Sorry, I've seen you make this oops a few times. "Cue" refers to the implement used in pool or something used to trigger something else (e.g. "That's my cue"). "Queue" is a line, where the first item in is the first item out. This is what you experience in theme parks (for the most part).
New imagineers would do this too.
Walt Disney Imagineering gets big budgets for the domestic parks. The amount of money made available is not a limiting factor.
Imagineers aren't the ones deciding what projects get approved
Projects would have a better chance of approval if spending was not ridiculously out of control.
The GotG coaster has a ridiculous budget, according to out insiders, and it got approved.
You’re taking one point of the process and ignoring the larger context. Walt Disney Imagineering is very much to blame because they cannot get projects done for a reasonable amount of money. Project Sausalito doesn’t disprove that. It’s very much part of a larger pattern of withholding investment as long as possible and then focusing on large marquee projects. Small projects like more frequently updating a simple ride don’t make sense because the Imagineers are unable to do so for a reasonable amount of money.
Exactly. And more acutely the budget cuts that we bemoan are a direct result of WDIs inability to control costs.
So executives' decisions to spend billions on MDE, DVCs and misplaced attractions that don't expand park capacity (and in some cases actively decrease it), disregard park and land theming, while also refusing to do basic upkeep of older attractions and effects that haven't worked in years, it's all Imagineers faults?
It’s not the sole problem, but it most definitely plays a large role. The Pressler model and micromanaging specifically came out of controlling costs and would be less justified if such massive sums were not involved. Every new attraction is a larger cost, representing a greater risk that has to be more of a sure thing so that it can meet ever rising performance expectations. Tokyo has also very much seen a lack of investment and a change to just repeating the same few franchises. Tokyo DisneySEA is getting a Fantasyland with water poured all over it so that it has a shallow water connection to the park.
I keep wondering where the risk is? They have theme parks that continue to perform even with non working effects and multiple shuttered attractions...the guest numbers climb any time they do anything new no matter how lame...almost anything including a cupcake party can be seen as a success... so exactly where is the risk? If they do anything it is going to be successful in some way. I don't believe risk plays any role...It's just a lack of willingness to invest back into the parks instead of stock buybacks and upper tier executive bonuses.
We are talking about an organization that went into an all out panic last fall because they were forecasting a dip in quarterly bookings and attendance. It’s all a risk because leadership doesn’t understand why theme parks work as a business, why people go to them in the first place. They’ve been convinced that it does require spending but Walt Disney Imagineering has completely squandered that change.
Really? This is how you waste your finger movements. Take a queue and save the finger twitches - that’s the right one, right?
