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The most under rated reason. At this point we only see movies in the theater one or two times a year. Additionally, we only go to showings early in the morning because it seems to be the best way to minimize the number of morons attending. Honestly, why on earth would I want to pay any amount...

Perlmutter would have been a disaster, and I am still surprised people think he would have been useful in any way shape or form. He was a stockholder and corporate raider who was only interested in squeezing out more profit. As for the rest, I saw your later explanation so deleted my original...

From a strictly buy and hold point of view it certainly hasn't done well but they aren't the only one. Comcast for instance is also hovering right where they were 10 years ago. Some of it may be management, though I doubt that because no matter what we think, Wall Street seems to like Iger. It...

You say this as if they should have just rolled over and accepted that linear was dying and do nothing about it. Maybe it never hits the heights of broadcast (personally, I don't think it will) but it seems odd to think they they shouldn't have tried something. They just started turning a...

How did he engineer his return?

Didn't they shift away from Disney back in 2020/21? I seem to remember it moving to Universal around then and them getting tickets, some lodging and parties in the parks.

No doubt. Again, Iger isn't blame free here, I just push back on the notion he had any real control over Chapek or how that situation was ultimately going to turn out.

Except he did. I provided a partial list above of exactly the kinds of decisions he made that had a major impact and lead directly to him being shown the door. Now, ignoring the quality of those changes for a moment, maybe that is an indictment on how Disney runs in general that quick change is...

Let's set aside that it was set up that way on purpose to calm investors as Chapek was considered too raw to handle a company as massive as Disney in that situation (heading into Covid). We can also ignore that Iger did leave completely after his allotted "mentoring" time was up and was reduced...

Exactly. We have Iger right now because Chapek was a disaster. The notion that somehow he made Chapek make an amazingly bad string of terrible decisions is ridiculous.

Still too much credit. Now opportunistic, absolutely. You don't get to be a CEO without some of that. That he somehow was controlling Chapek is a bridge too far.

You give Iger WAY too much credit as an evil mastermind.

Not at all. We were planning on going later this year to check out EU and catch whatever they end up doing for the holidays but ended up canceling the trip because their ticking setup turned us off. Even if we don't make it this year, I still very much want to see what they do.

Yet they failed to comprehend the impact of rain and thunderstorms?

Shuttering parks would be pretty extreme given their history with the only times I remember being hurricanes and 9/11. Things would have to be significantly worse than the savings and loans mess, the dot com crash, the housing bubble or post Covid for them to start something like that. Now...

You all need to stop before you make me bust out the scientist Salarian version.

Agreed, but at least the timing starts to make sense if they do open it early.

Of course they have to start construction. No one said they didn't. What they are saying is that unless this area is going to reopen early, they didn't need to start this part of the construction this soon. Therefore, Muppets could have remained open longer. Now if they do end up opening this...

It is only a construction zone because Disney wanted it to be one. They could have done this later if they wanted to, they just didn't. Maybe it was to save money on construction, maybe it was to save operational costs, maybe it had nothing to do with money at all, we don't know, but it didn't...

As entertaining as it can be, any chance we can leave the political commentary out of this? I'd like to actual discuss this kind of stuff in terms of how it will impact WDW and Uni and not have it poof before we can even get started.