unkadug
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Fifteen years old is not an adult. Most adults could care less about rollercoasters.
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The worst decision WDW ever made?
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Fifteen years old is not an adult. Most adults could care less about rollercoasters.
Matt_Black
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POLY LOVER
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allowing Starbucks into the parks and closing the MSB losing another unique feature of Disney. Losing the Disney Touches and outsourcing.
POLY LOVER
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they need to fix what they have let run down, to move on to another new park and not fix what they have will be a mistake. Another new park will just fall into the same syndrome as the ones they have now. They need to reevaluate their park model and philosphy and fast.
Launchpad McQuack
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Why, as a WDW fan/customer, would you WANT something to fail? Wouldn't it be better to look at it like "I'm not interested in that franchise/IP, but I hope Disney can incorporate it into the parks in a way that will be fun"? I use this example a lot: My wife has never seen a Star Wars movie. I tried to get her to a while back, but she wanted to watch something else instead (she has said she will finally watch them before the new land opens in DHS, though). However, she likes Star Tours. She thinks it's a fun attraction. The other, better example is this: Probably 90% (and that's a conservative estimate) of the people in Magic Kingdom on a given day haven't seen Song of the South. Probably 50% (also a VERY conservative estimate) don't know it's the basis of Splash Mountain. However, people LOVE Splash Mountain because it's a fun attraction with a great theme/atmosphere.
Daniel Johnson
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Getting rid of the liquid cheese...
disneyflush
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From present day:
Lowering food quality.
Removing so many unique drinks and dishes while 'standardizing' the menu across the resort.
The speed and rate of price increases on all things WDW-related
Stubborn inability to handle crowds through increasing the number of rides
From 15 years in the future:
Building and selling DVC units in quantities that the infrastructure of the parks has been unable to accommodate comfortably.
Front-of-the-line passes being sold to Deluxe Resort Guests and DVC owners which has created line challenges galore for the CMs and frustration from guests.
Lowering food quality.
Removing so many unique drinks and dishes while 'standardizing' the menu across the resort.
The speed and rate of price increases on all things WDW-related
Stubborn inability to handle crowds through increasing the number of rides
From 15 years in the future:
Building and selling DVC units in quantities that the infrastructure of the parks has been unable to accommodate comfortably.
Front-of-the-line passes being sold to Deluxe Resort Guests and DVC owners which has created line challenges galore for the CMs and frustration from guests.
Matt_Black
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My sister has never seen an episode of the Twilight Zone (this New Year's I'm going to her apartment, tying her down to a chair, and setting the TV to SyFy's annual marathon), but that hasn't stopped TOT from being one of her favorites.
Chef Mickey
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This is all Iger's margin squeeze. It's sad too because it impacts things big and small.
Instead of a unique experience, you get a more standardized, cookie cutter experience with the margin squeezed out of every point of sale.
POLY LOVER
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I have been bashed for stating this in the past but the truth is exactly as you have stated. As this continues guests will realize one day the Magic is just not there anymore.
It will be all of these little changes that will cause it. We will become just another theme park.
Believe me I want to be wrong but I fear I will be correct.
When you charge premium prices for a product any product there has to be justification by the consumer for paying it. You need to leave the experience saying IT WAS WORTH IT.
ThemeParkFan
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rkleinlein
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I shake my head every time they close down a good attraction only to replace it with something that in most cases is not much better and in many cases is decidedly worse. Think Mr. Toad, Snow White in the first category and Alien Encounter and just about everything in Epcot in the latter.
A recent example is getting rid of Maelstrom and replacing it with Frozen. Maelstrom was good, especially when compared to the other attractions in Epcot. Why not just ADD a Frozen attraction? It's not like they don't have plenty of room and it's not like building new is that much more expensive than gutting and completely retooling an existing space. Especially since Epcot desperately needs more attractions.
That and the cheap and ugly value hotels.
A recent example is getting rid of Maelstrom and replacing it with Frozen. Maelstrom was good, especially when compared to the other attractions in Epcot. Why not just ADD a Frozen attraction? It's not like they don't have plenty of room and it's not like building new is that much more expensive than gutting and completely retooling an existing space. Especially since Epcot desperately needs more attractions.
That and the cheap and ugly value hotels.
ThemeParkFan
Member
I know, I'm 15 and I don't have a say. But it depends on what age. 20s to 40s is different. Most adults I know enjoy roller coasters a lot. Why do you think rockin roller coaster is always packed?
ThemeParkFan
Member
Okay, I used poor wording there, I admit. I enjoy the Disney theme parks and they are a major part in my life. I personally just do not support this decision. It does not fit the theme park. I just personally wish they had decided to build the beastly kingdom. I wrote that half asleep, and in my mind, I was thinking maybe if it failed they replace it or something. I apologize.
ThemeParkFan
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Made my dayIncluding the above statement. Wait...
ThemeParkFan
Member
I'm just saying, does this seem like something that will fit Disney world?
AdventureHasAName
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This is an old myth that has circulated for close to a decade, but is factually incorrect. There was a sinkhole in that area of the park, but it was on the other side of the Avenue of the Stars (the east side) and had no effect on the structural soundness of the Horizons building whatsoever. Horizons was destroyed because GE ended it's sponsorship and Disney couldn't get anyone to sponsor the attraction, while they had Compaq ready to sponsor a new space-themed attraction - no other reason. If Disney had just decided to leave the attraction sponsorless (like 90% of all WDW attractions), it would still be there.
I have always assumed that the sinkhole myth is a product of the frontline EPCOT employees hearing there was a sinkhole in the area (which there kinda, sorta was), seeing Horizons destroyed without explanation, and speculating that must have been the reason the attraction was removed (rather than the true explanation which is: Disney was being cheap and didn't appreciate what they had at the time).
ThemeParkFan
Member
Okay thanks. Mission Space was also a terrible replacement and a GIANT WASTE of their money and time!!!
POLY LOVER
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But I guess we have to admit it fits the Epcot theme.
AdventureHasAName
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I would not admit that. The ride? Maybe (I don't like it, but at least it pretends to be somewhat educational). But everything else about it clashes with EPCOT CENTER Future World.