Universal may not loose as much money as you may think by not increasing ticket prices. They're offering some really good deals on tickets. People who think they've gotten a really good deal are more likely to spend more within the park for food, premium experiences and souvenirs. I don't know the psychology behind it, but it's something I saw all the time when working at an attractions venue. If Universal plays this up by tempting people to spend more by doing seasonal, limited edition, and playing up the fact that their food and souvenirs are brand new people will spend even more money. So I think they'll loose money on ticketing but between the likely higher sales of things in the park and people staying at Universal resorts more to double down on the deals I think they will make absolute bank overall.
This is what they said I think during their earnings call too. They're focused on getting guests to spend money throughout their vacation so if you price tickets too high, guests will still come but they won't feel like spending as much on food, snacks, merchandise, express passes, etc. Short term loss for a longer term gain here.
The real money maker at the parks has never been the gate ticket price. The only places where the ticket is a majority ofnthe earning is probably a Six Flags park due to them being mostly for rides and not really themed experienced and shopping.
when we had eisner, WDW burger prices were comparable to mcdonald's burger prices, but they were better burgers. pizza? same. rooms? same. even the deluxe resorts prices were comparable to regular hotel prices in big cities. the result were frequent park sellouts, lots of happy families, and an entire generation that became disney adults, that bought AP's every year, buy merch all the time, etc.
It's the same tried-and-true tactic cruise lines have been using for years. They don't make money on ticket sales, but they make lots of money on what people spend onboard. In-park/in-resort spending is the game Disney and Universal are really playing.
You are missing maybe the most important point. To attend Epic Universe as a non-passholder, you HAVE to buy a multi day ticket that only allows you in Epic 1 day. You are being forced to buy tickets to USF and IOA. How will most people even have time to visit Disney at all if they already have tickets to Universal's legacy parks? IOA and USF will likely not be cannibalized at all and should see attendance increases due to this multi-day ticket requirement.
@estebansingleton2648 But if you did the 3 park package at Universal more than once you could experience the different lands at Epic Universe. They really thought this through. Don’t really need Disney anymore lol.
That's what I thought they'd do, only allow Epic Universe admission to those who buy the multi-day passes. So sure it's "only" $22 increase over last year, but you must buy 2 additional days, so if all you care about is Epic Universe it's actually closer to a $250 increase... more so on the peak days (which probably will be all of them)
Mind you non-Universal passholders are required to buy a multi day park ticket to even go to Epic Universe. Basically forcing people to only visit Universal
Disney should have already been doing all of this before Epic was going to open so its was ready for 2025-2027. Instead they sat on their hands and did nothing and now it seems like they're scrambling to respond to Epic.
Devils advocate here though, you can maybe look at it this way. By the time the initial hype has died down for EU and you can just buy single day tickets (2026 onwards) Disney will potentially be starting to open the first of many new areas, attractions and lands, which is probably spanning the next 2/3-10 years, potentially giving them a longer game plan of people returning for multiple trips as new things gradually open.
@@funkydino that's what most people are glossing over. Disney was focusing on other projects during this time period. Disney knows that 2025 and 2026 belong to Universal. That's why there's no concrete openings planned for the next couple years. Hell, many of the stuff they announced at D23 Expo is supposed to start breaking ground next year. I think starting in 2027, Disney is going to start coming back with an absolute vengeance.
So glad I just moved to Orlando, so I never have to stress over the right or wrong time to visit... I can just go all the time, and experience all the changes as they happen
@@StadiumofLOLMAPS Orlando truly is an awesome place to be. I recommend Oviedo, which is about 45 minutes from Disney and Universal, and has easy access to 417
After I take over, there will be no more Board of Directors and it will no longer be The Walt Disney Company. With the majority of the stock, I will take Disney off the market as private and my title will be Owner the way sports teams have Owners. It will be formally known as Walt Disney Productions once again. Disney under me will be an autocracy and I won't be answering to anyone but Walt Disney himself. Instead of a Board of Directors, there will be a hand picked cabinet of my loyal followers. My own Death Eaters.
Disney has lost its way completely. They are creatively bankrupt at imagineering and any new ride is either a clone or something with a major IP attached to it. Once Bob Iger retires they need to hire an external CEO someone like Michael Eisner in his early days. Someone that will let the creatives be creative and come up with world class attractions even if that means there is no pre-existing IP attached to it.
Which is why when I take over Disney and make it great again, everything will be done by asking "What would Walt do?" again just as management did for decades after his passing. I will implement a De-Igerfication policy to undo all that he worked for. It will almost be as if Trump took over.
Universal has a solution: to see Epic you need to also buy a ticket for the other parks, Also, Disney wants more $$ per customer NOT more customers so thats why they raise prices
Disney has also had massive capacity problems at specific parks that they’re refusing to address, so instead they want to raise prices to reduce that but keep profits steady, and when they open something new, they don’t have to decrease them again.
@@MrRapmaster19Yep, this is their strategy. They apparently don’t want to spend too much on increasing park capacity at this time, but that could change.
@tankart150 Not just Roy; but, anyone from the Disney family (whether it’s Walt's side of the family, or Roy's) who has the passion and courage to call out Bob Iger's moronic decision making that’s slowly killing the dynasty's brand image and reputation.
@ The issue was towards the end of his reign, Eisner took more and more risks while the company was performing poorly. Disney almost got sold to Comcast. But the early Eisner years were awesome.
I think one of the issues with the timing of the Big Thunder Mountain refurb is that with the change over for Splash Mountain to Tiana's Bayou Adventure they didn't want Big Thunder down at the same time, so it had to wait until they got TBA up and running, and I'm assuming the decided to wait until after the holidays to start the work on BTM.
Yep! Within the context of Disney, it makes sense! However to compete with the opening of Epic Universe it doesn't. I think this just speaks to how Disney management isn't/wasn't making any plans in potential preparation against Universal. Might bite them in the butt but we'll have to see how everything plays out
@@awoosh13 I agree with you. Disney already had these plans in the works for ages and probably just waiting for them to be greenlit. 2023 could have been Thunder's year and 2024 Tiana's year. Especially since, Tron was in 2023 and Disney could have distract people away from Thunder. Then reopen Thunder and distract people away from Splash/Tiana's. So all of Thunder and Tiana's can be ready for 2025 and Epic crowds
Universal > Disney. We don't get to experience brand new theme parks very often, as long as Epic doesn't fall into a sinkhole Universal will be crushing the game against Disney for a long time to come.
Something I think is very important to mention is the year after Epic’s opening. Besides a refurbished Big Thunder Mountain, Disney currently has NOTHING planned for 2026 at WDW. Those big new rides and areas that they announced won’t be finished until 2027 AT THE EARLIEST. That gives Epic Universe a full year of uninterrupted time to itself while Disney is building those attractions. 2026 is also when Universal will start implementing Epic into all of their usual park bundles and deals, which will likely make it even more enticing to go there alongside the other legacy parks. That’s not even considering that Kids Resort Universal is building in Texas, which currently has a 2026 opening date, which will give people in the area even LESS reason to go to Disney unless they do some MAJOR deals or price cuts.
@@metallicnole4514That’s not the biggest complaint they have. I would pay anything if they truly brought us an experience Walt would be proud of. Destroying Splash Mountain and Rivers of America is sacrilege.
@@Equilibrium-pt7xj The general public really doesn't care about the rivers and tiana's draws in a crowd as its the lightning lane that goes the fastest. In the FL heat, it will absorb even more crowds since it's the only water ride in the park. As someone that grew up going to disney world, I'm fine with most of these changes. I'm even good with replacing the muppetvision. It's funny how people are bent out of shape about disney replacing attractions when universal did that to almost the entirety of the studios park. And no, building epic is no rebuttal to that since universal had been replacing attractions for many years. I'm more upset that they replaced back to the future with simpsons than anything disney is currently replacing
@@Equilibrium-pt7xj If you wanna see the rivers, they are still a disneyland, which was walt's original park and the only one he stepped foot on. Splash mountain was an eisner addition to add more thrill to the park. As a kid, I never cared about the original theming. It was all about the ride since it was the first drop I ever experienced as a kid. MK is in a unique position that it doesn't need to be a clone of disneyland. Was it sacrilege for universal to replace jaws for diagon alley?
@@metallicnole4514 The Rivers of America is not closing. It's a hoax and so is Splash Mountain closing. Purists are the only guests who matter and I will cater to purists only when I take over Disney and make it great again.
I've also noticed that Universal is better at managing their crowd sizes and ride efficiency. Furthermore, Disney is mostly for kids. Universal is for everyone.
Disagree, Disney is better suited for all ages from kids to elderly. Universal has targeted the young-adult market at the expense of the other groups. Older folks cant ride much at Universal lol, and that probably wont change, though they're going more for kids with half the lands at Epic .
I’m going to have to disagree with you there. I am a big fan of Universal, but I can ride pretty much anything. There are people who do not enjoy thrill rides, so Disney has more for them to do currently.
I've said it once I'll say it again, Disney screwed themselves in the long term by focusing on killing their competition in the short term. They created a half-assed park in Hollywood Studios to try to undercut Universal's launch, and they created another in Animal Kingdom to undercut Busch Gardens. With these two they weren't focused on creating long term parks with solid plans. They didn't think about how insane of a task upkeeping 4 parks at once with both maintenance and new attractions is. They wanted quick and easy solutions to kill competition, and now they're paying for it because they expanded too far. Disney's offerings in 2025 are great if you're considering it for 2 or 3 parks, but for 4? It's absolutely not enough.
Some think that Disney should have opened a 5th park to compete, which I say would have been the wrong move. They need to develop the parks they have. All the stuff that was announced at D23 this year should have been announced at D23 2022 so they would be 2 years into development. I also think Hollywood studios should be rebranded into an adventure park with more thrill rides
MGM Studios was always supposed to be a half-day park, it was birthed out of a proposed Epcot ride/pavilion. Turning it into a theme park with news of Universals moving in next door was the opposite of shortsighted; It succeeded in turning WDW into a true multi-day resort. It was the right move regardless of what Universal was doing (with their disastrous park out the gate lol). Regarding Animal Kingdom, it obviously opened unfinished; We can blame Iger for it still remaining an unfinished half-day park, since he has put very little into the most recent park at WDW. That said, I'm not sure why you think it was merely a Busch gardens competitor, when Busch gardens existed since the 1950s and WDW was long established as a multi-day destination by the 90s...BG was not much of a legitimate lure bringing tourists away from WDW by the late 90s lol. DAK was just a decent idea for a theme park with roots going back to Walt, True Life Adventures, and Jungle Cruise.
@@metallicnole4514 I’m assuming you mean the original Universal FL? Cuz the first one in CA was never better than MGM imo haha. I’ve always preferred MGM Studios to the Universal Counterparts, but the lost 80s movie rides like Jaws, Kong etc were def awesome
Cousin was working at DW when thunder mountain had some fake rock that made you think it was going to fall on you(I don’t ever remember it but I’m sure diehards do). He said it actually fell on the track at some point and rather than fix it Disney opted to leave it cuz it wasn’t something that would actively make money. And he was right it’s been like a decade but if they’re doing a thunder mountain overhaul I bet they’ll fix that rock effect
With this video I could only think about the disappointment my family and I had the first time we went to disney 😂 everything overpriced, overwhelming and over crowded. We were able to get a refund and bought more universal tickets instead.
it’s a given that in 2025, the disney parks are anticipated to experience a decline in attendance from guests who typically visit both disney and universal. however, id predict that this decrease is will be offset by disney-exclusive guests who will take advantage of the reduced crowd levels. guests who otherwise wouldn’t have visited because it was too crowded.
@@someguy4253 Disney World will still be more visited than Universal in 2025 and going forward. Universal just doesn't have the IPs to compete with Disney and nostalgia is one hell of a drug. Universal will also be limiting access to Epic Universe for a while in order to iron out crowd levels.
Universal park hopping is a lot more straight forward and easy to navigate then Disney so I think they have the advantage for people planning a trip to see Epic and then deciding its too much trouble to add Disney in. Universal is also forcing people to go to their parks by bundling Epic tickets with the multi park pass. I actually think too when you look at the demographics that like Universal will probably shift to Sea World who has better coasters and universal visitors skew older and more interested in thrill rides. I would bet Disney has no interest in competing with the opening of Epic and is more focused down the line to do their own grand openings with the revamped villains park and Encanto areas.
I think they waited till now to do the Big Thunder refurbishment because of Splash mountain being turned into Tiana's, and now that that's open they have some wiggle room for both capacity and the refurbish budget.
There's been plenty of theme parks for movie-goers, but there's never really been something for gamers. Until now! That's why Super Nintendo World is such a big deal.
Believe it or not that subculture only makes up about 15% of their theme park profits. Families and 1st time park goers are their core demographic, which is being bled by Universal
Yeah Disney shot themselves in the foot with that dinosaur retheme at Animal Kingdom in 2025. I don't expect attendance to go up, if anything it will go down like you said. At that point they should just close the park for a year and have time to do the retheme and touch-ups to the park. I can see them closing even earlier in 2025, like 5pm or something around there.
2025 wouldn't be such a bad year for Disney had they not let their own hubris and arrogance of them thinking no one can touch them in the parks overcome them. They brought this on themselves and if they keep this up they'll for sure have Magic Kingdom at Orlando lose it's number 1 spot if not by Universal then it'll be by their own massive egos for sure.
My prediction is Hollywood studios will go up, Epcot down since everyone is talking about how great Hollywood studios is becoming vs how fast Epcot is dropping. Also, as someone who's going to epic universe next year, we canceled our plans to go to WDW as well that trip because epic universe is opening when we were already going to be there
Hollywood Studios is still going to have a capacity problem as they have now confirmed that Muppet-Vision is closing in 2025 to make way for the Monsters Inc and Rock 'n' Roller Coaster will be rethemed which means the original ride would likely need to be shut down for a year or so as well.
You never will. There is no Monsters Inc coming and all things Pixar are leaving due to Disney being broken up like Standard Oil. Looking forward to the return of not just the Disney MGM Studios name and The Great Movie Ride, but I'm also looking forward to Munchkinland from The Wizard of Oz coming to the park and seeing the Wicked Witch of the West walking around. Instead of Stormtroopers, the Winkie Guards will be parading through the park.
@@darbs1832 This is the truth. I've got family in Congress involved in the plan to break up Disney and so am I as a military man. You are required to follow orders from me. It's the law. I know everything that will happen to Disney before 2100.
I’ve already got my week-long trip to Disney scheduled for next year, and I don’t plan on going to Universal anytime soon… I’ve just never been a fan of their parks
We had a universal trip this year, and spent a couple of days at Disney, only doing magic kingdom and Epcot. Chose those parks as we’d already done Busch gardens so felt animal kingdom would feel similar, and Hollywood studios would feel similar to universal. Epcot and magic were the two parks that were completely different to what we’d already done.
disney is not trying to compete at all in 2025, they are taking a gap year to get everything else on par so that when the animal kingdom expansion is all said and done, the resort as a whole has a lot of new attractions
Disneys timing with tundermountain makes perfect sense. When you have a great player you cant stop you shut down the teammates. They cant stop epic in the first year. however after the newnest wears off, then disney has a barrage of new rides to get everybody back to disneys. quite simple. They cant stop epic but they can slow it down with a barrash of new rides.
Universal knows what they are doing. The existing parks will get a make over after Epic opens at some point. Nobody talks about the amount of land that Universal purchased that has permits filed. They will be expanding from Epic. Disney is needs a new park to compete and that’s that.
I feel Epic Universe is Universal Studios open declaration of war. They're no longer a force to be rekoned with of Disney's near-peer. Universal is now coming for the Number 1 spot. THEY are gonna be the new household name for theme parks.
There won't be any 'new' rides in Disney World Resort in 2025. Or in 2026. Or in 2027 (most likely). Rocky Thunder Mountain will be closed for over a year and Rivers of America is being deleted next year. Magic Kingdom is not going to be a nice place to be in 2025/2026. Expect visitor numbers to drop to record lows, but car park prices will still be $30!
Hmmm. I’m an international visitor and have decided to revisit next year (first visit 2023) due to EU opening. Because my family and I have 2 weeks holiday we will still be doing week 1 Disney and week 2 Universal so do expect Disney to still do very well.
I want to visit Epic but will wait until they sell 1 day tickets. We didn’t like the other Universal Parks except for the Harry Potter areas. We can wait.
I kept skipping Lightning Mqueen because of ppl saying its bad. I finally went last year and holy cow. It was sooo much fun. Go to Lightning Mcqeen while you still can.
I doubt it. The vast majority of people visit Orlando for Disney and Epic Universe won’t change that. Yes, Universal will have a spike next year and Disney may see a dip but, it will all be short term. And with Universal requiring a 3-day park ticket but, allowing guest to only visit Epic Universe on one day, may keep people away from Epic Universe. I won’t visit the new park until the attendance restructures are lifted.
Disney's biggest problem is they no longer have the talent that brought the Disney difference. From their new attractions to in park entertainment, it's clear they've lost their way and even worse, the management is now overrun with people who don't understand what made Disney, Disney. Which is why Hollywood Studios now has a 200+ pound chick dancing in the park to Shake it Off as part of their Holiday entertainment.
But did you die? I mean, you do understand that most of the people who were around when "Disney was being made, Disney" are either dead, or dying, don't you? There's this thing called procreation, where babies are born. And when they are born, they're not born old. They will eventually grow. In the midst of all that, things change, and tastes change. Young people don't want the in-park holiday entertainment to consist of waifs dancing to the likes of Guy Lombardo, the Everly Brothers, or Lawrence Welk's orchestra. Those days are over, man. Long gone, in fact. And that's just something that you're going to have to get used to. But hey, while all those young people are watching that '200+ pound chick' dance to Outkast, you can go ride the Tower of Terror. That is, if your back will allow it.
@@elevenb6967 Wrong. Things don't change, tastes don't change. Young people do want stuff like Guy Lombardo and I say they do. When I take over and make Disney great again, I'm giving kids those things and ordering them to like it. Those days are not gone, just hibernating. I will be deciding what kids want for them and turn them into clones of their parents.
@@elevenb6967 I stand by everything and yes I will be taking over Disney and making it great again by catering only to Disney purists and making every decision by asking "What would Walt do?" just as management did for decades after his passing. Disney under me will be frozen in the 20th century and the parks will be treated like the Augusta National Golf Club.
The difference between the two are the IPs, how immersive the parks themselves are, and the fact that Orlando is basically a Disney bubble. Nothing Universal can do will compete with that. Universal feels like you're going to a theme park for X amount of days vs. Disney feels like you're entering an entirely new 'world' with the parks being the size of SF.
The idea is convince people to stay at their hotels longer, which has high profit margins. Then they guarantee continuing visits to IOA and USF with the multiple day tickets with only one possible day at EU.
They make a valid point. There's just too many. Well, theme parks. I've only been to universal and I've only been to several of all the Disney theme parks. I've never been to while I have been Busch Gardens, but never Seawald. Never even Legoland. So yeah, a few theme parks may have to disappear. And some. already me thinking could be Disney
Oh shit tourists actually are smart and go to Universal and Disney for their visit?? If anything it’s gonna be rough for sea world which people gladly skip lmao
As someone who visited Disney World most years between 1977-2016 and Universal Orlando nearly every year 2002-present, Universal is our go-to park in when we visit Orlando from NC. Disney's idiotic decision to delve into politics is the core reason for their poor dropping attendance, nose dive in sales of their products/services. They lost this revenue, raised prices/cut perks/services/quality to make up the losses, which drove away more guests, etc. This isn't rocket science. Liberal or Conservative, I care not what a company's politics are. Just keep it out of my face and don't lecture me. No matter Universal's politics, they keep it out of the park experience and everyone feels at ease. I was at Universal February 2024 and will be there in January and November of 2025. One week trips each time. Ride for ride, park for park, hotel for hotel, Universal Orlando is an exponentially better value per dollar than Disney World, and the gap will widen further after Epic Universe opens. Disney has no one to blame but themselves. Don't create the storm, then whine when it rains.
You’re not taking the age of the patrons into account, Disney appeals to parents of 2-10 year olds…. Universal is the 7-25 crowd. There’s plenty of opportunities for both chains to make money
You should take a a look at disney paris, getting ripped of by eiropapark just 3h away in germany voted with best new ride 2024 with volteon and more times like 2016 and absoluty Huge theming all around the park edit: they Littarly got an epcot ball
I think they are 100% aware. Problem is, they don't have anything new to compete with it outside of an Encanto boat ride and a few rethemes within these next few years.
"...their own parks get cannabilized..."? So... they are removing attractions at one parks to be moved to another? Or... did you just like the sound of that word?
Let’s be real - Disney was just planning on writing off 2025 and 2026 as a loss since nothing they could do would compete with Epic Universe. That’s why all of these closures are happening. They’re hoping to come back in and around 2027 with bigger and better things.
VIDEO RECAP: Universal’s new Epic Universe theme park will pose a challenge to Disney in 2025. To compete, Disney must offer new attractions, as Universal’s existing parks will not receive any new additions. Disney plans to introduce a nighttime parade at Magic Kingdom, a Zootopia 3D show at Animal Kingdom, and a refurbished Test Track 3.0 at Epcot. Disney World’s 2025 additions, including Little Mermaid and Villains Live, are positive but not enough to persuade visitors to choose Disney over Universal. Animal Kingdom is expected to suffer due to the closure of Dinosaur and other attractions, while Magic Kingdom and Epcot are likely to benefit from the new additions. Universal’s Epic Universe is expected to have a significant impact on Disney’s attendance, with Animal Kingdom likely to be the most affected park.
Big thunder mountain closing for 2025 makes a lot of sense. Universal is going to win 2025. There's no reason for Disney to try to compete in this year.
Who’s bright idea was it to put Zootopia inside of the roots of a tree? Because let me tell you that is one of the stupidest ideas that Disney has ever done.
@@brycevo it's rumored that a Luigi's Mansion addition to Super Nintendo World and a Lord Of The Rings inspired land are next on the table for Epic Universe. Me personally? I hope a Jurassic World based land is on the table too just to try and bring some version of the Jurassic World ride at Beijing to the states.
Nothing is closing permanently at WDW in 2025. With Trump back in the White House, Disney management will be removed and replaced. The process to break up the Walt Disney Company is underway and by 2035 all Marvel and Pixar attractions will be gone along with Galaxy's Edge and anything Star Wars related after Lucas sold.
@@DeadmanInc336 Part of my job is to police the Disney fandom and stop all false rumors and keep certain fans out of the fanbase. It's called gatekeeping. And you are required to show proper respect to a military man, civvie. That rank on my uniform means you take orders from me, do you understand?
@@DeadmanInc336 This is serious. I have expelled tens of thousands of people from the Disney fanbase and I've got family in Congress you answer to. I will be giving Crooked Bob's name as a Red in front of the HUAC and have him blacklisted just as Walt himself would do.
Disney has some rough years coming up. Yes, plural lol. All of their “announced” big plans are years off. Look how long it took them to build Tron. They need to open Villains Land ASAP. Like….they should be in the process of building right now lol. They need to go ahead and start retheming Splash Mountain back (because honestly the Tiana’s version is awful) but they need to do a complete upgrade of Splash with brand new animatronics. They could use the new Tiana animatronics for a PATF ride elsewhere….it should be based more with the movie storyline. They’ve got the Indy thing on the way so that’s good. So….yeah…….all of that pronto lol. Yeeeeeaars off.
@@someguy4253 calm down. Most of the major stuff is supposed to start breaking ground as early as next year. It was implied that most of the major projects will be completed within 5 years. Disney knows that 2025 and 2026 belong to Universal.
Nothing new for Disney in 2025. Just take away. A bunch of closings and refurbishments. I don’t know that I’ll renew my AP to DW this year. Who knows when any of their new projects complete
I wish Disney would feel the algorithm im sending and open a park called Disney Extreme. This park would have B&M coasters, Intamin coasters, basically a six flags with Disney themeing. I dont like disney because their rides are boring. Its like a comedian said "Disney is full of bumper car rides with movie screens. I've been in the 70's, once in 91 and again in 2014 only to take my kids but i dont care for this park. i'll take a magic mountain or six flags over GA or a six flags over anything over disney because their rides are better. Disney should make a seperate park with extreme rides. I sure it would do well.
Disney knows this. They have acknowledged that most of their major stuff won't actually start breaking ground until next year or 2026. I think starting in 2027, Disney is going to start coming back with a vengeance. Wouldn't surprise me if they start announcing actual time table openings for the big major attractions at D23 Expo 2026.
None of these attractions will be built and Disney will have to remove all attractions based on its acquired IP due to the company being split apart like Standard Oil and Ma Bell were and to avoid having to pay billions in licensing fees to Marvel, Pixar, and Lucasfilm which will all be independent again.
@@DeadmanInc336 I've got family in Congress. As a military man, I'm involved too. I have the clearance to send troops into the Disney studio like they were sent into Normandy.
Universal may not loose as much money as you may think by not increasing ticket prices. They're offering some really good deals on tickets. People who think they've gotten a really good deal are more likely to spend more within the park for food, premium experiences and souvenirs. I don't know the psychology behind it, but it's something I saw all the time when working at an attractions venue.
If Universal plays this up by tempting people to spend more by doing seasonal, limited edition, and playing up the fact that their food and souvenirs are brand new people will spend even more money. So I think they'll loose money on ticketing but between the likely higher sales of things in the park and people staying at Universal resorts more to double down on the deals I think they will make absolute bank overall.
This is what they said I think during their earnings call too. They're focused on getting guests to spend money throughout their vacation so if you price tickets too high, guests will still come but they won't feel like spending as much on food, snacks, merchandise, express passes, etc. Short term loss for a longer term gain here.
The real money maker at the parks has never been the gate ticket price. The only places where the ticket is a majority ofnthe earning is probably a Six Flags park due to them being mostly for rides and not really themed experienced and shopping.
It reminds me of casinos. Just get them in your atmosphere aka parks and resorts and keep em there
when we had eisner, WDW burger prices were comparable to mcdonald's burger prices, but they were better burgers. pizza? same. rooms? same. even the deluxe resorts prices were comparable to regular hotel prices in big cities. the result were frequent park sellouts, lots of happy families, and an entire generation that became disney adults, that bought AP's every year, buy merch all the time, etc.
It's the same tried-and-true tactic cruise lines have been using for years. They don't make money on ticket sales, but they make lots of money on what people spend onboard.
In-park/in-resort spending is the game Disney and Universal are really playing.
You are missing maybe the most important point. To attend Epic Universe as a non-passholder, you HAVE to buy a multi day ticket that only allows you in Epic 1 day. You are being forced to buy tickets to USF and IOA. How will most people even have time to visit Disney at all if they already have tickets to Universal's legacy parks? IOA and USF will likely not be cannibalized at all and should see attendance increases due to this multi-day ticket requirement.
Yep my outrageous prediction is that magic Kingdom will drop to 3rd most visited park behind epic and IOA
It's 3 days lol. Most people who visit take at least a week vacation. They'll still have couple days for disney
One day epic tickets aren’t out yet but will be releasing before the park opens for the general public i thought?
@estebansingleton2648 But if you did the 3 park package at Universal more than once you could experience the different lands at Epic Universe. They really thought this through. Don’t really need Disney anymore lol.
That's what I thought they'd do, only allow Epic Universe admission to those who buy the multi-day passes. So sure it's "only" $22 increase over last year, but you must buy 2 additional days, so if all you care about is Epic Universe it's actually closer to a $250 increase... more so on the peak days (which probably will be all of them)
Mind you non-Universal passholders are required to buy a multi day park ticket to even go to Epic Universe. Basically forcing people to only visit Universal
Disney should have already been doing all of this before Epic was going to open so its was ready for 2025-2027. Instead they sat on their hands and did nothing and now it seems like they're scrambling to respond to Epic.
They were busy with projects at Epcot and magic kingdom what are you talking about?? They can’t solve every issue there in 2 years
@@Brandon-qd2lbwe’ve known about epic universe since COVID… disney had more than enough time to plan a better defense!
Devils advocate here though, you can maybe look at it this way. By the time the initial hype has died down for EU and you can just buy single day tickets (2026 onwards) Disney will potentially be starting to open the first of many new areas, attractions and lands, which is probably spanning the next 2/3-10 years, potentially giving them a longer game plan of people returning for multiple trips as new things gradually open.
@@funkydino that's what most people are glossing over. Disney was focusing on other projects during this time period. Disney knows that 2025 and 2026 belong to Universal. That's why there's no concrete openings planned for the next couple years. Hell, many of the stuff they announced at D23 Expo is supposed to start breaking ground next year. I think starting in 2027, Disney is going to start coming back with an absolute vengeance.
"Scrambling to respond." Understatement of the year.
So glad I just moved to Orlando, so I never have to stress over the right or wrong time to visit... I can just go all the time, and experience all the changes as they happen
Lucky i plan on doing it soon as well
@@StadiumofLOLMAPS Orlando truly is an awesome place to be. I recommend Oviedo, which is about 45 minutes from Disney and Universal, and has easy access to 417
Where did you move from? Just curious.😊
Time to restructure The Walt Disney Company Board of Directors: half of the seats are creatives, the other half are financiers.
Replace it all with fElon Musk lol
Financiers who care about Disney and what's good for it instead of just money
In other words, it's time for a "corporate coup"
creatives should lead creative companies. your money bros can have 3 seats. the creatives get 5. i'm saving 1 for an at-large member
After I take over, there will be no more Board of Directors and it will no longer be The Walt Disney Company. With the majority of the stock, I will take Disney off the market as private and my title will be Owner the way sports teams have Owners. It will be formally known as Walt Disney Productions once again. Disney under me will be an autocracy and I won't be answering to anyone but Walt Disney himself. Instead of a Board of Directors, there will be a hand picked cabinet of my loyal followers. My own Death Eaters.
Disney has lost its way completely.
They are creatively bankrupt at imagineering and any new ride is either a clone or something with a major IP attached to it. Once Bob Iger retires they need to hire an external CEO someone like Michael Eisner in his early days. Someone that will let the creatives be creative and come up with world class attractions even if that means there is no pre-existing IP attached to it.
Which is why when I take over Disney and make it great again, everything will be done by asking "What would Walt do?" again just as management did for decades after his passing. I will implement a De-Igerfication policy to undo all that he worked for. It will almost be as if Trump took over.
Get rid of all the woke stuff. Bring back Splash Mountain.
Make Disney Great Again!
@@melovetorun Cry more.
Universal has a solution: to see Epic you need to also buy a ticket for the other parks, Also, Disney wants more $$ per customer NOT more customers so thats why they raise prices
Disney has also had massive capacity problems at specific parks that they’re refusing to address, so instead they want to raise prices to reduce that but keep profits steady, and when they open something new, they don’t have to decrease them again.
@@MrRapmaster19Yep, this is their strategy. They apparently don’t want to spend too much on increasing park capacity at this time, but that could change.
I'd wait about 8 months to a year for all the initial hype to die down.
Same I live in Orlando, and usually around this time is good for the parks.. so I’ll check it out then
If Roy E. Disney was still alive today, he would oust Bob Iger like he did with Eisner and Miller.
He wouldn't
@@asudevil316yah...he would hire a demon to ax them off.
@tankart150
Not just Roy; but, anyone from the Disney family (whether it’s Walt's side of the family, or Roy's) who has the passion and courage to call out Bob Iger's moronic decision making that’s slowly killing the dynasty's brand image and reputation.
Eisner wasn’t even that bad to be honest eat, not perfect but way better than Iger
@ The issue was towards the end of his reign, Eisner took more and more risks while the company was performing poorly. Disney almost got sold to Comcast. But the early Eisner years were awesome.
I think one of the issues with the timing of the Big Thunder Mountain refurb is that with the change over for Splash Mountain to Tiana's Bayou Adventure they didn't want Big Thunder down at the same time, so it had to wait until they got TBA up and running, and I'm assuming the decided to wait until after the holidays to start the work on BTM.
Now that you are saying that the timing of the refurbishment makes total sense.
Yep! Within the context of Disney, it makes sense! However to compete with the opening of Epic Universe it doesn't. I think this just speaks to how Disney management isn't/wasn't making any plans in potential preparation against Universal. Might bite them in the butt but we'll have to see how everything plays out
@@awoosh13 I agree with you. Disney already had these plans in the works for ages and probably just waiting for them to be greenlit. 2023 could have been Thunder's year and 2024 Tiana's year. Especially since, Tron was in 2023 and Disney could have distract people away from Thunder. Then reopen Thunder and distract people away from Splash/Tiana's. So all of Thunder and Tiana's can be ready for 2025 and Epic crowds
Still makes Tiana's a total waste of time, that money could've gone with refurbishing Splash
Universal > Disney.
We don't get to experience brand new theme parks very often, as long as Epic doesn't fall into a sinkhole Universal will be crushing the game against Disney for a long time to come.
Something I think is very important to mention is the year after Epic’s opening. Besides a refurbished Big Thunder Mountain, Disney currently has NOTHING planned for 2026 at WDW. Those big new rides and areas that they announced won’t be finished until 2027 AT THE EARLIEST. That gives Epic Universe a full year of uninterrupted time to itself while Disney is building those attractions.
2026 is also when Universal will start implementing Epic into all of their usual park bundles and deals, which will likely make it even more enticing to go there alongside the other legacy parks. That’s not even considering that Kids Resort Universal is building in Texas, which currently has a 2026 opening date, which will give people in the area even LESS reason to go to Disney unless they do some MAJOR deals or price cuts.
I'm bummed I couldn't go to opening day, was too wrapped up in work. I will have to settle for opening month in 2025.
Disney needs to wake up and lower their prices
They should. It would fix the biggest complaint people have
@@metallicnole4514That’s not the biggest complaint they have. I would pay anything if they truly brought us an experience Walt would be proud of. Destroying Splash Mountain and Rivers of America is sacrilege.
@@Equilibrium-pt7xj The general public really doesn't care about the rivers and tiana's draws in a crowd as its the lightning lane that goes the fastest. In the FL heat, it will absorb even more crowds since it's the only water ride in the park. As someone that grew up going to disney world, I'm fine with most of these changes. I'm even good with replacing the muppetvision. It's funny how people are bent out of shape about disney replacing attractions when universal did that to almost the entirety of the studios park. And no, building epic is no rebuttal to that since universal had been replacing attractions for many years. I'm more upset that they replaced back to the future with simpsons than anything disney is currently replacing
@@Equilibrium-pt7xj If you wanna see the rivers, they are still a disneyland, which was walt's original park and the only one he stepped foot on. Splash mountain was an eisner addition to add more thrill to the park. As a kid, I never cared about the original theming. It was all about the ride since it was the first drop I ever experienced as a kid. MK is in a unique position that it doesn't need to be a clone of disneyland. Was it sacrilege for universal to replace jaws for diagon alley?
@@metallicnole4514 The Rivers of America is not closing. It's a hoax and so is Splash Mountain closing. Purists are the only guests who matter and I will cater to purists only when I take over Disney and make it great again.
I've also noticed that Universal is better at managing their crowd sizes and ride efficiency. Furthermore, Disney is mostly for kids. Universal is for everyone.
Disagree, Disney is better suited for all ages from kids to elderly. Universal has targeted the young-adult market at the expense of the other groups. Older folks cant ride much at Universal lol, and that probably wont change, though they're going more for kids with half the lands at Epic .
Some things about newer rides at both parks is to much cgi and screens instead of illustrated backgrounds or animatronics
Have you ever heard of The Disney Cruise Line? They literally have adult spaces.
I’m going to have to disagree with you there. I am a big fan of Universal, but I can ride pretty much anything. There are people who do not enjoy thrill rides, so Disney has more for them to do currently.
@@Jiaoxstars where talkin bout parks buko
I’m convinced people from universal watch your videos because not raising prices on multi-day tickets was very smart
I've said it once I'll say it again, Disney screwed themselves in the long term by focusing on killing their competition in the short term. They created a half-assed park in Hollywood Studios to try to undercut Universal's launch, and they created another in Animal Kingdom to undercut Busch Gardens. With these two they weren't focused on creating long term parks with solid plans. They didn't think about how insane of a task upkeeping 4 parks at once with both maintenance and new attractions is. They wanted quick and easy solutions to kill competition, and now they're paying for it because they expanded too far. Disney's offerings in 2025 are great if you're considering it for 2 or 3 parks, but for 4? It's absolutely not enough.
Some think that Disney should have opened a 5th park to compete, which I say would have been the wrong move. They need to develop the parks they have. All the stuff that was announced at D23 this year should have been announced at D23 2022 so they would be 2 years into development. I also think Hollywood studios should be rebranded into an adventure park with more thrill rides
MGM Studios was always supposed to be a half-day park, it was birthed out of a proposed Epcot ride/pavilion. Turning it into a theme park with news of Universals moving in next door was the opposite of shortsighted; It succeeded in turning WDW into a true multi-day resort. It was the right move regardless of what Universal was doing (with their disastrous park out the gate lol).
Regarding Animal Kingdom, it obviously opened unfinished; We can blame Iger for it still remaining an unfinished half-day park, since he has put very little into the most recent park at WDW. That said, I'm not sure why you think it was merely a Busch gardens competitor, when Busch gardens existed since the 1950s and WDW was long established as a multi-day destination by the 90s...BG was not much of a legitimate lure bringing tourists away from WDW by the late 90s lol. DAK was just a decent idea for a theme park with roots going back to Walt, True Life Adventures, and Jungle Cruise.
@@EEvtg I never thought I'd see the day when I prefer hollywood studios over the original universal studios park
@@metallicnole4514 I’m assuming you mean the original Universal FL? Cuz the first one in CA was never better than MGM imo haha.
I’ve always preferred MGM Studios to the Universal Counterparts, but the lost 80s movie rides like Jaws, Kong etc were def awesome
@@EEvtg Yeah the og universal fl was great.
Cousin was working at DW when thunder mountain had some fake rock that made you think it was going to fall on you(I don’t ever remember it but I’m sure diehards do). He said it actually fell on the track at some point and rather than fix it Disney opted to leave it cuz it wasn’t something that would actively make money. And he was right it’s been like a decade but if they’re doing a thunder mountain overhaul I bet they’ll fix that rock effect
"We can now afford the rock SFX" -Bob Iger
With this video I could only think about the disappointment my family and I had the first time we went to disney 😂 everything overpriced, overwhelming and over crowded. We were able to get a refund and bought more universal tickets instead.
it’s a given that in 2025, the disney parks are anticipated to experience a decline in attendance from guests who typically visit both disney and universal. however, id predict that this decrease is will be offset by disney-exclusive guests who will take advantage of the reduced crowd levels. guests who otherwise wouldn’t have visited because it was too crowded.
Naw. Those will be the same locals that always go lol. Disney is definitely about to lose a large portion of their tourist crowds.
@@someguy4253 Disney World will still be more visited than Universal in 2025 and going forward. Universal just doesn't have the IPs to compete with Disney and nostalgia is one hell of a drug.
Universal will also be limiting access to Epic Universe for a while in order to iron out crowd levels.
Mickey: Oh what are you gonna do? Build your own little theme park? I'd love to see that! Ahaaahaahaa!
.... Well, they certainly showed me
MuppetVision 3D is closing too and Rockin’ Rollercoaster is being re-themed to The Muppets, so that’s two more attractions gone in 2025.
No they aren't. That's a hoax.
Universal park hopping is a lot more straight forward and easy to navigate then Disney so I think they have the advantage for people planning a trip to see Epic and then deciding its too much trouble to add Disney in. Universal is also forcing people to go to their parks by bundling Epic tickets with the multi park pass. I actually think too when you look at the demographics that like Universal will probably shift to Sea World who has better coasters and universal visitors skew older and more interested in thrill rides. I would bet Disney has no interest in competing with the opening of Epic and is more focused down the line to do their own grand openings with the revamped villains park and Encanto areas.
I think they waited till now to do the Big Thunder refurbishment because of Splash mountain being turned into Tiana's, and now that that's open they have some wiggle room for both capacity and the refurbish budget.
There's been plenty of theme parks for movie-goers, but there's never really been something for gamers. Until now! That's why Super Nintendo World is such a big deal.
If I were Disney I make a deal with sega
I love this historical context you bring to these videos.
I love your videos, thank you so much ❤️
SML font is epic I approve
woah
Disney needs to wake up.
Disney needs to clean house.
I don’t think they have to compete against each other at all. Disney has its own subculture of fans who never go to Universal.
Believe it or not that subculture only makes up about 15% of their theme park profits. Families and 1st time park goers are their core demographic, which is being bled by Universal
Yeah Disney shot themselves in the foot with that dinosaur retheme at Animal Kingdom in 2025. I don't expect attendance to go up, if anything it will go down like you said. At that point they should just close the park for a year and have time to do the retheme and touch-ups to the park. I can see them closing even earlier in 2025, like 5pm or something around there.
No, re-theming Splash Mountain ended Disney.
@MT-tu8dt That was the beginning of the downfall of Disney.
There is no Animal Kingdom retheme happening. And Splash Mountain was not rethemed either. It's alive and well and Tiana does not exist.
2025 wouldn't be such a bad year for Disney had they not let their own hubris and arrogance of them thinking no one can touch them in the parks overcome them. They brought this on themselves and if they keep this up they'll for sure have Magic Kingdom at Orlando lose it's number 1 spot if not by Universal then it'll be by their own massive egos for sure.
I can’t see epic taking the spot from magic kingdom. But they will come close. At best I see it taking #3
I'm not going back to Disney until they get their shit together
My prediction is Hollywood studios will go up, Epcot down since everyone is talking about how great Hollywood studios is becoming vs how fast Epcot is dropping. Also, as someone who's going to epic universe next year, we canceled our plans to go to WDW as well that trip because epic universe is opening when we were already going to be there
Hollywood Studios is still going to have a capacity problem as they have now confirmed that Muppet-Vision is closing in 2025 to make way for the Monsters Inc and Rock 'n' Roller Coaster will be rethemed which means the original ride would likely need to be shut down for a year or so as well.
Can't wait to see Monsters Inc AT Hollywood Studios!
In 10 years
You never will. There is no Monsters Inc coming and all things Pixar are leaving due to Disney being broken up like Standard Oil. Looking forward to the return of not just the Disney MGM Studios name and The Great Movie Ride, but I'm also looking forward to Munchkinland from The Wizard of Oz coming to the park and seeing the Wicked Witch of the West walking around. Instead of Stormtroopers, the Winkie Guards will be parading through the park.
@@stanfordite1 this is some top tier bait.
@@darbs1832 This is the truth. I've got family in Congress involved in the plan to break up Disney and so am I as a military man. You are required to follow orders from me. It's the law. I know everything that will happen to Disney before 2100.
I’ve already got my week-long trip to Disney scheduled for next year, and I don’t plan on going to Universal anytime soon… I’ve just never been a fan of their parks
The only reason i still go to Disney is cause i work there and get free tickets. Price hasnt been justified for a few years now
We had a universal trip this year, and spent a couple of days at Disney, only doing magic kingdom and Epcot. Chose those parks as we’d already done Busch gardens so felt animal kingdom would feel similar, and Hollywood studios would feel similar to universal. Epcot and magic were the two parks that were completely different to what we’d already done.
I think Disney is taking the L with 2025
disney is not trying to compete at all in 2025, they are taking a gap year to get everything else on par so that when the animal kingdom expansion is all said and done, the resort as a whole has a lot of new attractions
Disneys timing with tundermountain makes perfect sense. When you have a great player you cant stop you shut down the teammates. They cant stop epic in the first year. however after the newnest wears off, then disney has a barrage of new rides to get everybody back to disneys. quite simple. They cant stop epic but they can slow it down with a barrash of new rides.
I don't think it's quite as simple as you're making it seem.
Universal knows what they are doing. The existing parks will get a make over after Epic opens at some point. Nobody talks about the amount of land that Universal purchased that has permits filed. They will be expanding from Epic. Disney is needs a new park to compete and that’s that.
I feel Epic Universe is Universal Studios open declaration of war.
They're no longer a force to be rekoned with of Disney's near-peer. Universal is now coming for the Number 1 spot. THEY are gonna be the new household name for theme parks.
Well, i think we're not gonna have any money to attend florida parks the way things are going.
I'd argue we need these parks more then..
People like to escape
What about the Star Wars hotel bomb????
Bring back the magic.
Hey Attraction Ideas have you ever heard of Meow Wolf, if so what's your opinion on them?
There won't be any 'new' rides in Disney World Resort in 2025. Or in 2026. Or in 2027 (most likely). Rocky Thunder Mountain will be closed for over a year and Rivers of America is being deleted next year. Magic Kingdom is not going to be a nice place to be in 2025/2026. Expect visitor numbers to drop to record lows, but car park prices will still be $30!
The Rivers of America is not closing.
Hmmm. I’m an international visitor and have decided to revisit next year (first visit 2023) due to EU opening. Because my family and I have 2 weeks holiday we will still be doing week 1 Disney and week 2 Universal so do expect Disney to still do very well.
I want to visit Epic but will wait until they sell 1 day tickets. We didn’t like the other Universal Parks except for the Harry Potter areas. We can wait.
Universal is forcing you to go for multiple days. 2 days at USF/IOA/VB to even get a day at epic so they are going to cut into Disney
I kept skipping Lightning Mqueen because of ppl saying its bad.
I finally went last year and holy cow. It was sooo much fun.
Go to Lightning Mcqeen while you still can.
This fills my heart with joy. Universal gets all our money.
I doubt it. The vast majority of people visit Orlando for Disney and Epic Universe won’t change that. Yes, Universal will have a spike next year and Disney may see a dip but, it will all be short term. And with Universal requiring a 3-day park ticket but, allowing guest to only visit Epic Universe on one day, may keep people away from Epic Universe. I won’t visit the new park until the attendance restructures are lifted.
Disney's biggest problem is they no longer have the talent that brought the Disney difference. From their new attractions to in park entertainment, it's clear they've lost their way and even worse, the management is now overrun with people who don't understand what made Disney, Disney. Which is why Hollywood Studios now has a 200+ pound chick dancing in the park to Shake it Off as part of their Holiday entertainment.
But did you die? I mean, you do understand that most of the people who were around when "Disney was being made, Disney" are either dead, or dying, don't you? There's this thing called procreation, where babies are born. And when they are born, they're not born old. They will eventually grow. In the midst of all that, things change, and tastes change.
Young people don't want the in-park holiday entertainment to consist of waifs dancing to the likes of Guy Lombardo, the Everly Brothers, or Lawrence Welk's orchestra. Those days are over, man. Long gone, in fact. And that's just something that you're going to have to get used to. But hey, while all those young people are watching that '200+ pound chick' dance to Outkast, you can go ride the Tower of Terror. That is, if your back will allow it.
@@elevenb6967 Wrong. Things don't change, tastes don't change. Young people do want stuff like Guy Lombardo and I say they do. When I take over and make Disney great again, I'm giving kids those things and ordering them to like it. Those days are not gone, just hibernating. I will be deciding what kids want for them and turn them into clones of their parents.
@@stanfordite1
LMAO!! Well, godspeed, man!
@@elevenb6967 I stand by everything and yes I will be taking over Disney and making it great again by catering only to Disney purists and making every decision by asking "What would Walt do?" just as management did for decades after his passing. Disney under me will be frozen in the 20th century and the parks will be treated like the Augusta National Golf Club.
The difference between the two are the IPs, how immersive the parks themselves are, and the fact that Orlando is basically a Disney bubble. Nothing Universal can do will compete with that. Universal feels like you're going to a theme park for X amount of days vs. Disney feels like you're entering an entirely new 'world' with the parks being the size of SF.
I feel like the higher ups just get off on self sabotage
I can’t wait for Loot boxes to be in Disney. I thought bringing back bob eisner was bad but they blew that out of the water.
The idea is convince people to stay at their hotels longer, which has high profit margins. Then they guarantee continuing visits to IOA and USF with the multiple day tickets with only one possible day at EU.
Get D'Amaro and Iger out of there.
I have every intention of undoing everything those crooks did when I take over Disney and make it great again. D'Amaro is going to jail.
They make a valid point. There's just too many. Well, theme parks. I've only been to universal and I've only been to several of all the Disney theme parks. I've never been to while I have been Busch Gardens, but never Seawald. Never even Legoland. So yeah, a few theme parks may have to disappear. And some. already me thinking could be Disney
Oh shit tourists actually are smart and go to Universal and Disney for their visit?? If anything it’s gonna be rough for sea world which people gladly skip lmao
I can’t believe they won’t change their prices
As someone who visited Disney World most years between 1977-2016 and Universal Orlando nearly every year 2002-present, Universal is our go-to park in when we visit Orlando from NC. Disney's idiotic decision to delve into politics is the core reason for their poor dropping attendance, nose dive in sales of their products/services. They lost this revenue, raised prices/cut perks/services/quality to make up the losses, which drove away more guests, etc. This isn't rocket science. Liberal or Conservative, I care not what a company's politics are. Just keep it out of my face and don't lecture me. No matter Universal's politics, they keep it out of the park experience and everyone feels at ease. I was at Universal February 2024 and will be there in January and November of 2025. One week trips each time. Ride for ride, park for park, hotel for hotel, Universal Orlando is an exponentially better value per dollar than Disney World, and the gap will widen further after Epic Universe opens. Disney has no one to blame but themselves. Don't create the storm, then whine when it rains.
You are a fool to think universal is not going to do that
Disney isn’t jacking up prices just because they feel like it
You’re not taking the age of the patrons into account, Disney appeals to parents of 2-10 year olds…. Universal is the 7-25 crowd. There’s plenty of opportunities for both chains to make money
You should take a a look at disney paris, getting ripped of by eiropapark just 3h away in germany voted with best new ride 2024 with volteon and more times like 2016 and absoluty Huge theming all around the park edit: they Littarly got an epcot ball
Maybe Disney isn't aware of Epic Universe.
I think they are 100% aware. Problem is, they don't have anything new to compete with it outside of an Encanto boat ride and a few rethemes within these next few years.
"...their own parks get cannabilized..."? So... they are removing attractions at one parks to be moved to another? Or... did you just like the sound of that word?
Let’s be real - Disney was just planning on writing off 2025 and 2026 as a loss since nothing they could do would compete with Epic Universe. That’s why all of these closures are happening. They’re hoping to come back in and around 2027 with bigger and better things.
VIDEO RECAP:
Universal’s new Epic Universe theme park will pose a challenge to Disney in 2025. To compete, Disney must offer new attractions, as Universal’s existing parks will not receive any new additions. Disney plans to introduce a nighttime parade at Magic Kingdom, a Zootopia 3D show at Animal Kingdom, and a refurbished Test Track 3.0 at Epcot.
Disney World’s 2025 additions, including Little Mermaid and Villains Live, are positive but not enough to persuade visitors to choose Disney over Universal. Animal Kingdom is expected to suffer due to the closure of Dinosaur and other attractions, while Magic Kingdom and Epcot are likely to benefit from the new additions. Universal’s Epic Universe is expected to have a significant impact on Disney’s attendance, with Animal Kingdom likely to be the most affected park.
Just when I thought Universal was pulling ahead they hit the NOS
I was a Disney kid. My kids will be universal kids!
I think disney may have waited to close BTM till after Tiana was done, as that would mean 2 mountains would be closed
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Bro Disney has like 3 cruises coming they’ll be fine
Big thunder mountain closing for 2025 makes a lot of sense. Universal is going to win 2025. There's no reason for Disney to try to compete in this year.
Who’s bright idea was it to put Zootopia inside of the roots of a tree? Because let me tell you that is one of the stupidest ideas that Disney has ever done.
I had a dream last night I went to disney world and splash mountain was still open
One simple answer:
Disney does not care about Epic Universe.
Also remember half things Disney announces for the parks never happen on time and are really just put out to trick investors
I want the Beijing Jurassic World ride to come to Epic Universe
@@brycevo it's rumored that a Luigi's Mansion addition to Super Nintendo World and a Lord Of The Rings inspired land are next on the table for Epic Universe. Me personally? I hope a Jurassic World based land is on the table too just to try and bring some version of the Jurassic World ride at Beijing to the states.
I’m already going to Disney in 2025
Ahhhhhhhhh, the great theme park war of the 2020’s…..
Nothing is closing permanently at WDW in 2025. With Trump back in the White House, Disney management will be removed and replaced. The process to break up the Walt Disney Company is underway and by 2035 all Marvel and Pixar attractions will be gone along with Galaxy's Edge and anything Star Wars related after Lucas sold.
@@stanfordite1 you're trying waaaaaaaaaaaay too hard to be edgy.
@@DeadmanInc336 Part of my job is to police the Disney fandom and stop all false rumors and keep certain fans out of the fanbase. It's called gatekeeping. And you are required to show proper respect to a military man, civvie. That rank on my uniform means you take orders from me, do you understand?
@@stanfordite1 I find your gimmick or this online persona you have to be very vanilla and unimaginative.
@@DeadmanInc336 This is serious. I have expelled tens of thousands of people from the Disney fanbase and I've got family in Congress you answer to. I will be giving Crooked Bob's name as a Red in front of the HUAC and have him blacklisted just as Walt himself would do.
@@stanfordite1 the only thing you're expelling is a boring online character.
Disney has some rough years coming up. Yes, plural lol. All of their “announced” big plans are years off. Look how long it took them to build Tron. They need to open Villains Land ASAP. Like….they should be in the process of building right now lol. They need to go ahead and start retheming Splash Mountain back (because honestly the Tiana’s version is awful) but they need to do a complete upgrade of Splash with brand new animatronics. They could use the new Tiana animatronics for a PATF ride elsewhere….it should be based more with the movie storyline. They’ve got the Indy thing on the way so that’s good. So….yeah…….all of that pronto lol. Yeeeeeaars off.
@@someguy4253 calm down. Most of the major stuff is supposed to start breaking ground as early as next year. It was implied that most of the major projects will be completed within 5 years. Disney knows that 2025 and 2026 belong to Universal.
None of those "plans" are happening. They are a hoax. And Splash Mountain is alive and well. There is no Tiana.
Nothing new for Disney in 2025. Just take away. A bunch of closings and refurbishments. I don’t know that I’ll renew my AP to DW this year. Who knows when any of their new projects complete
I wish Disney would feel the algorithm im sending and open a park called Disney Extreme. This park would have B&M coasters, Intamin coasters, basically a six flags with Disney themeing. I dont like disney because their rides are boring. Its like a comedian said "Disney is full of bumper car rides with movie screens.
I've been in the 70's, once in 91 and again in 2014 only to take my kids but i dont care for this park. i'll take a magic mountain or six flags over GA or a six flags over anything over disney because their rides are better. Disney should make a seperate park with extreme rides. I sure it would do well.
Anyone going to epic universe on day one?
It would be crazy if they didn't sell a single day ticket for epic universe 👀 ... just sayin'
Disney is so slow at building attractions atm so i feel like nothing major will be done for 2025
Disney knows this. They have acknowledged that most of their major stuff won't actually start breaking ground until next year or 2026. I think starting in 2027, Disney is going to start coming back with a vengeance. Wouldn't surprise me if they start announcing actual time table openings for the big major attractions at D23 Expo 2026.
None of these attractions will be built and Disney will have to remove all attractions based on its acquired IP due to the company being split apart like Standard Oil and Ma Bell were and to avoid having to pay billions in licensing fees to Marvel, Pixar, and Lucasfilm which will all be independent again.
@@stanfordite1 you're awfully optimistic...
@@DeadmanInc336 I've got family in Congress. As a military man, I'm involved too. I have the clearance to send troops into the Disney studio like they were sent into Normandy.
@@stanfordite1 your gimmick is shit. You have NOTHING aside from the basement which you hide behind.
Has more attractions for the whole family kind of stuff
Oh it does alright, it’s dire enough that several news sources are calling Epic Universe the “Disney World Killer” and I LOVE it.
Idk the Avatar ride is worth it every time. Do care if it’s the worst park.
These videos make me laugh - some random guy yelling in a microphone knows the pending doom of 210 Billion dollar company better than everyone
It's not going to affect it that much. Calm down.
Yes it is. And Disney is going to be broken up and lose everything it bought. Disney will be going backwards like it should be.
I never liked disney as a compony.
I'm gay big daddy