clsteve
"It takes a very long time to become young..."
- Joined
- Jul 25, 2012
I agree that they should be mad. The Rio Del Tiempo overlay was a DOWNGRADE because it incorporated TV screens into the ride. Who needs to go to WDW to watch a flat screen video of the 3 caballeros? And people diving off the cliffs at Acapulco? And I believe it was said that the Frozen overlay on Norway's boat ride will also "incorporate film footage".
Disney is waayyyyy mistaken if they think that people are going to save money for 1, 2 or 3 years, come to Florida and go home feeling impressed that they watched the same video footage that they've watched with their kids 100 times at home on their blu-ray flat screen, EVEN IF (or especially if) they're watching the video from the exact, same, klunky boats that they rode as children 25 years ago when the ride was called "Maelstrom".
If you take a blockbuster, stunning ride like the Harry Potter Forbidden Journey, it has video screens, but the video is wrapped inside an amazing and completely original ride system, which you experience only after entering the building through a huge, specially designed and absolutely, completely and elaborately themed village and castle.
Maybe Frozen wasn't as big a hit as the combined Harry Potter books and films, but Disney should at least be making a proportionate investment based on current and projected receipts from theaters, videos and merchandise - and I get the feeling they're falling somewhere well below that level.
"Incorporate film footage..." is quite the strategic plan, isn't it?
But when you've been in Farmer mode for so long, there are no detailed strategic plans for the lines of business/Parks that you've been harvesting from.
And that's not even getting into the brain drain - to the point that you only have bandwidth left to put your remaining superstars on the handful of "high profile" projects......