Adapting is the sign of leadership - what you should be scared of is people who drive the car into the wall.
Big differences here is that most of Youtube's content is user created, and they give pennies of ad revenue to them.Youtube is taking in more new hours of video every MINUTE than Disney is looking to pull here
I think you are splitting hairs a bit. LM opened Nov 2012 and Tron opened April 2023 so 10 years and 6 months apart and only because Covid delayed Tron which should have been open for the 50th. They are saying $17B in the next decade which is a rough estimate of time. I don’t think they mean exactly 10 years from now.
)it was 4 new lands (2 rides in each land): FLE, Pandora, Galaxy’s Edge and Toy Story Land plus 2 headliner rides in EPCOT and 1 in MK and some capacity additions like TSMM and Soarin and rethemes with Frozen and Great Mickey Ride. They also doubled Disney Springs and built the skyliner and a bunch of DVC resorts. So if we get the status quo from the last decade which we agree is what the $17B represents then we should get something similar in the next 10 years. Anyone expecting more will likely be disappointed. This is about the most we can expect.
And don’t forget that profit was already after cap ex was taken out.
Ten years is ten years.
Dude you are completely missing the point. I am not trying to argue anything about whether what they spent was good, bad or indifferent. Tron absolutely was delayed Because of Covid. Construction slowed and that’s a fact, but isn’t really relevant either so take it off the list if that makes you feel better or if you want to ignore LM since it opened more than 10 years ago do that. Who cares it doesn’t change the point either. How many rides MK netted since 1998 is irrelevant too. I am not trying to argue that Disney spent enough at WDW. The point is that spending $17B over 10 years gets you upkeep and some new stuff too. Maybe it’s new lands, new stand alone rides, refurbs of existing rides, new shopping, new resorts or new transportation. Looking at the last 10 years gives you an idea of what we could get for that money.
I have yet to see you having one. You just keep posting like someone said nothing is coming.
Dude,
That interactive hotel failed because it was bad judgement on Disney's part. Somehow they thought that there were a lot of highly wealthy people that were also over the top Star Wars fans. There aren't and many of the biggest fans are not financially able to pay the rate no matter how much they liked the idea. It was ego that was unconnected to common sense that created the failure. That will not affect or stop the thousands of "others" from continuing to go to the parks.
In the first post you made that I quoted you questioned how earnest the statement was that Disney was planning to spend $17B over the next decade in response to someone pointing out that Disney has $48B in debt. I was pointing out that it wasn’t far fetched to assume they would sincerely plan to spend that money at WDW since it’s about what was spent the last decade adjusted for inflation but that as park fans we most likely would be disappointed at what that gets us. I then pointed out that even though a chunk will be spent on upkeep, it’s still not “nothing new”. Then I laid out what that money was spent on in the last decade as an example of what the equivalent money got us. I never implied you said nothing was coming.
It is insightful, and I’m going to assume they meant new operational roles in the parks, not including construction/temp employees.
I agree. I suspect at least part of the 13,000 jobs could be just ramping up post Covid. I have no facts to support that but it seems like they aren’t quite back to pre-Covid levels to me at WDW. I know that TWDC in total was down over 30,000 CMs in 2022 compared to 2019 but that’s all aspects of the company not just WDW.
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Don’t hold your breath.
