It’s Disney’s Potter swatter, they want all the $$$ they can get out of it as possible. That’s why they’re ok with a billion dollar budget, they will suck as much money out of guests as possible.
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Sorry, Disney shouldn’t be UNI. Disney’s parks are THEME parks, not IP Multiplexes like UNI’s. Themes are timeless, multiplexes can’t even keep showing a film for more than two months these days. DISNEY should be the best DISNEY it can be.Yep let's praise Universal for a money maker in Potter but let's gripe about Disney wanting to make money on Star Wars. The HORROR!
Personally, as huge as Star Wars is, I wouldn't build a park entirely around it, even though you could. What they should have done was have different parks have different destinations, even if they were all their own land ideas and not from the movies. But then some dismiss the land because it isn't one specifically from the movies ... so they aren't going to win with everyone.
I love how some, like Ford, can spin the new land as a problem because it isn't a full park of SW. I mean ... LOL
You just now think Disney is an IP multiplex? Disney has been an IP multiplex for a long time.
IPs were channeled through THEME. Davy Crockett was channeled through the larger theme story of Frontierland. The Disney fairy tales obviously are channeled through Fantasyland. It’s not “hey, this ride is stale. What popular thing can we drop in here?”.
How many opening day attractions still exist at DL compared to USF?
Does that matter for your point? Your point was Disney didn't have IP infused parks until now but that's not true. Walt chose to build Sleeping Beauty castle to promote that movie before the movie even came out. IP has always been a part of the parks. I also think Disney IPs are much more timeless than Universal. Star Wars trumps anything Universal has even Potter.
To DHS? Kind of. Not as much in Disneyland even though it looks like the size of a tumor on Disneyland from an aerial perspective, the transitions seem to flow much more naturally in Disneyland than they do in DHS in my opinion.
I agree with that. I just feel your point before was that Disney hasn't relied on IP until now and that's not true.
Theme has traditionally been the foundation for the Disney theme parks. Parks have thesis’ that inform the park. Lands are based on themes, like Fantastland or TL, or theme stories, Frontierland and Liberty Square. Could Disney characters flow through these land? Yes, but they were bigger than any one group of characters.
UNI’s parks aren’t all that much different from the tram tour in Hollywood. They are a rotation of spectacular moments from famous films. There’s no thematic foundation holding them together except “ride the movies” or literature, but that’s basically fallen apart.
This stuff doesn’t seem that important, but it’s the fiber that holds it all together.
Not what I said. There’s a distinction to be made between a theme park, that can contain IPs channeled through theme, and an IP multiplex, where anything goes, provided you own the rights.
I still feel Disney is using their IPs better than Universal. Look at Jimmy Fallon for example and Fast and Furious. I will take a Toy Story Land and Star Wars Land over that all day long.
