ford91exploder
Resident Curmudgeon
P&R development has been scaled back, and in most cases frozen, due to NextGen overruns. I'll let others reiterate what evidence is in the public domain since its Boxing Day and we have a house full.
The plenty of other things is the bare minimum or in some cases what was forced on TDO from Burbank. A few examples:
JC - six years late and needed before the canal leaked dry. No joke. The new deck a few years back was fast tracked when the neglected old deck actually rotted through.
PotC - mishmash of new effects that have major issues laid over 1973 infrastructure. Lighting that had to be shoehorned in. A damaged new boat fleet. And an audio system that's such a mix of 1973 and 2008 that numerous dead areas and mis matched speakers leave glaring audio holes and unbalanced BGM.
Splash - years of bare minimum neglect had made it a laughing stock. They had no choice to spend big or they could have potentially lost the building.
BTM - track worn and obsolete systems. The track will still need totally renewing along with most of the mountain since patching up will only do so much. See Anaheim in how to do it right. Show scenes and effects still not working.
CBR - technical success after years of neglect. Again close to loosing the attraction.
Diamond Horseshoe - the what? Oh. The seasonal QS building?
Liberty SQ Riverboat. The sole remaining moving attraction on ROI. Still a tug of power between keeping it open and saving money to moor it permenantly.
Haunted Mansion - excellent refurb, now with flawed Fastpass and queue layout and unnessecary, failing extra queue interactions.
Hall of Presidents - excellent refurb. Exterior was so neglected it partially collapsed during the refurb.
Small World - tangled toilets path routing now brings the traffic pinch point solely to the small world / pan corner. Worse traffic management area in the park.
Peter Pans Flight - still waiting for the 1992 DLP enhanced visuals let alone the newer - and newer still planned - Anaheim overhaul.
Snow Whites Scary Adventures - really.
FLE - not my call. Personally a fantastically themed area with two new good D tickets and a nice restraunt that the park dearly needed. Mermaid ride has multiple issues discussed elsewhere. I'll mention the cheaper electrical as opposed to mechanical ride system rotation device that malfunctions far too regularly.
Storybook Circus - not my call. Nor my thing so I'd be biased.
Space Mountain - discussed to death elsewhere. Budget slashed to bare minimum overhaul. Asbestos removal and skyway demolition also lumped into ride refurb budget to reduce available money even further. Track now in a real sorry state and asthetic overhaul - of what was possible with any remaining money - was a bandaid fix.
Tomorrowland stage - pushed through via entertainment not ops. Guest area lost to staff parking. New stage not WDI certified nor designed. Sound and light bleed into surrounding land theme.
Buzz Lightyear - where's the new guns? Still on hold?
Peoplemover - bare minimum. Damaged RVs. Failing drive system and PA. Theming actually less that before.
Carousel of Progress - bare minimum maintainence.
Tomorrowland Terrace - even when Cosmic Rays is a dozen or more people deep at each register - as you expect it to be at meal times during anything but the quietest times of year - remains closed. It used to be open year round when the park had less guests annually. For example.
Spectro - 'Nuff said.
MSEP - so worn and patched up there's a good chance it will not stand up to being shipped anywhere again.
Magic Memories and You / Celebrate the Magic - infrastructure installed to boost photopass sales. Failed so much that Disneyland photos were also used, taken that day and sent via the web. Budget to move Main Street projectors to inside buildings frozen so any moving around the roof or underneath the roof area during a show shakes the projection housings.
Wishes - reduced budget. The order from above was cut the number of shells used, or shorten the show.
This is purely off the top of my head in the park that's received the most love and charges the most (and constantly rising) admission price. We could talk about Epcot or DHS where the real problems are.
I'll mention Sorcerers as a diversionary C ticket equivalent. So I'm being fair. I won't mention A Pirates Adventure since those who work it have declared it rather less than successful.
So much for being brief. Oops..
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