lazyboy97o
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But attractions per guest per hour will be lower, the goal of decades of work.
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Toy Story Land expansion announced for Disney's Hollywood Studios
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MaxW
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If this is the case, then why does the disney company not see this? The way the community here posts, it's so obvious that they need more capacity then what has already been greenlit/announced, yet they don't seem to be building/approving. How is it that a multi-billion dollar company can consistently undervalue what is needed in their parks? I get the idea of greed, but their is a difference between greed and stupidity, and i feel disney knows the difference. The whole point being, why should disney give the herd the cow when they will be more than happy receiving the milk alone? I suppose the question to be more philosophical than practical, just interested in what you, the soothsayer of this forum feels on this matter.
HauntedMansionFLA
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They have to answer to stockholders which Bob Iger is the largest individual stock holder and the Murdoch family is second.
lazyboy97o
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They don’t want significantly increased capacity. They want crowding. The entire business model is based on operating a mall in the early 1990s.
MaxW
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If that was the case, then they'd be failing much as the malls from the 1990s. And while they are being vacated and abandoned in many ways, disney is reporting higher park attendance numbers. So clearly they're not running the same business model lazyboy97o
lazyboy97o
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Then why are you questioning the lack of capacity if you’re only going to accept the answer that Disney is doing the right thing? The whole problem with capacity is that Disney lacks motivation to change because their plan of constant crowding has long worked based on financial metrics.
Timothy_Q
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All TSLs have that
What people fail to realize is that crowding levels are determined by guest experience and tolerance. If Disney builds more attractions resulting in a higher capacity, the parks will crowd at the same relative levels as now, unless Disney limits crowds by raising prices substantially higher. Guests show they are satisfied with the current crowd levels given the current attractions/capacity. If they weren't satisfied, attendance would drop. If Disney creates more capacity, it will just be filled as it is currently.
cjkeating
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I'm more concerned about the view of the green shed from the hill after the second launch. From the aerial view it looks like it is going to your clear view straight on.
MagicHappens1971
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This may be a dumb question, but will the berm be done by the time TSL opens this summer? Or will there be construction walls surrounding the edge of a brand new land?
JamieCoops
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Essentially meaning the more they spend the less profit there is in the calendar year.
Let me ease your concern...
You will most definitely see the roof of AlSwS. You will see the top of the Chinese Theater. You will see the 'gravity building' of RnRC (now in lovely shades of blue).
TSL was not built to keep you from seeing tall structures of the park from atop a rollercoaster. Their own 1PPOV video from long ago showed that these things would be visible. WDW was quite upfront about it.
You may now proceed to rage...
It should be done in the way Grand Avenue is done today.
WDWtraveler
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Photo update as of Tuesday, February 13, 2018. Dark gray pavement replacement is underway at the walkway entrance to Toy Story Land. Other sections in the area are marked for replacement. A careful observer will also note the two tall palm trees that used to be in the center of this walkway have been removed. See my previous photo on page 470.
DisneyDreamerxyz
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Can someone tell me what the use of those two smaller buildings is (the ones next to the Slinky Dog coaster, across from the parking lot). They seem so small and random that I'm not sure why they decided to keep them around unless they are needed for something important that can't be relocated (or maybe just didn't want to spend the money tearing them down) I believe there was originally 4 of those small buildings and 2 were torn down. Who even uses that parking lot and large parking structure?
Also curious why there are so many support buildings behind Star Wars Land. Seems like a waste of space. There was one building they kept from the Backlot tour days, but it looks like they actually built more support buildings back there. (cheaply and quick I assume). Just wondering what they are for.
Also curious why there are so many support buildings behind Star Wars Land. Seems like a waste of space. There was one building they kept from the Backlot tour days, but it looks like they actually built more support buildings back there. (cheaply and quick I assume). Just wondering what they are for.
Castle Cake Apologist
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...and why shouldn't we be upset about Disney abandoning one of their own design philosophies? The fact that they were up front about it doesn't make it acceptable. They used to literally theme specific parts of buildings that were found to be intrusive into other areas to make them fit. At the very least, they would paint them go-away green or sky blue.
Now it's just like... "Here's your exposed bare steel coaster! Sorry about the untouched buildings you can see all over the place from it and how they jarringly remove you from the thrilling prospect of pretending that you're in Andy's backyard, but look at those giant Rex and Jessie statues! Aren't they more timeless and more family and more Disney???"
Surely they could have AT LEAST controlled sight lines from within the same park?
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