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)
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
It’s so weird how Disney thinks re-theming all their rides and attractions is going to fix all their problems in a couple of years they’ll probably try and turn the haunted mansion into like wish (2023) the ride or something
Muppetvision 3D closing I can understand, but returning Rockin’ Roller Coaster to be Muppet themed? Welp, I guess I can start going to Busch Gardens or something when I don’t feel like going to Universal some years lol Nothing against the Muppets at all, but it just seems Disney really wants to keep them relevant still despite them being okay at best with their more recent releases. I wouldn’t know though because any new Muppet content nowadays is relegated to Disney+ which my family doesn’t have XD
@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'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
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'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.
@@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.
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.
@@darbs1832 No it will not. However that will change when I take over and make Disney great again by being the Trump it needs and taking it back to the 1980s.
My family and I are planning to go to Universal next year, and we are super excited for Epic Universe, and Universal in general, especially after our Disney vacation in 2022 was really lackluster.
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.
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
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
Me! I do not go to universal and prob never will again. I have been twice and it’s not my thing. None of the IP suit my interest. So Epic has no effect on me. I do plan on a week at Disney 2025 so you are absolutely right and I know a lot of families like me.
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.
I’m an Orlando local and the difference in pricing is absolutely astounding. I myself have the highest level of annual pass at universal which gets me express after 4pm, special lounges, discounts, free benefits and access to both parks on any single day I want. For the same price you can purchase a Disney pass which only lets you in on weekdays (not including holidays and black out dates). It’s absolutely absurd the difference in pricing for just things like drinks and food in the parks as well. Disneys greed will be their demise.
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.
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.
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.
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 work at Universal Orlando and I can tell you that Universal is forcing (for lack of a better word) guests to buy a package deal. These will include, IOA, USF, or VB. So IOA and USF might see a drop in attendance but not as bad as when IOA opened in 1999. Plus I doubt they'll loose much money in profits as you might think.
Girlfriend works there, and even we NEVER go into the parks anymore. The crowds, the pandering, the prices (Aside from free admission). I drive Mears Connect (the old Magical Express) and laugh at these families claiming all the crap they thing they're going to accomplish on their trip.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Disney world: What can we do to attract more people when Epic Universe opens, I know we can raise our Disney Theme Park Price by 50 percent : That'll Show Universal.
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
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.
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.
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.
7:45 whoa whoa whoa whoa WHOAAAA. They don’t have night time parades at Disney anymore?? That was one of the staples i remember as a kid. The trauma of seeing Ursula lmao. I’m soooo obsessed with going to Disney but the more I hear the less I care to go lmfao
Universal already sold single day tickets for annual pass holders, I bought my single day ticket to epic universe for June 2025 for $130. Meanwhile, I spent $170 on a single day ticket for Epcot over a year ago 💀
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.
Disney have been struggling for a while now, i work for Disney and from late 2022 we getting average of around 40k to 60k guests a day in magic kingdom, but now were getting around high 20k to low 40k, that might seem still alot but magic kingdom have always have pulled a high amount of guests, and if im not wrong when i started we averaging anywhere between 50k to high 70k a day, not just that Disney is extremely cheap to the inside of Disney since Disney separate profits each different locations mainly for third-party companies inside, my area is in ruff shape and i mean ruff we have roaches and it wouldn't surprise me that we have rats and are leader ship is so damn bad and just Disney in general, cast member's we dont get free food on are breaks and we dont get big discounts either or thats at least in my area, we literally have to beg and tell are leaders why should we get a plate of free food when mean while all my leaders do is sit and eat all day in that office with the ac, another thing Disney increase prices very commonly its a small increase every time but still and another thing for us cast members most of us were not allowed to take tips unless your a bartender, waiter, maybe host, work at the magic kingdom barbershop/anything hair and makeup related...... maybe not sure,
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.
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.
There hasn't been a lot of things Disney has created as of late that is appealing, other than Amphibia. That show, I did like. I also formerly liked the MCU, but not anymore, but Amphibia? Love that show.
I don't think they're gonna get challenged any time soon. If you show up at any Disney parks it's crowded af. I went to Magic Kingdom, Epcot, and Hollywood Studios, then I went to Universal's Islands of Adventures on the same trip. I'm neither a Disney or Universal fan but ngl I was more impressed with Disney rides with their technology. Have to agree that Disney is getting more and more cash grabbing but people are still paying so they will continue to increase price. I don't think a drop in attendance is actually a concern. I think it will improve the overall customer satisfaction when the parks aren't super crowded.
And it will at the earliest see the breakup of the company under antitrust if not the 2030s. By 2039 Disney will be looking up at MGM again with the classic Studio System back, and Hollywood rewound back an entire century to its greatest year, 1939. The year Judy Garland skipped down the Yellow Brick Road.
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.
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 have no interest in the thrill ride parks. Disney has way more to offer me than parks. I checked pricing for me & one teenager- it was more for one day + the ride passes. Same price line for park ticket only. Didn’t seem cheaper to me.
I honestly have less motivation to go back to Disney World these days. Universal seems to know more what the costumers want and Disney's basically the guy from the Tom and Jerry movie. "We've got to have MONEY"
@@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 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
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)
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.
@@melovetorun I do wish to know where they left the America Sings animatronics after the re-theme.
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.
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
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.😊
@@tankart150oviedo is a great option. 30 mins from universal and 45 or so from Disney. I have passes to both and love it
Visit yes. Move NEVER!
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.
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.
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'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
Same since everyone gonna be running to epic gonna wait till it dies down
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.
School > Universal and Disney
@@nugget-xh1cu nerd >nugget-xh1cu
It will fall into a sinkhole. It’s just a matter of time.
Hopefully this forces Disney to adopt some more consumer friendly practices. But i won't hold my breath...
I honestly think it’s time for a multimillion dollar company to just lose, especially since the House of Mouse treated that man and his poor wife
Pretty sure that Disney is dead set on leaving the working class in the dust😩
Disney will after my takeover.
I’m convinced people from universal watch your videos because not raising prices on multi-day tickets was very smart
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
Except TBA is not real and a figment of your imagination. Splash Mountain is up and running at WDW and will be for the 75th in 2036.
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.
It’s so weird how Disney thinks re-theming all their rides and attractions is going to fix all their problems in a couple of years they’ll probably try and turn the haunted mansion into like wish (2023) the ride or something
@@plaguenurse4399 None of these "rethemes" are happening.
Muppetvision 3D closing I can understand, but returning Rockin’ Roller Coaster to be Muppet themed? Welp, I guess I can start going to Busch Gardens or something when I don’t feel like going to Universal some years lol
Nothing against the Muppets at all, but it just seems Disney really wants to keep them relevant still despite them being okay at best with their more recent releases. I wouldn’t know though because any new Muppet content nowadays is relegated to Disney+ which my family doesn’t have XD
@@plaguenurse4399Oh geez, I can picture a Disney exec reading that comment and being like: “Write that down, write that down!”
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'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.
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'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.
@@Jiacreatesofficail where talkin bout parks buko
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'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.
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
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.
@@darbs1832 No it will not. However that will change when I take over and make Disney great again by being the Trump it needs and taking it back to the 1980s.
maybe don't close my literal favorite ride ever and I would consider coming back on vacation
My family and I are planning to go to Universal next year, and we are super excited for Epic Universe, and Universal in general, especially after our Disney vacation in 2022 was really lackluster.
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.
I love this historical context you bring to these videos.
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
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
Me! I do not go to universal and prob never will again. I have been twice and it’s not my thing. None of the IP suit my interest. So Epic has no effect on me. I do plan on a week at Disney 2025 so you are absolutely right and I know a lot of families like me.
@@Nicole-kk3gn You're why Disney knows they can keep jacking up it's prices...
@@Nicole-kk3gncringe
I can’t believe they won’t change their prices
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.
I’m an Orlando local and the difference in pricing is absolutely astounding. I myself have the highest level of annual pass at universal which gets me express after 4pm, special lounges, discounts, free benefits and access to both parks on any single day I want. For the same price you can purchase a Disney pass which only lets you in on weekdays (not including holidays and black out dates). It’s absolutely absurd the difference in pricing for just things like drinks and food in the parks as well. Disneys greed will be their demise.
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
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
@@JT_Toons This isn't 1993 anymore. Stop.
Disney needs to wake up.
Disney needs to clean house.
I love your videos, thank you so much ❤️
rest in peace dinosaur ride 😔
that one was one of my favorites
It's not closing. That's a lie.
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.
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 work at Universal Orlando and I can tell you that Universal is forcing (for lack of a better word) guests to buy a package deal. These will include, IOA, USF, or VB. So IOA and USF might see a drop in attendance but not as bad as when IOA opened in 1999. Plus I doubt they'll loose much money in profits as you might think.
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
So do I! I work at Magic Kingdom and I visit a park once every Thursday on my day off.
Girlfriend works there, and even we NEVER go into the parks anymore. The crowds, the pandering, the prices (Aside from free admission). I drive Mears Connect (the old Magical Express) and laugh at these families claiming all the crap they thing they're going to accomplish on their trip.
Disney gotta Live and Learn.
Before Godzilla comes for them again.
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.
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
I'm not going back to Disney until they get their shit together
I’m going to Disney
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.
SML font is epic I approve
woah
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.
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.
I think Disney is taking the L with 2025
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.
As a happy universal gower, i love universal and hope epic is a success.
I had a dream last night I went to disney world and splash mountain was still open
Disney world: What can we do to attract more people when Epic Universe opens, I know we can raise our Disney Theme Park Price by 50 percent : That'll Show Universal.
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
I feel like the higher ups just get off on self sabotage
I was a Disney kid. My kids will be universal kids!
OK man, you don’t need to be an butthole about it and no one asked
I’ve had good memories at Disney but universal is my absolute favorite hands down! Rooting for them
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.
Disney Needs to cut park prices ! Slashing prices
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.
None of these closures are happening. It's a hoax.
Disney also gave typhoon lagoon tickets to employees for the winter season 😂 like thanks so much for the tickets I can barely use😂
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.
7:45 whoa whoa whoa whoa WHOAAAA. They don’t have night time parades at Disney anymore?? That was one of the staples i remember as a kid. The trauma of seeing Ursula lmao. I’m soooo obsessed with going to Disney but the more I hear the less I care to go lmfao
Universal already sold single day tickets for annual pass holders, I bought my single day ticket to epic universe for June 2025 for $130. Meanwhile, I spent $170 on a single day ticket for Epcot over a year ago 💀
I’ve never been to Disneyland fr.
We didn’t really have money like the rich people but you know how that goes.
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
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.
Disney have been struggling for a while now, i work for Disney and from late 2022 we getting average of around 40k to 60k guests a day in magic kingdom, but now were getting around high 20k to low 40k, that might seem still alot but magic kingdom have always have pulled a high amount of guests, and if im not wrong when i started we averaging anywhere between 50k to high 70k a day, not just that Disney is extremely cheap to the inside of Disney since Disney separate profits each different locations mainly for third-party companies inside, my area is in ruff shape and i mean ruff we have roaches and it wouldn't surprise me that we have rats and are leader ship is so damn bad and just Disney in general, cast member's we dont get free food on are breaks and we dont get big discounts either or thats at least in my area, we literally have to beg and tell are leaders why should we get a plate of free food when mean while all my leaders do is sit and eat all day in that office with the ac, another thing Disney increase prices very commonly its a small increase every time but still and another thing for us cast members most of us were not allowed to take tips unless your a bartender, waiter, maybe host, work at the magic kingdom barbershop/anything hair and makeup related...... maybe not sure,
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.
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.
Always been a Universal Studios person 🌎
There hasn't been a lot of things Disney has created as of late that is appealing, other than Amphibia. That show, I did like. I also formerly liked the MCU, but not anymore, but Amphibia? Love that show.
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.
Bring back the magic.
I don't think they're gonna get challenged any time soon. If you show up at any Disney parks it's crowded af. I went to Magic Kingdom, Epcot, and Hollywood Studios, then I went to Universal's Islands of Adventures on the same trip. I'm neither a Disney or Universal fan but ngl I was more impressed with Disney rides with their technology. Have to agree that Disney is getting more and more cash grabbing but people are still paying so they will continue to increase price. I don't think a drop in attendance is actually a concern. I think it will improve the overall customer satisfaction when the parks aren't super crowded.
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.
Everybody love you universal
I Swear The 2020s Is Disneys Worst Decade
And It's All Thanks To Bob Chapek
And Bob Iger
And it will at the earliest see the breakup of the company under antitrust if not the 2030s. By 2039 Disney will be looking up at MGM again with the classic Studio System back, and Hollywood rewound back an entire century to its greatest year, 1939. The year Judy Garland skipped down the Yellow Brick Road.
Oh it does alright, it’s dire enough that several news sources are calling Epic Universe the “Disney World Killer” and I LOVE it.
Hey Attraction Ideas have you ever heard of Meow Wolf, if so what's your opinion on them?
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.
I don’t give a crap about going to Disney World. It sounds do boring and so expensive. However, I’m buying tickets to Epic Universe ASAP.
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.
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
What about the Star Wars hotel bomb????
I don’t think Disney will ever fall off of the theme park industry
It already did. But after my takeover, it will be great again as I will be the Trump it needs.
I feel like Disney is just going to lower their prices So its more enticing to come to their theme park with a nice discount 😮
Why are they building epic next to the sewage plant!?!? Hopefully it doesnt smell!!
Let’s just take a break from Disney and play Black Ops II for 2025
When it comes to disneys announcements, I’ll believe it when I see it.
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 have no interest in the thrill ride parks. Disney has way more to offer me than parks. I checked pricing for me & one teenager- it was more for one day + the ride passes. Same price line for park ticket only. Didn’t seem cheaper to me.
Who’s bright idea was it to put Zootopia inside of the roots of a tree? That is one of the stupidest ideas that Disney has ever done.
Agreed
No Zootopia is coming and it doesn't belong.
I honestly have less motivation to go back to Disney World these days. Universal seems to know more what the costumers want and Disney's basically the guy from the Tom and Jerry movie. "We've got to have MONEY"
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
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.
Disney’s admission costs too much! They should reduce their prices!
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
Also remember half things Disney announces for the parks never happen on time and are really just put out to trick investors