Dan Deesnee
Well-Known Member
Yeah -- the WDW POV video only has 373k views. That's obviously not nothing, but it's a tiny percentage of the Magic Kingdom's yearly attendance.
While I personally think Tiana is very much a disappointment (especially when judged against Splash), this is really not a thing amongst the general public/average Disney guest, at least not yet.
But you're not really thinking about it the way Disney would. That is potentially 2 to 300,000 parents that are watching this ride video and we're planning on potentially going to MK sometime in the next year. Partially, no doubt, because of this new ride.
They then watch it, are underwhelmed, read the comments, and decide to save their money and go elsewhere.
That's ~200,000 families so, roughly 800k-1 million people.
Then assume that they will mention this to friends and family, doubtless some of which will had heard about the new ride and may have been thinking of going down themselves.
The number is still low when looking at an entire year's worth of attendance and assuming massive potential errors with the numbers above - since it's a small data set. But I would absolutely not write off the power of bad word of mouth and negative press, combined with millions of people being disenfranchised with Disney in general over the past few years. THEN add in the juggernaut that will be Epic Universe, opening next summer, andDisney could be in serious trouble here.