I'm sure there's lots more billion dollar sales like the Queen library to help them tread water- uhh, I mean, strengthen their operating value and embiggen their something or other lol
it's impressive what a theme park can do with an otherwise dead franchise
I recall when Star Tours opened at MGM the IP was at such a low that they didn't even have enough merch to fill Endor Vendors without stocking very deep-cut stuff like the West End Games books and miniatures.
They were...
yeah nobody's been laruel-izing Disney for a while lololol
but yeah I could see LotR sorta working but being something of a tight squeeze. There's already Harry Potter and How To Train Your Dragon, and Zelda is strongly speculated. Obviously there's a difference in the literary aspects of those...
I recall hitting that Sega big Dave and Busters type thing they had down at Sawgrass Mills in the mid 00s or so
it was very weird to see Sega try to pad out the kid's menu placemat with mascots beyond Sonic
probably the only work Alex Kidd and Nights had gotten in years lol
the Vong invade Disney World, see all the Audio-Animatronics, have a collective stroke, and collectively keel over
don't even need the army of Landobots
there might have been a way to make it work, like it's a protocol droid being insistently cheery through the welcome bit, then he gets overly pushy about doing the stupid dancing, then about a minute into that something interrupts it so it's not an actual activity
I was very lucky to get to see it, even if it meant all the fun of going to Vegas when you're only twenty, and not of legal age to do anything in Vegas. With my parents!
I haven't been to the parks in ages, but back in the day I'd wear steel toed boots
you've never had fun until you laugh that jerk who thought he'd just step on your feet as he falls flat on his butt