CoasterSnoop
Well-Known Member
I've been looking through old posts in this thread in disbelief and frustration.
We were talking about this thing operating seasonally in 2016. It gave an unceremonious final show at the beginning of 2018, a rushjob was done to strip the animatronics within a few months and then... nothing. As far as we can tell, barring animatronics, the interior is still exactly the same as it was during its last show five years ago. And here we are, five years later, and we're still shooting concepts back-and-forth of what "could" go here while Disney appears to be at the same stage of the conversation (if they're even seriously having that conversation). This thing has been the world's best-themed break room for five years.
And this isn't some whatever building off in the corner of Hooha Land. This abandoned attraction building is front and center at the most attended theme park in the world. That it appears a replacement for this isn't a priority right now, that Disney would rather focus on a Beyond BTMR blue sky project that can barely be considered to be at a serious point in development, at this point it's ridiculous. Was SGE linked to overall lower guest satisfaction scores for the park? Sure. Given its lack of popularity, was it really a big help in park capacity? Most likely not. It's still much better than an abandoned building that has been abandoned for five years, and the 2018 rushjob seriously calls the judgement of management into question. If even starting a replacement effort is such an issue, why were show elements torn down in the first place?
I know I'm probably not saying anything new, but paying attention to this has been frustrating and at this Year 5 milestone I feel like it bears repeating. It seems super understated because the quality of SGE was considered questionable at best, but this is an all-time WDW flub imo. Regardless of the quality of a replacement, at least it would be something, and at this point every second they drag their feet on it makes that empty hole right at the front of the most attended theme park in the world bigger and bigger. They don't need to have a replacement up and ready tomorrow, they just need to have a replacement in the works.
We were talking about this thing operating seasonally in 2016. It gave an unceremonious final show at the beginning of 2018, a rushjob was done to strip the animatronics within a few months and then... nothing. As far as we can tell, barring animatronics, the interior is still exactly the same as it was during its last show five years ago. And here we are, five years later, and we're still shooting concepts back-and-forth of what "could" go here while Disney appears to be at the same stage of the conversation (if they're even seriously having that conversation). This thing has been the world's best-themed break room for five years.
And this isn't some whatever building off in the corner of Hooha Land. This abandoned attraction building is front and center at the most attended theme park in the world. That it appears a replacement for this isn't a priority right now, that Disney would rather focus on a Beyond BTMR blue sky project that can barely be considered to be at a serious point in development, at this point it's ridiculous. Was SGE linked to overall lower guest satisfaction scores for the park? Sure. Given its lack of popularity, was it really a big help in park capacity? Most likely not. It's still much better than an abandoned building that has been abandoned for five years, and the 2018 rushjob seriously calls the judgement of management into question. If even starting a replacement effort is such an issue, why were show elements torn down in the first place?
I know I'm probably not saying anything new, but paying attention to this has been frustrating and at this Year 5 milestone I feel like it bears repeating. It seems super understated because the quality of SGE was considered questionable at best, but this is an all-time WDW flub imo. Regardless of the quality of a replacement, at least it would be something, and at this point every second they drag their feet on it makes that empty hole right at the front of the most attended theme park in the world bigger and bigger. They don't need to have a replacement up and ready tomorrow, they just need to have a replacement in the works.
