Disney is such a Jekyll and Hyde company in this regard, the parks division are the definition of capitalism (arguably to a fault), while the movie division is perfectly content losing hundreds of millions for artistic or ideological reasons (arguably to a fault), it makes no sense.
I have no doubt an accountant looked at the dinosaur props/artifacts and determined it would cost more money to disassemble them than to simply destroy them and that was the sole factor in their demise. If a prop was worth $100k and it would cost $101k to preserve it for educational or other purposes it’s more “cost efficient” to simply destroy it, a purely capitalist move, “the greater good” wasn’t a consideration. Meanwhile over in Burbank they’re busy burning money on their next movie with a message, that’ll inevitably lose tens (if not hundreds) of millions, because it’s for “the greater good”.
It’s so bizarre to watch a company that is an example of the best and worst of capitalism while simultaneously also being an example of the best and worst of social activism.
Had the movie division been in charge I think every dinosaur prop of any educational/social/cultural value would have been saved even if it delayed the project by years and cost the company hundreds of millions of dollars. Since it’s the parks division though it was purely a dollars and cents issue so the dumpsters are getting filled.
