thats right crusader, disney can afford to spend 3.2 billion in china on a shopping district with a mini park but cant spend less than half of that improving and expanding what they've already got.
Maybe after china is done.
Oh wait, then they are going to have to scrape up enough change for chinas second park AND chinas 2nd resort. Why should we even think that they can afford to expand what they've got here at all? No, we should be happy for Tokyo constantly expanding with top rate product and we should be happy that in florida they can celebrate a decade long empty lagoon being filled for a character meet and greet, and in california they can celebrate having buildings be repainted.
Poor Mikey, Disney can probably only afford a bronze watch when he retires.
Oh, and tokyos 2 parks have averaged 70 thousand guests a day in their two parks, marks that eclipse all 4 of WDW's parks.
As for Attendance in the parks, TDR had both of it's parks individually beat universal in 2001, 2002, and 2003. Not just beat, whalloped, killed, crushed, and they are expanding. Honestly, I don't even know what made you think they were losing to Universal??? This is the first year Universal Japan has even been profitable!
As far as Peter watering down 1.28 billion over 4 years, and two theme parks and other resorts..the money they have put forward just to expanding and improving the current parks is enough money to build 7 versions of their tower of terror (or 14 of the cheapo off the shelf california adventure variety) That's just the money put towards improving the parks, and ignores the other 400 million...or 4 grand californians worth...being put into the resort aspect. So tell me for the first time what anyone here sees happening state side at the
disneyland resort that appraches what is happening in japan, and I'm begging pirate to show me in what possible way walt disney world, with its doube the theme parks, triple the resorts, 2 water parks, biggest DTD, golf courses, wide world of sports etc. etc. etc. is doing to improve and expand their resort that shows the effort put forth by the much smaller japan resort isn't as good as it looks, and the resorts are actually close in what they are doing to enhance the guest experience. You must know something I don't.
And then someone can explain to me how 1.28billion just to improve existing parks isn't so grand compared to the states...when in california they spent just 1.4 billion turning disneyland into a resort over the same amount of time. Just think, if Disney put that sort of effort into improving DLR you would double what they gave you in the first place.
Come on...Disney is an American Icon and the highest quality parks are being built in Japan.
