News Monster Inc Land Coming to Disney's Hollywood Studios

monothingie

monothingie

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GhostHost1000 said:
Don't forget about all the extra bonuses that go around for such a job well done!
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So you're telling me when they parade around on stage at PR events with retro EPCOT Center T-Shirts that it's all fake and designed to appeal to low-information pixie dusters who would happily wait on line for 3 hours to buy a $60 plastic popcorn bucket?
 
lazyboy97o

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TimeDuck said:
Definitely a factor, you're destroying office space that costs money and will have to relocate all those employees.

People are under the misconception that DHS and WDW are working with blank checkbooks. This isn't the case at all, the money is very finite. WDW has been alotted a budget, and DHS has a certain amount of that budget, and Monsters Courtyard has a piece of that budget. And they've "hired" WDI to help spend it. So no matter what, if you're spending money on one thing its going to come out of somewhere.

The money they could/would save by not razing office buildings to place it in Muppets Courtyard would absolutely give us a "better" land. And likewise the money they could/would spend to place it in Animation Courtyard will surely come out of a different part of the land.

They're not all just sitting around trying to decide if they should make everyone miserable or not to save a relative $10
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It’s also possible that the park makes money on the animation building. The business units that aren’t directly related to the park are probably paying to use that space.
 
GoofGoof

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TimeDuck said:
Definitely a factor, you're destroying office space that costs money and will have to relocate all those employees.

People are under the misconception that DHS and WDW are working with blank checkbooks. This isn't the case at all, the money is very finite. WDW has been alotted a budget, and DHS has a certain amount of that budget, and Monsters Courtyard has a piece of that budget. And they've "hired" WDI to help spend it. So no matter what, if you're spending money on one thing its going to come out of somewhere.

The money they could/would save by not razing office buildings to place it in Muppets Courtyard would absolutely give us a "better" land. And likewise the money they could/would spend to place it in Animation Courtyard will surely come out of a different part of the land.

They're not all just sitting around trying to decide if they should make everyone miserable or not to save a relative $10
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From what the insiders here have shared MI land will potentially be more extensive at AC than at MC. It was posted a while back that if they go with AC there is enough room for a show too but not so with muppets. I understand that they don’t have unlimited budgets but office space is relatively cheap compared to building customer facing attractions and I can’t imagine the higher up people making this call would care one bit about telling workers they need to move their desks. That happens all the time with corporations. I really can’t imagine the office move would be a large factor. If they go with Muppets to save some money it will probably be to build a smaller land not to save money on office space.
 
GoofGoof

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lazyboy97o said:
It’s also possible that the park makes money on the animation building. The business units that aren’t directly related to the park are probably paying to use that space.
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That makes a lot more sense as a reason, but wouldn’t the call for this type of decision be higher up the food chain? Someone running DHS may want to preserve that revenue stream for the park P&L but it’s internal revenue so net zero for TWDC. If they allow the decision to be made at the lower level there could be a lot more incentive to pick Muppets.
 
monothingie

monothingie

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GoofGoof said:
From what the insiders here have shared MI land will potentially be more extensive at AC than at MC. It was posted a while back that if they go with AC there is enough room for a show too but not so with muppets. I understand that they don’t have unlimited budgets but office space is relatively cheap compared to building customer facing attractions and I can’t imagine the higher up people making this call would care one bit about telling workers they need to move their desks. That happens all the time with corporations. I really can’t imagine the office move would be a large factor. If they go with Muppets to save some money it will probably be to build a smaller land not to save money on office space.
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It's not that simple.

They can shut Muppets Today and start demolition tomorrow.

Assuming that the AC Office Building is important to operations, they have to find or build a suitable replacement location, then start moving people and equipment without disruption to operations. This takes time. It is also something that likely would have started happening already if AC was the location for MI because it is not guest facing.
 
Bocabear

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may I present the empty and ready for development Galactic Starcruiser Office Park... 100 deluxe offices each with private bath await...Corporate cafeteria in place...Plenty of room for additional buildings...and would permanently move the office space out of the footprint of the park allowing for more and future development...
 
CJR

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"Disney never adds anything new." -John, the park guest

"We'll add a Monster's Inc ride in place of The Muppets." - Josh D'Amaro

"No, not The Muppets! It's a timeless show and a favorite of ours. Disney never ADDS anything new!" - John, the park guest

"We're adding a Monster's Inc ride, why are you upset?" - Josh D'Amaro

If they announced this at D23, I would have loved to see a Naked Gun style face palm moment.
 
Disstevefan1

Disstevefan1

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CJR said:
"Disney never adds anything new." -John, the park guest

"We'll add a Monster's Inc ride in place of The Muppets." - Josh D'Amaro

"No, not The Muppets! It's a timeless show and a favorite of ours. Disney never ADDS anything new!" - John, the park guest

"We're adding a Monster's Inc ride, why are you upset?" - Josh D'Amaro

If they announced this at D23, I would have loved to see a Naked Gun style face palm moment.
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So true.

If Disney used NEW UNDEVELOPED LAND or even unused areas (like the launch bay) folks would love this.
 
erasure fan1

erasure fan1

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Disstevefan1 said:
So true.

If Disney used NEW UNDEVELOPED LAND or even unused areas (like the launch bay) folks would love this.
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That's what is overlooked too often. People aren't complaining about monsters Inc. people have been pining for it for over a decade. There's just no reason to remove anything at this point in time to get it. Use the empty space you have, create new space, whatever you need to do. Except remove things. That's at the heart of all the complaints from D23.
 

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