If the film rights had been included, Disney would have been significantly more interested, but having to play with Warner (and be required by contract to listen to JKR's final word on everything), didn't help matters much. Nobody on Disney's end thought it'd be this popular for this long either!
Yes. I have. I've been twice.
Would like to point out that I have literally talked about the parts of EU that I've liked multiple times on here and the parts I dislike? Also I feel like critically Epic has not been the best received anyway but it doesn't really matter anyway as I make my own opinions and don't just listen to what critics who don't spend a true day in the parks think anyway.
Honestly, I'm glad Disney stood on their business here. Giving someone who doesn't know anything about theme parks complete control all for a series that is still fizzling out AND had movies and a story that was still not finished yet was a HUGEEEEEEEE risk. It ended up paying off Universal but given where Universal was at the time of this happening, I'm glad they got it to give Disney some more competition. We could've easily stagnated a lot if Universal still couldn't get their bearings :/
There was one highly anticipated book left in the series. It wasn’t that incomplete and nowhere near to even starting to fizzle out.
The movies are what Universal was really focusing on and to stick the ending to a franchise is essential. That was the gamble.There was one highly anticipated book left in the series. It wasn’t that incomplete and nowhere near to even starting to fizzle out.
But I’m sure Jay Rasulo was really concerned about lack of theme park experience…
I would never call myself a "Disney Adult" as my personality and opinions are not based on a specific hobby of mine and certainly not a billion dollar corporation. I like Disney theming, I talk about how I do like Universal when they do things right and I don't like Disney doing bad stuff but I have to actually find it bad first.
These two statements are incompatible with each other. You’re making up things about the state of Harry Potter fandom in 2006 to intentionally downplay Universal.
What???? do you hear yourself? Admitting that this was gamble and that I like when Universal does certain things is somehow impossible?
You’re making up reasons for why it was a gamble and your original point was to try to make Disney look good.
Literally said that I thought it was best that Universal got Harry Potter so that Disney would have the competition? Without Potter, I don’t think we would have gotten EU period
And you made things up to try to make Disney look good.
Can you describe exactly what I “made up” with some actual evidence that it was made up
And we should be thankful that Disney's not beholden to that.
This is absolutely insane and not at all close to reality. "Spirit Halloween mannequins" and it's in reference to some of the best audio animatronics ever built. Please.
It was Universal that wanted to do Paris. Warner Bros insisted on the ride featuring Harry Potter.
I said mannequins, not animatronics. Spirit Halloween is 100% how I would describe the look of this.
