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I'm no expert on stock images/overlays, but some of the firework clusters on this art seem to perfectly match the Epic Universe concept art, if that lends any additional credibility to this being Universal created.
If they want a park either way, isn't there significant value in eliminating a major competitor?
And getting preexisting land + infrastructure + planning approval has major value too.
Unless they just don't care about the Spanish market.
I suspect they have already missed their chance to get construction funding from the bipartisan infrastructure law, if such opportunity ever realistically existed.
I've wondered if an attempt to raise property taxes for litigation costs might get its own legal challenge. From the RCID replacement bill:
"Section 24. Ad valorem taxes.—The board of supervisors shall have the power to levy and assess an ad valorem tax on all the taxable real and tangible...
Looking back in this thread, it appears Surfside's parking garage went vertical in early March 2018, with the first room tower following in mid April 2018. The resort opened end of June 2019, so less than 16 months from vertical construction to opening.
They could absolutely have P912 ready for...
I'm feeling a little scared that the whole Sunshine Corridor proposal could fall apart due to Disney and Universal fighting about direct trains to the airport that don't stop at the other resort making the entire project financially nonviable.
I think the planned station location partially overlaps the current parking lot there too, so I imagine this would involve a complete makeover of everything south of Destination Pkwy and east of the parking garage. They haven't been super clear about the exact station location so I'm not 100% on...
There's also a new sunshine corridor map floating around that's reportedly from Universal and depicts the "South International drive" station much further north by the Vineland Outlets rather than just south of Disney Springs, but I can't tell if it's an actual plan change or just an artist error.
I believe the leaked layout appeared to only have three block zones and therefore would only be able to run two trains.
And the storage shed looks long enough to hold both trains.
Was HEA also performing poorly at the end of its run?
I'm curious how just keeping HEA would have compared financially to what they've actually done where they're now headed into a second round of development costs.
And the same question for simply updating Illuminations tech vs Epcot Forever...
I'd love to understand the logic and financial/business cases that Disney has used for their nighttime spectacular decisions over the last decade.
They spend so much on each new show and their success rate is so low that it seems like there should be more status quo bias (keeping old but...
This feels silly to ask, but is there any way that the expansion beyond big thunder could be connected to new hotel(s) back there?
I'm struggling to understand why else they would ever even consider investing so much into what is already the most popular park of the four by far.