maverik85
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Jul 27, 2016
I can't for the life of me figure out why the Powers that be won't listen to their most loyal fans aka: Us, and make that 5th gate Lost Disney. Complete with a totally campy Tomorrowland and all....It doesn't even have to be this huge over the top park, just a small half day deal would be fine with me. Each land being MK, DL, Epcot, Studios, AK. With the best of the best in there like the REAL Imagination, World of Motion, Adventure through Inner space etc.... I mean all joking aside, can you IMAGINE the eruption in that auditorium if that announcement were to be made at D23? How much could it cost them? They HAVE all of the stuff already. At least we know they have the blueprints and all that jive. I get myself worked up just thinking about how easily they could do this. The theming is a no brainer, I don't think they understand how big of a market there is in this idea. We ALL grew up with this stuff and we ALL would jump at the chance to relive our childhood. It would be an absolute game changer in the theme park industry. Something never done before and hard to recreate for other brands out there because let's face it....ain't nobody sitting around daydreaming about the good old days of Six Flags. So much potential there and no one will listen to me. lol Sure, kids now-a-days might not show any interest, but if they would hurry up and get this done before the first generations start dying off...think about it. Grandparents and parents would INSIST on taking their kids and showing them what it was like when THEY were little if not just for a comparison to how times have changed and to have a chuckle. The crowds would be there. I just know it. Okay, I'm off my soapbox and I'm going to lay down and cry lol.
From a business stand point it would be a pretty poor idea overall. Fans would probably love it but it would be living on through pure nostalgia. And especially if you go back to the stuff that closed decades ago and were made like how they were when it originally opened they would only really have much appeal to people that experienced them. Younger generations would think they look really crappy next to more modern rides and are not as fun/boring. But if they tried to change them and make them more updated the people wanting them back would be upset that it's still not the same and is too different and it would receive a lot of backlash. So when it first opened it would probably do well running on nostalgia but in the long term the people that would care about the stuff there would eventually stop visiting or pass on and the park would hold no real appeal to anyone looking to vacation there to draw in more crowds 20 years down the line. They would have to be constantly updating and changing out attractions there to match the nostalgia for the current older generations at any given time which would be extremely costly.
So as nice as it would be to see a return of some of these beloved attractions of the past, from a purely business stand point it would be a terrible move and so is why it is likely never to happen.