AK attraction and WDI comments - Westcoater

[larworth]

Couple of interesting tidbits from westcoaster.com http://www.westcoaster.net/update.php?id=0123021

Florida E-Ticket - An e-ticket is being developed again for Animal Kingdom. This must be the 500th different e-ticket to go into development for that park in 2 years. Let's hope this doesn't get canceled. Details weren't available, but it's not a coaster. Emphasis is being given to the fact that families need things to do together, there will be a thrill, but it's not coming in the form of a coaster.

No reference to which land is targeted, but couldn’t bode well for BK. If BK was forging ahead I can’t see them working on another e ticket so soon. Will they ever figure out what to do and get off the pot?

Misc development - One thing that is interesting is the intention to begin developing sort of... "turn-key" plans for the parks and their various lands. It's being said that they won't be caught with their pants down the way they were with DCA. As nice a park as it is, future planning wasn't a big issue for the designers (thanks, Timur). So ideas will be developed for different areas of the parks, and that way, if something does arise on a short notice or even a long notice, there's already a plan sitting there ready to go! This saves them from having to scramble, call Zamperla buy a spinner and see what they can do on short order. This also keeps the company from looking like cheapskates! Way to think ahead, WDI! Congrats...

Gee, I always assumed WDI already had a catalog of ideas they had brainstormed as potential candidates for the different parks/lands that were just sitting there begging to get funded. I figured the lack of longterm plans for DCA was the exception, not the rule. Maybe, the difference is there are plenty of ideas, but few have been progressed past the concept stage.

Since this would require them to incur more cost today, not sure it will happen.

 

[DC7800]

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Emphasis is being given to the fact that families need things to do together, there will be a thrill, but it's not coming in the form of a coaster.

I'm actually encouraged by this one statement; this is exactly the sort of E-ticket WDW needs. I only hope the thrill is still tame enough that absolutely everyone can ride. I'd still like to see Beastly Kingdom, of course, but in an ideal "world" we would have both (and then some).

This saves them from having to scramble, call Zamperla buy a spinner and see what they can do on short order. This also keeps the company from looking like cheapskates!

This sounds an awful lot like a rationale for Dinorama as well. But, we all know there are ideas for AK just sitting around waiting approval. Perhaps the intention is to have attractions further along in the developmental "pipeline" in case their construction needs to be accelerated. DVA and AK both need help this year, but nothing (E-Ticket) can possibly be ready before sometime in 2003 at the very earliest.