Recent content by Mr. Sullivan

It’s opened to pretty notable critical acclaim (100% on RT, 81 on Metacritic), which makes it the best received Muppet project in a long while from a critical standpoint. Excited to see how audiences react to it.

I don’t think so. Josh has followed a very, very different path to the top than Iger did. So much of what led Iger’s thinking was informed by the roles he held on the way up. Josh has cut his teeth in the parks whereas Iger didn’t. He was a media guy and as such his priority and focus was...

AI, at least of the generative variety, is never cool. It's an absolute cancer on society that is going to further and further contribute to the internet becoming a desolate wasteland of misinformation, deep fake harassment, and continued degradation of actual skill and creativity. There are...

Well, I'm in a Discord server where there are several DL CMs in it and we were actually just talking about this. I wouldn't say they know him personally, but they have met him on several occasions (he is from what I understand not difficult to access when he visits unlike Bob). They all said...

Correct. And I want to be very, very clear before I get accused of Pixie Dusting or whatever: Disney holds fault in this. Their pricing has, does, and will continue to play a role in any sort of decline they're seeing. I do not refute that. What I do refute is the assertion a lot of folks...

Again, it presents a lot of upside for Disney to entice a more thrill oriented guest to visit Magic Kingdom. I do not have specific data, no. But skipping a park on a Disney trip is not a new phenomenon. There's a hefty bucket of guests who're just gonna do three of them. Historically, Animal...

Like I said above, Magic Kingdom isn't in danger of being knocked off its perch, but that doesn't mean they're not actively trying to draw more people to it. There's a lot of upside for Disney to entice a more thrill oriented guest to visit their flagship park.

What am I wishcasting exactly? I don't need to be pulled to Magic Kingdom. If i'm going on a Disney trip, i'm going to all four of them. But it is becoming more and more common for certain types of travelers to not go to Magic Kingdom because it's public perception is it being the park for the...

I don't disagree with you in general, but I also think Magic Kingdom is very crucial for Disney's vacation model succeeding the way they want it to. Disney's goal is and always has been for a WDW trip to be the one and only thing the guest does. They don't want their guests guests going off to...

I don't think it's really fair to compare DAK to a traditional zoo. The draw for a traditional zoo is always going to be animals. That draw to a theme park that happens to feature animals, even prominently, is going to be theme park attractions. Animals have never been enough of a primary draw...

To draw a specific type of guest toward Magic Kingdom that has noticeably started to skip it. It isn't uncommon for families with older kids/families that seek more thrill to skip Magic Kingdom and instead go to the other three seeking bigger thrills. The most thrilling coaster at MK currently...

I absolutely think Disney's current over pricing plays a role in things, but I also don't think we can discount the very noticeable and steep decline in international tourists coming to the US and internal economic issues that are compounding the problem. The whole argument some folks (not...

My preference would be for Josh and Dana to do it together as a team a la Eisner and Welles. Josh more involved in the parks, Dana more involved in the studios. And I think that could've been a real possibility but yeah, I think the Kimmel thing took Dana's horse out of the race. That said, I...

Building it on that pad wouldn't have solved the Dino Land problem. No matter what Dino Land needed to go. Whether or not they built on that new pad, Dino Land was gonna go extinct. It had to. Clearly they wanted to get rid of the land (and rightfully so) and save that pad for something else...

See I thought that too as both seem obvious. Too obvious to not have been Disney’s thought too. I suppose there’s every chance they wanted to skimp on the cost of Harambe’s speciality food, but then they seem to have no problem with specialty food elsewhere. Makes me wonder if there is a...