You mean the puzzle theater that got the axe with rumors now going around for something more ambitious? That puzzle theater? I’ll remind you those plans also had an even smaller presence for Pokémon which is a bigger IP than Zelda.
I think you really need to just admit you’re wrong here.
So what you are saying is you can't source your claim about Zelda merch numbers? If you want to persuade someone, you have to have better than "have you played the game?" This was never about the quality of the land or the source IP. Do the GP care about the IP? Back it up with numbers. 80 million games is all well and good until you divide it by 30 years and 16? titles. Thats fine for a video game. But we are talking about a land in a theme park. You are playing on a different level now. Minecraft sold like 144 million copies in 7 years. No one is campaigning for a Minecraft land. You have to give more than "it's a really cool game bro" and vague references to merch sales that you didn't back up.
Or you can just throw a tantrum about having to wait a couple more years for Mario.
No, Land WAS at a prememium. Those days are over
Uni now has enough land to build whatever the hell they want. Fretting about the space in Lost Continent is meaningless
Land is not unlimited. Like Nick said, they will always have a land issue at the current parks. Start listing off the IP's that people on here are throwing into the new resort. Minions, SloP, Sing, Shrek, HTTYD, Madagascar, KFP, an expanded SNW, Pokemon, Animal Crossing, Splatoon, Metroid, Multiple LOTR lands, FB, Uni Monsters, Hello Kitty/Sanrio, Trolls, Star Trek, "sci-fi land", the non-IP lands that many seem to want, and all of the "anime" and random IP's they own. They need to leave room for future expansion too. Like
@zg44 pointed out in the Expansion thread, they really only have about 250 acres to play with for two parks, Citiwalk, and transportation facilities. At the current resort Citiwalk and the garages take up, ~65 acres. That leaves you less than 200 for parks. In there you still have to account for the main entrance plazas and either the hub and spoke or central lagoon. Theres also backstage areas that have to be removed from the total area usable for lands. Sounds great on paper, but the current parks are about 150 acres and probably have less IP areas than whats listed above. Sure you can group IP's into lands, but once you start doing that, you have to accept that they don't have unlimited land. None of this accounts for IP's we don't know about or they haven't developed yet, but are in the pipeline. People think the 2nd park won't be done before 2025. Who knows what else will be hot then.
Personally, I don't care if they build a Zelda land or not. I won't be mad if they do. Theres nothing in LC that I really will miss. If they build it, I won't make a trip, but when I'm there, I'll ride whatever they build there and probably enjoy it. I'm just looking at this from a logistics standpoint. They have more IP's than they have room even with the new land. So it gets to prioritizing. My point is, based solely on numbers, if Zelda wasn't a Nintendo property, it never even gets considered for the parks. Uni would not go out, buy the rights to just Zelda and spend a $100+ million and 7 acres on a land for it. It just isn't popular enough with the GP for that. Can you really say differently?