Might not see new attractions until 2018-20? Wall Street wants to scale back park investment?

[CinematicFusion]

From MiceAge, don't like the sound of this quote...

"Disney is scaling back on their parks investments after going big with over 1 Billion at DCA in recent years, plus two new cruise ships, Aulani, and New Fantasyland. After that much capital expenditure, the Wall Street crowd wants to see a company scale back and earn back some of that investment before they announce more spending. And finally, the MyMagic+ program at WDW has had more hiccups than successes thus far and is still far from a full rollout and thus isn’t ready for prime time and a major public reveal at the Expo"

Tired of not seeing new attractions in Epcot, Animal Kingdom, DHS. Rumors are just rumors until building begins. Wall Street wants to scale back spending...you won't see anything new until 2018-2020. Unreal!
Hope D3 proves the article wrong. So they are just going to show some artwork of a possible attraction get everyone worked up about the possibility of something new...and then do nothing.

Meanwhile universal just builds, those parks are looking better and better.

 

[doctornick]

Isn't that just a rehashing of what we've heard before? They can significantly cut back on expendatures relative to the recent past while still investing heavily in the parks (if they wanted to). There has literally been billions of dollars in cap ex spent by P&R in recent years. Scaling that back to merely hundreds of millions of dollas can allow for new attractions while still decreasing annual cap ex.

 

[The Empress Lilly]

This was, what...one year, two years ago already?

 

[MattM]

You have to put "scale back" in perspective...

 

[Yellow Strap]

So when are we going to rename the forum UNIMagic?

 

[Mike C]

So when are we going to rename the forum UNIMagic?

Orlando Magic maybe.. oh wait that's taken by basketball.

 

[matt9112]

Orlando Magic maybe.. oh wait that's taken by basketball.

never thought of that...the teams name was not inspired by the area attractions was it?

 

[dreamscometrue]

I think this was discussed at length last year.

 

[CinematicFusion]

I think this was discussed at length last year.

Well it was in the recent report this year. They are talking about why we won't hear of any new rides at D3 this year.
If you guys were talking about it last year great...looks like Disney is continuing that trend.
Hope I'm wrong.

Link to report...
http://micechat.com/37890-miceage-tomorrowland-starwars/

 

[dreamscometrue]

Well it was in the recent report this year. They are talking about why we won't hear of any new rides at D3 this year.
If you guys were talking about it last year great...looks like Disney is continuing that trend.
Hope I'm wrong.

Link to report...
http://micechat.com/37890-miceage-tomorrowland-starwars/

Thanks for posting. The article does make sense with respect to Disney keeping their cards close to their vest, and not announcing attractions until the bulldozers are about to start work. It also tells us that changes are coming.

(Btw, some of the most reliable 'insiders' on here agreed that little in the way of substance re WDW and Dl will be announced at D23. I believe their expectation is also that it will be at a later time.)

 

[WDWDad13]

Can someone please start a UNI forum lol

 

[rioriz]

Can someone please start a UNI forum lol

We have one,quite frankly threads like the recent Universal one should be moved to that one...

 

[lebeau]

I think this was discussed at length last year.

What else is there to talk about?

 

[WDWDad13]

Don't believe everything you read

 

[Atomicmickey]

Don't believe everything you read

Should we believe that?

 

[WDWDad13]

Should we believe that?

Maybe lol

 

[willtravel]

From MiceAge, don't like the sound of this quote...

"Disney is scaling back on their parks investments after going big with over 1 Billion at DCA in recent years, plus two new cruise ships, Aulani, and New Fantasyland. After that much capital expenditure, the Wall Street crowd wants to see a company scale back and earn back some of that investment before they announce more spending. And finally, the MyMagic+ program at WDW has had more hiccups than successes thus far and is still far from a full rollout and thus isn’t ready for prime time and a major public reveal at the Expo"

Tired of not seeing new attractions in Epcot, Animal Kingdom, DHS. Rumors are just rumors until building begins. Wall Street wants to scale back spending...you won't see anything new until 2018-2020. Unreal!
Hope D3 proves the article wrong. So they are just going to show some artwork of a possible attraction get everyone worked up about the possibility of something new...and then do nothing.

Meanwhile universal just builds, those parks are looking better and better.

Wonder how this is going to affect Imagination Pavilion closure in Epcot?

 

[Goofyernmost]

Wonder how this is going to affect Imagination Pavilion closure in Epcot?

In my opinion Imagination can be closed for quite a while before anyone notices.

 

[CinematicFusion]

Well, hope you guys are right and there will be this huge parks anouncement with building starting soon.
I will be disappointed if its a few pictures and no timetable.

You guys are right, we were talking about this last year. Just before the start of football season, that season has gone and a new one is on its way.

 

[SJN1279]

I expect new attractions every year up until 2018-2020. 2014- Mine Coaster, 2015-Phase 1 Star Wars to coincide with the movie and Imagination update, 2016 Soarin Over the World, and 2017 Avatar. I'm sure we will get more, but those are all pretty much locks in my mind.