This.
Having ridden it a few times now. The ride is great when firing on all cylinders but it is definitely not as good as Universals most recent offerings. Hagrids is a much better themed coaster, and velocicoaster is a much better coaster in general. Going even deeper, revenge of the mummy is better as far as a themed coaster due to practical effects and being able to follow a story line during the ride. Guardians is music first, story second. Queue is really great when it's working and the coaster is super smooth but the more I ride it, the more I feel like it just doesn't measure up... If you don't leave Disney property, you would never know it's not that amazing though.
It’ll look like a box dropped on the side of the Magic Kingdom.
I feel you, they've taken way too long to get this far. There's no excuses for this at all, it should've been done and open a good 6-12 months ago.Ya, I was kinda joking, but a couple months ago, seeing how far along they were, I did think it was a possibility
The cost for is is completely obscene when you consider the entire MK park cost $400 million (which in 2022 adjusted is approx $2.8 billion). When you consider MK opened with 23 rides thats $121 million each excluding everything else that went into the park.
Primeval whirl sez hold my beer
I don’t know who has been pushing this number but it is nowhere near true. Each of the lands at Epic Universe is a bit under $1 billion. It was a $6+ billion project before the pandemic.
My only real push back would be this. This project had plenty of money, as do most Disney rides. I would say the disney imagineers need to find a much better more creative ways to accomplish their ideas. Too often it seems like Disney went on the cheap. Then we see the money spent and say holy jeez.
Agreed. The attention to the theming details, is something most guests might not be able to even point out. But it's that subliminal thing that sets Disney apart from the rest in their minds. Is anyone going to stop going to Disney because Guardians is a warehouse? Probably not. But the more the specialness erodes, you risk people not thinking the experience is what it once was and dropping time from the parks.
Just a rounding error.
Personally, I'm surprised by how many people don't feel Guardians is underwhelming.
If you are a normal guest to the parks, you probably like it. If you're one of the weirdos on here (we arent wrong, but we are weird) who knows how much it costs, it makes you feel like you're going insane.
While guests may not know the hows and whys, these sort of issues absolutely have consequences for them. The high cost of attractions is part of why capacity has been squeezed and not adequate.
EPCOT Center was successful. Attendance was far more on par with Magic Kingdom and the parks business so successful that it made up for the losses at the studio and kept Walt Disney Productions profitable. There’s a reason Disney is wrapping Epcot in EPCOT Center imagery, because EPCOT Center still carries cultural meaning.
