If you don't understand / believe what I said about apple then you clearly have no idea about that industry.
Quality of a park is not just on if the park has good theming etc. It also has to do with if you can spent a full day there and is apply to satisfy people.
Comparing California Adventure to UO is a bit harsh on UO because it wasn't failing when it was built right next door to the most famous theme park in the world and one of the busiest. UO was not known for anything, it had no major attraction to it, for people who had never heard of it to hear of it. People couldn't miss CA since it was advertised with Disneyland. It goes to show people didn't enjoy the park.
There really is no reason for Disney to not advertise here. We are not as small of a market as much of the world makes us out to be, plus the fact they charge double here for everything, makes them even more money. The other companies realise this and we get marketing from them, from Disney we get almost nothing. Toy Story 3 was hardly even advertised, the only proper advertising was Pirated 4 and Avengers. As well as the fact the US is not a big of a decider as it used to be in the success of a movie, which it used to have 90% of the sales. This has only occured in recent years but the international market is now bringing in around 50%+ in the earnings. This change was evident during the release of MIB3, people first deemed it as a failure as they had only received the US earnings and they were used to it being the mass majority of the earnings. Then they found out when the international results came in the film became a success. Skyfall is another example. Its only just ready for release in the US yet its over $200 000 and it hasn't even been released to much of the International audience.
You can specifically see who the nasty companies are in industries by the way they work together. If you look at many of the companies they will work together, Disney almost never works with anyone, this would be understandable if they were the biggest company that was way out in front but they are not. Disney has lost the Walt touch. It also shows they don't want to work with anyone by making things completely in house. A lot of the time this makes things cheaper but also lowers the advancements of the company as they no longer are self focused, as well as losing much of the business they once would of had with other studios.