I agree with you but your numbers are way wrong. This is 2005 years attendance for DL Resort and WDW Resort
MK: 16.2 Million
Epcot: 9.9 million
MGM Studios: 8.6 million
Animal Kingdom: 8.2 million
DL: 14.5 million
California Adventure:5.8 million
So, lets see WDW is getting 42.9 million people coming through the gates and DL is getting 20.3 million people. Then lets say 1/4(even though this is wrong its probably a more percentage) are annual passholders that go to DL Resort and 1/5(and this is probably large for how many there are) are annual passholders that go to WDW Resort. So that means that there are 15.225 million people that are people on vacation at DL Resort and there are 34.32 million people that go on vacation at WDW Resort every year. Then lets say that 5% of people that go to DL on vacation stay at one of Disney's hotels and lets say that 20% of the people that go to WDW on vacation stay at a WDW hotel. That means that 0.76125 million people that go to DL stay on property and 6.864 million people that go to WDW stay on property.
Ok so now that we have the numbers lets get down to business. If you say that a park hopper for one day at DL Resort costs $50 and one at WDW costs $40 dollars(even though this is probably lopsided im trying to be fair to Disneylanders), that means that $761.25 million dollars are made from vacationers just getting in the gates at Disneyland Resort every year and $1372.8 million dollars is made from vacationers to get in the gate at WDW every year.
Now its on to the hotel rooms. Lets just go on the cheep side for all the hotel rooms and say that it is $100 a night to stay at a DL Resort hotel and its $90 to stay at a WDW hotel. That means that $76.125 million dollars are made from hotels at DL resort and $617.76 million dollars are made from the hotels at WDW.
Then we add up our #'s:
WDW Resort total earnings for just hotel and ticket price: $1990.56 million dollars which is also almost $2 billion dollars.
DL Resort total earnings for just hotel and ticket price: $837.375 million dollars.
WDW is closer to hitting $2 billion dollars than DL is to hitting $1 billion dollars. Then if you add in my deviations like that I gave DL park hopper more worth than WDW's and I also gave there hotel rooms more worth that WDW's. Those #'s would actually probably go in the other direction. Also(Disneylanders you said this I read it from other posts) WDW has better and more expensive restaurants than DL and therefore there is also more money made on food at WDW. Then if you would add in the money the shops made WDW probably gets more money than DL there too. The reason I say this is because more tourists go to WDW(look at the #'s) than DL and tourists buy more stuff than AP's do. I think these #'s prove that WDW is more of a gold mine that DL.
The point of me writing all of this was not to make any Disenylanders mad or to prove that WDW is better than DL. By many reviews it actually isnt and if you look at the ride count WDW actually only has 10 more rides and it has 2 more parks. Which brings me to the point of my thread. WDW deserves more attention than it is getting right now or has ever gotten. More money is made there than at Disneyland and it deserves for more money to be put into its parks. Thats just what I think and I think my #'s prove it.
P.S.- If you feel my #'s are wrong than please present what you think is right, don't just bash mine. It took me a long time to get those. Thank you.
EDIT: I got my theme park attendance #'s from
http://www.coastergrotto.com/theme-park-attendance.jsp
Just look at the JC (termite infestation on the dock, left until it`s too late), the PotC STILL undergoing renewals from it`s rehab, the HM (again, minimal upkeep) countless faulty effects on Splash and Thundermountains (when did you last see Tumbleweed actually in it`s flash flood?), Golden Horseshoe space-for-rent, Peter Pans Flight (tin foil anyone?), a playground that took a decade to develop, Space Mountain (constantly being bumped down the queue for it`s much needed refurb due to other pressing park issues), the SGE fiassco, The Laugh Floor mess, the Main St. Mall.....
