Recent content by Rosso11

I know pre covid there was a big push to create a larger presence of SEA into WDW specifically. It was actually coming from the top down not that anyone down below was complaining. I unfortunately have not heard anything about it in a while. Hopefully it’s still moving along. Maybe someone else...

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I was coming to say the exact same thing. I think most people will be impressed with this group of imagineers. They might be lacking some of the star power names but Bruce has been cultivating a great group from what I’ve heard/seen. They finally have the budgets and the will at executive level...

I think you are forgetting the opening of Raiders where we are first introduced to Indy for the very first time and one of the most iconic scenes in film history takes place in South America. Specifically Peru.

The original plans of the MK had one included. I wish they would bring it back but I unfortunately just don’t see it.

Not saying it’s directly tied to this permit since I haven’t seen it yet but there has been strong rumors in the past of Disney building another hotel between the Grand Floridian and MK. So some of this water management might encompass both projects if it’s that large and they decided to move...

It’s going to be unique.

Iger clarified some of this yesterday. The 50% is for increasing capacity. Parks are seeing above that 50% for maintenance of existing parks and resorts. So they should actually be seeing well above $30b. As far as existing projects I would assume any that were still under construction at the...

I’m still pushing for Marion Ravenwood’s bar from Raiders to be built at the base of Everest.

Yea I always find it funny when people think Walt wouldn’t be pushing as much IP into the parks as Iger is today if he was alive. Walt was the king of cross promoting his IP across film, TV, merchandise and parks. He pretty much invented it. I can’t imagine what he would have done if he had the...

This is true but I can actually expand upon it. In 2002 when it was decided to close Alien Encounter I had a conversation with Lee Cockerell, who ran WDW at the time, and questioned him about it. He explained that the main reason they came to the decision to close it was because of its...

It was Bruce Vaughn coming back which changed the direction at AK. Bruce and Joe are very close and the reason that Joe is officially back in any capacity. From what I heard Joe “unofficially” has had his hand in the AK project well before this and is very much on board with the direction of the...

I understand what you saying but that’s not how they have thought previously. When I worked for Disney it was drilled into my head Universal is not the enemy. It was other destinations outside of the Orlando area. If tourists came down for Universal there was a high probability that Disney...

They’ve always known. But their strategy was never to go head to head opening year. If Epic brings more tourists to Orlando in 2025 and 26 that’s great and it will hopefully lift everyone. That’s their mentality. But they know when things start to settle that’s when they need to launch their...

Yes I can confirm as well. Joe is back