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It's also a lot of headaches, and as COVID taught us, much more fragile than we thought. It's just a matter of scale - Apple takes in over a billion dollars a day, and the risk, constant need to keep putting money into physically existing places, etc. just don't make sense for the ROI. If...

All good takes. Aside from their hardware, Apple is in the business of selling virtual things and acquiring things to be sold digitally. They do not want to saddle themselves with the parks/etc. If it was just the film business, perhaps - but then again, several other studios have been up for...

Thing is, though - they really did, LOL. There was a guy who's job it was to walk around at the end of the day and mark down on this little yellow pad what light-bulbs needed to be replaced on the night shift. There were rotating paint crews that used to repaint pretty much everything guests...

Disney did not have magical light bulbs that never burnt out, that is true - the difference is, as soon as one was spotted it was written up and corrected ASAP. Usually by the extensive overnight crews they had specifically for that, and things like paint touch-ups, etc. Disney used to pride...

You know what's funny - my family really took a liking to the Perkins when we last took all of them down a dozen years or so ago and stayed in off-site condos. I know it's considered low-brow, but we don't have them in this neck of the woods, and we ate there like 4 times one week, twice for...

Well, yes, customers of WDW would prefer them to build things in, you know, the parks they actually visit. Strange but true! But if you are quoting CapEx, you are kind of missing the point. It's about the actual guest experience on the ground in the parks. I mean, just look at the MK. We...

LOL, I came here specifically to comment about this - glad you guys already had it covered. Notice none of the articles mentioned the house itself and you have to google to find this: "The house' current worth is over $2,307,700 and is a massive and lavish estate, built around a 4,500...

It depends on what they build. Because I'm sort of done with the "I need to be at a theme park from rope drop to close every day I am there" thing, I can quite easily fill a week at Universal, especially since they opened Volcano Bay. Unlike a Disney vacation where you feel you have to be...

Why does anything else need to be there? Orlando was a bunch of swampland before Disney came. If they build an full resort that you can spend a week at, then it doesn't matter if it's in the middle of nowhere or not. I agree, and even more so because Disney has so lacked in achievement for...

Agreed. Even at Universal, where the Express Pass is also expensive, it just feels...different. Again, it's pay one price and not this a la carte nonsense, but it also doesn't seem to operationally effect things to anywhere near the levels as it does with WDW. I also just think it can't be...

Yup...and the only positive comments you hear about it are, frankly, from folks who just don't know any better and/or are paid shills. "We opted to indulge ourselves with the Club level, and really enjoyed the yummy mini-snacks that were occasionally there! And those bottles of water and...

Exactly. They have basically done what many of us around here predicted would eventually happen (though, I don't know how many of us really thought it would happen this soon). As you point out, Disney has never been "cheap" - but it did offer a quality experience and was at a price point that...

Anyone I know who regularly stays at concierge or "club" levels in general outright laughs at what Disney offers in those respects.

Even though I live over 1,000 miles away, I had an AP for many years in the '00s and the early '10s. They lost me once they went north of $600, but even if I was willing to pay today's prices - I would never buy one again that wasn't 365 access to whatever park I wanted, at whatever time I...

True - thankfully, it will come in predictable, cascaded waves as each film expires. And as that starts to happen in the decades to come, it will be very interesting to see what the media consumption landscape is like, and if, ultimately, it really ends up mattering. Certainly physical media...

That isn't even something they are asking for, so it's entirely a theoretical question. You are basically making up a metric that doesn't currently exist. If they did negotiate for some sort of pay-per-play deals, sure, they would have to make the numbers available. If they suddenly...

Well, no one is saying they have to "give anything up" - just that they don't have exclusive use of it. Copyright law and public domain are meant to balance between creators controlling their creations, and the greater good for the public/arts in general. They were not designed for...

Oh sure, if you mean the UI of the consumer facing app - which is basically just content curation to direct existing customers to shows. No one is negotiating for bonuses based on app recommendations to existing subscribers. Fran Drescher even started to admit it in one of their speeches -...

You had me in agreement, until the "misrepresentations" part. It implies there is some malfeasance going on, which is what Fran Drescher wants you to think when she is up there doing her Norma Rae bit, but isn't actually the real reason they want that data public. It would cause some chaos...

And that is really the crux, and why many of the arguments from the actors strike start to fall flat once you start thinking about it from the real world perspective. It's not that I don't think actual working actors deserve better deals and that the changes in the industry haven't kept up...