You could say the same about JK and Warner with Wizarding World. James Cameron with Avatar, Lucasfilm for Star Wars, CCP with Shanghai, the list goes on. You don't spend $1 billion on Pandora, the most expensive 9.5 acres in theme park history, for lousy attractions.
Why did they spend money overseas? To boost flailing parks and more urgent needs. With competition stepping up domestically, Disney is turning their attention back home. How can everyone be so blind so as to not see this YUGE business move. I'm aware of the previous renderings of TSL, however it is my understanding that some things were cut, but also a lot was removed from that rendering because WDI is going for "under promise, over deliver"
Disney's investors would have a FIT! For once, having shareholders may be a positive for park guests.
Fast? Maybe by recent Disney standards, but with both being additions to rides that already exist, I'm pretty sure this is them again choosing to be deliberately slow even though the capacity is desperately needed.
I do view Avatar and Star Wars the same way. Without James Cameron and his infamous drive for perfection Avatar probably wouldn't look half as good as it does. For Star Wars we surprisingly have the BoD to thank. When they were shown the original plans they were unimpressed and told WDI to "try again." Even they see Star Wars is something they can't mess up. I also never said the attractions in Pandora would be lousy. I said we'll have to wait to see if they push the envelope.
I just have to laugh a little when people suggest that the low levels of domestic investments are because Disney just has to focus on the foreign parks when history shows us that Disney was perfectly capable of building amazing things in the U.S. at the same as building whole resorts overseas in the past. They even invested at the same time as building brand new parks in the same year (1989 gave us both DHS and Typhoon Lagoon and i'm sure a nice number of other projects like Splash Mountain in Disneyland). For Toy Story Land I meant look up the versions built in Hong Kong and Paris. We may have different rides but the overall look and feel will likely be the same.
i have no doubt the immersion of pandora and star wars will be on the level of the WWOHP if not better but the question will be in the rides/attractions
An area for kids where both rides will have height requirements based on similar things we've seen in the past. Seems legit. A Pixar Place with Ratatouille and either Monsters Inc. ride from Anaheim or Tokyo would've had no such requirements and been much better off. As it stands TSMM will still be the only ride like that for families.
I AGREE
How does it apply to Soarin'? TSMM is a renovation of an existing sound stage. Soarin' requires a whole new building.
The height requirement for A$$ will be low (probably 32) and SDD will probably be 38. That basically eliminates age 4 and under.
Which is hilarious when Splash Mountain took 22.
How long did the first two take?
