Prince-1
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I’m guessing the reason you are all angry about Rise and GE is because someone didn’t let you buy the $250 lightsaber. I get it.
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I’m guessing the reason you are all angry about Rise and GE is because someone didn’t let you buy the $250 lightsaber. I get it.
TheMaxRebo
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Obviously no new gates which is a big thing, but from 2012- 2020 (up to COVID) we did get:
- New Fantasyland (Under the Sea, Tales with Belle, BiG, Double Dumbo, etc)
- Test Track 2.0
- Festival of Fantasy parade
- 7DMT
- Frozen Ever After
- Fairytale Hall and new Anna Else M&G
- Happily Ever After and Rivers of Light
- World of Pandora (FoP and Navi)
- Toy Story Land (SDD and AS2)
- Galaxy Edge (Rise and MFSR)
- Skyliner
- MMRR
(Plus lots of restaurants and DVCs)
Now maybe some of those aren't your favorites s, but over an 8+ year period, that is a lot .... And if they kept up that pace I think we'd be feeling a lot different
But then Vivid and they scaled back Epcot and stretched out opening Remy/Tron/GotG, and now don't really have much started/in the pipeline - that I think is then bigger issue
Dranth
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2013 brought us Glow with the Show and 2015 saw the removal of the sorcerers hat in DHS so by default it wins!
Beyond that we have 7DMT, FEA, Toy Story land, GE, Pandora, Tron, Rat, GotG, MMRR, Festival of Fantasy, lots of smaller shows and some restaurants, more festivals at Epcot, HEA (twice), harm, EF (twice) almost all of what is now Disney Springs and I few other things I am sure I am missing.
That looks better when you consider most of the major additions where in a 3–5-year time frame. Pandora (2017), Toy Story Land (2018), GE (2019) all opened in back-to-back years. We were due Tron, Rat, MMRR and GotG all for the 50th in 2020/2021 and who knows what they may have built if they didn’t' slam the breaks on everything.
Opinions on the new stuff aside, I think that is what bugs me the most, they were finally starting to spend and build after YEARS of doing little and then 2020 happens. I get slowing things down and pausing to get your bearings in a time like that but they made roughly no plans as evidenced by the last D23.
Epcot82Guy
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I think your list actually highlights the bigger problem. They opened a number of new DVC projects and some new restaurants. But, of those above, a large number are replacements. And that's becoming more true with the projects on the horizon. These often have lower capacity than that they replaced.
So, it's more like them replacing all the Values with DVC than development of new hotels.
Yeah...that does not really compare though to what was mentioned above. Two of them don't even exist anymore and two others are flat rides. You tossed in the DVC resorts and resteraunts. I did not even list the details of Pleasure Island and all the Disney hotels that came between 1989 and 1998. I also forgot Wonders of Life Pavilion and Ellen's Energy Adventure, Innoventions, Beauty and The Beast, Magic Carpets of Aladdin, Goofy's Barnstormer and all the minor projects both adored and meh like completely redesigning the left half of Center Street to expand the emporium.
Then you have Disneyquest completely given up on with nothing in the building facility, Stitch's Great Escape, shorts that are not custom mad for park but dvd consumer shorts playing in a 3D theater. Many other shuttered unused venue space.
No fault of your listing of course. You did a good job compiling it.
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And that is still a choice. Other parks big and small did not halt building as much.
Sea World and Busch Gardens have each opened two rides since the Pandemic
Cedar Point has opened two rides since the Pandemic and working on their third revamp of Top Thrill project for next year.
King's Island opened a giga coaster and rethemed an area since the pandemic and the went to retheme an entire area.
Universal has done a lot resort wide since the pandemic and following years.
Disney was happy to finish loose ends, close a bunch of venues and focus all of their attention on retheming their log flume. For how big of a company and advancements, they don't put it back into the attractions anymore.
TheMaxRebo
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Definitely doesn't compare - really somewhat incredible how close together Disney opened MGM and AK
Just sometimes I think easy to forget there was quite a bit of investment in the 2010s, it just really scaled back around COVID and then nothing much coming (that we know of/has started) now when Universal is going gangbusters .... But this extremeness is more of the past 3 years, not past 15
BrerFoxesBayouAdventure
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I'm not that big a fan of Star Wars.
BagOfGroceries
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Railway actually did open in 2020. March 4th, a few days before everything went to crap.
That’s my opinion too. One of my favorite jokes is how Last Jedi being the best in the trilogy simply isn’t saying much.
Happy for a reliable partner to be involved.
FettFan
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From what I’ve heard, it’s pretty spectacular….when it actually works.
If what I’ve heard is correct, because of all the different systems that have to be synchronized in order to operate as designed, RotR is the least reliable Disney ride that’s ever been built…
Which means…
When judging by that metric…
RotR is actually worse than Superstar Limo.
BrerFoxesBayouAdventure
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From what I’ve heard, it’s pretty spectacular….when it actually works.
If what I’ve heard is correct, because of all the different systems that have to be synchronized in order to operate as designed, RotR is the least reliable Disney ride that’s ever been built…
Which means…
When judging by that metric…
RotR is actually worse than Superstar Limo.
I've been on it at least 3 times and it just didn't grab me. The one thing I really like though is the animatronic of that one alien in the ship.
I think Flying Saucers, Rocket Rods or Indiana Jones sitll take that cake as far as actual reliability/downtime as designed.
Timber!!
LittleBuford
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Ratatouille Adventure isn’t lousy.
LittleBuford
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You would have to argue the same for pretty much any attraction. (It isn’t true anyway, since one always sees something new with every reride.)
I don’t understand what you’re aiming at with this bizarre line of reasoning.
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Found the reason...
Also, he's ridden it more than once...so even he didn't take his own suggestion that is ride-once ride.
LittleBuford
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I’m not a big Star Wars fan either, but I recognise a ride (and a good one at that!) when I see it.
Phicinfan
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I am NOT a Star Wars fan, in fact I am a HUGE Trekie. That being said, I can't ignore what a great ride and experience Rise is.
BrerFoxesBayouAdventure
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I was with family the second two times and got roped into going on it.