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Disneyland is still making use of assets more than 60 years old. Walt Disney World is fast approaching 50. These businesses have generated 100s of Billions in Revenue over their lifetimes. They have proven to be one of the best bets in business. While other consumer products and services have...

On my trip earlier this year, you should have seen the guests. They looked like they were miserable. Occasionally, you’d pass a family having a great time, but as a rule of thumb everyone looked glum. My traveling companion pointed out he heard someone say “let’s use our last FastPass and then...

No, it is not. What if the Amazon Marketplace had a bad quarter? Could you imagine Bezos going “crap let’s slowdown all Amazon Web Services servers to cut cost!” All AWS’s customers would be like “why do we have to put up with this garbage?” They would quickly look for alternatives and jump...

But why? Only toddlers and kids really enjoy the castle. The castle is for the kids! They like gold! It’s not a real castle- if you wanted a real castle you could go to Europe like adults do. Everyone knows it’s fake so they might as well load the castle up with more gold. You should see Hong...

Yes! Cinderella Castle needed a freshening up! I hope Disney does this castle next, it’s starting to look a little dated in my eyes: Definitely could use more gold! That would only happen if Disney let the gold paint fade. When has Disney ever deferred regular maintenance? 🤣

Dang, if this is true I’m both surprised but also not surprised. Replacing a nifty E-Ticket with Mission: Breakout! is both totally dumb yet totally Chapek. That leaves an interesting question though. As I understand it, the Hong Kong investment called for: 1) Moana stage show 2) Ant Man rebuild...

To the contrary on the Hollywood Tower Hotel. I would describe the Tower of Terror as hauntingly beautiful. The experience is absolutely nothing like that of a Star Destroyer. Why does someone go on Haunted Mansion or Pirates for the 50th time? It’s because it makes them feel something. Rise’s...

Yes! Now you understand (hyperbole notwithstanding)! My primary issues can be summarized by these questions: 1) Theme park environments, with few exceptions, tend to be interesting and exciting. Was it a good idea to build an attraction that specifically has a boring and understated setting...

I hope you don’t confuse our discussion with toxicity. Settings are by definition settings. Different settings can evoke different emotions and tell, but they are still settings. You are pointing to how well they executed the story they were telling. Look at my review, I totally agree. I’m...

Edit: I forgot to reply to @George Lucas on a Bench . Disney doesn’t understand that the Star Wars environments mostly stink. What makes Star Wars successful is the characters. Stormtroopers don’t make a good story. Great characters interacting with Stormtroopers make great stories. Thus, the...

I haven’t been on the Disneyland version, but I understand they’re identical. I wrote a review on the Hollywood Studios section, which I’ll repost here. To be blunt, I am absolutely not surprised that some of the Disneyland gang is weirded out by this attraction. This attraction lacks the...

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I’m speechless. They are so daft.

Nah, it’s going to hurt profits. Think fixed costs. Disney will still have to support its employees and provide benefits. The two resorts have approaching 20,000 cast members (10,000+ SD and 7,500+ HK). The assets will continue to depreciate without any revenue offsets. The resorts can’t be left...

I’ve got to disagree. The Monorails start and end the day. They represent first impressions and final thoughts. It would be like if you went out on a date and the car was nasty and broke down on the way over. The mini-golf could be fun, but breaking down again on the way home in the nasty car...

Thoughts from my last visit... The monorail’s problems are much bigger than poor maintenance. The general layout of the monorails were designed in the 1960s*. Since the 1960s, Americans have become fatter and utilize wheelchairs, scooters, and strollers to a greater degree. This results in...

I was at the Magic Kingdom Jan 2nd. It was busy as I expected. I had a Space Mountain FP and it took 40 minutes to make it onto the attraction. The poor standby line ballooned to 180 minutes. While that was bad, what really dismayed me was finding out they weren’t running Space Mountain at full...

What a fascinating attraction. It was at times spectacular and amazing. It’s easily one of the most impressive attractions Walt Disney Imagineering has ever created. Bob Chapek described it as the most “ambitious” attraction ever crafted for a Disney Park. I would be inclined to agree. What this...

The worries about attendance increasing drastically due to new attractions at Magic Kingdom are unfounded. People have tried to link Magic Kingdom’s 2010s growth with New Fantasyland. The two are largely unconnected. My hypothesis is that Magic Kingdom would have grown pretty much the same...

Everyone is taking this with a healthy grain of salt. I am surprised that Walt Disney World’s biggest geographic expansion hasn’t been mentioned. Just south of this new parcel, Disney has created a massive 270 acre new solar farm. While Galaxy’s Edge and Pandora are more exciting, the solar farm...