I just read that WDS had 2,200, 000 visitors compared with Disneyland Park 10,600,000.
While I knew the Studios was quieter, I never realised by how much! lower attendance than Alton Towers. While I dont want to dwel on negative news, kinda puts stuff into perspective.
I love the park, just hope the work thats going on gets it up there with Disneyland Park
I never realised it was that big a difference. A lot of the people I talk to say they go into DLP but they leave out the Studios. I always tell them how great it was to try and make them regret it and go back :lol:
What I cant get over is how many people who have park hopper tickets dont bother even popping over to the Studios!
I just dont get that at all. It not like its extra cost to them......
i think this will all change with all the new stuff :stitch:
i think the main problem with the studios is the entertainment i think it need more parades and shows througth the day at quiet times of the year , this will encourage people to visit!
i would never visit and miss the studios :nemo:
I think when Tower of Terror is built it will bring more people to the Studios.
You dont no whats in the Studios unless you actually go in to it and people just see the Magical Castle and Space Mountain and rush straight to Disneyland Park.
When Tower of Terror is built maybe people will see that and think i definetly want to go to this park for that main ride and may get more popular. Not true but its just my idea of things. :)
And another thing, when i went with my friends, people said that they would go in the Disneyland Park first and then go to the Studios. Later to find that when they got to the Studios it was shut.
There's something weird about how they count attendance at DLRP though, it must actually be much higher than 2 million...
I seem to remember that for people with park hopper tickets, it's the first park the guest visits which gets the "point". So if you head to DLP first with your ticket, DLP gets an attendance count. So only 2,200,000 head to WDS first compared with 10,600,000 going to DLP. DLRP sold 12.8m tickets last year, but the actual turnstile counts for each park would be much higher. I'm not sure what happens with annual passports...
You're right the attractions should definitely boost the number then, since more people will go to WDS first. :)
That makes more sense! I was trying to figure out why it was such a difference in numbers, but the first turnstyle getting the number makes a lot more sense
me and my partner went to disneyland resort paris for two days.
so on the first day we went to the disneyland park and did all we could do in the day and then went to the studios park for the second day.
again we did all the stuff we wanted to do i really love the stunt show - animagique - and tram tour.
when we go next time i intened to make a point of going to the studios park again as well as the disneyland park as i feel it makes the holiday complete even when its two days
We gt to studios butwe only tend to spend about 1/2 day! Disabled vistors can't skip the que and my sister can't que for a long time! Plus she's pretty much blind and can't see the shows so I go in when she's busy!
Well I tend to spend more time in Disneyland, than WDS. I'm more likely to just pop into the Studio's for an hour or two at a time, and spend the best part of the day in Disneyland.
I like to have at least 5 days at the resort, so you're able to spread out the studio's that way, and cover everything across the week.
Whereas Disneyland, there tends to be a lot that I like to do, if not everyday, then nearly everyday, like Star Tours, Indy, BTM, Space Mountain, POTC and the parade.
QuoteDisabled vistors can't skip the que
Holders of a blue card for disabled people get priority access to attractions and shows. Next time you should inform yourself at City Hall.
I would've thought, with the opening of Crush's Coaster and the Tower of Terror, attendance should really take off at the Walt Disney Studios. I mean, in the past, there haven't been too many major draws/reasons to visit the park, so I can understand why not too many people have chosen to visit.
However, with the opening of the new attractions, the park will now have a grand total of 5 MOVING rides. So that's a lot better than the 2 it used to have.
Still, more rides (especially family ones) are needed. Soarin' would be a HUGE success, and from the sounds of things, Toy Story Mania would be too.
The studios does need more moving rides. (the great movie ride, soarin etc.)
But also some evening entertainment. I know this won't help the park much but i'd love to see Fantasmic in the studios.
Yeah i think the studios needs some more rides to push up the attendance, i think the arrival of Cush, Cars and Tower of Terror will get more people going to the park but i can't see the attendance going up that much.
I also think the studios needs this expansion i've heard about, the park is very small when you compare it to the Disneyland Park.
QuoteI also think the studios needs this expansion i've heard about,
Like what, and source? :)
i've heard of this (not officially) someone posted a map back in the 3rd Park topics in Imaginnering and it outlined a large area behind the studios for a expanision.
Oooh that... Well that is indeed expansion space, but there's also lots of expansion space at the Disneyland Park. Don't count on any expansion there yet, as they're first going to fill up the "holes" (Toon Studio, Tower of Terror and Soarin' between Cinémagique/Disney Channel). After that they might expand the park. But when there's no increase of visitors to both park (not just shifting), I doubt this will happen any soon.
I still have to seriously doubt the chances of Soarin' coming to Walt Disney Studios, at least as "the next step". It doesn't seem a very marketable attraction compared to the ones they're building/have built now. It might be a wonderful attraction, but in terms of building attendance, personally I don't think it'd be a wise step.
Toy Story Mania on the other hand...
Quote from: "Baloo"Toy Story Mania on the other hand...
I think that adding this one to the park would surely be a great thing! WDS would become more and more a stand alone parc, were you can spent more time and have more options! :)
yeah, i doubt an expanision is coming, but at least theres some space.
I'd love studios to be a park i can spend a full day at.
Well, as we all know, Disney like building attractions in bulk these days. Why build one ride when you can build 3-4 at the same time, splitting the costs? On that basis, it would seem that Toy Story Mania is the most likely attraction to be built next at the Walt Disney Studios. Either that or a Monsters Inc show/ride.
As for Soarin' not being marketable, what if they changed the theme to Narnia? The Chronicles of Narnia is number 23 in the all-time Worldwide Box Office chart, making it Disney's 2nd most successful live-action film, behind Pirates of the Carribean 2. So, clearly a lot of people like it.
The Chronicles of Narnia already has a great soundtrack, and lots of breathtaking landscapes, making it the perfect theme for a new Soarin' attraction. They could call it... "Soarin' Over Narnia".
Narnia wouldn't interest me at all.. the film bored the hell out of me, but thats just my opinion. :)
Quote from: "Alan"Well, as we all know, Disney like building attractions in bulk these days. Why build one ride when you can build 3-4 at the same time, splitting the costs? On that basis, it would seem that Toy Story Mania is the most likely attraction to be built next at the Walt Disney Studios. Either that or a Monsters Inc show/ride.
As for Soarin' not being marketable, what if they changed the theme to Narnia? The Chronicles of Narnia is number 23 in the all-time Worldwide Box Office chart, making it Disney's 2nd most successful live-action film, behind Pirates of the Carribean 2. So, clearly a lot of people like it.
The Chronicles of Narnia already has a great soundtrack, and lots of breathtaking landscapes, making it the perfect theme for a new Soarin' attraction. They could call it... "Soarin' Over Narnia".
Thats so true! That would be a wicked theme! I love that fantasy settings and i would love to ride or be in such a ride!
studios is busy and popular all their rides hold large amounts of people (ive seen RNR que time go from 10 mins to 1 1/2 hours after stunt show
Quote from: "Nicholas-c"studios is busy and popular all their rides hold large amounts of people (ive seen RNR que time go from 10 mins to 1 1/2 hours after stunt show
True, but that only lasts for about an hour or so, and then the queueing time goes down to 5 - 10 minutes again...
The only long queues I've seen in WDS on a consistent manner throughout the day is Studio Tram Tour, and that is mostly caused by an inefficient way of unloading/loading at the station I believe...
If they would let people exit from the left side of the vehicles, and provide a pathway from there to the exit, you would let people enter while the previous load is exiting...
Also - because people like to be pushy and don't follow guidelines, Disney is forced o only use the two entrances all the way left (on the rear of the train) and all the way right; they are not using the gates for each car in the train anymore as that proved to be unsafe due to pushy people... That also contributes to long waiting times :)
Bottom line - the studios can be busy, but mostly only after stunt show; I haven't seen long queues for a while now...
I think the disneyland park as it is, is up to the usual disney standards and it's nice that every now and again the big heads at the company give it a bit of a brush up.
But, the studios is in its early days yet and when it's a little bit bigger, it could be up to the standard of MGM. It will take a few years yet, but when TOT is built and the toon studios is officially open, I think we'll see the numbers rise. I don't think soarin' will be on the cards but I think they'll expand the studio tram tour and I think they'll add more rides if they do expand at the back of the park. I personally, would like to see fantasmic! make an appearance at disneyland paris, but I dunno if there's space!
dlrp-mad :mickey2:
Well after having been to WDS this past week, it was pretty crowded. Normally the park is pretty quiet but now that Toon Studios has opened it's not & TOT will only help it along more! It would be interesting to see what kind of numbers the park had over the last few weeks. I admit we stayed in the park longer- almost the whole day where in the past we would just pop in to ride RnRC. I do wish they'd revamp the parade- we've seen it so many times now...
Id love to see Soarin in the park simply because there is nothing like it in Europe .I doubt if they can change it (because flying over Disneyland and seeing the fireworks has that ahhh efect)athough Soarin over the World would be nice.Toy Story Mania would be good also but I think the main problem with the studios is that there is no way to walk round,you just seem to go from one attraction to the next and back.Perhaps the best idea would be to build the Pixarland rumoured to be going to the MGM studios and put Toy Story Mania in there .Also seeing the pics of the Toon Studios at night a new nighttime show would be a good idea.
I think attendance will be through the roof this year. we just came back after spending 12 days there, and the studios was as busy as DLP (very). 60 min waits for Cars, 120 min waits for Crush, consistent 30 - 45 min waits for RNRC. But the place has great energy that Toon Studios and HSM have really brought to it.
I´m happy for DLRP and my shares about the attendance. But my "I can go to the best things without waiting"-Plan will fail this year :wink:
Are there any new facts about the attentance?
Third Quarter results are announced on Thursday! They should give an idea of April, May and June I believe. Probably nothing tailored direct to WDS (DLRP never give single-park attendance, so we're unlikely to ever find out exactly the effects), but overall attendance will still be very interesting to see.
Unless someone has good inside contacts, we'll probably have to wait until the end of the year for a clearer idea, it's only just been one month since the new attractions opened...
Any news on the third quarter results???
The results? They're here (//http://www.photosmagiques.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2762)! About Walt Disney Studios in them? Nothing really. They don't tend to give much away with 3rd quarter results, just the latest revenues to the end of June.
They didn't even mention Stitch Encounter in the "latest projects" bit.