be massively impacted while the parks remained shuttered or at bare bones capacity.
You can really see the difference with what concrete/tiles if you compare the mainstreets of Magic Kingdom and Paris. Its not just the castle thats more beautiful
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Lovely photo comparison. The bricks on Main Street is one of the first things I noticed back at my first DLP visit in 2013. It just gives it such a more premium look. The facades and interiors along main street are also much improved over the other castle-park counterparts.
I’ve said it multiple times already, the lineup of attractions in Studios isn't that bad, its the parts inbetween that need to be fixed and it needs a lot of additional capacity in toilets/foods/shops and small things to do.
It’s all the more ironic, given that DLP suffers from the polar opposite problem.
I will say though, despite the lack of new much needed rides,
Lion King: Rhythms
of the Pride Lands, was fantastic. You can tell they put both money and talent behind it.
It was simply exceptional, and really fits well alongside DLP’s other entertainment offerings which are also top notch. The drone show in particular sticks out.
Alice over at Studios was about what I expected (but with great talent), and really impressive for a temporary show, though obviously nowhere near on the caliber of
Pride Lands.