What I'm really curious about is just what Disney's top executives really think about NGE, and will admit privately among themselves. Does anyone there really still believe this thing is going to generate revenue increases even close to the levels claimed (or at all)? Costs continue to mount, and with Bob Iger unable and/or unwilling to answer even basic questions on the programs promised results, do the people within TDO realize what a boondoggle this is becoming? Just how much more money are they going to spend because they can't (publicly?) admit to a mistaken project?
What is more disturbing than even $2.5 billion would be a bunch of executives who continue to run the ship into the ground, rather than admit a mistake and change course. Publicly they may spin such silliness as people not having time for new attractions, but they have to know that while Disney has almost nothing new to offer in the next couple years, the competition up the street does. Can anyone - even Iger - really still think NGE is the answer? That would be most troubling.
