They are cute but that's about it, $4.99 a month might be worth it to someone but not me. I would have thought wdwnews would have mentioned something about a monthly fee.
I would love to know how much money Oxford Economics charged Disney for this “commissioned study.” I would rather see Disney spend money on tables for EPCOT so people don’t dine on top of trash cans.
As someone who's had to do A LOT of research for psych classes, that's not how a well established, accredited institution works. If if was discovered they fudged numbers to appeal to Disney, the entire institution would become blackballed and no longer considered a proper source for information. So no, they weren't "paid off" by Disney, because they have far more to lose and what's more, are an independent entity that has no real ties to Disney.
I remember when Cheerios commissioned a study that concluded that a daily serving of Cheerios is a key part of a healthy diet. I wonder how they came to that conclusion? 😂
I literally have to skip through all the sponsored ads on each news vlog, the wait time gadgets are a rip off $4.99 a month subscription for them to work?
Disney is pricing themselves out of reach for “common people”. If people will stop going to the parks, they will be forced to lower prices. Disney is pricing based on “what the market will bear”. As long as people keep spending, they will keep raising prices.
@Coolnesski, indeed! 🥰😉 That is a superb question, and one that should be answered by Governor DeSantis, the Florida Legislature, and the county in which Kissimmee is located. As it was previously mentioned by some individuals, Florida is more than just Walt Disney World and tourists would visit Florida without WDW. Therefore, the Florida taxpayers should demand better from their government. 🤔 They cannot have it both ways. Stay tuned. 🍿
@@Native_youtuber947Did they really say Figment was coming to Disneyland? I thought he was just visiting Disney studios and Disney Imagineering. Probably a teaser for the new movie and possible reimagined EPCOT pavilion. I mean, if you’re right, then yeah, I agree. That’s terrible. If they get Figment, then EPCOT needs Sindbad’s Storybook Voyage in Morocco, and Mystic Manor in China.
@@Native_youtuber947they need to simply stop with these expansion lands already. It does nothing to help capacity. It just makes the parks more crowded. They need to just build a new park already. They don’t want to though because that’s more expensive than cramming more people into existing parks (think cost of transportation, janitorial, and other staffing). They have plenty of land for a 5th park at WDW and a 3rd park at DLR, but they don’t want to do that. They finally teased us with their plans for the Toy Story lot in Anaheim, and it’s not even a park. As for ride theme overlays at WDW, that will never happen due to the fact that DLR relies heavily on locals that go multiple times a year and want something new. At WDW, most guests aren’t locals. They are traveling all over the world, some once in a lifetime, and they not only want to see the original Haunted Mansion, but want to see it open. That means the ride is down for maintenance a month before and a month after. When visiting DL during that time, you basically have to choose between Haunted Mansion or Small World, because one or the other will be down depending on when you go. That and just look at the 50th. Sure, they wanted to cheap out. But for the 25th, they were on a budget crunch with the failure of EuroDisney and cost of Animal Kingdom, but they made the cool birthday cake castle that… …many people hated. They finally got to go to WDW, and Cinderella’s castle was a giant pink cake. It’s in people’s wedding photos. Kids loved it, but adults hated it. WDW can’t have temporary changed like that. And when they do exist, they need to stay temporary. The sorcerer Mickey EPCOT arm… …the Sorcerer Mickey hat pin store blocking the Chinese Theater… …when you leave temporary decor up forever, people freak out and complain when you finally do get around to removing it.
@Native_youtuber947 you do realize Disney never builds 1 of anything, the cost of developing rides and attractions are so high that they build a minimum of 2 if not more across all the parks world wide but not always at the same time. If you don't like that they are tearing out rides to build new ones in FL then let the company know since they have plenty of land they aren't using they could be building on, CA the ORIGINAL PARK has limited land to work with so actually has no choice but to loose attractions in order to build new ones and the only land that was designed to keep changing is Tomorrowland which many rides would never fit in the land of Tomorrow theme.
@@WolfDShadowLimited land? What about that Toy Story lot? That place is HUGE. Big enough for a third park. Meanwhile, WDW has tons of land, and just like Anaheim, they’d rather do expansions, making 20th century parks even more crowded, rather than build a 5th park. No park should ever be a two day park. This is why parks are so crowded.
Last week at Magic kingdom so busy they raised the price of prefered parking late in the day to $55.00. Really? Disney taking advantage because its busy? They hired Oxford to do the study? OXFORD?
I thought it was weird they said Avatar would come to DCA. That suggests to me that they’re considering putting it in Hollywoodland. But I heard before they wanted to put it in Tomorrowland to replace the old Innoventions building.
It's probably a walk-through experience like the one in Singapore; it would go great in one of the huge empty studio soundstage buildings in the Hollywood Backlot area of California Adventure Park.
Have you even looked at the DisneylandForward pages where they show large sections of their properties they are planning to expand on? They are trying to add 3 lands to each park, add more parking structures, shopping district with a themepark level attraction and hotel. That means they have options outside the existing lands upgrades. Also TOMORROWLAND is most likely being bulldozed down to the ground except for Matterhorn Spacemountain the Monorail and the Disneyland Railroad, a large portion will become Fantasyland including Matterhorn being only a Fantasyland ride and the rest will become the new TOMORROWLAND which Avatar doesn't fit in any possible way to the land of Tomorrow. Now with the announcement of the Beauty and The Beast attraction closing in DCA inside Hollywood land that means there is a possibility other sections inside the animation building could also be closing or even across the midway in one of the Soundstages be converted to a Avatar attraction if they keep the DCA plan or they could put it in Fantasyland as part of the Fantasyland expansion during the TOMORROWLAND remodeling instead of building the rumored Beauty and the Beast ride/Restaurant. There is also a 3rd option with the former Splash Mountain area of Critter County becoming New Orleans Square they could turn the rest of Critter Country and turn it into Avatar since Davy Crockett Canoes can be absorbed into Frontierland attractions since everything else on the river is Frontierland which leaves 1 Restaurant 1 attraction and 1 shop to be a entire land. If they go for the Critter County option then they could eliminate making a deadend and connect the midway there to SWGE also while giving that section of the park a overdue face-lift.
There clearly is some interest in the franchise given it’s got two of the highest grossing movies ever, people won’t fly across the country no matter how big the attraction is, especially if you’re already paying for annual passes.
Experience does not is any way shape or form mean RIDE it can be as simple as having a room inside the animation building set up like Turtle Talk with Crush or a photo op with characters from the film.
Well Ive been worried this "avatar experience" is simply a playground (a la honey i shrunk the kids area from old hollywood studios) that was going to replace the Redwood forrest one -- which would be a shame. "Experience" doesnt have anyone excited yet.
The unemployment correlation is flawed at best - many of those employees who would be unemployed without Disney, also wouldn't live in Florida without Disney. Many current and former cast members, myself included, moved to Florida to work at Disney World and would not have relocated otherwise. I would have expected better from Oxford.
You are thinking too narrow minded, they are including all the local businesses that survive off of WDW Resort being there. Look at how many businesses are on the verge of shutting down over the Writters and Actors strikes this year since they didn't have the customers to keep them afloat during the strikes and it is doubtful they can now recuperate the lost income the rest of their fiscal year to remain open.
@@WDWNT yeah I assumed that, it just made me chuckle that a scary stat like "you'll go from 21st to 2nd unemployment rate in the nation" had such whimsical shapes and colors lol
What 3rd park in Anaheim? They are expanding the 2 parks and building a shopping district with 1 themepark level experience and hotel along with new parking structures, not a new park.
I’ve been saying this for a while now, but I’m slowly losing hope that the Disney I grew up with will ever resurface. It has become a greedy, money grabbing corporation. There used to be a justification for the higher prices, now there’s not even a justification for on par pricing. The theme parks are not on par with their competition and I feel that the magic that was once held here has gone. The entire industry that Walt Disney created is in desperate need of overhaul and no one is listening to the people that can turn this around…the dedicated, lifelong fans. We know what we expect from a Disney experience because we’ve had it before. Disney executives do not know what to expect, because they’ve never done it the way that many of us have. They are catered to at every turn, whereas most park goers do not have that privilege. I can remember days when the parks were navigable and now, lots of bottlenecks. I can remember days when there were other attractions away from the rides to ease the congestion and shorten the wait times. I can remember when I wasn’t charged for every single thing I am doing in the parks (at this point, I wouldn’t be surprised if they started charging to use the restrooms). The 1990s were a fabulous and profitable time for the theme parks. They should take some cues from this time period as most everything worked. There was no “pay to ride” line skipping option, it was included in the theme park admission and with all the increases that in admissions, no reason to charge extra for this. The tiered admission system is a joke too, charge more during high traffic times, why? Your profits would be through the roof if the company were managed properly, that’s not the park goers problem…we didn’t hire them. Too many companies are doing this thing where they take out on the customers what they need to make up themselves, it’s out of hand and incredibly insulting. They need to stop taking advantage of the true fans before there’s none of us left.
Chapek was the one that really pushed for the money grab from visitors without any care in the world, that is why Iger has limited the availability of many additional fee options in the parks and added a lower price tier of tickets while greenlighting spending the extra money to make the changes more magical by fitting the theme if the land instead of Chapek's smooth concrete no matter on the land theme for everything. Remember Iger didn't approve any of the greedy moves Chapek put in place and has dismantled entire departments that were never needed after returning while returning control to the departments that should have been in control of what Chapek created the entire time. Iger may not be the best but he also isn't against making the improvements to keep the guests returning to the parks and consumers subscribing to their streaming services. Remember Iger is working for the company om a short contract at a smaller salary this time but has bonus goals set infront of him to fix what Chapek has done to the company while they are looking for a new CEO and Iger did make the company profitable while getting more visitors to visit the parks and only left because he thought he was getting a government job which fell through.
They never said it would be a ride so they have options, it could be as simple as a Turtle talk with Crush experience where they just need a room for people to gather in to talk to a voice actor, or it could end up becoming one of the new lands they are planning on building at the resort in the expansion.
Is figment going to be new the mascot for Disney now that Mickey is contract to Disney co. Is up next year to go into the public domain? FYI Pluto is next in 2025
As a Disneyland goer, I really hope they don't do Avatar there. Nothing about that interests me at all, an Avatar themed Soarin' ride, and a boat ride that "blows it's load" on a single animatronic and then has some screens, no thank you. While yes the land is pretty and all that, it just doesn't feel Disney at all.
@justjohnny05, question, can one access the wait times on My Disney Experience App for free? I do not live in close proximity to the parks. Others have mentioned a $4.99 monthly subscription fee. 🤔
What harassment? Go to Animal Kingdom today around 5 P.M. and see the huge traffic backup of cars cutting thru Disney to get to hwy. 429. They should work together but Iger is so arrogant.
Why? Even if, and that's a big IF, the numbers that Disney paid for are true, That accounts for 2.8% of Florida's total GDP. I can't understand how a theme park that generates $10B per year is responsible for $40B per year directly and indirectly. It's probably more like $20B, which would be 1.4%. Not sure you understand what the word "vital" means.
@@steveniglesias2508local businesses that profit from the parks are included. Look at the number of businesses that are about to file for bankruptcy over the Writters and Actors strikes since the majority of their annual income came from film and television production and it's doubtful they will be able to recuperate the lost income over the rest if the fiscal year even though they were open to the public the entire time.
Disney needs to stop exploiting the state of Florida. They promised an experimental prototype community of tomorrow where people could actually live and work. Instead, they built Tomorrowland’s country cousin.
Yes I agree Disney does bring a lot of tax money to Florida, but Ron Desantis and the Florida legislature represent all of florida, not just the views and values of Disney and their cast members
😂 Really??? Thousands of people come for the beaches, many other amusement parks, state parks, bike trails everywhere and the weather. Disney won't go anywhere because they have to much money invested here. If they move up North, they can't stay open year round.
@@inboxnews It’s not the number of people that’s a problem; it’s the quality of the people. Which is how nut jobs like DeSantis and Trump can find safe harbor there.
Their economical impact would have been tripled if they didn't go woke. Nothing like Disney trying to brag over $40B when that is actually low considering past numbers.. Not sure how they can brag about employee spending when they aren't paying them well to begin with and forced to live as cheaply as possible, such as living in their cars and not a apartment or house. The fact that they think they are doing good is mind boggling. They are in denial and lying to themselves.
You are forgetting the local businesses who also are part of those numbers who profit from business from the parks, you think restaurants, hotels, gas stations, stores, etc will be able to keep the same income without visitors to the parks being there? You think the state can collect the same amount from taxes each year without Disney being around?
So Disney commissioned Oxford to confirm how wonderful they are - sounds similar to government paid studies to confirm global warming. Definitely legit! 🤣😂🤣
That article sounds like a jab at Ron DeSantis. And I get it... they are budding head with the Governor. But also, the company seems to forget who let Disney World reopen after 2 months of the pandemic and what Governor had Disneyland closed for 18 months.
Newsom wasn't the reason Disneyland was shutdown that whole time, the Doctors in charge of local health departments controlled when who was allowed to open and when, Knotts down the street quickly found a way to bring in a income while still following local health departments restrictions while Disneyland remained shutdown under the same restrictions. Also need to pay attention to the number of people infected while at each resort since WDW had outbreaks constantly with guests and staff while DL rarely had transmission issues. Universal Hollywood was also open long before Disneyland reopened and kept on top of prevention procedures in place long after restrictions were lifted while Disney rushed max capacity of rides and shows as soon as they could even if they kept park capacity low due to the lack of knowledgeable cast members being employed to operate the resort since majority of the veteran cast members didn't return after they reopened.
Good they walked it back and I hope it stays unannounced. Avatar has not been the cultural staying point like other franchises like Star Wars, Harry Potter, Cars, Toy Story, etc., Disney hoped it would be when they announced it. It feels like Disney keeps trying to force Avatar to justify Iger’s knee-jerk reaction to find something to rival the Wizarding World at Universal. No one has the emotional attachment to Avatar as they do Star Wars, Toy Story, etc., and it’s bizarre to me to keep trying to get people to care over something that was a flash in the pan/most born after the first movie didn’t realize there was a movie because it’s not like Star Wars or Mickey Mouse where nostalgic parents who have emotional attachment make sure to that their kids get attached to the thing as well. It’s never merited an entire land, and while pretty, seems so out of place/is taking the place of something better and more culturally relevant that will have generational staying power. It’s the theme park equivalent of they keep trying to make fetch happen. Keep it in FL and hopefully in a decade demo it and put in Beastly Kingdom without IPs
You do realize he only said a Avatar EXPERIENCE would be added to the Disneyland Resort which means it could be as small as Turtle Talk with Crush where if you didn't know it was inside the building you could walk by without knowing it was in the resort just like so many other experiences people never notice in the parks.
Totally called Avatar going into DCA! Don't care that it wasn't a "real" announcement. Many of their "real" announcements never happen. This is happening. Bye, Hollywood Land! (It's totally going here. Shockingly, the super cheap Avengers Campus didn't move DCA's needle. In fact, attendance in 2022 was down from 2019. I guess they finally realized that an Avengers-themed Indiana Jones ride wasn't going to get anyone that excited. Flight of Passage? Yes, please!) Now we just all need to prepare for all the "This isn't California!!!" whining. It's a DISNEY-created ADVENTURE that is located in their CALIFORNIA theme park. (I hate to tell you this, but Universal Studios Hollywood is NOT located in Hollywood! Magic Mountain ISN'T on an actual mountain! And it's not magic! Neither is the Magic Kingdom! Also, not an actual kingdom! Disney has TWO "Studios" parks, Universal also has two, yet only one of the four is an actual working studio! Animal Kingdom has things in it that are totally not animals!) If it bothers you that much, pretend that the RDA where Jake gets Avatar'd is in California. (It probably is. Evil tech giants and all that... Silicon Valley!) Knowing Disney, this is probably the backstory they will come up with. (Honestly, though, Disney, just go generic. It's not like Magic Kingdom or Animal Kingdom are such great names. Make this Disney Adventure Park - California, and then rename the Studios parks to Disney Adventure Park - Florida and Disney Adventure Park - Paris (or France). Make their heads stop exploding. Until they do change names, play along. If you want them to focus on good rides, just nod your head and move on with your life. If you want them to focus on name changes rather than turning Hollywood Land into an actually-decent land, then keep up the whining.
You do realize they never said Avatar would be anything more than a Experience which means it could be 1 room in the animation building. Of course attendance is down when they are using a reservation system to keep attendance under control while having so many cast members that are new that they can't handle the reduces number of guests since the company lost too many veteran employees during the pandemic to function at normal capacity. Hell the quality of performance coming from cast members being able to do their jobs efficiently has been missing for decades but the pandemic had just exposed it even greater so everyone now can see it. Queues that should take 5 minutes are turning into 15-45 minute queues, ticket takers unable to figure out how to work the turnstiles when there is a problem even after being shown 1,000 times by a supervisor how to deal with the problem, and let's not forget the ever growing excuse for injuries in the parks because cast members aren't even paying attention to what is happening around them that they are responsible to be paying attention too then tried to blame it on the guests who got injured.
Aren't you exhausted how negative Tom is? At least Eric brings a positive attitude even when the new is negative. Or is it you can relate to Tom cause you're a negative nancy yourself.
Tom is out of town, get over it. Eric does an awesome job, when Tom is not there. No matter who does the news, and I seen Jill, Jason, & Merissa do it too,( I think that was her name.) They're all good with their own personality. It's not easy, I've had VO training and I've done some narrative work. Getting in front of a camara and reading a script is not as easy as it looks. So cut Eric some slack.
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Lol, it's not surprising they are walking it back. Universal has a huge opportunity here and Disney keeps helping them, wow.
So they tore down the AMC theater and Earl Of Sandwich and replaced it with nothing. Got it
Those wait signs are a friggin ripoff. They require a subscription.
Those Wait Time signs require a $4.99 monthly subscription to keep them operating.
They are cute but that's about it, $4.99 a month might be worth it to someone but not me. I would have thought wdwnews would have mentioned something about a monthly fee.
Ah, I wondered what the catch was - ha!
What a ripoff!!!
of course, it wouldn't be Disney unless they were telling you to pull out your wallet just to tell you time.
@@eccentricsmithy2746 They're made by a 3rd party company, but they're certainly taking a page out of Disney's playbook.
Someone is probably getting fired over the avatar announcement.
No Democrats do not fire.
No, they just bully and harass you with hate speech, communist propaganda, and outright gr00ming, then they try to dox you.
I would love to know how much money Oxford Economics charged Disney for this “commissioned study.” I would rather see Disney spend money on tables for EPCOT so people don’t dine on top of trash cans.
😂
As someone who's had to do A LOT of research for psych classes, that's not how a well established, accredited institution works. If if was discovered they fudged numbers to appeal to Disney, the entire institution would become blackballed and no longer considered a proper source for information. So no, they weren't "paid off" by Disney, because they have far more to lose and what's more, are an independent entity that has no real ties to Disney.
I remember when Cheerios commissioned a study that concluded that a daily serving of Cheerios is a key part of a healthy diet. I wonder how they came to that conclusion? 😂
I literally have to skip through all the sponsored ads on each news vlog, the wait time gadgets are a rip off $4.99 a month subscription for them to work?
Disney is pricing themselves out of reach for “common people”.
If people will stop going to the parks, they will be forced to lower prices.
Disney is pricing based on “what the market will bear”. As long as people keep spending, they will keep raising prices.
Exactly!! And I agree with you on that 💯!!!
Can't wait to see how lame they make with anything Figment related.
With Disney raising prices, and the quality has gone down in the past few years, I don’t think I’m buying Disney’s statement.
In a study they paid for LOL
Less people? Thats a lie
@@jjperceval have you even seen Disney in the past few years? The prices has risen, and the quality has gone down.
@@CastawayRJyeah, that’s not true, every time I go it’s always crowded and nearly at compacity
@@jamarmillerright? It’s not hard to fudge numbers. They’ve been doing it for a while with Disney+
Nice job, Eric!
If Disney is so great for Florida then why is Kissimmee so grungy?
Great question.
@Coolnesski, indeed! 🥰😉 That is a superb question, and one that should be answered by Governor DeSantis, the Florida Legislature, and the county in which Kissimmee is located. As it was previously mentioned by some individuals, Florida is more than just Walt Disney World and tourists would visit Florida without WDW. Therefore, the Florida taxpayers should demand better from their government. 🤔 They cannot have it both ways. Stay tuned. 🍿
Darn! And I was so looking forward to seeing Pandora's Floating Mountains next to Pixar Pier!!
@@Native_youtuber947Did they really say Figment was coming to Disneyland? I thought he was just visiting Disney studios and Disney Imagineering. Probably a teaser for the new movie and possible reimagined EPCOT pavilion.
I mean, if you’re right, then yeah, I agree. That’s terrible. If they get Figment, then EPCOT needs Sindbad’s Storybook Voyage in Morocco, and Mystic Manor in China.
@@Native_youtuber947they need to simply stop with these expansion lands already. It does nothing to help capacity. It just makes the parks more crowded. They need to just build a new park already. They don’t want to though because that’s more expensive than cramming more people into existing parks (think cost of transportation, janitorial, and other staffing). They have plenty of land for a 5th park at WDW and a 3rd park at DLR, but they don’t want to do that. They finally teased us with their plans for the Toy Story lot in Anaheim, and it’s not even a park.
As for ride theme overlays at WDW, that will never happen due to the fact that DLR relies heavily on locals that go multiple times a year and want something new. At WDW, most guests aren’t locals. They are traveling all over the world, some once in a lifetime, and they not only want to see the original Haunted Mansion, but want to see it open. That means the ride is down for maintenance a month before and a month after. When visiting DL during that time, you basically have to choose between Haunted Mansion or Small World, because one or the other will be down depending on when you go.
That and just look at the 50th. Sure, they wanted to cheap out. But for the 25th, they were on a budget crunch with the failure of EuroDisney and cost of Animal Kingdom, but they made the cool birthday cake castle that… …many people hated. They finally got to go to WDW, and Cinderella’s castle was a giant pink cake. It’s in people’s wedding photos. Kids loved it, but adults hated it. WDW can’t have temporary changed like that. And when they do exist, they need to stay temporary. The sorcerer Mickey EPCOT arm… …the Sorcerer Mickey hat pin store blocking the Chinese Theater… …when you leave temporary decor up forever, people freak out and complain when you finally do get around to removing it.
@Native_youtuber947 you do realize Disney never builds 1 of anything, the cost of developing rides and attractions are so high that they build a minimum of 2 if not more across all the parks world wide but not always at the same time. If you don't like that they are tearing out rides to build new ones in FL then let the company know since they have plenty of land they aren't using they could be building on, CA the ORIGINAL PARK has limited land to work with so actually has no choice but to loose attractions in order to build new ones and the only land that was designed to keep changing is Tomorrowland which many rides would never fit in the land of Tomorrow theme.
@@WolfDShadowLimited land? What about that Toy Story lot? That place is HUGE. Big enough for a third park. Meanwhile, WDW has tons of land, and just like Anaheim, they’d rather do expansions, making 20th century parks even more crowded, rather than build a 5th park. No park should ever be a two day park. This is why parks are so crowded.
Eric (sp?) you are doing amazing as a host! Ty!
The wait time product requires a $4.99 per month subscription! Nope.
Last week at Magic kingdom so busy they raised the price of prefered parking late in the day to $55.00. Really? Disney taking advantage because its busy? They hired Oxford to do the study? OXFORD?
I thought it was weird they said Avatar would come to DCA. That suggests to me that they’re considering putting it in Hollywoodland. But I heard before they wanted to put it in Tomorrowland to replace the old Innoventions building.
It's probably a walk-through experience like the one in Singapore; it would go great in one of the huge empty studio soundstage buildings in the Hollywood Backlot area of California Adventure Park.
Have you even looked at the DisneylandForward pages where they show large sections of their properties they are planning to expand on? They are trying to add 3 lands to each park, add more parking structures, shopping district with a themepark level attraction and hotel. That means they have options outside the existing lands upgrades. Also TOMORROWLAND is most likely being bulldozed down to the ground except for Matterhorn Spacemountain the Monorail and the Disneyland Railroad, a large portion will become Fantasyland including Matterhorn being only a Fantasyland ride and the rest will become the new TOMORROWLAND which Avatar doesn't fit in any possible way to the land of Tomorrow. Now with the announcement of the Beauty and The Beast attraction closing in DCA inside Hollywood land that means there is a possibility other sections inside the animation building could also be closing or even across the midway in one of the Soundstages be converted to a Avatar attraction if they keep the DCA plan or they could put it in Fantasyland as part of the Fantasyland expansion during the TOMORROWLAND remodeling instead of building the rumored Beauty and the Beast ride/Restaurant. There is also a 3rd option with the former Splash Mountain area of Critter County becoming New Orleans Square they could turn the rest of Critter Country and turn it into Avatar since Davy Crockett Canoes can be absorbed into Frontierland attractions since everything else on the river is Frontierland which leaves 1 Restaurant 1 attraction and 1 shop to be a entire land. If they go for the Critter County option then they could eliminate making a deadend and connect the midway there to SWGE also while giving that section of the park a overdue face-lift.
Why would you want those wait time doohickeys?
Does the tree have 100 ornaments? It would be a good opportunity to do that.
The retraction announcement has “NOTHING TO DO” with the closing of Animators Pallate
always with the SCOOPS!
No interest in Avatar at DCA
I agree, it would make 1000% more sense to put another avatar ride in Animal Kingdom and then add some different IP ride at DCA.
There clearly is some interest in the franchise given it’s got two of the highest grossing movies ever, people won’t fly across the country no matter how big the attraction is, especially if you’re already paying for annual passes.
@@ethanshackletonthen they have to miss out. It’s stupid to have clone parks on each coast.
@@frontierlandfrank5314 I so agree with that.
Experience does not is any way shape or form mean RIDE it can be as simple as having a room inside the animation building set up like Turtle Talk with Crush or a photo op with characters from the film.
Well Ive been worried this "avatar experience" is simply a playground (a la honey i shrunk the kids area from old hollywood studios) that was going to replace the Redwood forrest one -- which would be a shame. "Experience" doesnt have anyone excited yet.
That play area is themed to the land and Avatar would fit into the existing them which includes the GRAND CALIFORNIAN HOTEL theme
The unemployment correlation is flawed at best - many of those employees who would be unemployed without Disney, also wouldn't live in Florida without Disney. Many current and former cast members, myself included, moved to Florida to work at Disney World and would not have relocated otherwise. I would have expected better from Oxford.
You are thinking too narrow minded, they are including all the local businesses that survive off of WDW Resort being there. Look at how many businesses are on the verge of shutting down over the Writters and Actors strikes this year since they didn't have the customers to keep them afloat during the strikes and it is doubtful they can now recuperate the lost income the rest of their fiscal year to remain open.
I love how thew economic study had such a whimsical Disney infographic flair to it.
They did the study and then Disney made the graphics
@@WDWNT yeah I assumed that, it just made me chuckle that a scary stat like "you'll go from 21st to 2nd unemployment rate in the nation" had such whimsical shapes and colors lol
So I guessing they savings Avatar for that third park in Anaheim.
What 3rd park in Anaheim? They are expanding the 2 parks and building a shopping district with 1 themepark level experience and hotel along with new parking structures, not a new park.
I’ve been saying this for a while now, but I’m slowly losing hope that the Disney I grew up with will ever resurface. It has become a greedy, money grabbing corporation. There used to be a justification for the higher prices, now there’s not even a justification for on par pricing. The theme parks are not on par with their competition and I feel that the magic that was once held here has gone.
The entire industry that Walt Disney created is in desperate need of overhaul and no one is listening to the people that can turn this around…the dedicated, lifelong fans. We know what we expect from a Disney experience because we’ve had it before.
Disney executives do not know what to expect, because they’ve never done it the way that many of us have. They are catered to at every turn, whereas most park goers do not have that privilege. I can remember days when the parks were navigable and now, lots of bottlenecks. I can remember days when there were other attractions away from the rides to ease the congestion and shorten the wait times. I can remember when I wasn’t charged for every single thing I am doing in the parks (at this point, I wouldn’t be surprised if they started charging to use the restrooms).
The 1990s were a fabulous and profitable time for the theme parks. They should take some cues from this time period as most everything worked. There was no “pay to ride” line skipping option, it was included in the theme park admission and with all the increases that in admissions, no reason to charge extra for this. The tiered admission system is a joke too, charge more during high traffic times, why? Your profits would be through the roof if the company were managed properly, that’s not the park goers problem…we didn’t hire them. Too many companies are doing this thing where they take out on the customers what they need to make up themselves, it’s out of hand and incredibly insulting.
They need to stop taking advantage of the true fans before there’s none of us left.
Hear, Hear!!
I made it half way through this comment before I moved on..but I agree!
Chapek was the one that really pushed for the money grab from visitors without any care in the world, that is why Iger has limited the availability of many additional fee options in the parks and added a lower price tier of tickets while greenlighting spending the extra money to make the changes more magical by fitting the theme if the land instead of Chapek's smooth concrete no matter on the land theme for everything. Remember Iger didn't approve any of the greedy moves Chapek put in place and has dismantled entire departments that were never needed after returning while returning control to the departments that should have been in control of what Chapek created the entire time. Iger may not be the best but he also isn't against making the improvements to keep the guests returning to the parks and consumers subscribing to their streaming services. Remember Iger is working for the company om a short contract at a smaller salary this time but has bonus goals set infront of him to fix what Chapek has done to the company while they are looking for a new CEO and Iger did make the company profitable while getting more visitors to visit the parks and only left because he thought he was getting a government job which fell through.
Is it just me, or is Avatar way down at the bottom of the list of all the IPs I would like to see become rides at Disneyland?
They never said it would be a ride so they have options, it could be as simple as a Turtle talk with Crush experience where they just need a room for people to gather in to talk to a voice actor, or it could end up becoming one of the new lands they are planning on building at the resort in the expansion.
If they are turning Fox properties into rides, then *Futurama* would be perfect for Tomorrowland.
Oh.... so Disney sez in many words, because of our monies, we can say and do what we want, about anything! Got it
It can’t be a lie if they funded the study and it favors what they did 😅
When I look in the mirror I see something differant than you see.
Is figment going to be new the mascot for Disney now that Mickey is contract to Disney co. Is up next year to go into the public domain? FYI Pluto is next in 2025
Only Black and White Mickey is entering Public Domain, Colorful Mickey will still be Disney owned only.
As a Disneyland goer, I really hope they don't do Avatar there. Nothing about that interests me at all, an Avatar themed Soarin' ride, and a boat ride that "blows it's load" on a single animatronic and then has some screens, no thank you. While yes the land is pretty and all that, it just doesn't feel Disney at all.
Can you get an Olaf bottle topper with a non alcoholic drink?
They can bring Disneyland to Colorado! I'd sell my soul for an annual pass.
^^ From the studio that brought you *The Devil and Max Devlin.*
those wait times devices would only be useful if you live 10 mins away which i do
@justjohnny05, question, can one access the wait times on My Disney Experience App for free? I do not live in close proximity to the parks. Others have mentioned a $4.99 monthly subscription fee. 🤔
Saw you have 6 wait time signs , did one Subscription fee cover all of them or are you at $30 a month to cover all of them ?
Good question.
love the wait time
Good. No one likes Avatar that much. They liked it better the first time when they saw Ferngully.
I call it *Dances with Smurfahontas and Broomsticks.*
It looks like EPCOT is still open for new years eve on the app. At least for me.
They released more EPCOT NYE tickets yesterday. I bought my 1-day tickets last night.
I just also secured mine after last night.
Disney is vital to Florida, Governor Santos needs to stop with the harassment of Disney.
What harassment? Go to Animal Kingdom today around 5 P.M. and see the huge traffic backup of cars cutting thru Disney to get to hwy. 429. They should work together but Iger is so arrogant.
Why? Even if, and that's a big IF, the numbers that Disney paid for are true, That accounts for 2.8% of Florida's total GDP. I can't understand how a theme park that generates $10B per year is responsible for $40B per year directly and indirectly. It's probably more like $20B, which would be 1.4%. Not sure you understand what the word "vital" means.
Lol Gov Santos is brilliant
@@steveniglesias2508local businesses that profit from the parks are included. Look at the number of businesses that are about to file for bankruptcy over the Writters and Actors strikes since the majority of their annual income came from film and television production and it's doubtful they will be able to recuperate the lost income over the rest if the fiscal year even though they were open to the public the entire time.
Disney needs to stop exploiting the state of Florida. They promised an experimental prototype community of tomorrow where people could actually live and work. Instead, they built Tomorrowland’s country cousin.
Yes I agree Disney does bring a lot of tax money to Florida, but Ron Desantis and the Florida legislature represent all of florida, not just the views and values of Disney and their cast members
Without Disney, there would not be a single reason to step foot in the State. Ever.
@rileyp7 Lol, riiiiiight… Spoken like a true DeSatin minion 🙄
😂 Really??? Thousands of people come for the beaches, many other amusement parks, state parks, bike trails everywhere and the weather. Disney won't go anywhere because they have to much money invested here. If they move up North, they can't stay open year round.
@@sandym4875 The weather??? It’s a humid death trap ravaged by hurricanes. Insurance companies want nothing to do with Florida.
Great! Way too many people here.
@@inboxnews It’s not the number of people that’s a problem; it’s the quality of the people. Which is how nut jobs like DeSantis and Trump can find safe harbor there.
Their economical impact would have been tripled if they didn't go woke. Nothing like Disney trying to brag over $40B when that is actually low considering past numbers.. Not sure how they can brag about employee spending when they aren't paying them well to begin with and forced to live as cheaply as possible, such as living in their cars and not a apartment or house. The fact that they think they are doing good is mind boggling. They are in denial and lying to themselves.
You are forgetting the local businesses who also are part of those numbers who profit from business from the parks, you think restaurants, hotels, gas stations, stores, etc will be able to keep the same income without visitors to the parks being there? You think the state can collect the same amount from taxes each year without Disney being around?
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Florida will go on without Disney.
Ah yes the username trashlefties has no bias in his statement 🙄
The facts have a right wing bias. The facts are that Disney defrauded the state government for over 50 years and got away with it until now.
So Disney commissioned Oxford to confirm how wonderful they are - sounds similar to government paid studies to confirm global warming. Definitely legit! 🤣😂🤣
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That article sounds like a jab at Ron DeSantis. And I get it... they are budding head with the Governor. But also, the company seems to forget who let Disney World reopen after 2 months of the pandemic and what Governor had Disneyland closed for 18 months.
Watch when Disneyworld moves to Tennesee with those Southern Democrats that have more moral rules than Desantis.
Are you really defending Rohnda Desatan? Lol yikes bro
Newsom wasn't the reason Disneyland was shutdown that whole time, the Doctors in charge of local health departments controlled when who was allowed to open and when, Knotts down the street quickly found a way to bring in a income while still following local health departments restrictions while Disneyland remained shutdown under the same restrictions. Also need to pay attention to the number of people infected while at each resort since WDW had outbreaks constantly with guests and staff while DL rarely had transmission issues. Universal Hollywood was also open long before Disneyland reopened and kept on top of prevention procedures in place long after restrictions were lifted while Disney rushed max capacity of rides and shows as soon as they could even if they kept park capacity low due to the lack of knowledgeable cast members being employed to operate the resort since majority of the veteran cast members didn't return after they reopened.
Are you really making fun of ethnic surnames?
Are you really defending that degenerate dictator Gavin Gruesome?
Where would the Asha meet & greet be at Disneyland Paris?
what is the point wow dont buy this bs
Avatar is the most overrated movie franchise
Good they walked it back and I hope it stays unannounced.
Avatar has not been the cultural staying point like other franchises like Star Wars, Harry Potter, Cars, Toy Story, etc., Disney hoped it would be when they announced it.
It feels like Disney keeps trying to force Avatar to justify Iger’s knee-jerk reaction to find something to rival the Wizarding World at Universal.
No one has the emotional attachment to Avatar as they do Star Wars, Toy Story, etc., and it’s bizarre to me to keep trying to get people to care over something that was a flash in the pan/most born after the first movie didn’t realize there was a movie because it’s not like Star Wars or Mickey Mouse where nostalgic parents who have emotional attachment make sure to that their kids get attached to the thing as well.
It’s never merited an entire land, and while pretty, seems so out of place/is taking the place of something better and more culturally relevant that will have generational staying power.
It’s the theme park equivalent of they keep trying to make fetch happen.
Keep it in FL and hopefully in a decade demo it and put in Beastly Kingdom without IPs
You do realize he only said a Avatar EXPERIENCE would be added to the Disneyland Resort which means it could be as small as Turtle Talk with Crush where if you didn't know it was inside the building you could walk by without knowing it was in the resort just like so many other experiences people never notice in the parks.
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Totally called Avatar going into DCA! Don't care that it wasn't a "real" announcement. Many of their "real" announcements never happen. This is happening. Bye, Hollywood Land! (It's totally going here. Shockingly, the super cheap Avengers Campus didn't move DCA's needle. In fact, attendance in 2022 was down from 2019. I guess they finally realized that an Avengers-themed Indiana Jones ride wasn't going to get anyone that excited. Flight of Passage? Yes, please!)
Now we just all need to prepare for all the "This isn't California!!!" whining. It's a DISNEY-created ADVENTURE that is located in their CALIFORNIA theme park. (I hate to tell you this, but Universal Studios Hollywood is NOT located in Hollywood! Magic Mountain ISN'T on an actual mountain! And it's not magic! Neither is the Magic Kingdom! Also, not an actual kingdom! Disney has TWO "Studios" parks, Universal also has two, yet only one of the four is an actual working studio! Animal Kingdom has things in it that are totally not animals!) If it bothers you that much, pretend that the RDA where Jake gets Avatar'd is in California. (It probably is. Evil tech giants and all that... Silicon Valley!) Knowing Disney, this is probably the backstory they will come up with. (Honestly, though, Disney, just go generic. It's not like Magic Kingdom or Animal Kingdom are such great names. Make this Disney Adventure Park - California, and then rename the Studios parks to Disney Adventure Park - Florida and Disney Adventure Park - Paris (or France). Make their heads stop exploding.
Until they do change names, play along. If you want them to focus on good rides, just nod your head and move on with your life. If you want them to focus on name changes rather than turning Hollywood Land into an actually-decent land, then keep up the whining.
You do realize they never said Avatar would be anything more than a Experience which means it could be 1 room in the animation building. Of course attendance is down when they are using a reservation system to keep attendance under control while having so many cast members that are new that they can't handle the reduces number of guests since the company lost too many veteran employees during the pandemic to function at normal capacity. Hell the quality of performance coming from cast members being able to do their jobs efficiently has been missing for decades but the pandemic had just exposed it even greater so everyone now can see it. Queues that should take 5 minutes are turning into 15-45 minute queues, ticket takers unable to figure out how to work the turnstiles when there is a problem even after being shown 1,000 times by a supervisor how to deal with the problem, and let's not forget the ever growing excuse for injuries in the parks because cast members aren't even paying attention to what is happening around them that they are responsible to be paying attention too then tried to blame it on the guests who got injured.
I remember when Tom Corless hosted this show. He was better than Eric. I’m sure Eric is trying his best, but he’s not as good at this as Tom was.
You could have nick doing it ( my wife would love if Eric or nick did)….dont worry she likes Tom too
Aren't you exhausted how negative Tom is? At least Eric brings a positive attitude even when the new is negative. Or is it you can relate to Tom cause you're a negative nancy yourself.
Tom still hosts the show- he's currently on Disney cruise, hence Eric is guest hosting-
Tom is out of town, get over it. Eric does an awesome job, when Tom is not there. No matter who does the news, and I seen Jill, Jason, & Merissa do it too,( I think that was her name.) They're all good with their own personality. It's not easy, I've had VO training and I've done some narrative work. Getting in front of a camara and reading a script is not as easy as it looks. So cut Eric some slack.
So-called negativity is just admitting the facts when it comes to this company. Stop tone policing.