Yeah, it was easy to read the tea leaves and watch the red flags pop up, so the results verify what I was saying the last few months and how the internet planning sites missed the mark since they are too slow, and too ingrained in past performances, to adjust to what's happening in real time. Touring Plans at least, finally made two adjustments in the past few months for WDW and Universal, but the others sat on the old info. My view/opinion is that the economy, weather, tourism restraints due to politics,and costs/prices are now more important than school schedules to who is going to show up.
They won't admit it, but there's no way Epic has met expectations. It's a nice beautiful park, but it has 'issues' that will take lots of time to fix, and a management that reacted too slow to those issues....and USF & IOA didn't get enough recent investment due to costs associated with building a new park. But its not just Universal Orlando, WDW is suffering the same fate. Sure, revenue increases, but that's only because Disney increases prices way above inflation for food, merch., drinks and hotels.