DCA failure?

chris wrote:



>, how is it a failure when rival parks SeaWorld and USH's
>attendance figures are around the same numbers as DCA? should we hail USH and
>SeaWorld as failures too?

Well, first, lets get things straight. It was Seaworld in ORLANDO that posted
a drop to 5.1 million, not Seaworld in Ca. Cali's Seaworld posted a gain to
4.1 million, a 13 percent increase, by no means a failure. (less people than
DCA, which had 5 mil) I would not say any of these parks are failures. I
think the reason some people claim that DCA is "failing" so to speak is that it
missed its projected figures by so much? (What was/is the projected figures
for DCA yearly anyway, and how does it compare to USH and Seaworld?)
Brian Kast, Aka DSuperBee@

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DSuperBee wrote:
(What was/is the projected figures
> for DCA yearly anyway, and how does it compare to USH and Seaworld?)
> Brian Kast, Aka DSuperBee@
>

In a Wall Street Journal article at the time of DCA's opening, the
quoted figure was 7 million in its first year (not too far off from last
year's 5 million figure you quoted).

But... Disney' original pricing structure and plans (stoppage of selling
new AP's, no Park Hopper daily or multi-day tickets, separate AP's for
each park, etc.) have been substantially changed. If Disney was planning
on most of the 7 million guests paying full-ticket prices, then the
revenue from last year's 5 million attendance would be far below initial
projections (which some might call a "failure").

Greg