It looks like SeaWorld, etc are to be sold off as part of the A-B InBev deal. Article mentions possible (but unlikely) bid by Disney.
They also mention Six Flags...who at $.20 a share shouldn't be buying anything! I think they only mentioned Disney and Six Flags as possible bidders because they are the two biggest theme park companies.
Likely Disney looked at the deal because as a bidder they would have almost unfettered access to the books of those parks. Thats a gold mine of usually proprietary industry data.
I think I would be very much in support of Disney purchasing the Busch parks. I think Busch Gardens Tampa (Africa? :hammer would surely benefit. And imagine the attractions that might be built at SeaWorld. We know that Disney has had some marginal success building a theme park around a "Sea" theme.
That is just too many parks and I don't think they all could be brought up to Disney standards, it's just too much. The only way I'd like it to happen us if they canabalized most of the parks shutting them down and spreading the good attractions like some if the BG coasters throughout the exhisting Disney Parks. I'd keep Sea World renaming it Walt Disneys Sea World and plus it to make it ad good ad TD Seas.
That is just too many parks and I don't think they all could be brought up to Disney standards, it's just too much. The only way I'd like it to happen us if they canabalized most of the parks shutting them down and spreading the good attractions like some if the BG coasters throughout the exhisting Disney Parks. I'd keep Sea World renaming it Walt Disneys Sea World and plus it to make it ad good ad TD Seas.
That is just too many parks and I don't think they all could be brought up to Disney standards, it's just too much. The only way I'd like it to happen us if they canabalized most of the parks shutting them down and spreading the good attractions like some if the BG coasters throughout the exhisting Disney Parks. I'd keep Sea World renaming it Walt Disneys Sea World and plus it to make it ad good ad TD Seas.
Exactly. I'd like to see them buy BGT and get the animals and some attractions for AK. Then shut it down and develop the real estate or sell it off.
Turn Sea World into Disney's Seas Orlando. This would give them the boutique park they desire and another water park. Close the "Living Seas" at Epcot and send those animals to Sea World and convert the pavilion to a "oceanography" pavilion rather than a marine biology pavilion which is a subject better showcased at the potential Disney's Seas Orlando.
And if Disney got hold of BGW........oh man, would that be something else or what? That is already an amazing property but with some Disney magic it'd be unbelieveable!
Just my two shillings.
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