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I'm about there too, but more in general rather than from a theme park perspective. The moment when I decisively knew the company wasn't something I truly had a stake in anymore was Whitmire's firing. The boring assembly line live action movies that have been pumped out like clock work, the...

I live in China right now (Chongqing) and I can tell you that wheelchairs and strollers are almost nonexistent in this country. The elderly are all relatively fit and active, and if they aren't they're usually dead. Kids are carried around in baskets when they're too small to walk, then expected...

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA SHANGHAI WILL HAVE A WORKING YETI BEFORE FLORIDA FIXES THEIR OWN! I would laugh more if I wasn't crying.

I would say that stage acting in classics is much better training but sure. I like the Rock so this should be good. Luckily we don't have to worry about a Rock AA or anything being added since that costs money and Disney refuses to spend that. Maybe we'll get a Rock cardboard cutout in the...

Does anyone actually believe this? The commercial looks like the same type of content we get in any of the other Star Wars movies just without the main cast. You can talk all you want about making the "Saving Private Ryan" of Star Wars but when the whole hook of your announcement trailer is a...

I doubt it. In one of the pictures you can see the Rei Ayanami wig they had on display for the strange catgirls/kitsune display got moved into the wall of merch. Anyways, neat looking exhibit. I'll check it out.

Heh, I guess all shops aren't maintained as well as the ones in my area. Sorry about your bad experience. No surprise on the sellout, since I'm sure all shops ordered low. Marvel sent out a poster to every single shop on Diamond's list. I have one hanging on my wall right now, it's pretty cool.

Enh, not really. Most of the shops nowadays are hang-outs for college kids and hipsters. The "stereotypical clientele" tends to buy and get out. There is nothing worse than having to humour people who go on and on about how cool they are for reading comics and shopping at a comic store. I wish...

Basically the most important part, sales wise. I wrote a couple posts about the Figment comic and the business of comics in the Spirit thread, page 300. I'm not sure if I should copy/paste them here.

Ahhh, you just pinpointed the reason why the comic industry is dying! Thanks to good ol' Diamond Comics grabbing the direct market by the balls and holding them there in the 90s, comic books are almost exclusively found in specialty comic book stores. Kids now never buy comics because THEY ARE...

To be brutally honest, this probably doesn't mean anything. I've worked in a comic store for a while now and I know the business. The big two (Marvel/DC but especially Marvel) are notorious for doing "underprints". As in, they print less copies of a book than they know they will need so that it...

Yeah, I agree. I usually love HTF and all of the little bits and pieces he trickles out through tweets and such, but this whole thing is rubbing me the wrong way. He's being vague in the worst way, saying that something is coming but he won't tell what. Saying that is like a presidential...

HTF is usually considered the top Universal source. Occasionally he puts out some Disney stuff too. His record is pretty stellar.

Did you seriously just compare Tangled to Dinosaur? If anything, Tangled's best current comparison would be The Little Mermaid as the first great movie in what looks to be a string of winners. As for Frozen coming in, I'm surprised they would place it inside an already really popular ride...

I can't remember where, but I read somewhere that building something with Imagineering always costs more than building with anyone else because of the premiums they charge as an in house service.

Is that a model from Western River Expedition in that video? That hurts.

I refuse to believe this kind of stuff. The greedy studios say things like that all the time to try and undermine their profits and get tax breaks. If they knew that they wouldn't make much on Avengers they wouldn't have spent a ludicrous amount of money on RDJ. If they know that they won't make...

Nice to see you doing some more stuff like this, I miss you on the show.

McQueen is a corvette? I thought he was just a standard stock car and Jeff Gordon's character in the second movie was a corvette.

I'm gonna admit something here. Spirit is very right, there are people like that out there; my hero is and has always been Walt Disney and I certainly view him at almost a deity level. In my everyday life I always try to do things as I think Walt would approve of and respect. Disney parks are my...