Wreck-It Ralph Attraction Coming to TDL in 2026

[Pizza Moon]

There’s nothing dodgy about it. The studios consult on and even make content for attractions. They’re providing a service to Walt Disney Imagineering and any other entity would be paid.

He’s right in the sense it is another dimension of Hollywood accounting, though.

 

[lazyboy97o]

He’s right in the sense it is another dimension of Hollywood accounting, though.

It’s not even Hollywood accounting. It’s a very standard, logical business practice.

 

[cjkeating]

There’s nothing dodgy about it. The studios consult on and even make content for attractions. They’re providing a service to Walt Disney Imagineering and any other entity would be paid.

He’s right in the sense it is another dimension of Hollywood accounting, though.

It’s not even Hollywood accounting. It’s a very standard, logical business practice.

I don't want to derail the thread (but it does have relevance to how on earth does a rethemed Buzz Light Year shooter ride cost $200,000,000) but I think the point I'm trying to make is that if a ride like Tiana's Bayou Adventure only had animatronics like Splash Mountain did then WDI would pay WDAS nothing. Maybe a little for some consulting. Whereas nowadays when they need screen based media in most circumstances they go to WDAS or Pixar and pay them for it. Fine. But I do wonder with both Studios struggling if there is any incentive for more media to be produced? Or how exactly the price they charge is calculated? Do they charge a markup? As if the animators would normally be working on a revenue generating project are they taken away from generating theoretical profit from that?

I don't want to be quoted but I am sure the figure I heard for the Cars animation for Paris was 20 million. I assume Dollars but maybe it was Euros. I didn't want to say it as the figure seems so ludicrously high. But there we go. On that basis I am assuming WIR will have far more animation than Cars in Paris so it could be a significant proportion to the $200 million budget.

 

[lazyboy97o]

I don't want to derail the thread (but it does have relevance to how on earth does a rethemed Buzz Light Year shooter ride cost $200,000,000) but I think the point I'm trying to make is that if a ride like Tiana's Bayou Adventure only had animatronics like Splash Mountain did then WDI would pay WDAS nothing. Maybe a little for some consulting. Whereas nowadays when they need screen based media in most circumstances they go to WDAS or Pixar and pay them for it. Fine. But I do wonder with both Studios struggling if there is any incentive for more media to be produced? Or how exactly the price they charge is calculated? Do they charge a markup? As if the animators would normally be working on a revenue generating project are they taken away from generating theoretical profit from that?

I don't want to be quoted but I am sure the figure I heard for the Cars animation for Paris was 20 million. I assume Dollars but maybe it was Euros. I didn't want to say it as the figure seems so ludicrously high. But there we go. On that basis I am assuming WIR will have far more animation than Cars in Paris so it could be a significant proportion to the $200 million budget.

Disney spent around that much on Pixar Pier. They spent half a billion on Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind. Walt Disney Imagineering’s project costs are ridiculously high and paying the studios for their work isn’t a major factor.