The Official 5th Disney Park Discussion

[MikePat]

We saw Disney's "idea" of a "boutique experience" with the Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser, and we all saw how that turned out.

 

[UniversalRBLX]

Except in the context of how much cash WDW generates, there’s no market for those things. Everything other than “let’s crank a ton of people through our theme parks and give them places to stay that makes that easier” has been a loser. Discovery Island, the golf courses, Disney Quest, Disney Institute… they aren’t bad ideas, they just end up being a drop in the bucket and not worth it. Discovery Cove would be a drop in the bucket to WDW - it is not a drop in the bucket to a smaller regional park like SeaWorld.

Right, the revenue that could be generated from a small boutique park would be immaterial to the larger Disney company and far less than a major theme park... but if your an executive looking for YoY revenue growth, and your parks have reached a price ceiling, you're going to be looking for any other alternative if you can't generate.

I'd obviously prefer their resources to go to the main parks themselves, but a boutique experience, in my opinion, can compliment that.

A fifth gate may prove problematic, but I’m of the mind Disney could keep expanding its existing theme parks and have a lot more success by increasing capacity (and as such, ticket sales and time in park) than by trying another boutique experience.

A fifth gate is just not realistically feasible at the time. Even if they wanted to, they'll struggle to staff up properly. I agree with you, it's more beneficial (and profitable for the company) if they just "max out" the current parks instead of running into issues with a 5th gate.

We saw Disney's "idea" of a "boutique experience" with the Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser, and we all saw how that turned out.

That's different though. Spending $5K for 2 nights is a tougher pill to swallow than a $200-300 one-day experience if it includes food.

 

[saint.piss]