News Who Will Replace Josh D'Amaro as Disney Experiences Chairman?

[Ayla]

Has there been an announcement as to who it will be, yet?

 

[Disstevefan1]

Tropical Americas is a way to narratively and inorganically shoehorn two disparate IPs into DAK. It is not an example of breaking free from the IP mandate: rather, it is a clumsy way to implement it.

Too soon?

 

[wdwfan4ver]

I’m a bit ignorant… why do people dislike Vahle?

Vahle is tight with money and it shows. What I mean by that is one example is Vahle had 2 options to put Monsters Inc. Land with one being Muppet Courtyard and the other being Star Wars Launch Bay and the building behind it. Vahle took Muppet Courtyard because it was cheaper to do the land there. Vahle also didn't like the costs involved with Rivers of America and played a big role in why it is gone now for Piston Peak.

The final thing is Vahle claimed Muppet Courtyard and Rivers of America were underutilized and he got backlash from the underutilize claim.

 

[Disstevefan1]

welllll, if Josh appoints Vahle, then Josh has a scapegoat if things go bad.

Sorta like when Iger appointed Chapek.

 

[djkidkaz]

To me, this promotion is almost going to be more important than Josh becoming CEO. This person is going to be the one partnering with imagineering and making decisions on what is to come next, not necessarily Josh. Josh is going to have to put trust in this person and give them the ability to make decisions about the parks and their futures. Josh will be super busy running all the other facets of the company and figuring out how to move forward with ESPN, ABC, Disney+, Fox, etc.