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Something like that needs to be centered. Shoving it off to the side is a bit awkward from a symbolic perspective.

Beware: purist incoming. It's pretty heavily implied. Ghost Host says, "Of course, there's always my way," and you see what appears to be a suicide. While it kinda changes things, it's not something that needs to be super-obvious. For one, it's a bit macabre to make it obvious, and for...

del Toro's Haunted Mansion lives. He did an AMA, someone asked about it. The paraphrased version of his response is that, two weeks ago, he went to Disneyland with some executives involved in the project. He is on the third or fourth draft of the script, but he's having trouble working out...

They have shut down attractions to move them across parks.

Screens. Physical effects impress me. Anyone can make a screen. Screens are fine here and there, but I worry that the big rides these days all bank on them so heavily. Harry Potter, Transformers, Ratatouille. The age of Haunted Mansions and Pirates of the Caribbeans is dead, and that's a...

Hong Kong was specifically mentioned, but this: As for payments, the idea was that the deal originally favored Universal because Marvel was incredibly desperate at the time. Disney would have a lot more incentive to buyout the contract with Universal if Universal's payouts turned out to be...

Section V, F. Only relates to deals based on park revenue, and Warner's deal does not, as far as I know. Fine, but that's really not the point. The point is that most of Asia is considered one unit by the Marvel/Universal contract as far as exclusivity is concerned.

I am not a lawyer, but there's a chance things have changed. Based on my reading of the contract between Universal and Marvel, if a third party comes to IoA (read: Warner Bros. with Harry Potter) and gets compensated based on park attendance/revenue/etc. (do they?), then Marvel must be offered...

The prequels are probably not the best example... Granted, they could have been worse, but.

This is interesting. I don't know if I can trust my cursory searches, but there are reports saying that waste-powered energy results in a net reduction in greenhouse gases (methane is produced in a controlled environment, then burned off for power, rather than the methane being released in a...

This is going to be a lot of spitballing. Very much a work in progress because I don't "get" Universal the way I "get" WDW. First: I hope you guys don't mind if I make a little power play here: assume Disney steps in and makes the arrangements necessary for Universal to use DC characters in...

'Tis true. Nintendo may have waited ~6 years before Earthbound got a Virtual Console release, but the intensely dedicated American fanbase forced their hand. Soon after Nintendo made it clear that Mother 3 wouldn't be released in the States, a handful of fans translated it and released a patch...

Crazy idea: open it in Japan, operated by Oriental Land Company and Imagineered by WDI in collaboration with Nintendo. As for areas I'd like to see: - Hyrule: I haven't played the games too much, but it's among Nintendo's top IPs and is ripe for theme park use - Mushroom Kingdom: Huge IP that...

Flying Saucers for Tomorrowland is a good move; after the overhaul it would have only a small handful of low ticket rides (the PeopleMover and Astro Orbiter), so I like that addition. I'd cut the waterpark budget to make it happen.

All of this is justified. - Buzz has some issues. I think it's a weird fit for the land; I'm re-envisioning Tomorrowland is a retro-futuristic land (i.e. Jules Verne). The replacement will be family-oriented, and gets rid of a second Toy Story shoot-em-up (we don't need two of those). - The...

I've done a $5 billion plan before, so I'm just going to take that plan and inject an extra $1 billion, plus some ideas I've picked up along the way. A few budget boosts (large and small) are included, as well as over-budget funds for each park (these are largely to make even tenths of a...

Things: "it's a small world" to EPCOT is something I haven't thought of, but it's absolutely brilliant. One of my biggest complaints at Magic Kingdom is that "Old" Fantasyland has lazy-looking exteriors. It's hard to re-purpose the old iasw building into something more in line with the...

It comes down to Tokyo or California, really. The other resorts all have yet to fill out their existing parks (that is, the ~$4-5 billion it would take to build a compelling fifth gate at WDW would be used much more efficiently by expanding the four that already exist). Even then, DCA should...

Personally, I like detailed lands. The reason: most lands that aren't rigorously themed are messy and suffer from identity crises; specifically, the entirety of Hollywood Studios, Tomorrowland, Fantasyland, and Adventureland. (Future World has identity issues now, but it used to be pretty...

Not enough traffic. Hawaii is a 5+ hour plane ride from any population of significance. Almost all significant populations are closer to an existing (read: filled-out) Disney resort than they are to Hawaii.