Thankfully, I, apparently, am a 4 year old girl. My grown children, that call me Dad, will probably go into shock over that revelation, but, I thought it was well done and pretty much what I expected. Certainly better than anything else that has gone in there in the last two or three years. After all those years of neglect, baby steps are better then no steps at all.
We should have SDMT within 12 months and Avatarland in 3 or 4 years. What; isn't that good enough? Don't tell me you're one of those whiny WDW haters people complain so much about on these threads.
You see, it is disappointing to think about sometimes. The great empire that built EPCOT CENTER, a WHOLE ENTIRE THEME PARK, in 3 years is taking the same amount of time to build a D-ticket roller coaster in SDMT. But my hope is that the youngins on this website (specifically us commons at the Imagineering forum) will be over to bring the imagination division of the Walt Disney Company back into focus and enforce a strong management base to keep all areas of the Disney Parks up to par, and keep the Disney name above all others.
Wow...these forums change you man. Woah.We should have SDMT within 12 months and Avatarland in 3 or 4 years. What; isn't that good enough? Don't tell me you're one of those whiny WDW haters people complain so much about on these threads.
But yeah that's what Lasseter is trying to accomplish now in looking for new, younger, and more creative Imagineers for WDI. However, I do think they're some pretty talented younger Imagineers now like Michel Den Dulk who I think has the greatest potential to be the Next Gen Baxter since he is a Baxter found prodigy. We just need upper management to keep giving Imagineers more money/proper budgets to let them go about business as usual. I definitely want you to become a Imagineer cause clearly you understand what it means to become an effective Imagineer. Me I just want to become a Resort Manager be it at one of the WDW Resorts or Uni Resorts.
We should have SDMT within 12 months and Avatarland in 3 or 4 years. What; isn't that good enough? Don't tell me you're one of those whiny WDW haters people complain so much about on these threads.
Oh my, you are one of those WDW haters. Don't you know we're supposed to love everything Disney does at WDW.
Just a small correction for you. The "great empire" that built EPCOT Center had only a tiny fraction of the power and resources of today's TWDC.
Those were the words I had trouble fitting in. Was just gonna say the company. Plus that just adds to the disappointment. Less resources, yet more efficiency.
That's not a good thing.
The best part of the whole franchise is the art direction. If you're familiar with the Tron "look", then you know all you really need to know.
Is that really the worst thing? Those acquisitions are all going to set the company up to make gobs and gobs of money for the next 50+ years, and I think the problems with Bob Iger's TWDC are mostly fixable. I see it as certain parts of the company have been in sort of a holding pattern while making these big purchases. There's no reason something like the studio can't start cranking out more of its own creative content in two years when Iger is gone. There's no reason the next CEO can't have a different vision for WDW... one with new, quality rides. Like I've said before, they have to get back to building rides in WDW sometime in the mid-term future anyway because even if NextGen is wildly successful, Disney has to feed the Wall St beast with more revenue growth. Let's say NextGen increases per guest per day spending from $100 to $200 (crazy increase, but just an example). It's only going to do that once. In 2016 or so, your per guest spending will be $200 and it will be flat after that without other expansion because NextGen is already doing its thing. Say WDW is pulling $200 per day from 45 million people in 2016. Do you think Wall St will be happy with that same $200 per day from 45 million people in 2020, even though it was a meteoric increase from the circa 2012 numbers that would've taken decades to achieve through nickel-and-dime 1-2% annual increases? Nope. They're going to want $200 per day from 50 million people. Look at the griping about Apple. It's not dominant, but there is definitely an undercurrent of complaints that it's been a whole five years (omg) since Apple has completely revolutionized its industry. Let that sink in for a moment. If you have a truly transformative product like the iPhone, all of a sudden people expect you to have once-in-a-lifetime ideas every few years. It doesn't matter if you're one of the most valuable companies in the world: if you can make $1B, you should be able to make $2B. If you can make $2B, you should be making $4B next year.
