Where I work is the same way, meetings to have meetings / sub-committee for the original committee . Takes forever for things to get done. But everyone needs to have their voice heard to justify their position with the company.
I believe that's when the final movie of this trilogy comes out. I have so much hope for this land. I have a blast on Star Tours. I hope the other two rides that were announced are E-ticket rides.
Yes but we are talking about building all of those at the same time. Keep in mind that Toy story land will be under construction as well as the parking lot all at the same time. That's around 40 acres or more of Heavy construction all at once. I don't doubt that it's possible but we are talking about several EXPENSIVE projects all at once and we know TDO likes to spread out the cost to appease the investors.
Why do you always bring this up and why is it relevant? Even insiders on this site get things wrong now and again (yourself included if we want to consider you a insider)...
Its not that people get thing wrong, because they do. But come on, we all know Iger was not coming to Disney during a limited time magic event to announce some big land. Its not that he made a mistake, he made a huge claim to stir up the fanbase or for clicks.
Stirring things up and getting those clicks is how he makes money. And quite frankly it gave us something to talk about for a few days back then.
And the claims that nothing was going to be announced at D23 2015 - no Star Wars Land and so on. The insiders were wrong on that one too.
It gave us something to talk about but doesn't make it any less false. Even worse if he knew he was lying which would only further photodaves point that they don't have an amazing track record.
Or we could say how Horizons took 15 months
Universal is well aware of the sacrifices that were made to get Transformers: The Ride - 3D built in such a ridiculous time span. The 13 month build is impressive for its speed and cutting through bureaucracy, but nobody denies the lack of exterior attention. Even then, it is a complete outlier even for Universal. Disney right now is building a warehouse to expand the fully visible Soarin' show buildings that similarly is the third time this type of warehouse is being built.Universal is also able to move faster because they can open a major E Ticket thrill ride that is just a ride in a big box warehouse building with flat signage and a statue in front to serve as "theme". They don't even have to plant trees or shrubs if they dont want to.
I can easily imagine that WDI has way too many managers, too many divas, and stifling corporate bureaucracy at all levels. There have been enough off-the-record and anecdotal reports of that exact scenario from the inside to think otherwise. But if WDI built an E Ticket inside a lightly themed warehouse like Universal gets away with, even if they built it in 18 months like Universal does, Disney would never hear the end of it.
WDI actually tried exactly that type of thing 15 years ago. It was called Disney's California Adventure, and it cost Disney a decade and 2 Billion dollars to fix it.
It is like most every other thing on the planet in that extremes are generally bad.
