Otherwise it would have been distributed as dividend to shareholders and still not invested in the US parks (or in new movies or in a new cruiseship or whatever). Disneyland Paris has been struggling for 22 years now. They started wrong by Michail Eisners decision to build 7 hotels on opening day, choosing a name with "euro" in it while that is a very nasty word in Europe and have wasted a lot of money on a second gate, worse than DCA. They suffer a lot from French Unions who do not hesitate to organise load protests at Parade time in the MK.
Yep, meanwhile we sit here paying double what the overseas guest do, and they are the ones enjoying the new rides while we get FP+. Perhaps a park in Paris just wasn't the best idea hmmmm, who would have though?
I'm no economist, but why throw so much money at parks in other countries that you can barely get people to come to, while at the same time spending a billion dollars on a system to try and manage the massive amount of people banging on the doors to get in the US parks? Seems to be the better plan would be to add rides here, open a 5th gate, or even open a whole new Disney Land in Texas or even Mexico. Heck, if you found a way to build a large part of the park indoors, it might could work in the middle of Montana or Canada!
Yep, meanwhile we sit here paying double what the overseas guest do, and they are the ones enjoying the new rides while we get FP+. Perhaps a park in Paris just wasn't the best idea hmmmm, who would have though? I'm no economist, but why throw so much money at parks in other countries that you can barely get people to come to, while at the same time spending a billion dollars on a system to try and manage the massive amount of people banging on the doors to get in the US parks? Seems to be the better plan would be to add rides here, open a 5th gate, or even open a whole new Disney Land in Texas or even Mexico. Heck, if you found a way to build a large part of the park indoors, it might could work in the middle of Montana or Canada!
