News Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge - Historical Construction/Impressions

[GiveMeTheMusic]

The land has fallen behind schedule (WDW's even moreso). There is panic.

 

[Disney Irish]

The land has fallen behind schedule (WDW's even moreso). There is panic.

Do we know how far behind schedule its fallen?

 

[GiveMeTheMusic]

Do we know how far behind schedule its fallen?

Enough that they're transitioning to 24 hour work crews to try and compensate.

 

[GiveMeTheMusic]

They also think attendance is soft because guests are holding off until SWGE opens, this is also causing great concern.

Truly, a pack of highly paid executives who were apparently born yesterday.

 

[Disney Irish]

Enough that they're transitioning to 24 hour work crews to try and compensate.

It'll be interesting to see if we can see the increase in work force in terms of visible progress from the weekly photo updates.

 

[britain]

They also think attendance is soft because guests are holding off until SWGE opens, this is also causing great concern.

Truly, a pack of highly paid executives who were apparently born yesterday.

This is what happens when you don’t regularly add compelling attractions every year.

 

[GiveMeTheMusic]

This is what happens when you don’t regularly add compelling attractions every year.

What, you didn't find the Incredicoaster compelling??

 

[Sharon&Susan]

The solution is more overlays! Maybe an overlay for Mission Breakout or the Incredicoaster is necessary.

 

[Disney Irish]

The solution is more overlays! Maybe an overlay for Mission Breakout or the Incredicoaster is necessary.

So an overlay on an overlay?

 

[TROR]

The solution is more overlays! Maybe an overlay for Mission Breakout or the Incredicoaster is necessary.

What if they overlayed MB with a Twilight Zone theme? Something about a haunted hotel in Hollywood maybe? Could be cool. You could have the gantry lift be like a haunted elevator. Man, that'd be great.

 

[Disney Irish]

What if they overlayed MB with a Twilight Zone theme? Something about a haunted hotel in Hollywood maybe? Could be cool. You could have the gantry lift be like a haunted elevator. Man, that'd be great.

Nah, will never work....

 

[NateD1226]

What if they overlayed MB with a Twilight Zone theme? Something about a haunted hotel in Hollywood maybe? Could be cool. You could have the gantry lift be like a haunted elevator. Man, that'd be great.

Not a strong IP. If the IP is weak they won't put it there.

 

[TP2000]

This is what happens when you don’t regularly add compelling attractions every year.

No kidding. TDA has no one to blame but themselves and their short-sighted and small-vision business plans of the last 15 years for this situation they've gotten themselves into with Star Wars Land.

But it wasn't always that way for Disneyland investment, even for several decades after Walt was gone.

1955-65 = 16 New Attractions (Astrojets, Mine Train, Mules, Skyway, Alice In Wonderland, Columbia, Canoes, TSI, Matterhorn, Monorail, Submarines, Motorboats, Flying Saucers, Treehouse, Tiki Room, Mr. Lincoln)

1966-1976 = 9 New Attractions (Small World, Pirates, PeopleMover, ATIS, CoP, Mission To Mars, Haunted Mansion, Country Bears, America Sings)

1977-1987 = 6 New Attractions (Space Mountain, Thunder Mountain, New Fantasyland, Pinnochio, Captain EO, Star Tours)

1988-1998 = 8 New Attractions (Splash Mountain, Toontown, Roger Rabbit, Indiana Jones Adventure, Rocket Rods, Honey I Shrunk The Audience, Innoventions, Small World Holiday)

1999-2009 = 5 New Attractions (Haunted Mansion Holiday, Winnie The Pooh, Buzz Lightyear, Finding Nemo Submarines)

2009-2018 = 0 New Attractions (Nothing new added to Disneyland ride roster, only rehabs and small tech improvements to existing rides)

2019 = Star Wars Land (First all-new rides in 14 years! Last all-new ride was Buzz Lightyear in 2005)

They haven't added a new ride to Disneyland for 14 years by the time Star Wars Land opens?!? God help them!

TDA and their Burbank masters get a pass for a couple of those years for having to save a failed DCA and open Cars Land and two other new rides in that park (Mermaid and the Trolley), but that doesn't help the situation at Disneyland itself. TDA has no one to blame but themselves, and all the previous TDA Presidents who clocked in for their temporary gig in the revolving door of the TDA Presidential Suite for the last 10+ years; Eddie Grier, Georgie Kalogridis, Mikey Colglazier.

And now poor Joshy Dimaro has to try and prevent civil disturbance from breaking out on the Big Thunder Trail next summer because of the previous incompetence. There's really nothing else to say but... God help them. God help them all.

 

[Sharon&Susan]

So an overlay on an overlay?

 

[mickEblu]

They also think attendance is soft because guests are holding off until SWGE opens, this is also causing great concern.

Truly, a pack of highly paid executives who were apparently born yesterday.

You don’t think that the soft attendance has anything to do with SWL opening next year? Not entirely of course. I think it’s also partly that lack of new attractions (maybe they ll learn overlays don’t move the meter all that much) and maybe a little bit of outpricing people too.

It seems completely plausible that many tourists would postpone their vacation a year. If it doesn’t have anything to do with SWL at all then why didn’t the soft attendance start earlier? Spring was still pretty busy. Summer was slower just as it was in 2017. This fall seems considerably slower than last Fall. It’s just hard to believe that attendance is coicidentally dropping 9 months before SWL opens and that Disney’s lack of new attractions just happened to catch up to them in the same year.

 

[SuddenStorm]

They also think attendance is soft because guests are holding off until SWGE opens, this is also causing great concern.

Truly, a pack of highly paid executives who were apparently born yesterday.

HA! Yeah, if I were planning a vacation I wouldn't do it with the Matterhorn closed, Tiki Room closed, and construction walls up all over the park. Especially with a huge new land opening in the most iconic theme park in the world opening next summer.

And that's ignoring DCA... which somehow managed to make a land that's worse then opening day, and close another land entirely in the last six months.

 

[SuddenStorm]

This is what happens when you don’t regularly add compelling attractions every year.

For Six Flags, sure. But Disneyland has gotten on just fine without adding new attractions every year for the last decade.

 

[GiveMeTheMusic]

You don’t think that the soft attendance has anything to do with SWL opening next year? Not entirely of course. I think it’s also partly that lack of new attractions (maybe they ll learn overlays don’t move the meter all that much) and maybe a little bit of outpricing people too.

It seems completely plausible that many tourists would postpone their vacation a year. If it doesn’t have anything to do with SWL at all then why didn’t the soft attendance start earlier? Spring was still pretty busy. Summer was slower just as it was in 2017. This fall seems considerably slower than last Fall. It’s just hard to believe that attendance is coicidentally dropping 9 months before SWL opens and that Disney’s lack of new attractions just happened to catch up to them in the same year.

Oh it absolutely is effecting attendance at DLR and WDW. What makes the execs dumb is that they did not foresee this, like any normal person would have.

 

[mickEblu]

Oh it absolutely is effecting attendance at DLR and WDW. What makes the execs dumb is that they did not foresee this, like any normal person would have.

Oh gotcha! I misinterpreted what you wrote.

 

[Nland316]

I really hope they eventually cover those obvious empty spots with rockwork. Very obvious from the Twain and even walking towards Critter Country.