Why would we include a DVC or specialty Star Wars resort? I'm talking about attractions in parks. That does nothing for anybody not staying there.
It's an okay list. RoTR and GoTG stand out.
I love Disney in an unhealthy way, but even I stopped giving them a pass. It's Covid, it's supply chain, it's staffing...
It's getting OLD. They need new management. Someone who gives a crap about the bottom line AND the consumer.
Agreed. It still boggles my mind how, for example, we are at year 5 of Disney building Tron, a clone of a coaster that has existed in China since 2016 and yet Velocicoaster was built in 2 years. Also an entirely new theme park is being built within that span of time.I love Disney in an unhealthy way, but even I stopped giving them a pass. It's Covid, it's supply chain, it's staffing...
It's getting OLD. They need new management. Someone who gives a crap about the bottom line AND the consumer.
Well, Chapek unceremoniously fired Peter Rice on Monday. Rice was the chairman of Disney's entertainment and programming. He was also rumored to be in the running as Chapek's successor.
Most of Universal's new rides are screen rides and a coaster doesn't have the detailed theming that WDW puts into their attractions. Once a year is not too much, but if you expect new rides every time you go it is. Disney may slow roll projects, but they don't disappoint with the end product. Let's not forget Universal's new theme park is two years behind schedule. It was originally supposed to open in 2023 and now it's 2025.
To a point. Even Universal admitted they shouldn't have paused for as long as they did on the construction of Epic Universe.
Not to be nitpicky but most of Disney's newest rides are screen based as well. FOP, Remy, Mickey and Minnie's Runaway Railway, Smuggler's Run, Guardians. Rise gets a pass since it's a good mixture of physical sets + animatronics and screens. Meanwhile Universal's three (one of them being a Secret life of Pets ride in Hollywood) newest rides have little to no usage of screens.
Oh no another Universal vs Disney thread... King kong, secret life of pets and fast and furious are complete garbage. So are Simpsons and minions.
I know they're two different resorts but I find it confusing how people criticize Universal for having mainly screen based attractions (a valid criticism, by the way. It's one I have too) when Disney is doing the exact same thing in their rides.
Hagrid's and VelociCoaster are not screen based. Hagrid's is incredibly themed, In fact so is Forbidden Journey and Gringotts.
Totally your opinion, people are able to be less impressed with whatever ride they want at Universal or Disney. But that's subjective thinking rather than the practical conversation that was occurring before your snipes at people.
Because Universal's newest screen rides are shameful. I can forgive them for their old ones. Fast and furious and MMRR just aren't in the same league.
Why would you omit everything going on at the same time as the one ride you chose to illustrate as an example - would be my answer. To suggest one data point while leaving out context of everything else that is layered in happening in parallel to suggest something should be done faster (or the assertion that they are unwilling to) - is quite another. After all, labor, construction materials and equipment aren't in infinite supply in a concentrated metropolitan area.
The Simpsons ride is a national treasure.
I mean I agree with that as Fast and the Furious is pretty bad but Runaway Railway to me feels like something that would be right at home with Universal in terms of its usage of screens.
Ironically that was the flip of the conversation that was just a few scant years before the pandemic. People were like "why does Universal get a pass on their rides but Disney can't" and now that Disney has started building more and more screen-based rides over the years some people end up having a hard time holding Disney to that.
Since our first trip 2010, they've added Galaxy's edge(two rides) Pandora(2 rides) MMRR, slinky dog, Remi, Frozen, Mine train, Guardians, and soon-to-be Tron. I may be forgetting something. I feel like there's been a lot added over the years.
Yup, I agree. I really don't understand why Disney gets a pass when they build screen focused rides but Universal gets immediate criticism when they do it. Yes, I agree that Fast and the Furious, Kong Skull Island (or whatever that ride is called) and Jimmy Fallon are terrible rides. They deserve the criticism. But when Disney makes, for example, Runaway Railway which is 98% screen based it's different? Even great rides like Flight of Passage entirely rely on screens. I'm not saying screen based rides are bad. A lot of these rides with screens are perfectly fine. I just get slightly annoyed when people criticize Universal when, if anything, Disney is copying Universal.
It's all subjective. I enjoy both parks I am a universal annual passholder after all, but if I can only visit one it's Disney. I wish I was a Disney hater like the majority in this thread it sure would save me a lot of money in the future.
