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Creathir
Premium Member
I like this game...
So, somewhere between $200M and $600M...
Whatever the case, it's a massive amount of money.
Kudos to Disney for spending that much on infrastructure at WDW.
Lower than 400.
Creathir
Premium Member
So $300M...
Still a TON of money.
I'm glad SDL is over and they can focus on WDW once again.
$3,999,999.99
G00fyDad
Well-Known Member
I'm glad what I read was off base then. Still though, over $200m is insane.
Well, there is land clearing with restructuring busing and pedestrian traffic. There is sinking massive concrete pillars (hillsides and cities are usually on bedrock making anchoring towers easier). And there is the theming of each station. Plus the purchasing of boats and vehicles for rescues. I wouldn't be surprised if Disney accounting is adding in the cost of labor and maintenance for maybe the life of the gondola system.
prfctlyximprct
Well-Known Member
Didn't see these posted here... looks so cool!!!
the.dreamfinder
Well-Known Member
Without giving a number how much more would a monorail system that services the same area have cost?
They must have done comps as part of their due diligence, right?
flynnibus
Premium Member
The La Paz
The number is shaming considering the La Paz Bolivia system... which was 6+miles, 3 lines, 7 stations and was the largest URBAN (and was on a mountain..) system at the time in 2014 was only $234 million.
Disney's is just cutting across it's own flat property.. I know the footings are some work (maybe the lagoon side is expensive..) but come on.. that is a significantly larger system.
The number is shaming considering the La Paz Bolivia system... which was 6+miles, 3 lines, 7 stations and was the largest URBAN (and was on a mountain..) system at the time in 2014 was only $234 million.
Disney's is just cutting across it's own flat property.. I know the footings are some work (maybe the lagoon side is expensive..) but come on.. that is a significantly larger system.
G00fyDad
Well-Known Member
When have you ever known Disney to spend their money efficiently? Just sayin....
Construction fences are already in the process of being put up at the Studios station this week. International Gateway has walls up already.
Most of the cost associated with the infrastructure (not trains) is Engineering and Labor. To compare a system built outside the US not an apples to apples comparison. Labor costs are everything here. That $234 Million dollar system could be $3 Billion dollars to do in the US.
Look at the World Drive interchange project. That is probably a $75+ million dollar project. The primary cost? Labor.
Kamikaze
Well-Known Member
I don't even understand how thats possible.
This system:
http://www.newenglandskihistory.com/lifts/viewlift.php?id=808 is extremely similar to what Disney is getting. Runs 8 person gondolas as well as chairs. Doppelmayr designed. $7.2m for over a mile but including 1100 feet of incline which obviously Disney doesn't have to deal with building up mountains. Even if you doubled that (because everything Disney builds gets the prices jacked), you'd get $15m x 3 (3 mile system) for $45m for the whole system. I don't see any way this can possibly cost over $50m, unless they are wrapping some of the Riviera cost into it.
Oh, and this whole system went up in 6 months.
So, does the gondola system include an electronic ride reservation system, too?
Kamikaze
Well-Known Member
I mean, the gondola number doesn't make sense, so the monorail cost would have to be literally billions of dollars to do the same thing.
Well there's where your costs are: construction fences.
Beat me to it. I'm on the plane returning home and the wifi is not cooperating with my photo library.