Bob Chapek Confirms Disney Will Overhaul Epcot

[DisneyGentlemanV2.0]

A year and a half after an official announcement and still no Future World spine movement......goodness....

Just because management is spineless doesn't mean it will carry-over to the park.

 

[Timothy_Q]

I would agree but not sure Iger was given a choice on NextGen. And they do sell a ton of Magicbands.

Do you ever get tired of spinning?

 

[MaxW]

Do you ever get tired of spinning?

No, just a little dizzy.

 

[jt04]

Oh man.

The CEO wasn't given a choice about a 2 Billion Dollar corporate investment?

Come on, dude. Enough.

If contacts were signed then I doubt it could have been reversed. The board would have the final say.

 

[jt04]

Just because management is spineless doesn't mean it will carry-over to the park.

People complained about Pandora in the same manner but not the final result. I'd bet SWL was in development starting about the same time as the Pandora announcement.

 

[twebber55]

Iger and Rasulo erroneously thought they were operating in a mature market and Potter partially convinced them otherwise. The infrastructure project was fueling that mature market mentality in hopes of better optimizing park operations and getting more money out of each guest. These were missteps and need to be recognized as such.

By no means would I have made the best decisions for the parks, but I was against Next Gen from the outset and if you gave me a $2 billion headstart (Next Gen cost) I could have made better park decisions than Iger and Co made over the last 13 years. This wouldn't have been Monday morning quarterbacking either, Next Gen was largely condemned from the start.

do we know this or could it be as simple as domestic spending wasnt happening until Shanghai was built. i mean since then domestic capital investment has sky rocketed. its easy for us to take shots from the cheap seats. i ve been a football coach for a long time and the old saying is as an assistant you make suggestions as head coach you make decisions.
its easy to have the answers when you re not in the game

this is not a shot at you but at all message boards

 

[DisneyGentlemanV2.0]

People complained about Pandora in the same manner but not the final result. I'd bet SWL was in development starting about the same time as the Pandora announcement.

Not complaining - just a play on words. Frankly, I've moved on to apathy.

 

[marni1971]

Oh man.

The CEO wasn't given a choice about a 2 Billion Dollar corporate investment?.

And the rest.

 

[yensidtlaw1969]

And the rest.

Not sure I follow

 

[montyz81]

Took him 9 years to make that decision though. Evidently he didn't have a brain for the first 9 years of his reign.

No he was busy building Shanghai

 

[lazyboy97o]

No he was busy building Shanghai

Bullocks. If the issue was resources then Disney wouldn’t have reduced the ranks of Walt Disney Imagineering after the park opened.

 

[HauntedPirate]

People complained about Pandora in the same manner but not the final result. I'd bet SWL was in development starting about the same time as the Pandora announcement.

Iger originally announced Pandora in 2011. Lucasfilm wasn't acquired until 2012.

 

[jt04]

Iger originally announced Pandora in 2011. Lucasfilm wasn't acquired until 2012.

Lucas was seen surveying the park years before he sold Lucasfilm. So I have always assumed one of the selling points was Disney committing to some sort of SWL for his legacy. Probably just back of the napkin sketches at that point but I think the ball was rolling* well before 2011.

*not an IJ pun.

 

[flynnibus]

Iger originally announced Pandora in 2011. Lucasfilm wasn't acquired until 2012.

Facts have never been in his favor

 

[jt04]

Facts have never been in his favor

https://forums.wdwmagic.com/threads...ucas-visits-disneys-hollywood-studios.618275/

 

[HauntedPirate]

They did Star Tours in the 80's, so why not just say Lucas had been scoping things out since then? I mean, if you're going to spin a tale, may as well make it a whale of a tale...

 

[flynnibus]

https://forums.wdwmagic.com/threads...ucas-visits-disneys-hollywood-studios.618275/

And he’s been there many times before that too... but kudos for finding someone to latch onto for generating new drivel.

 

[Cmdr_Crimson]

Again still waiting for the Future World Refurb like...

 

[jt04]

And he’s been there many times before that too... but kudos for finding someone to latch onto for generating new drivel.

We were getting plenty of hints in those days that a "Lucasland", as many here called it, was a strong possibility. Not many expected Disney to buy the franchise though. Or build something on the scale of Galaxy's Edge. Much less two of them. We were talking in terms of Skywalker Sound, a Cantina, and a Yoda interactive similar to Turtle Talk and maybe a d ticket dark ride.

It definitely predates anything Pandora as far as what our insiders knew.

 

[HauntedMansionFLA]

Again still waiting for the Future World Refurb like...

Doing something with the WoL pavilion would not interfere with the daily park guest visit at all.
Waiting for a new movie to go into The Land pavilion theatre.
Reboot Figment and the imagination pavilion plus put in a new 3D movie (perhaps Figment)