Recent content by Robbiem

I’d suspect a heavy single IP themed land based park with a different layout to the castle park maybe the Animal Kingdom/ TDS style layout. I’d assume the key IPs outlined by others - Avatar, Marvel, Frozen (unless the HK area prevents it), Duffy and Moana but I’m not sure what is and isn’t...

https://www.wsj.com/business/media/universal-studios-plans-theme-park-in-saudi-arabia-1ecdcf06 Interesting times

I’m looking forward to seeing how this develops. It will be good to see the UK finally get a world class theme park resort after so many false starts and failed projects

I think this would be driven more by ego than need. Big Bob would sell out so no one could follow him and possibly do a better job. He has corporatised the company so this could be the final logical step for him

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/netflix-reportedly-wanted-buy-disney-110955196.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9kdWNrZHVja2dvLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAJS19oVOfpXStQNnSlfYiopbwtsYSIOYBV9m5V8y6moFYm4y9Hf5bQm09jIQM8E2-m7y4SaxmLszlFQM9iBwtReX9hXrR7hjMyHzC5_j5nlD8oiWOMuBlJIL091nbLbuWgeKJ...

I’d love to ride with the Vincent Price narration, when I went the stretch room was in French and the ride didn’t have a narration. I think Vincent Price’s laugh was used in the wild west scene though

Is it Vincent Price?

Hong kong just felt nice. It might be the Disneyland design but it felt more cute and the brick pavement etc just made it feel more quality or realistic compared to the concrete of Florida. The fact that its newer, less crowded (when i went) and very well kept just made it feel better Paris...

I agree that MK’s main street feels much more theme park land than some of the others. Its not as bad as Tokyo where the roof canopy makes you feel like you are in a mall but its no where near as good as hong kong or Paris especially where Main Street was one of my favourite lands in the whole...

I completely agree with you and vegas. As a family we loved disney. My brother had a stroke which left him very disabled, my mother has had major spinal surgery (cauda equina syndrome)neither of them would be able to go on many of the new rides in the same way they could have enjoyed most of the...

I wonder if the timing of Abu Dhabi will impact on a second Shanghai gate? As well as the capacity of imagineering I could see the Emerarti’s having a clause preventing Disney from opening another park for a time period or Disney delaying a second gate to let the new resort establish itself

I love roger rabbit but I don’t know if I want to see a sequel. The movie is an amazing fusion of animation and film noir but if they tried to make it today they would ruin it by toning things down too much. Jessica wouldn’t be a femme fetale, baby herman wouldn’t be as rude and you wouldn’t...

Interesting docs From a quick scan it looks like the park will be about 32.7 hectacres which is approximately the same size as Uni Hollywood’s theme park area or somewhere between Disneyland and Magic Kingdom in size. Resort designed for 55k peak capacity Minimum 500 hotel rooms so probably...

I thought the whole point of Pirates was that it creates an environment rather than a story that you dip in and out of. I remember reading a quote where Walt said it was being at a cocktail party and hearing different conversations. The movie overlay shifts it a little but I think it’s a reason...

It was interesting and a bit odd. The section in Walt’s office was interesting but had a few loose ends. I would have liked to see the letter from Churchill and the painting Iger mentioned for example The Disneyland section was a bit too Igercentric. I would like to have seen Walt’s apartment...