lazyboy97o
Well-Known Member
It very well could be incredibly costly but had they done their due diligence the alternative would have been demolition, not keeping the attraction.I wasn't referring to the rumored $50 million number -- just that it could be a significant investment to bring the building up to code (especially since everything seems to cost far more for Disney) which could cascade down to the money spent on the actual redesign.
Of course, since the DL and WDW versions are different anyways, they really can't do a one size fits all design. They will have to make changes to whatever is done at DL to make it fit the WDW version. I'm not sure how they will factor that in to the overall budget.
Even if the attractions were near identical in terms of show they could not do a one size fits all design. Show sets can be near identical and that is the case now, but the technical issues would still be different with a clone. There are differences between the climate and codes that would require different solutions for “identical” rides.