They won’t impact the $17 billion considering the layoffs were announced before the $17 billion. Employee payroll and capital expenditures are funded independently of one another. This is why my college can be threatening layoffs while building a new academic hall……….the students will love walking past new, locked classrooms, I’m sure.
Lots of labor is capitalized. Generally speaking, if you're working on a project that can be capitalized, your labor is capitalized as part of the cost of the project.
Are you suggesting they are lying about the $17 bn they announced or are you agreeing that they definitively will have staff on hand to actually complete those projects given that they were announced many months after the layoffs?
The latter.
The thing with Disney Villains is that they don't really have enough in common to support a unified "theme" park. A few are alike enough in sensibility that it's fun to see them palling around, but that's not really enough to support a whole park.I'd rather have Beastly Kingdomme in Animal Kingdom, to be honest. There's still hope..
And I know the thread kind of moved past this subject, but I agree with some folks here in that villains wouldn't be my preference for a 5th gate. I think a villains land sounds great, but an entire park..? Eh, it never really appealed to me that much.
I don't see why different villain lands would need to tightly mesh. What does Tomorrowland have in common with Frontierland? And if the villains aren't related enough for their own disparate lands, why would it make more sense to basically put them in dorm?
To that end, one wonders if they would even go the direction people want if they did build a full villains park. Like, would it actually celebrate the wholly evil villains of old, or would it be Descendants-level stuff? I suspect the latter given their core demographic. There's a reason the Halloween party is billed as not-so-scary.
I think it could have a few evil villain attractions that are really suspenseful, including shows, but on the whole the park would have to be more fun and family friendly. Otherwise you end up with a highly rated park that nobody goes to.
Wasn't a "land" the only thing actually mentioned as a possibility? Where did the idea of a park come from? There are several issues with a full park devoted to villains that people have pointed out on here. I honestly think a "Dark Fantasyland" is much more realistic. This could include a roller coaster or perhaps a ride using whatever system is being used for the new Peter Pan E-Ticket in Tokyo. Plus a C-ticket. That's what I could see them doing for real.
You make a lot of great points here, and I fully agree. The goals/aims of the villains are also very different. Many have very specific visions that would have nothing to do with each other: to win Belle's love, to defeat Peter Pan, to make a fur coat, seeking revenge on not getting invited to a birthday party, to stay young forever. Or they want power/riches (Prince John, Lady Tremaine, Ursula, Scar, Hades, Jafar, Dr. Facilier, Hans, etc)- hmmmm maybe there is something to that. But then wouldn't they be in competition with one another? If you want to be supreme ruler then wouldn't anyone who wants the same thing be seen as an enemy? Haha, I know I am looking too far into this but that becomes the problem- as cool as it would be, and it is cool, when you peal back the layers it does not truly work. Unless they just go cartoony "let's destroy Mickey Mouse" but even that gets old after a while. The characters become caricatures and what made them special starts to fade. You get a "House of Mouse" villains episode which is surface-level satisfaction. The only way I see it working is if the lands are separate and the villains do not interact with one another. But, is that what people want???
They'll put in a theater that just shows the "House of Villains" special from House of Mouse on repeat. "It's Our House Now!" has been stuck in my head for two decades.
There is precedent for this, and it's the Hocus Pocus show at MNSSHP. Maleficent is the ruler, and everybody else has their own side hustle. So she gets the castle, but there can be other territories/lands that have their own flare.
