Yup. Personally I hope Epic puts a huge dent on Disney. I hope it's crazy popular and and Disney sees a measurable drop in, well, everything. That is the only way that gets Disney back into a leading mentality instead of being lazy uninspired followers. Even then I'm not convinced they would change their ways. They're so of the mindset of, no matter what they do, our fans will always fall all over us.
Me too! It's the only chance that Disney will learn from its mistakes. Currently, Disney's mistakes or poor performance is rewarded with blind loyalty. Granted, those who are going don't necessarily agree that Disney is making mistakes or performing poorly. Everyone has the right to their own opinion of course, and to spend their money in a way they feel gets them greatest amount of entertainment. Whatever percentage of folks who are unhappy with Dis will spend their dollars elsewhere and that will have a huge effect, little effect, or perhaps no effect at all. We'll find out in the next few years if the status quo continues. Personally I'm hoping for a huge effect because that will stimulate growth and improvement.
That's probably spot on. Disney is so arrogant that doing that makes perfect sense. Only Disney would think, instead of announcing something that would open around the same time as Epic. You can just announce something that won't open for another 4 or 5 years and think, yea, that will show them!
Preach! So true. I really think they not only have no answer for Epic, but don't think they need one.
I have to agree. Between the obnoxiously long build times and the "value engineered" final products. I've personally found it difficult to get excited about any of the projects they have done in the last 10 years aside from Pandora. It's possible that Guardians is an exception to this but even Tron is a bit lack luster and don't get me started on the crap show that Galaxy's Edge ended up being.
"value engineered".... is that when they put up screens, or paint a wall white and then project cartoons on them and call it a ride? I can see how projections can enhance a ride as to give it much more depth and nuance, like POTC in Shanghai (based on video ride-thrus), but to put people in a car or train and have them ride thru a building with projections being the only basis of entertainment... yeah, that ain't entertainment. That's basically being at a drive-thru movie theater while still driving around. I really don't understand how they got on the kick of just filling a building with projections. It'd be a lot cheaper to just go to the movies than to wait in line for hours, and then watch projections on walls.
Which is sad, I loved the idea at first then saw it and thought OMG what the hell is that. The prices also just are a no for me for what it looks like. Cool concept, botched execution, botched timeline, just to many mistakes.
Well, if it were affordable for all, then it would be impossible to get in, right? I've not priced it out, nor do I have any interest despite being a big SW fan. From what I heard way back when, it just wouldn't be feasible if it were affordable to all families. Plus, Disney is doing their best to cater to the mega-rich at this point. I don't see why they'd change that model any time soon.
Ahhh, the true essence of admitting your mistakes which Dis would never do.
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