And Captain it seems that Disney is taking every step it can conceivably can to ensure that your future visits to WDW are unmarred by excessive wait times.
I just about died laughing when I read your post, AV. Post of the day in my opinion!
Cap, you said: "I think DCA was a novel approach and a valiant attempt...It was also quite obviously a failure. So this approach needs evaluation."
Pre$$ler and Ei$ner don't see it that way...because this is the third time that they have ignored Walt's philosophy...wait a minute...that's it....the problem with these parks is that Ei$ner fancies himself as not only Walt's heir, but as someone who can out-Walt Walt. And the only way for him to provie it, he thinks, is to open up something new, something "novel & valiant," and see it succeed.
But it hasn't. Mini-park, The Disney Institute, is finally closing its doors, it was recently announced. AK, DCA, and early-EuroDisney did not pull in the numbers they expected. In fact, financially, AK and DCA have to be considered failures (please remember that I love the AK concept and love much of what is there--I'm not slamming AK). BUT THEY KEEP TRYING THIS BUILD-A-SHELL-PARK THEORY OVER AND OVER. THEY DON'T LEARN. (I think they keep telling themselves that it worked with Disney MGM Studios).
They are opening a skimpy Disney Studios Paris. They are opening a Hong Kong
Disneyland with something like THREE OR FOUR LANDS.
Cap, they are not evaluating. They don't see DCA as a failure. They don't recognize the risky, yes, but brilliant move that is Tokyo DisneySeas.
And I don't they ever will.