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Agreed. There is absolutely zero economic and/or promotional incentive for Comcast to *ever* alter the existing contract. Zero. Zip. Nada. Universal gets to block its direct competitor from being able to create attractions in Orlando based on arguably the most valuable potential theme park IP...

Agreed that I liked having the page numbers on mobile previously. Is there any way that those can be reinserted in the new mobile version? (They still exist in the desktop version.)

I don’t know anything about moving to Orlando, although I’d second the opinions of several people here that it’s easiest to make that type of move when you’re young. However, I can empathize quite a bit with your overall career situation as someone that hires, works with and mentors a lot of...

I have 8-year old twins that are heavily into both Star Wars and Harry Potter. I'm also one of the biggest Star Wars fans that you'll ever come across (although I enjoy Harry Potter, too). My personal observations: - There are definitely more Star Wars fans in terms of sheer numbers. Part of it...

I’d argue that sports networks are actually the *only* channels that move the needle to buy any type of bundled arrangement. I think a lot of people here still don’t understand how much these sports networks make in terms of money: just one month of ESPN subscriber fee revenue is equal to the...

Exactly. We did the rope drop sprint to sign up for the Jedi Training this past summer and my 7-year old son would have been *extremely* disappointed if he had ended up fighting the Seventh Sister (who he had only cursory knowledge of) instead of Darth Vader. A great ride can be a great ride...

Agreed. Disney Animation has had an excellent run over the past decade and they've been doing it without much in the way of slam dunk pre-existing source material. We all look at Frozen as a "franchise" now, but the fact that Disney was able to *create* that franchise in the first place is the...

Unfortunately, I agree that this is probably a common reaction. I have strong positive nostalgic feelings for the Tiki Room since I saw it many times as a kid in the '80s and '90s and always loved it. However, when my kids, wife and in-laws all saw it for the first time with me a few months ago...

I don't post here that often, but I check in regularly and believe you might be the most knowledgeable poster on this forum. I was fortunate to see Epcot in its hey-day in the 1980s and early-1990s with fond nostalgic memories of Horizons, the original Journey into Imagination, the Wonders of...

I've seen comments like this and I feel like a lot of people are applying their personal views of the NBA and aren't looking at the entire sports landscape objectively at all. The NFL is obviously the overall sports king in the US, but the Harris Poll where you only pick your one favorite sport...

I personally think BH6 would actually fit into Epcot about as well as any IP with its focus on science/inventions/robotics. Frankly, for all of the consternation on these boards about the use of IPs for attractions, there's quite an amazing roster of IPs that Disney has just left sitting on the...

I don't believe Imagination should be eliminated, but Inside Out was brilliant and both a critical and box office smash hit. Obviously, whether someone personally likes a movie is a "different strokes for different folks" calculus, but the consensus is that Inside Out is one of Pixar's very best...

I don't think it's as much as trying to catch lightning in bottle as it's the fact that GotG is really the only Marvel property of any consequence that Disney is allowed to use in Florida. From Disney's perspective, it's the equivalent of owning an entire gold mine of potential theme park IP but...

There's that, although it's also a reflection of the amount of extremely valuable IP that has been amassed by Disney since the 1980s (whether organically generated internally or acquired externally. Whether certain rides fit into the overall theme of a park/area is a valid debate. However, it's...

You're conflating losing viewers with losing revenue (albeit the latter is certainly a huge problem for Disney). Sports across-the-board have retained (or even added) viewers much better than virtually every other form of televised entertainment out there. Just look at the massive drops in...

I think ESPN ended up paying market price for the NBA. Note that Turner paid the same amount to renew the NBA, too, so it wasn't as if ESPN was alone in determining that value. Fox was legitimately looking to pay even more for the NBA if they went to the open market, which is why ESPN and Turner...

Here's the thing that everyone needs to keep in perspective about the value of sports: the reason why ESPN is able to charge $7 per sub in the first place is because of the dominant amount of live sports rights that they have in the stable. It's popular in the peanut gallery to state that ESPN...

It's interesting because Comcast is both ESPN's biggest revenue source (from cable subscriptions) and, as you've noted, arguably its biggest competitor (with regional sports networks and, to a lesser extent, NBCSN). This is also further complicated because the fortunes of Comcast and ESPN (and...

Agreed. I think a lot of problems that I have about the "ESPN is going to die!" proclamations and critiques of them holding back on going over-the-top full or a la carte bore is that many people fail to understand what heights ESPN is coming from. ESPN isn't some type of ancillary business for...

First-time poster here but I've been reading these boards regularly over the past year or so. It seems to be a bit counter-intuitive to claim that the only ongoing appeal for Star Wars is nostalgia and then ask for "more Disney-created/adapted attractions" which, unless you're talking about...