Recent content by el_super

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...

I think Iger is more saavy than people here want to admit. I'd also argue that Iger probably wouldn't want to make any sort of AI deal personally, but the risk of Disney NOT being, even minimally, involved in this space is too great. Even if Iger didn't want to make a deal, the board would have...

It's this. Capitalism demands it. Until the broad support for AI falls apart, Disney has to be involved. And if the broader support for AI never fades, and it does actually start replacing creatives/functions in the company, Disney can only exist if they adopt.

That YouTuber has a better understanding of how theme parks work than most people here. I don't think Disney is ever going to build another park in the US. Unless they can figure out how a higher-end boutique castle park could work out, there isn't much point in building a 7th US park. In...

That's probably a consequence of Gen Z and Gen Alpha not really using "the web" the same way older gen-x / millennials do. They do most of their research and outreach via social media platforms and AI. Makes sense that a lot of younger families wouldn't be here. Which of course, heavily tilits...

Why not? Seems like a perfectly reasonable thing to suggest that low prices and high demand put a lot of stress on the system/industry and created a widening gap in customer expectations and behavior. Pretty easy comparison to make to theme parks.

Yes they did. Which is why we have seen them pull back on discount programs like the Annual Passes. People going multiple times per year, which I would assume the general populace of this board overly represents, end up devaluing the whole of the experience. No matter how good the Haunted...

Disney controls the attendance. They could lower the pricing to fill the park if that was their goal. It's not. They've been trying to re-set expectations of what pricing at the parks should be. They need to justify spending $60B+ on new attractions and lands, and the only way to justify that...

Not really. If they have a new ride, and everyone goes in expecting to ride that attraction, they definitely end up hitting capacity limits and having to turn people away. People don't judge attractions as equal experiences, so they get disappointed when you turn them away from Tron and tell...

Sure. As someone who was once a regular and stopped going primarily because it felt too busy, anything they can do to limit and control crowds is a plus to me. Raising prices seems like the fairest way to decide who can and cannot go, which is something they have had to do since day one. For all...

Side musing: this is also another step toward eliminating the current model of Annual Pass and switching over to an airline style legacy program.