There is no need to own the parks. They could simply be locked into a licensing deal as is already the case with all of the international parks. It is only very recently that The Walt Disney Company has become the majority owner in one of the international endeavors.
Lets not forget that the Best Disney parks are run by OLC under licence from Disney.
That's inaccurate. I doubt they would want the headache of handling a media company but they could easily buy Disney with a blend of cash and stock
With the sort of billions that Disney made last year in their movie arena alone, I have a hard time believing that anyone could muscle their way into a hostile takeover and Disney won't give up their power easily.
We will see if that should ever happen.
Was going to say the same thing. Apple buying Disney is both unrealistic and ridiculous.
Well in situations like this Disney doesn't really have a choice. Because Apple could just make it hostile takeover and with all their cash nothing Disney could do. When Disney's stock goes back down after this nice movie run they have been on they will be ripe for a takeover. But like others have said any company acquiring Disney will have to sell off parks to justify the purchase. Only company that would take over Disney and keep parks would be Comcast.
You couldn't be more wrong. It was comcast who green lit the expansion and removed Jaws before people could even refresh their browsers. And they got that land built and opened well within 2 years. Pandora? Iphone 4 was coming out when it was announced and still not open.
Diagon Alley was after Hogsmead. The Wizarding World of Harry Potter happened before Comcast.
Don't be naive. Any public company can be bought. And every company goes through a downturn. Apple if it would want to buy Disney wouldn't do it now when stock is at a high it would wait until it dipped and then go in for the kill either it be an insider type takeover or by hostile. Like ford mentioned Comcast was only few inches from finish line from completing their hostile takeover. And comcast at the time was nothing compared to what Apple has in its warchest.
The poster you replied to said Harry Potter world nothing about Hogsmead specifically. Comcast was the ones to drive it home and deliver or you want to talk about how many plans have just stayed on the cutting room floor?
