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Recent content by GenChi

  1. GenChi

    Is everything just IP mandate quota now?

    It is pretty well known Bob hated originals, he wanted the low risk built in fanbase and media synergy for the costs. But to be fair, people kind of blind out when they did originals after Everest. Mystic Manor was the huge one and often said as the last due to being a traditional new dark...
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    News Josh D’Amaro Named Next CEO of The Walt Disney Company

    Let's take a look back at Josh's magical first week as the CEO with the keys to the kingdom! 🪄✨ 1. The Iran War continues, and the more it looks long-term the more it puts the big Miral UAE park in doubt. Though meetings happened his week reconfirming commitment, many question if the park...
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    Disney making $1 billion investment in OpenAI, will allow characters on Sora AI video generator

    Josh is never going to get to make the AI Pavilion in Epcot now :cry: He was going to make a such a profit having kids generate slop clips with Elsa and letting them download a copy for $50. Now how are they paying for the stock buyback?!?
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    EPCOT Figment, well, to be replaced by Figment

    I think for a largely unannounced 2 minute short it did pretty well! Was #2 for d+ shows even a week after debuting. Only good things can come out of it doing well outside its small parks bubble. Might be for a animated show by them. Last word was the film apparently got shifted to a show...
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    DAK “Zootopia” is being created for the Tree of Life theater

    Let's not get too ahead of ourselves here
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    News Disney and Miral Announce New Seventh Theme Park Planned for Abu Dhabi

    Just imagine the killing they will make selling Lightning Lanes to skip the wait and be evacuated from the resort first, Bobby really thought this whole thing through :cool:
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    News Disney and Miral Announce New Seventh Theme Park Planned for Abu Dhabi

    Today would have been a very interesting day for guests visiting Disneyland Abu Dhabi
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    MK Villains Land Announced for Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom

    Complacency in any industry is asking to be overtaken. Culture changes, perception changes, demographics change. Entification can damper any company goodwill quick. That they have had the cultural heart for a long time does not mean they will forever. Assuming they "won" is how companies...
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    MK Villains Land Announced for Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom

    I think because the planned major dark ride is around what we expected & people are very positive on it. A flagship dark ride with a great theme idea which might become the best out there if they pull it off right. That is very exciting. Even with the campy Disney villain theming, I thought...
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    MK Villains Land Announced for Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom

    This is ultimately one of many different reasons why I think making this coaster Slinky Dog 2 instead of something like Velocicoaster is a misfire. Disney will never win the IP battle for these gens when Universal has Nintendo, HP, etc. They have to win by better, grander experiences for those...
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    MK Villains Land Announced for Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom

    I agree to an extent. I do think this IP would be strategically chosen because it is a favorite with Gen Z who might be more into Universal IP, and it would get them over the initial hump of it not being a thrill ride. The IP itself not being the largest outside that group does not matter...
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    DHS Disney Animation-Inspired Experience Coming to Disney’s Hollywood Studios

    Unfortunately most. Everyone keeps calling the era where hand-drawn was eliminated the "revival era", everyone gave the vote of confidence for the guy who removed it after lying to Roy about keeping it and says his first reign makes him the best CEO since Walt, and look at the box office results...
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    DHS Disney Animation-Inspired Experience Coming to Disney’s Hollywood Studios

    Again, anything was better then what was there and still remains so. And it is not going to be the same live animator & what it was in the 90s-2000s when there is not an entire animation studio in the building anymore. You cannot really complain when their hand drawn animation department was...
  14. GenChi

    News Josh D’Amaro Named Next CEO of The Walt Disney Company

    Josh, I do not think having a separate government-owned company entirety fund and operate the UAE resort while you rake in licensing fees and only worry about your company's image taking a slight tank is much of a big risk on your part 😆
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