I don't understand: If everyone has a wristband which allows queueing less at each attraction, then the percentage of people in a queue at any given time drops. Therefore Disney would need more attractions, correct?
Apart from that, excellent article retracing the deployment of the Magic Band. Given the title I was also expecting an analysis over a systematic improvement program, but they nailed it at the beginning, saying the Parks division is rather conservative.
To keep then entertained when they're not waiting? Not necessarily, there could be other facilities that are underutilised; restaurants, theatres, et cetera.
Someone used to live in Florida, and went to the parks there on vacation just last year, I can confirm that even with 3rd party wait time optimization tools (yes, they exist and they are awesome, I never go without using them beforehand) it is impossible to do everything in a park in a single day. Hollywood Studios might be possible on a slow day, but unlikely. Even skipping attractions I am not as interested in, I am there from opening until closing. So I would say that the only concern for the company is that vacationers who go to a park over the course of two days(which the vast majority don't) may only go for one. I would think that the improvement in visitor satisfaction would more than cancel this out.
> If everyone has a wristband which allows queueing less at each attraction, then the percentage of people in a queue at any given time drops. Therefore Disney would need more attractions, correct?
Not necessarily: some attractions are overcrowded, and some attractions are underutilized. So the goal would be to even out utilization.
Actually, Disney isn't much back here in the BeNeLux ( Europe - Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg). There's a company called Studio 100, that's expanding at a very rapid rate ( it's like a web app but in real life) - Their main base is like 25 km's from my home.
It has themeparks, licences it's figures ( popular ones) to other theme parks for 2 % of the revenue ( Tsjechië, Poland, ..) , tv-shows ( and owns a channel that is hugely popular with kids), they have popular music artists ( k3 = dutch), they have a other variation of there figures in Germany where they are also popular.
Now they are probably expanding their "swimming" pools design with cities ( they have created a first one that is pretty popular)
Their pricing model is pretty optimized, 1 time tickets are expensive, but there are also subscription models for people close to the theme park, swimming pool, ... which makes it cheaper ( kids nag, so people are almost obligated to buy the subscription model :P )
I'm quite interested how this turns up, they have a lot of good/smart people in their marketing/executing team obviously ( except that the font in their website is unreadable :p )
PS. Licensing their theme parks gives them the extra benefit of rapid growth of their web application in the future ( just my opinion)
PS2. Fun fact, one of the CEO's of Studio 100 once had a song, i would give a huge party for everyone when i have 10 million. He gave the party: http://www.nagru.com/foto/index.php?image=DSC_8768.jpg ( after a small reminder of the website above :P )
Woah, woah, woah: from the sidebar: "Michael Jackson’s Captain EO, an awful short film by George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola, opens at Epcot Center."
Captain EO is AMAZING, not awful. I expect a full retraction!
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[ 4.2 ms ] story [ 27.9 ms ] threadApart from that, excellent article retracing the deployment of the Magic Band. Given the title I was also expecting an analysis over a systematic improvement program, but they nailed it at the beginning, saying the Parks division is rather conservative.
Not necessarily: some attractions are overcrowded, and some attractions are underutilized. So the goal would be to even out utilization.
It has themeparks, licences it's figures ( popular ones) to other theme parks for 2 % of the revenue ( Tsjechië, Poland, ..) , tv-shows ( and owns a channel that is hugely popular with kids), they have popular music artists ( k3 = dutch), they have a other variation of there figures in Germany where they are also popular.
Now they are probably expanding their "swimming" pools design with cities ( they have created a first one that is pretty popular)
Their pricing model is pretty optimized, 1 time tickets are expensive, but there are also subscription models for people close to the theme park, swimming pool, ... which makes it cheaper ( kids nag, so people are almost obligated to buy the subscription model :P )
They are creating a mobile app to take over the digital world ( instead of only tv, theme parks) - it's called Wanagogo and Belgians are probably there beta market - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=to7zRw-bKW8 ( dutch trailer) - website : http://www.wanagogo.com/be/nl/home
I'm quite interested how this turns up, they have a lot of good/smart people in their marketing/executing team obviously ( except that the font in their website is unreadable :p )
PS. Licensing their theme parks gives them the extra benefit of rapid growth of their web application in the future ( just my opinion)
PS2. Fun fact, one of the CEO's of Studio 100 once had a song, i would give a huge party for everyone when i have 10 million. He gave the party: http://www.nagru.com/foto/index.php?image=DSC_8768.jpg ( after a small reminder of the website above :P )
Captain EO is AMAZING, not awful. I expect a full retraction!