Ya know I've always wondered how long you'd have to be a dreamer sleeper cell in the wdw company. Would you have to make it all the way to igers position before you showed you care about quality over price? The board? They'd probably can you even then, and by that point you'd probably be so jaded about the business you wouldn't care anymore. It's a shame, I wonder how many of these people 'lost it' along the way as opposed to never had it
The site will cover 963 acres in Pudong, Shanghai, or approximately 3 times the size of the Hong Kong Disneyland Resort, at a cost of 24.5 billion yuan (US$3.7 billion) for the new theme park and an additional 4.5 billion yuan (US$0.7 billion) to build other aspects of the resort. 43% of the resort will be owned by TWDC and the remaining 57% will be owned by the Shanghai Shendi Group, itself a joint venture of three companies owned by the Shanghai government.
$2.15B
I hate that SOB, but he does happen to be the CEO and sadly my shares don't make a dent in voting for a new one.
The part about adding attractions is.
I dont think Disney would let any Joe Public know, that they are dealing with commies. And how a "Full Fledged All-American brand" park is more than half owned by the Chinese.
If Disney doesn't want the public to know these things, they've truly failed. Indeed, it's pretty hard to build something in China without the public knowing you're dealing with communists. The public ain't that dumb.
At least TWDC isn't dealing with the Islamic Republic of Iran. Shanghai has some autonomy better than that on the mainland. But yes it still is communist, yet We "The People" a.k.a. our elected officials are dealing with commies and Islamic radicals everyday so no big deal if Disney builds in Asia. It's a business like any other. After all more than likely the thing you are on commenting about this was built in "Communist China".
I only backed up the potions that are backed by other sources, and expressed skepticism about those that aren't (the $3bil budget, Indy clone).
Yes, I considered mentioning that the blog post in question seemed to be cribbed in good part from here. But since I also steal a lot of info from this forum, I thought it might seem hypocritical ;-)
I like to say that we are all blind men trying to describe an elephant, everyone has a perspective on different parts but no one can see the whole thing.
Bad year for frozen OJ in China. And who's been puttin' they Kools out on my flo'?!!!
