Post #744664 by wizzard419 on Thu, Jun 11, 2015 12:47 PM

That is also what I was stating, they are not spending on parks for a variety of reasons, they don't need to for WDW as repeat customers are likely rare, they don't want to in general due to ever-increasing operating costs, and there is the issue of the entertainment format being out of date with the possibility that there is no real way to adapt.

Building the licensed land is more conservative than building another gate, additionally it hopefully will have better odds of not failing like some of their previous attempts at generating new IPs for attractions. One of the biggest issues for the parks is that new content is expensive and slow to create/build and you could end up with a ride that is terrible or based on a franchise that is terrible and no amount of retooling can fix it (look at the little mermaid attraction).