I suppose you have to remember that Crush, Cars, Tower... they were never built
for the 15th Anniversary, it just so happened that that development plan ran through 2007 and 2008 and some bright spark suggested packaging it all up as an anniversary. A lot of things aligned that year. Having said that, it's a shame we'll probably not see anything new like Disney's Once Upon a Dream Parade for this anniversary, let alone any new attractions.
Whether it's too late for those... I don't think it is. Ratatouille wouldn't have to open in December like the Tower, remember that ride wasn't given a grand opening until the following April. So they've probably still got a good few months to greenlight that. The ground is clear, the entrance walkway is done, development is probably done. If they aimed for April 2013, that's 25 months. Plenty of time. Given the entirely random opening date of Toy Story Playland, who knows when they'd want to open it anyway.
For Star Tours, if it did happen it'd never open in April 2012, but you could imagine it being a mid-year booster like Crush/Cars. So for June 2012, they've still got until roughly July or September of this year. Plenty of time for some Euro Disney SCA suits take a trip over to Florida or California and decide they can't
not update the ride and the longer they leave it, the more the upgrade will probably cost. We have to hope they're not the same people desperate to fill the park entirely with characters and things for under 7s. After 5 years of that, adding (and
advertising) a new Star Tours would be a massive diversion.
Be sure to mark all of the above as uninformed speculation. We're the only theme park fans who speculate about what we
won't get, it's fun!
