Trader Sam's - Orlando - General Tiki

E EnchantedTikiGoth Member Calgary, Canada Joined: Dec 31, 2003 Posts: 355	E EnchantedTikiGoth Posted posted on Sat, Jun 13, 2015 7:53 AM On 2015-06-11 12:47, wizzard419 wrote: 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want to in general due to ever-increasing operating costs, and there is the issue of the entertainment format being out of date with the possibility that there is no real way to adapt.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). I don't exactly know people who know people who are tapped into the operations of WDW, but looking at what they're doing, attendance figures and so on, it seems to me that Disney really has a different problem than new IP. WDW has 4 of the top 5 theme parks in North America (the outlier being Disneyland) and the competition isn't even close. Personally I think the acquisition of the Avatar licence was a knee-jerk reaction to Harry Potter that Disney ultimately didn't need once the actual numbers were in. Now granted, Hollywood Studios and Epcot's Future World are awful and need reworking, but WDW's real problem is how to deal with that kind of capacity. They need to build up amenities and guest management infrastructure. Hense the MagicBands and Fastpass+. That's also what stuff like Disney Springs and the Polynesian Village renos are about... Places for people to stay (especially those DVC folks) and things for them to do outside of the theme parks once they're there. Trader Sam's isn't designed to compete with anyone or anything, which would motivate things like adding complex animatronics, having expanded seating, etc. It's just there to give some guests a thing to do outside the parks but still on Disney property. [ Edited by: EnchantedTikiGoth 2015-06-13 07:55 ]

On 2015-06-11 12:47, wizzard419 wrote:
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).

I don't exactly know people who know people who are tapped into the operations of WDW, but looking at what they're doing, attendance figures and so on, it seems to me that Disney really has a different problem than new IP. WDW has 4 of the top 5 theme parks in North America (the outlier being Disneyland) and the competition isn't even close. Personally I think the acquisition of the Avatar licence was a knee-jerk reaction to Harry Potter that Disney ultimately didn't need once the actual numbers were in.

Now granted, Hollywood Studios and Epcot's Future World are awful and need reworking, but WDW's real problem is how to deal with that kind of capacity. They need to build up amenities and guest management infrastructure. Hense the MagicBands and Fastpass+. That's also what stuff like Disney Springs and the Polynesian Village renos are about... Places for people to stay (especially those DVC folks) and things for them to do outside of the theme parks once they're there. Trader Sam's isn't designed to compete with anyone or anything, which would motivate things like adding complex animatronics, having expanded seating, etc. It's just there to give some guests a thing to do outside the parks but still on Disney property.

[ Edited by: EnchantedTikiGoth 2015-06-13 07:55 ]

Post #744762 by EnchantedTikiGoth on Sat, Jun 13, 2015 7:53 AM