Soarin' Over Pgh
Well-Known Member
There is another way to reduce wait times. That is to not do anything (something that they are extremely good at) and eventually the crowds will thin out and go someplace else. And without any additional expense. It's a no brainer!
The whole situation takes me back to the late 70's, early 80's. People were sent out from financial institutions to explain a new idea to the huddled masses longing to be free of the shackles of financial dependency. This new idea was going to replace the old pension system that relied on the health of the company to be able to pay off. Also, if you left you basically lost your built up pension. No transferability.
This new thing was called, strangely, a 401K. We were all promised that if we were in our 30's and we put in $35.00 per week in this plan, by the time we retired we would all be Millionaires and our life would be set. They had all the numbers set up to prove that point. If it weren't for a couple of things they would have been correct. The biggest one was that during that time-span Money Markets were paying upwards of 20% for deposits and all the number were based on investments in Money Markets. That alone obviously fell apart rather quickly and to make matters worse, had it actually made millionaires out of all of us the affect on inflation, that would be created by that, would have rendered a loaf of bread to a cost of about $500.00. However, it all sounded great and most people bought into it immediately. At least those that had the available cash that wasn't tied up in commodities (aka..groceries for the family). Now that is not to say that this plan didn't have some positive aspects especially when companies started to match funds as a tax free benefit. It just didn't manage to deliver what was promised. I suspect that this will be the fate of NextGen.
I suspect that management at Disney was razzel-dazzeled by someone selling them on an incredible sounding bill of goods. Something that didn't even exist yet except in the mind of someone, but with the ability to convince them that this would all work, electronically as well as psychologically on the easily duped guest. Looked good on paper and with the confidence usually reserved for high school seniors facing the world outside, they bought it. The rest is soon to be history. A very expensive lesson that once again proves that in order to be a high paid executive you do not necessarily have to be smarter then a bucket of rocks. Which, BTW, is an insult to rocks everywhere. And there you have it, Goofyernmost's theory on the birth of NGE.
This is genius.
