Not everything that is leaked comes to pass. You should know that by now. A perfect example would be the Fantasyland expansion. Before the announcement a very high up person in the Disney pecking order said that nothing was in the planning for at least 5 years. Believe me when I say, this person was definitely in a position to know. I have never known him to be wrong before. The expansion was announced shortly after that.
As thrown together, and amended as the initial phase of the FL expansion turned out to be, convinces me that Disney accelerator their plans. Now the statement that "Nothing is in the planning for five years", looks completely wrong coming from a very reliable source of information.
Having recently returned from WDW and the very underwhelming small portion of Storybook Circus that is now open for Spring Breakers to bake in, I'll add a bit about this project in which Disney (the alleged leader of theme park design, quality and show) was TOO CHEAP to run a new water line to a new restroom complex, so they are using untreated water they are dying blue. ... Again, UNI='s WWoHP, MK='s Don't drink from the toilets signs.
You try and make a good fanboi excuse for such abject cheapness and lack of respect for their clientele that they'll take any/every opportunity to save a penny.
As to the project's 'secrecy' ... what you need to understand is this was never a secret ... originally. This project was proposed BACK in 1999 by the trio of Tom Fitzgerald, Kim Irvine and Eric Jacobson ... they were looking at a total redo of F-land and also of adding some Disney characters to IASW (funny how that wound up happening elsewhere!)
It was shot down by Paul Pressler and Al Weiss who saw absolutely no reason to invest in the MK.
And it pretty much stayed dead ... until Burbank started looking at guest satisfaction numbers and even with Disney's very 'interesting' methodology for determining how MAGICal a guest's day at WDW is, they knew they had a problem. Capacity had been steadily removed from the MK since 1994 in terms of attractions, dining and retail all being shuttered without replacement. In those days, you didn't have FP pushing folks outside either. And you didn't have the massive amount of ECVs and double-wide strollers clogging arteries either.
Burbank made a pretty unprecedented decision on its own to revive the Fantasyland project (with some major changes and a much smaller budget) in order to add capacity (even though I'll argue for 87 hours straight that it won't hardly matter). This was all done on the left coast and done largely in secrecy.
It wasn't that no one knew about it. It was no one really knew that it had been revived by Burbank and forced down TDO's throats.
Nothing was in the plannning (at least as far as building) stages right until the project was signed off on by Iger.
I strongly suggest you work on your observation techniques.
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I'd suggest plenty more myself!:lol:
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