Recent content by el_super

There's only so many people you can funnel down Main Street. Eventually the bigger crowds leads to decreases in satisfaction. The demand for the parks is and will remain pretty high for the foreseeable future, but the actual access still needs to be carefully controlled. It's easier and more...

It's not going anywhere. Non-IP park projects are usually big failures.

Nothing is going to change their desire to make money. People still want to retire someday and that requires turning a little sum of money into a larger sum of money.

As a parks fan, I will admit there is some sense to it. The parks are large, they are expensive to maintain and operate and there is tremendous downward pressure on tickets/admission prices. The return from the parks business has never been all that great compared to movies, tv and cable, but it...

Wall Street responded negatively to the news that they were spending $60B on parks and experiences. Picking the parks guy to be CEO is in line with their general disdain for the theme park business. Generally can be see as an acknowledgement that the entertainment business is not expected to...

Not enough to do anything about it.

For some people... it's a science:

And the board has to answer to Wall Street. No one here is operating with sole control. It's easier to attach a name to decisions you don't like, but maybe harder to digest that multiple groups/organizations/people are all coming to same conclusions.

It might be important here to temper expectations. Decision making at that level is rarely based on personal feelings and experiences. Iger didn't just decide to spend $60B on the parks because he came around to the light. Decisions are made after years of researching, hundreds of people working...

I'd like to suggest also that Ken Potrock might be in the running, since they "promoted" him to a fairly-made-up position to keep him hanging around.

Yes because he wrote the music for the movie. The movie where an actor named Mark Hamil walked onto a stage made to look like an alien cantina. But Luke Skywalker can't listen to John Williams because John Williams, the human, can't live/exist in the Star Wars universe. So is Galaxy's Edge...

SWGE has music. It has foot traffic. It has kinetic energy (through characters in the land). I will admit that it seems kind of dour but that's just Star Wars in general. Nothing really happy about an endless war. I think the key difference is that, Star Wars was a very specific concept in...

They offered the same kind of immersion that lands like Main Street or New Orleans Square did. It was the wrong kind of immersion though.

Wasn't there just a big to-do about a cancelled Ben Solo movie and the desire to see it make a comeback? I swear the sequel movies are following the same exact trajectory the prequels did.

They get credit now for listening to the fans, but they got into that ess by listening to the fans too. They thought people wanted a hyper-realistic role playing stage where a land was designed to be in a specific time and place. They thought people wanted something akin to the original...