Originally Posted By phruby >>I'm still not understanding why these things are so pricey. Do things in Japan just cost more? $20 million for a Turtle Talk type show? Really? Maybe it's a new building to house it? Where they would put it I have no idea. Besides, they already have Turtle Talk in the other park.
Originally Posted By Malin This makes for some rather interesting reading... <a target="blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.themeparktourist.com/features/20140429/17731/10-most-eye-wateringly-expensive-disney-theme-park-rides-ever-built">http://www.themeparktourist.co...er-built</a>
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt Those figures sound a lot more legitimate than the ones being tossed around here.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros Very interesting, but I'm not sure I believe all of it. I remember when Mission:Space opened they talked about how it was the most expensive ride ever, so I question their claim that the original TOT (which opened 8 years earlier) cost 50% more I'm also not sure I believe that the Paris TOT was more expensive than TDS's. In the US at least, steel and concrete structures are often roughly the same price; some large buildings are designed for either, and the final design is chosen when it's put to bid, since it's tough to predict which will be cheaper. Unless things are drastically different in France (and their fire code is beyond insane), I have trouble believing it cost that much But overall that does seem like a pretty accurate top 10, even if things may be out of order. It would be really interesting to see everything adjusted for inflation, and see numbers from attractions that were budgeted together (like when a new park opened). I would think that Spaceship Earth, Universe of Energy, and the American Adventure would all be pretty high up on the list
Originally Posted By TDLFAN >>>Thorough is putting in mildly... you could build a modest sized theme park with that kind of money. For comparison, WWoHP is rumored to have cost $265 million.<<< >>>I'm still not understanding why these things are so pricey. Do things in Japan just cost more? $20 million for a Turtle Talk type show? Really?<<< Oh Hank. You poor thing. Ignorance is bliss. But of course things are more expensive in Japan when compared to the USA. Everyone who has been there would know that. And while I am not one to care about how much OLC spends on their parks, I am one to critic their project's quality in the end. And the TOt at TDS is the most improved and excellent of them all. It just reeks in lavishness and grandiosity. So no one should be surprised at the price tag. And keep in mind that at the time it was built, the yen was actually clobbering the dollar right and left so it was propably more expensive in US$$ than hyperactive baby heuy cares to admit. Such a know it all he is. LOL Bottom line is.. it's no secret that OLC will dish up the money that it's required to create true Disney quality. TDR reeks in that quality all over, and TDS to this day continues to be the epithomy of that thematic caliber. Which is why TDR makes our precious WDW look like the poor man's resort it actually is. Maybe that's why people complain about the currect ticket price rates since they really don't match the quality of the MK park. But hey.. not all is expensive in Japan.. take the one-day ticket to TDL or TDS which under current exchange rates will set you back about US$69, for the highest quality park that offers so much more food venues, live shows and parades and more attractions than what the MK gives you for just about US$100. So there's. rejoice for TDR. Where True Disney magic lives!!
Originally Posted By TDLFAN >>>Maybe it's a new building to house it? Where they would put it I have no idea. Besides, they already have Turtle Talk in the other park<<< Wrong. Check your facts. Turtle Talk is found a mere 300 feet away away from TDS's TOT inside the Sailing Ship Columbia. So much ignorance. No wonder some people here keep begging me to come back full time. Amazing how many people here have no clue what they're talking about.
Originally Posted By Yookeroo "No wonder some people here keep begging me to come back full time." If ever this board needed a rolleyes smiley....
Originally Posted By CuriousConstance A roll eyes smiley would never suffice. We need a wretching, heaving, barfing smiley.
Originally Posted By Yookeroo "I don't even bother reading his posts Yookeroo." I see what you did there. "We need a wretching, heaving, barfing smiley." We do! I want. Of course that would mean implementing 90s technology here.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros >>Wrong. Check your facts. Turtle Talk is found a mere 300 feet away away from TDS's TOT inside the Sailing Ship Columbia.<< Huh? Isn't that what "they already have Turtle Talk in the other park" means?
Originally Posted By Malin On MiceChat he post under a different name now days. Pretending to be a middle aged woman with kids.
Originally Posted By CuriousConstance He probably has lots of followers that grovel at his feet over at Miceage. But here, all he has is Brad.
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt "Pretending to be a middle aged woman with kids." LMAO!! No way. Are you kidding?
Originally Posted By phruby I thought we were all suppose to pretend to be middle age women with kids.
Originally Posted By CuriousConstance So when he was saying we needed to all get a life and stop posting on LP so much, by "get a life" he meant start spending all of your time posting in Miceage?
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt "He goes by the name Aotphks." <a target="blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/2014-04/enhanced/webdr06/29/18/anigif_enhanced-29830-1398809462-9.gif">http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/stati...62-9.gif</a>
