You absolutely have to include the likes of Circlevision and theatre (live or film) shows.
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WDW Ride Build Rate
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Why would I included those, they are clearly not rides. I am not trying to do anything with these numbers but show a count of how many rides opened each year. If I did a report of when new parades started, I wouldn't include Pirates of the Caribbean.
But you can go years without a "moving" ride yet still have a major attraction open.
Technically Soarin' is not a ride. For example.
Conversely 1991s Muppet*Vision 3D should absolutely count. But its a theatre show.
Not arguing, just trying to produce a fuller picture of park attractions opening.
To produce a fuller picture we would need opening and closing dates for all the attractions which is a harder think to put together then doing it for just rides.
But it would be more accurate. Otherwise you'd be excluding The American Adventure and the like.
It would be more accurate for your purposes, but not for mine. My original goal for this post was only to count the build rate of what I consider rides.
That's fine though for a 'ride' park like Six Flags.
Otherwise you'd have to say DHS had no additions from opening until 1994. Nor Epcot from 1988 until 2003. Or ever since if M:S isn't classed as a ride.
Feel free to start your own thread with the opening and closing dates of the all that attractions.
I'm sorry you feel I hijacked this one.
No, I don't feel you hijacked it, it's just that you are trying to make the number tell a story that I never intended them to tell.
The Empress Lilly
Well-Known Member
Thank you for your excellent efforts!
For further consideration: can and should one distinguish on quality? The 'splash and pee' toddler water play area can hardly be compared to Kilimanjaro, alone larger than many other theme parks.
And likewise, can one distinguish on quantity, or compounded experiences? The Studios backbone was the two hour Backlot Tour. Should it count the same as the 1:15 spinner?
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Also, there is a certain progression in WDW's parks, that can be ascribed to willful differentiation:
MK: many short rides.
EPCOT: fewer rides, but all large, long, immersive E-tickets. Plus 'non-ride' attractions.
Studios: a few enormously long experiences. Plus otherwise shows.
DAK: less actual rides still. Plus exhibits and experiences which are the attractions.
So ever fewer rides, even though this can (at least partly) be explained by the wish to avoid identical park experiences.
MinnieM123
Premium Member
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