Recent content by lentesta

On a cruise rn (Celebrity Excel), so will do the math tomorrow. It’s possible this is the same discount %, as you suspect, just advertised a different way.

I've not heard anything about that specific hotel. The last similar thing I heard - in fall 2025 - was that Imagineering was revisiting EPCOT for a front-of-the-park hotel where the current bus stops are. That got revived as a reaction to Epic Universe opening Helios. My sense is that those...

I think this recent Disney patent application for holographic images is for Encanto: In Figure 4, object 404 is two ride vehicles and 408 is the track. Here's how the ride vehicles are rendered in Encanto's construction documents: And the ride track in the plans has those tight...

I'm headed to the Magic Kingdom this morning. I'm sure it's the Sea of Tranquility out there. Pray for me.

Yeah, there have been 3 things since mid-2024 that have reduced standby waits: The DAS rules changes (the single largest factor) Disney changing the LL-to-standby guest ratios to favor standby a bit more I’m pretty sure Disney is trying to make the posted wait time be closer to actual waits...

Ah, I don’t have general data. 80% new sounds like a lot. Let’s say 80% of the MK’s guests are new each year. That’s close to 16 million people. There are 380MM people in the US. So in 24 years every American will have visited? Okay, lots of guests come from outside the US. And the population...

Rats. He'll be missed.

Pepsi and Walmart allegedly colluded to raise food prices, according to newly unsealed court documents. This bit stood out for me: Gosh that name sounds familiar. Where have I heard it before?

ARE YOU TRYING TO FLIRT WITH US @splah? ;)

The first rule of remodeling is "never touch the plumbing".

My bad. It's 0.2%. Numbers are stupid.

Okay. Let's say they turn $1B into $2.5B. And they get access to the models for free instead of ... $1B per year. In the next year that's $3.5B for ... the rights to 200 Disney characters? I think even you and I together could get enough people on board to make a better offer than that.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/11/disney-openai-sora-characters-video.html What is Disney getting out of this? $1B in OpenAI equity is like 0.002% of the company. You're trading Mickey Mouse for that?

He did! I'll remind him on this week's show to talk about it.

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