A Spirited Perfect Ten

[WDW1974]

Also, a testament to the success of Drunkytown ... Studio Catering (the back restaurant) to be converted into a Star Wars themed lounge for Star Wars Weekends. Apps and drinks, full service.

I had a bit of a non-MAGICal experience at said location on Sunday night. Oops, not there, but the bar next door. We were seated enjoying a beverage and then talking and a CM came over and basically said to 'move your @rses away, we have a private group that has rented this area moving in, even though we're open for another 3.5 hours'. I think we should have complained at Guest Relations and demanded a free dinner with drinks at the Brown Derby for being treated like we didn't matter (PML fodder or not?)

 

[WDW1974]

So SW weekends will now be Drunkywood weekends instead...

I don't think it is just SWWs. TDO has decided that EPCOT is so successful at selling obscene quantities of overpriced booze to try and export it to DAK and Disney-MGM (yes, back to its rightful name since that hat is scrap!) ... There are bars and what I'd term pop-up bars all over those parks. And it does encourage people to drink more than if you had to search for a real bar. Could this be a cause for much of the obnoxious Guest behavior that has popped up over the last last decade? You betcha!

 

[WDW1974]

Anyone can serve dole whip at their establishment it is not Disney exclusive. Google it you can buy powdered mix also in orange mango and raspberry

I've enjoyed it (well before it was kewl with all the fanboi Twits, much like the upswing in fanbois suddenly loving tiki culture), but only with vanilla to off-set the tartness.

And to be fair, once you have it on the Dole Plantation on Oahu, complete with numerous toppings (Dole sundaes anyone?), it becomes very hard to enjoy a small overpriced cup in a sticky theme park.

 

[WDW1974]

Since when has Disney backed down from offering alcohol in recent additions? You can guarantee that there will be adult beverages.

Exactly what I've been talkin' 'bout.

DIS likes to sell booze. Just like timeshares. Or even vinylmation.

So much easier to make money that way than it is to actually add real reasons for people to come to your parks.

Just like all the Lifestylers getting excited about a Dole Whip with rum at the Spring Food and Booze Fest. I'm not saying I've brought rum into the MK and added it to a DW swirl in the past ... but I'm also not saying I haven't. The point is, it ain't a big deal.

 

[WDW1974]

wasnt @WDW1974 who coined the term "drunkytown" to specify the food and wHine at Epcot?

No, it wasn't.

I have my own list of terms coined ... some that I can even place out here and have ...

 

[WDW1974]

That's the problem, its an article from Moody's, hardly a source of mediocre information let alone anything pertinent. Besides, the stock buyback danger only could be a useful argument to companies like GE or Apple who purchase 50-90 billion worth of their own stock, Disney is nowhere near those numbers, no matter how much the faithful here wish to dispute it.

Buy DIS now, you won't find a better stock with more money making potential.

I think DIS is at or near its high right now. And when you are there, well, there's only one place to go. But I let @ParentsOf4 handle all my investments in my portfolio.

 

[Arthur Wellesley]

Is the new line in the fan community going to be that Walt hated trees and enjoyed vast swaths of empty hot pavement? I ask this because the biggest thing that stands out from a my quickee visit was how trees are being mowed down all over ... from the MK to the area behind it to the DD area, which apparently will soon have as many lanes in front of it as the 405 freeway, trees and greenspace are being removed.

We know what Walt thought about trees and their import, so I am waiting for some 'fan' here to tell me how he'd approve of how WDW is being built out.

Every time I see the colony of deer chowing down on the grass across from the FW entrance, I just wonder where are they living now since Disney keeps removing more of their habitat.

Well at least they still show that Timon & Pumbaa environmental public service film at The Land. So at least they appear to care. You know how it goes: Do as we say, not as we do...etc. etc.

 

[cheezbat]

The Sea World coaster...could be late this year. Maybe early next.
I haven't heard a timeframe.

I'm betting on it opening next year...same with Busch Gardens' new ride/coaster.

I'm guessing with the location described, it's quite possible that SW is getting a hypercoaster...or giga coaster? I'm very interested in this project.

 

[Next Big Thing]

The Star Wars films will be hits.

Does anyone think that Star Wars movies are "Disney" movies?

What about Avengers? Guardians of the Galaxy?

At this point, it's been long enough that when I think of Marvel or Star Wars, I think of Disney automatically.

 

[Tony Perkis]

Nothing like trashing films before they come out.

Reminds me of what a silly, loser of a film 'Guardians of the Galaxy' was supposed to be!

Comic book movies are a bit different in that there are a number of potential storylines at the filmmakers' disposal for adaptation. It's all there in the original source material.

Finding Dory and Toy Story 4? Pirates 5? Less defendable.

 

[Tony Perkis]

At this point, it's been long enough that when I think of Marvel or Star Wars, I think of Disney automatically.

This makes little sense to me. There is little-to-no noticeable Disney branding on Marvel films (let alone the Marvel films not produced and distributed by Disney, to which there are plenty), and Star Wars as we know it literally begins with the 20th Century Fox/Lucasfilm logo with the famous fanfare that sets up John Williams's classic score perfectly.

 

[Tony Perkis]

Disney, and pretty much all the studios have traded depth and resonance for complexity and slomosplosions. Complexity isn't depth and slomosplosions are AWESOME!!!! yet forgettable.

Even when Disney goes for emotion these days, which only happens with live action sports pseudohistorical docudramas, it feels like beyond pandering.

They got close with Saving Mr. Banks.

Disney has tried twice in the past 2 years to hit the Oscar-bait market during the winter season: Saving Mr. Banks and Into the Woods. Both very safe, very middling affairs.

 

[Next Big Thing]

This makes little sense to me. There is little-to-no noticeable Disney branding on Marvel films (let alone the Marvel films not produced and distributed by Disney, to which there are plenty), and Star Wars as we know it literally begins with the 20th Century Fox/Lucasfilm logo with the famous fanfare that sets up John Williams's classic score perfectly.

Every article I read seems to mention Disney along with it. Disney is always pushing their name alongside Star Wars or Marvel of late it's hard NOT to notice.

 

[Tony Perkis]

Every article I read seems to mention Disney along with it. Disney is always pushing their name alongside Star Wars or Marvel of late it's hard NOT to notice.

Yeah, I get it. They own it. But other than reporting the earnings during a shareholders' call, they pretty much leave both properties to be their own entities. The Disney logo didn't appear until the very end of the credits in the last few Marvel films, and there has never been a Disney logo on a Star Wars film.

I actually don't know what to expect when Star Wars 7 opens. The Fox fanfare transitioning to the Star Wars them is engraved in my memory.

 

[Next Big Thing]

Yeah, I get it. They own it. But other than reporting the earnings during a shareholders' call, they pretty much leave both properties to be their own entities. The Disney logo didn't appear until the very end of the credits in the last few Marvel films, and there has never been a Disney logo on a Star Wars film.

I actually don't know what to expect when Star Wars 7 opens. The Fox fanfare transitioning to the Star Wars them is engraved in my memory.

Well yeah, and i'm glad they do leave them to be run on their own. I wouldn't want Disney screwing up a good thing like the MCU because they stupidly wanted to take the wheel.

My point is I think of them as Disney, which was the originally posed question.

 

[Tony Perkis]

Well yeah, and i'm glad they do leave them to be run on their own. I wouldn't want Disney screwing up a good thing like the MCU because they stupidly wanted to take the wheel.

My point is I think of them as Disney, which was the originally posed question.

Feel free to associate the properties to Disney all you want. I just don't see it at all.

 

[Tony Perkis]

And that's just 2015. Here's some in 2016...

Kung Fu Panda 3
The Nut Job 2
Ride Along 2
Zoolander 2
Beverly Hills Cop
Batman v Superman
The Divergent Series 3
Snow White and the Huntsman 2
X-Men: Apocalypse
Neighbors 2
Independence Day 2
Now You See Me 2
The Conjuring 2
Ice Age 5

I have to say, half of these are just ridiculous...but it's a sequel driven world these days.

Zoolander 2. I'm there opening night.

 

[Tony Perkis]

The most popular blockbuster films tend to be the ones with the best special effects (Transformers 4 made over 1 Billion and so has Furious 7...I don't need to say any more)

You hit the nail on the head with TV shows. You want depth? You want emotion? Stop complaining about the films and turn on the TV (or Netflix). Heck even the new Daredevil show was fantastic, dramatic, and emotional.

Bingo, television, the current gold standard for provocative and capitivating storytelling. I think we are unfortanely one of the outside of the last great golden age (30 Rock, Breaking Bad, Sopranos, Mad Men, Parks & Recreation, The Wire....), but it's still the best source of emotional and gripping entertainment.

 

[Next Big Thing]

Feel free to associate the properties to Disney all you want. I just don't see it at all.

I don't see to it as Disney like it's all fairytales and pixie dust, but I still think of Disney just a bit with those now.

It doesn't help that before the Marvel sale, when Iron Man 2 came out, there was blatant homages to Walt Disney throughout the movie. I know Disney didn't have anything to do with that movie nor do they really with any, but Howard Stark basically being Walt Disney and the Stark Expo being the equivalent of the World's Fair is what really started to get Marvel and Disney put together in my head. And that was before there was even a sale.

 

[asianway]

Yeah, I get it. They own it. But other than reporting the earnings during a shareholders' call, they pretty much leave both properties to be their own entities. The Disney logo didn't appear until the very end of the credits in the last few Marvel films, and there has never been a Disney logo on a Star Wars film.

I actually don't know what to expect when Star Wars 7 opens. The Fox fanfare transitioning to the Star Wars them is engraved in my memory.

Lucasfilm put a fanfare on the new digital releases it was posted on one of these threads a bit ago