Originally Posted By dshyates Theme Park Insider posted the List this morning. Here is a link: <a href="http://www.themeparkinsider.com/" target="_blank">http://www.themeparkinsider.co m/</a> 1. Walt Disney World Magic Kingdom 2. Disneyland 3. Tokyo Disneyland 4. Tokyo DisneySea 5. Disneyland Paris 6. Epcot 7. Disney's Hollywood Studios 8. Disney's Animal Kingdom 9. Universal Studios Japan 10. Everland (South Korea) 11. Universal Studios Florida 12. SeaWorld Orlando 13. Disney's California Adventure 14. Blackpool Pleasure Beach 15. Universal's Islands of Adventure 16. Ocean Park (Hong Kong) 17. Hakkeijima Sea Paradise (Japan) 18. Universal Studios Hollywood 19. Busch Gardens Africa 20. SeaWorld San Diego
Originally Posted By SuperDry Since Disney doesn't officially release attendance figures, DCA's position as #13 must be ignored.
Originally Posted By alexbook >>Since Disney doesn't officially release attendance figures, DCA's position as #13 must be ignored.<< By that logic, all the Disney parks should be ignored, which makes USJ number 1.
Originally Posted By Sport Goofy << Since Disney doesn't officially release attendance figures, DCA's position as #13 must be ignored. >> Disney doesn't release attendance figures, but in their quarterly earnings reports throughout 2007 they said attendance at DLR was down as much at 5%. That doesn't match this report.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros I'm very surprised that DL has passed TDL. I know that it's possible, but since TDL is just so much bigger, they can physically get a lot more people into the park each day. And while I think DL was pretty busy year round, the capacity difference just makes me really question it.
Originally Posted By jonvn If this list is even accurate.... We've heard online that TDS is heavily eating into TDL's figures. We've also heard that MK in WDW puffs their numbers up unofficially, so this is likely about as useful as any of these other lists ever are.
Originally Posted By pheneix Yeah, these numbers are laughably off. Disney's are overinflated significantly. But you won't see the mouse run to the papers calling them a load of crap like Busch did today.
Originally Posted By HMButler79 MK uses the hard ticket events as part of the attendance and probably EMH #s too. So i would not be surprised that WDW overinflates MKs #s on purpose.
Originally Posted By alexbook If you're interested, the full report is here: <a href="http://www.themeit.com/attendance_report2007.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.themeit.com/attenda nce_report2007.pdf</a> I found this note interesting: >>ERA obtains the figures used to create this report through a variety of sources, including statistics furnished directly by the operators, historical numbers, financial reports, the investment banking community and local tourism organizations, among others. << So they may at least be trying to adjust for weird reporting and ticketing policies. ----- Something I didn't realize was that Typhoon Lagoon and Blizzard Beach are the #1 & 2 water parks in the U.S.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros Something's definately fishy here. Here's a quote about Epcot's attendance from part of the report: "Benifitted from WDW's continued successful "Year of a Million Dreams" ad campaign." Um...did I miss something, or wasn't YOAMD considered a failure all around? They extended it with the thought that it might catch on the second time around if they actually advertised for it, instead of leaving cryptic messages in WhereSpeak all over the parks.
