For all the money they are spending, they are adding 5 rides, none of which have outstanding hourly capacity. We are trading GMR capacity (probably reducing), lost BLT for A S S and Slink Dog (likely an hourly reduction) and SWL, which also requires the loss of LMA, an extremely successful holiday offering, and a theater that once entertained guests. At best, we are perhaps adding 1000 guests per hour to the park's capacity. That is far too modest for the kind of money we are talking. Walking space will also only modestly increase due to conversion of existing (or former following closure last year) walking space to backstage and conversion of some backstage to being on stage. The actual boundaries of the park will be unchanged and in most cases, many acres are being eaten up inefficiently. As has been discussed ad nauseum (literally makes me nauseous) the Mickey ride should be a new build in addition to GMR and at least one of the lands should have been largely built as a park expansion. The park needs new capacity, not even trades. They seem to be mistaking Epcot, where even trades would be fine, for DHS, which is underbuilt, poorly organized, and unbalanced. Almost $3 bn should have been enough to solve all three issues. Instead, it will solve none of the three. At least the actual rides should largely be fun even if they are just kicking this park's problem can down the road by maybe 10 years.
I wonder what the park's fourth name will be?
