UNCgolf
Well-Known Member
It's a mistake I've seen other companies make (video game companies have had some gigantic failures chasing the newest trend, ignoring the fact that different people enjoy different types of games). I think they believe the market for thrill rides is higher than for slow, dark rides, which is probably true, and so they need to focus on building more thrill rides -- but there are two problems with that.
The first problem is specific to Disney, in that they're generally considered a family park and have lots of young kids visiting. It doesn't align especially well with a significant part (almost certainly the majority) of the market base to build attractions that small children can't ride.
The second is that although thrill rides may have a larger overall fan base, not everyone prefers them to slow rides, and there are plenty of people who don't like them at all. When you're selling something like a theme park, you want to appeal to as many groups as possible. If you replace every slow/dark ride with a thrill ride (Disney isn't going to do this, but hypothetically for the sake of argument), you're going to lose all the people who prefer the other attractions, and you won't make up the difference in new attendance both because there are already people who come for the existing thrill rides (i.e. you're not tapping into a completely new market) and because people that solely want big thrills already have better options at other parks.
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