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Reminder folks, that's $6 Billion a year. That 6 new FULL lands, e.g. Galaxy's Edge, (or rebuilt old lands) every year for 10 years over what 20 properties (incl ships/non park resorts). Considering their track record has shown 1 new land ~5yrs on a staff 100% larger than today. Lol. LIRC they...

Basically saying Bouza will be taking a back seat on the strategy/restructuring. Just saying.... One thing for sure is the original stories vs franchising debate is going to happen, again. Aside from Bruce is very good at creatively re-factoring "in flight" projects.

Reading some of the comments here, I 'd say look at these surge pricing changes from a non-logistics way, this was expected as business folks run this company now: I see cookie cutter operations across the board: pay a subscription to get "in" (streaming D+ vs normal park pass) bundle it for a...

Nope, locked in storage in WDW, and TBD with current leadership. Last 5yrs was destined for display at grand central terminal in CA (do a Google maps search, nice big green lawn set for it), but was scraped in 2018 cause no one wanted to pay for shipping/handling... I'm told. Also, yes final...

Bingo. And on the next pandemic they can just let those folks go, have no penalties nor regrets. And rehire as needed (unions lost out in FL compared to CA). Recall no one could find a job a year ago in Orlando, so most moved out. And everyone else relied on the crippled FL EDD system and...

On the right track. If it needs to be story immersive from "bus to room door". thus, expect a lot of projection in the entire place. Space battles come to mind as well as (rushed boarding as they say ;) ). Obviously, they have been working on projection tech for quite some time. Mind that it...

Winner winner chicken dinner. No breaking news.... Kareem Daniels was his finance guy before getting the top spot (aka head of all franchise distribution basically). I'm sure at least 2 recently (less than 5yrs that is) hired mba's I know of will be likely gunning for that finance spot (vp in...

A lot of folks are ending their term at Disney over the next 2 months, we're in Q1 (the call was for Q4). Though a good # of Fox/Hulu/DTCI/ESPN/MN folks were let go in Sept. Next round is Feb if the finance/legal guys are in "business as normal" mode. fyi, synergy = layoffs innovation =...

Good point. One would expect future pandemics, global warming events (fires), earthquakes, etc.. are becoming more frequent and states need to plan for it. Just like Disney, if CA was a business, why stay involved in high risk ventures? Disney is getting rid of deadwood, money losing aspects of...

Wharton? Go figure.... Nothing personal, but the place where most authors of the 2008 crash were educated, the current president was from there, I worked with several from there in companies that ended up in M&A and [hostile] takeovers, seen lots of layoffs and lost/sold off innovation... but...

RoL started a lot like WoC: plagued with problems from the get go, but with reduced budgets & rushed even more so, the show suffered big time from the original concept. A lot of loss potential. After year one, the technical challenge was a huge pain in the and barge maintenance for the team...

And that's the difference between WDW and DLR. And the difference between FL's attitude vs CA's attitude to this virus (unions got squeezed in FL and are pushing back in CA). And the difference between new and old mgmt. Such contrast nowadays, BUT no 100% right nor 100% wrong, we're all just in...

Bingo every industry will see this: Superfans will resume normal activities (entertainment, autos, travel, hotels, sports, restaurants, etc...) Spikes will occur. But again the reason for shutdown was lack of resources/services and logicitics--now manageable. City/states will just manage it ad...

Weird Chapek interview. Though the CNBC biz community just loves the guy. "We're following everything that the gov. wants", which is nothing, really, a rubber stamp. He says "capacity a function of 6ft distance": really, they put a 6x6 grid over MK and counted every other box? Just give us a #...

Or cable blimps, been done for movie red carpet events. It's meh, but at least they're getting their money's worth (3-4 days) for the contractor's primo rates: https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/31338/boeing-confirms-joining-forces-with-disney-to-build-flying-x-wings-for-galaxys-edge