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Forcing children to do new things is good for them. Taking them to WDW and forcing them to go to church and become believers is all part of good parenting.

The Disney Wilderness Preserve is about 15,000 acres. This is the land that was donated to met their conservation requirements. http://www.nature.org/ourinitiatives/regions/northamerica/unitedstates/florida/placesweprotect/the-disney-wilderness-preserve.xml Also Disney owns a lot of land in...

I'd like to see Star Wars become more modern in technology. They need to dump the primitive light sabers and use phasers as in Star Trek. It would be great if they'd start using Tricorders as well.

It's all part of the mystery and intrigue of the African continent.

The fact remains that WDW must do all that it can to lessen its carbon footprint. They've made great strides in recent years. As an example, the Osborne Lights were completely replaced with modern LED bulbs to save energy and that's a step in the right direction. However, WDW has to look at...

Osborne Lights is out of date with modern society. It's very labor intensive to set up (and take down, store, maintain, etc.) and it isn't a big draw. I realize that there is concentrated fan base that really adores this attraction but there are similar groups that liked 20K and Snow White as...

Diet Sam's Cola beats them all, and it's less expensive! :hungry:

Under the terms of the agreement that Pixar had with Disney, sequels did not count toward fulfillment of the contract. Direct to video releases were not counted as well.

This might help explain his intentions:

See the rules of governance for the Disney BoD as reaffirmed in 1998 to wit: "The Board reaffirms its retirement policy for directors, first adopted in 1974. This policy provides for the retirement of directors at age 72, or age 75 in the case of former Chief Executive Officers of the...

I think of "idiot nephew" as an endearing nickname given to Roy E. Disney by his Uncle Walt. Al least I think we can all be pleased that Roy was able to replace Eisner with Bob Iger, a man for all seasons.

This is enlightening because we are agreeing on more and more! You're right that Jobs had decided that he wouldn't deal with Eisner but he came to that decision before 2002. Jobs was unhappy with the original movie deal and wanted to renegotiate. I think that could have happened except for...

You have made my point for me. As I stated, it was the intervention of Roy E. Disney and Stanley Gold that directly caused the Pixar terms and price to become unreasonable. They undermined TWDC in the same fashion as their company Shamrock Holdings specialized in weakening other companies in...

You might also want to read about how Walt Disney hired a known mobster, racketeer and blackmailer (Willie Bioff) to "settle" the 1941 strike: http://babbittblog.com/2013/05/18/technicolor-sides-with-strikers/...

Jobs announced in 2004 that he was seeking partners other than Disney. Almost two years went by and Pixar didn't even talk to another studio or distributor. It was clearly bravado on the part of Jobs. Jobs had no serious interest in distributing his own films nor striking a deal with another...

Yes. He wears an ankle monitor to track his location. His parole officer awards him extra credit for time spend at WDW and considers it part of his rehabilitation.

I've been a regular at Gold's Gym for the past few months. It turns out that my friend intends to wear their MagicBand on their ankle.

There is no doubt Disney paid too much for Pixar. 7.4 billion was more than 40 times earnings and Disney all ready owned 85% of the Pixar property. Pixar could not have gone out on its own as some people have suggested nor had any other studio or distributor shown any interest in buying Pixar...

At the Harry Potter monorail killer.

Actually it is correct. TWDC ended up paying more for Pixar due directly to the interference created by Roy E. Disney and Stanley Gold. Let's not forget that the Comcast hostile takeover attempt was inspired by the idiot nephew as well. Twenty years earlier Gold and Disney used the same...