Disney Renaissance 2/Disney Revival
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And that’s before you even get close to the new Star Wars experience…!
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I don’t want to harp too much on this, but The Millennium Falcon: Smuggler’s Run is such a weird choice for a Disney Park ride!
I know things are different now and that you can’t relive the past. But Steve Jobs, with his drive and imagination, would have been such a great Disney CEO. If only he hadn’t died!
(Personally, I suspect he was actually seriously considered at one point during the SaveDisney days 20 years ago, that the whole Roy Disney/Stanley Gold agenda was for Apple and Disney to merge COMPLETELY and for Roy to be some kind of ceremonial CEO figurehead a la Walt while Jobs ran the company day-to-day. Just my theory though.)
Jobs wouldn’t have wasted time constantly buying other companies instead of developing and improving what he already had. . (My only concern would have been his wanting to shut down WDFA to make room for only Pixar. Well who knows, maybe he would have eventually changed his mind.)
I know things are different now and that you can’t relive the past. But Steve Jobs, with his drive and imagination, would have been such a great Disney CEO. If only he hadn’t died!
(Personally, I suspect he was actually seriously considered at one point during the SaveDisney days 20 years ago, that the whole Roy Disney/Stanley Gold agenda was for Apple and Disney to merge COMPLETELY and for Roy to be some kind of ceremonial CEO figurehead a la Walt while Jobs ran the company day-to-day. Just my theory though.)
Jobs wouldn’t have wasted time constantly buying other companies instead of developing and improving what he already had. . (My only concern would have been his wanting to shut down WDFA to make room for only Pixar. Well who knows, maybe he would have eventually changed his mind.)
You can’t just have your characters announce how they feel! That makes me feel angry!
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I don't think WDFA would have been shut down in those days, not with its legacy and certainly not after the Disney Renaissance. I believe Roy Disney wouldn't have allowed such a thing.
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Why? It's just a SW overlay for Epcot's "Mission: Space".
(Except that you get to sit at the real holographic chess-table in the life-size Millennium Falcon set, and find the wall-panel corner where Han & Leia had their Empire kiss.)
It was Steve Jobs who almost singlehandedly won the Blu-vs-HDDVD War, when he pushed Disney into promoting Blu-ray into the mainstream (while Sony was dropping the ball with embarrassing gamer-blitz titles), since Jobs couldn't afford to see Apple pushed out of the MP4 market if Microsoft's HDDVD coding became the new (sub)standard.I know things are different now and that you can’t relive the past. But Steve Jobs, with his drive and imagination, would have been such a great Disney CEO. If only he hadn’t died!
But if you're saying that Bob Chapek is making a pig's breakfast out of the current company, get in LINE behind the Parks fans.
And, like Smuggler's Run, it's a three-hour line.
Yeah, but...nobody STAYS at Anaheim Disneyland hotels.droosan wrote: ↑March 13th, 2022, 9:24 pmThere was a story on National Public Radio recently in which it was calculated that the overall price for a northern-California family of four's roundtrip airfare to France, a stay for 1 week in a french hotel, and a weeklong pass to Disneyland Paris -- was actually less than the price for that same family's travel to Anaheim, and a comparable stay at Disneyland Hotel & weeklong passes to Disneyland/California Adventure.
That's the one big cultural shock Parks fans have to counsel WDW fans on, that unlike Orlando's 15 variably-priced Disney hotels and five third-party "Good Neighbor" Marriotts and Holiday Inns in the middle of a hundred acres of wilderness, Disneyland is in the middle of a downtown city, and has three ultra-Deluxe priced Disney hotels and a dozen literally walking distance Good Neighbors, which are considered the default for most fans.
Yes, I'd like to stay at the DH or Grand Californian too, someday, just like I'd like to stay at the Polynesian or the Contemporary, but I haven't won the lottery yet.
But in Anaheim, the Maingate Inn did quite nicely, thank you.
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Bob Iger regrets selecting Bob Chapek as his successor. Article is behind a paywall, but here's what's posted:
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Interesting, Dan! Thanks for posting!
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Good to find a piece that cements all that was rumored. Our first reactions to Chapek don’t seem so far off after all…
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Iger the lesser of two evils... what a world!
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As I recall, that's how he started.
(We thought "Somebody Eisner handpicked?...Hoo-boy!", and then he negotiated the Oswald the Rabbit prisoner-exchange, and, "Okay, maybe this Iger guy will work out. "
(We thought "Somebody Eisner handpicked?...Hoo-boy!", and then he negotiated the Oswald the Rabbit prisoner-exchange, and, "Okay, maybe this Iger guy will work out. "
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But…where's Chapek's Oswald…?
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Iger was Eisner's choice, but don't believe he handpicked him, that was more down to the Disney board.
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Chapek's "Oswald", as far as the board was concerned, was reopening the Florida park, while Paris and Shanghai were still panicked and closed, and Anaheim was confining itself to state residents only.
In fact, the "He got the parks through the Pandemic!" seemed to have been the board's ONLY rationale for Chapek's electric-chair-reprieve, happily ignoring the fact that Iger stayed on as "consulting" manager for most of it.
In fact, the "He got the parks through the Pandemic!" seemed to have been the board's ONLY rationale for Chapek's electric-chair-reprieve, happily ignoring the fact that Iger stayed on as "consulting" manager for most of it.
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No. Opening a park is not an Oswald legacy moment.
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More of prices going up: (Hulu and ad-free Disney +). Possibly the parks as well.
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/11/disney- ... ation.html
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/11/disney- ... ation.html
Read: “It’s not our fault you all love Disney so much.”
"We read demand. We have no plans right now in terms of what we're going to do, but we operate with a surgical knife here," Chapek said. "It's all up to the consumer. If consumer demand keeps up, we'll act accordingly. If we see a softening, which we don't think we're going to see, then we can act accordingly as well."
You can’t just have your characters announce how they feel! That makes me feel angry!
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They’ve got us by the short and curlies!