DCA, Future Expansion
Topic: DCA comments NYT Archives now free 1981 - present

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1	Darkbeer Tue 9/18/2007 4:53p	The New York Times has changed its policy, and now allows free access to much of their archives online (1923 thru 1980 is still a fee-based archive). So let's go back and check out some of the comments made. First, from February 11, 2001... http://query.nytimes.com/gst/f ullpage.html?res=9802E5DA113EF932A25751C0A9679C8B63 >>The great variable in this more modestly scaled Disney production will be the crowds, which already promise to be suffocatingly large. (The company projects seven million visitors in the first year.) A two-hour wait in 90-degree heat to get on Soarin' Over California could well dampen some of the attraction's excitement. But if the throngs can be managed, visitors will be treated to a slightly different experience. Instead of being part of a stampede from one attraction to another, like the old Disneyland (at least for those who go with children), they will be given the opportunity to have some slower-paced fun amid far more handsome surroundings -- all on the assumption that they are willing to shell out what could be hundreds of dollars a day. << And here are some comments from Disney folks from the same article. >>At Paradise Pier, Disney officials acknowledge that the rides lack the imaginative spin on which the company prides itself -- California Screamin' is, plain and simple, a high-speed roller coaster with a superfast start (0 to 55 m.p.h. in four seconds), and the Maliboomer shoots riders 180 feet in the air and then gives them, and the agitated contents of their stomachs, a momentary sense of weightlessness as the carriages plummet. But officials said they felt the attractions fit into the park because they add some spice to a place that risks, if anything, being too laid back. (You can literally watch bread bake at the Boudin Bakery.) ''We always said we would never do rides sans some imaginative twist,'' said Barry Braverman, the senior vice president of Walt Disney Imagineering and the park's design overseer. ''We would say, 'That's our competitors' business.' But when you consider the whole design here, it works.'' << Well, Barry, guess it didn't work.....
2	disneywatcher Tue 9/18/2007 5:05p	>> "We would say, 'That's our competitors' business.' But when you consider the whole design here, it works." << And if he meant that honestly and sincerely, then that's just one more example of DCA's flaws being traceable to utter incompetence and stunted creativity, and not to squeezed budgets and impatient stockholders.
3	jonvn Tue 9/18/2007 5:20p	In 25 years, we'll be hearing these same quotes from these same people. Maybe they'll get them carved on their tombstones.
4	disneywatcher Tue 9/18/2007 5:32p	^ And you'll likely still be complaining about the webmaster of miceage.com.
5	jonvn Tue 9/18/2007 5:35p	If so it will at least be about something that would be happening then, not 25 years in the past. Time for you to get a new script.
6	Nemo88 Tue 9/18/2007 5:51p	Amen Jonvn.
7	Nemo88 Tue 9/18/2007 5:53p	These people remind me of the uncle in Napoleon Dynamite who constantly brings up his high school football 'career' back in the 80s.These DCA critics will be similar to that guy but just replace football with DCA...it will be 2035 and these people will be talking about DCA circa 2001 still.
8	Hans Reinhardt Tue 9/18/2007 6:18p	"So let's go back and check out some of the comments made." I stopped reading right there.
9	DlandDug Tue 9/18/2007 6:31p	Well, I'm fascinated...
10	Darkbeer Tue 9/18/2007 6:39p	DCA should have been built to Disney standards, heck the "D" stands for Disney And there is the problem, Barry Braverman states in this article that it is OK to not do it, and he was the person in charge from WDI to build DCA!!!.

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