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It was intended as a sequel to the 3rd movie. Doc Brown decided to "move" to the then present and open the Institute of Future Technology. It dated itself pretty quickly though.

When I think Margaritaville, I totally think social media!

My friend discovered vegan pizza at the place across from Shultz theater and it was delicious. They also have boysenberry cocktails at the chicken dinner restaurant bar that I loved (mojito, whiskey sour, margarita). One minor gripe is that if you didn’t buy the tasting card, they were not clear on where to purchase individual items even though prices were on the booth. None of the booths have registers, so we got directed multiple places to try and buy just the hummus.

The globe was completely demolished and a new building took its place. It appears to be larger than the Globe was.

Oh, I didn't realize it had been pushed back to 2020! (The last estimate I saw was Summer 2019 ‚ so I figured it'd be June / July-ish) That is unfortunate! I wonder what caused the problems? I was just joking with my Fright Fest comment, but I would guess no sooner than 4th of July at their current pace.

Yeah, it's definitely a common refrain in this thread. It seems like every year when SFMM announces something, a chorus of "Are we there yet?" fires up and doesn't stop until the new thing's built. It's just the nature of the thread it seems. If it wasn't this, it'd be an issue with the trash cans / restrooms / parking / paint / cement / sun / moon etc. I can't imagine this ride will take long to assemble. After all, it's a fairly small family-style coaster that stays low to the ground. Much of the land prep is probably close to completion, and I'd be surprised if the construction company took long to put it together once the factory delivers all the pieces. It's a common refrain for this thread because somehow there is always what appears to be delays on their construction projects. It was announced in late August of last year and they are just now receiving track and pouring footers. Summer season kicks into full gear about a month from now when all the local school districts are out. Erecting the ride is only one small piece of the puzzle---then there is programming, testing, state inspections, the area redevelopment itself...lots left to do.

So we’ll see it open by fright fest.

Glad to see it leaving. Great show, but WELL past its prime. I like that they have the temporary replacement ready to go, so no disruption in the operations.

Sorry, I stand corrected. From 2015-2016, attendance was slightly down by 88,000. It then rebounded by 279,000 from 2016-2017. The 2018 TEA report isn't out yet to see how last year was. So I suppose you can call it stagnant since the gains have been relatively minor over the last 3 years. However, the only thing that matters is revenue for the entire resort. As I said, as long as they keep selling multi-day tickets, hotel packages, ever increasing prices on AP passes, food/merch...the park is very much a success post carsland. It was never intended to stand on its own, but initially failed from being so "value engineered" to the point people didn't want to spend an entire extra day or two at the resort. They were in and out in a few hours, but that is clearly no longer the case. I don't think you understand that not everything is intended to drive major attendance gains. Adding capacity and length of stay in the resort=more revenue from the real profit driving parts of the resort (hotel, food, retail).

An indoor waterpark/hotel is not the same as a theme park. An indoor waterpark/hotel can work because the people in town for business will dump their families off at the park on their companies dime. Or people just wanting to have somewhere to enjoy pools/water parks year round. Much lower operating costs as well. The MLS demographic is definitely NOT a theme park demographic. It's perfect for a college/hipster town, because that is MLS target market. Again, sports and theme parks have different demographics.

No, it makes perfect sense. Keeping track of how many guests are in your park at a given time and how you account for them on a financial basis are two totally different things. It would be a monumental task to split the cost of an annual pass/park hopper ticket on a balance sheet if you did it by individual clicks. They are laughing at this statement all the way to the bank. The whole point of DCA was to keep people on Disney property longer. They can't charge $1,400 for a Signature Plus AP without DCA. They're not selling 5 day tickets without DCA. They're not filling 3 hotels at insane prices without DCA. DCA was a failure prior to carsland, because it rightfully had a poor reputation and was value engineered from its intended design. It's not an accident attendance jumped by 1.5 million when Carsland opened and has been growing ever since. People now actually want to go there, which means Disney can keep a captive audience longer than before.

I'm excited for this...gives Mack a chance to showcase what they can do with modern technology, since the Europa dark rides are pretty dated.

I didn't make any reference to opening only one ride. Of course they shouldn't have the entire land sitting vacant. The fact that DCA is the 13th busiest park doesn't prove its success. Obviously different parks have different expectations. Every other US Disney park is in the top 10. Disneyland has twice the annual attendance as DCA. ^Good point about the Marvel expansion tho, that should hopefully help. From what I have been told (don't know if it is true), Disney only counts the first click of the day for accounting/reporting purposes. So anyone with a park hopper ticket/AP who enters Disneyland first, but still goes to DCA, will only get counted for Disneyland. I would guess that the majority of tickets are park hoppers or multi-day tickets (1 park/day) so the majority of their guests visit both parks. DCA is definitely not struggling anymore.

Disney's primary mission isn't to make sure you can leisurely stroll through an empty Star Wars land. It's to maximize the wealth of their shareholders. That's accomplished by building this sort of thing, thereby sending the value of the brand as well as ticket sales, merch sales, hotel occupancy and more through the roof. The rest is little more than adhering to various building and safety codes, demands of scary lawyers, and the terms of very expensive insurance policies. Yeah I understand how a public company operates, thanks. My point isn't that I want to be able to have Star Wars Land to myself. I just think that for the long term benefit of the resort I think it would've been better to take their time with building the land in California. I don't know why they decided to get it done at Disneyland Park first, or even at Disneyland Park at all. I think they are making a log jam of a park into an even bigger log jam, and that has the potential of really hurting the public's perception of the park in the long run. They already hit capacity pretty regularly despite huge blackout periods for season ticket holders, while the park across the plaza is struggling after a billion dollar renovation. The crowds and opening only one ride (smart IMO, wait until the other one is ready) will have zero impact on the brand. They’d gain absolutely nothing having a fully functioning land minus one ride doing nothing. I’d also say that the 13th busiest park in the world is hardly struggling.

Having a theme/amusement park isn't just about city size and population. It's about can the market support it. Austin's demographics don't seem to fit the bill for a theme park...it's a capitol city, college town, and tech town.

I did this room last week. Really cool puzzles and I loved the "orderly" in the room with you. It's a really neat concept, though I think they should do more to create doubt within the group on who is insane.

Disneyland will always be a mess unless they basically rebuild the whole park. It was built to 1955 standards and it’s all been patchwork since then. The park simply doesn’t have enough space to put everyone not waiting in a ride line.

CUT is one of my favorite restaurants in Vegas...I am sure this will be a spectacular event! Love that more high end dining is coming to Disney Springs!

Well, for the parks they owned at least. Magic Mountain had themed uniforms, better employee cafeteria, much cleaner, kept effects working... All the "old timers" who worked during that era will say it's the favorite owner.

They never sold a craft fair pass for Boysenberry. That was limited to Knotts Merry Farm years ago when the event was just the craft booths and log ride conversion. Now that Merry Farm is a full park event, that is gone.

Yes. Ticket required.

Time Warner was a great owner for Six Flags.

If it's the Paris single screen version, the best thing that can be said is that it's better than nothing.

Looks amazing! I'm going with a friend who is Vegan this year...what options did you see besides the hummus that she'll be able to have?

2 has been discussed quite a bit. SFMM restricted the rocking/flipping which had the unintended consequence of inflicting uncomfortable forces on riders. Meanwhile the ones in Europe rotate more freely. i rode it before they put those huge weights on. unbalanced and was continually thrown into and back into the seat. head and body trauma. i'm guessing my friend and i got the worst ride you could get. the possibility of getting a ride half as bad as what i did kept me from every riding again. i still say that while i'm sure many enjoy it, the fact that there are only 4 total in the world says a lot about how parks felt about it if they thought about buying one. If I recall correctly, the weights were there from the beginning.