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But the cold hard facts show that the MAJORITY of guests perceive DAK to be a bad value compared to other theme park options.
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I guess I wasn't supposed to infer IOA, huh? If thats the case, then yeah, I hijacked the thread...
You know what?
I didn't mean to include NON disney parks in that statement, but to me it's irrelevant.
DAK has the lowest attendance of ANY of the 4 Florida Disney parks. There has to be a reason for that. People are going elsewhere. If you eliminate the Park Hopping, let's see how DAK falls against US, IOA, Seaworld, Bush Gardens, heck even against Gatorland.
Disney's Animal Kingdom is a parasite to the rest of the WDW parks. Without the WDW parks, who knows where DAK would fall on that list of attended theme parks.
Will there come a day when DAK will stop leeching off of the other parks and fly on it's own?
Maybe.
Will that day be anytime in the next 3-5 years (or an 8 to 10 year window from the park's opening)?
While debatable, it's doubtfull. One attraction will not turn this tide. Disney has already sacrificed it's good will by releasing a shell of a park, full of attractions which appeal only to a niche audience. It then further sold out it's good will by trying to convince the public to give the park a second chance.
Whatever you want to say about the Nahtazu campaign, Disney tried to convince the public that their first impression was wrong, or that things in the park have changed.
Any people who took the message to heart and went back have found very little has changed since their first impression, and will be DOUBLEY hard to convince that a third chance should be given when E:E opens.
Once again I repeat that if AK is a half day park at #5 in national attendance then those following on the list can not be used as continual proof as to what is wrong with the Disney model.
While DAK may be reporting higher attendance numbers than parks 6 through whatever there is a reason (see the parasite comment above).
Another note: I can use parks 1-4 as proof to show park 5 is what is wrong with Disney now.
Parks were built a certain way in the 70's & 80's. In the 90's Disney decided to change they way they built. The location of the older parks vs the younger ones in attendance records should tell the story succinctly of what is wrong with Disney.