Once again, let’s not put the cart before the horse. The backlash against the TOT retheme was epic. Disneyland followed through and people love it now. Let’s not assume we speak for everyone, or that we can predict the future.
With the theme parks' financial situation, the downside is that they might really go the cheap route with the redo, and cost value engineer many of initial concepts from the model they were working on. Hopefully they keep most of the AA's and just dress them up in new fur and skins, kind of like they did when they reused AA's from a previous attraction for Splash. .
Rise of the Resistance, about 6 months ago?I would imagine the river boat is going to stay for obvious reasons.
If they do this RIGHT, I think it could be great, but when was the last time Disney did something right? lol.
Rise?
Sure, but what new ride with a large new ride system doesn't? The ride itself is top notch and this retheme won't be reinventing the wheel in terms of the ride system itself, so that should be a non-issue.Rise is great, but it breaks down constantly, and has terrible capacity issues. At least it did before COVID.
If they upgraded the ride, then I'd be fine if it stayed as it is now....I don't care what they do with itThis probably needs its own thread (lol this whole week needs multiple threads), but does anyone think Pooh gets changed out at Disneyland? It usually has infamously short waits but it might still be a merch pusher.
A few points:Like the point earlier, I wonder if this will end up being seen as virtue signaling in retrospect. With no announced Splash closing and a pretty sure severe downturn in business coming, Disney has set them self up pretty well to never do this. Once attendance tanks, they can quietly not mention it, and if anyone asks, they can just say "With the current economical situation all new projects are on hold. We will let you know once things improve and we are able to schedule the re-theme". The other thought is that the economic downturn could end up turning this into a bottom dollar retheme with just changing what they have to and projection mapping the rest.
Not saying that's their plan here, but we know Disney's history of cancelling projects, and they have a perfect excuse to start cancelling things.
The closure of the attraction alone will sell a lot. I'm sure they'll keep this open long enough to get pins, shirts, etc in circulation like they do for all closing attractions. They'll sell a crap ton of that stuff.This will sell enough merchandise to pay for the re-theme. It's a Chapek dream...