Recent content by Nirya

Six Flags/Cedar Fair was always going to cut some parks after the merger to streamline some things, so if there was an underperforming park, there was always a chance they were going to be sold off to a more regional park chain. Throw in Great America up in Santa Clara closing sometime in the...

Cedar Fair essentially bought Six Flags and kept the name instead of their own because they believed (probably fairly) that it was a more recognizable brand. This is still Cedar Fair by all rights. Edit: This is also why I'm more optimistic for Magic Mountain, because Cedar Fair tended to be...

There are Ferrari fans who have seen this idea and had a chill run down their spine for no reason.

Disney should capitalize on F1 fever by bringing in Pirelli as the tire manufacturer, just so F1 fans can come in and complain about the hard tires and that Disney needs to switch to the softs for better speed. This is a joke for maybe 2 people but I'm making it anyway.

Have you seen how much land costs in LA? Especially where they're located. Throw in all the NIMBYs in that area and there's a reason even expansion onto their own land is a constant battle. If Paramount decided to shed the Warner Bros lot as part of the merger and Universal decided to buy it...

The Angel Stadium situation gets resolved when Moreno sells. He was already contemplating it a few years ago, and the ensuing years have not been kind to both his perception and bottom line. The team's longtime president just resigned a week ago, and I can't imagine Moreno decides to hold on to...

I think that would first require the Angels to have new ownership. Arte Moreno screwed up the last land deal so bad that federal investigators got involved, he's pretty toxic to the city at this point.

The city of Anaheim was the one pushing for a third theme park on the Toy Story lot, which is why it was zoned that way even prior to DisneyForward. And DisneyForward wasn't aimed at the city itself, but was a sell to the community - the city council is very much in Disney's corner on all of...

If Disney wanted the land those apartment complexes are on, I'm pretty sure they could get them for a reasonable price, up to a small premium. These aren't luxury condos that are bringing in a ton of money as-is, it's low-income housing that has consistently been cited as a problem area for the...

Ok, I get you're doing a bit, but it is important to note those apartment complexes on the east side of the Toy Story lot were a consistent target for eminent domain by the city when it was trying to push its Gene Autry Way extension plan (the only thing holding it up was that Disney was...

The actual pie-in-the-sky, this is what Disney should do if they had unlimited money thing to do here would be to use the Toy Story lot to build a brand new Disneyland hotel complex. For Disney, this would be great as they could put in a bunch of hotels at different price points while also...

Look if Disney wants to pay me to post some nice things about them I am more than happy to accept bribes.

I think it's pretty clear that Monster's Inc is staying open longer because they reevaluated what they needed for the EGW and realized they could delay closing that ride another year as a result. As-is, I would expect Avatar to be 2030 at the earliest, no matter how optimistic they want to...

That road used to be used for parking at the resort, by which I mean that if they didn't want to use the Manchester or Toy Story lot for whatever reason, they would funnel you along that road over to Mickey and Friends. I drove on it a few times before Cars Land opened and they stopped using it...

I wouldn't be surprised if they phased out World at DCA and made that one an Epcot-exclusive while California remained a DCA-exclusive. Then they'd rotate with the new America version from that point on.