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I'd argue that movies haven't really depended on star power that much for a while now. IP is the new star power

lol, you were incorrect with it though no grandstanding going on. I just keep hearing how I'm supposed to want a "better Disney," which is nice, but 100% a pipe dream.

lol grandstanding? I mean I'm just being honest.

that, and the fact that they have no real desire for change. I mean what are our major issues with how Disney handles the parks? Sure there's Genie+ and park reservations, and how difficult they've made it to plan Disney vacations. But that's all new stuff. It might get better over time...

Well I'm not gonna say her husband's illness wasn't a factor in why she left....but consider this: major Disney executive leaves the company during its financial decline, after openly struggling with leadership resulting in the CEO being booted, and at the same time as other executives are also...

Well I will retract my statement that it was a bad idea. That's subjective. But from a marketing standpoint it was just a dumb idea imo. It's so low concept and niche.... a really narrow premise to base an entire theme park on. A whole park dedicated to one state? Who'd want to go to a park...

The park should have never even been themed to California. That was a bad idea to begin with That said. San Fransokyo is half fantasy California, half fantasy Tokyo. The California half could fit. The Tokyo part doesn't and we shouldn't be pretending that the Tokyo half doesn't exist here. Why...

San Fransokyo may end up being the most egregious example of the IP mandate so far. Right up there with Pixar Pier. And Avengers Campus.... Poor DCA lol.

question is: how hard does this film flop? are we talking like, TLM or Ant-Man 3 type flop where it loses money, or just a Thor 4 level flop where it just does poorly/not as well as they'd hope?

I agree with you in theory...I want to see Disney fixed, not just burnt to the ground because oh I'm so mad and frustrated and I hate Iger. I know some Disney critics can be very abrasive and I get how that can be a huge turn off for Disney fans. I even get how some can view that kind of...

pro-tip: if you have to "hide" zootopia from the rest of DAK, so that it doesn't actively detract from the rest of the park....chances are it doesn't belong there in the first place

I'm with you 1000%.... but they aren't and they don't. sadly

See and that's where I believe you are conflating things. Guest satisfaction as quantitatively measured by Disney can only go so high. That is certainly correct. If guest satisfaction, on a quantitative scale, is already high for Everest then there isn't any way Disney can improve the attraction...

There's a very low probability the thing gets fixed. It sucks but it's par for the course with Disney. The day they make a competent decision that positively impacts its fans or its audience is the day I spend a full day at Hollywood Studios (not gonna happen) there is so much defending for...

at this point I'd rather them just give us new cupcakes large scale investment, at their hands, usually does more harm than good these days. crazy as it sounds.

Where most people disagree? That EE with a working yeti would have higher guest satisfaction than EE without one? That's not exactly a controversial take. Would it reinvigorate Animal Kingdom attendance? No. But would guests like the attraction more if the yeti actually worked? yes?? how is this...

of course guest satisfaction is still "pretty high." Everest is still a fun coaster, and the yeti being broken doesn't change that. Imo it would be ridiculous to assume guest satisfaction for EE would be low just because the yeti is broken. BUT that doesn't change the fact that guest...

it may not be enough of an incentive for them, but it is an incentive in the sense that it would have benefits for the long term success of the company if they went ahead and fixed it.

Mmm... yes, that is true... but it doesn't change two things: 1. The argument that the yeti isn't being fixed because it's an 'especially complex issue' doesn't hold any water. Similar, but less complex issues than the yeti are frequently not addressed. Therefore, the yeti problem's complexity...

That may be true— but what is also true is that the yeti is not a statistical outlier. We don't need any explanation for why the yeti specifically hasn't been fixed. We need an explanation for why major attraction effects in general are not fixed. The yeti isn't some unique or interesting...