News Bob Iger is back! Chapek is out!!

[marni1971]

I cant wait to hear from out UK friends when they wake to the news… @marni1971 specifically.

I just woke up. My iPad was bursting with notifications. This is going to be an interesting ride, not that I expect Iger to reverse any decisions.

 

[TwilightZone]

That’s why he needs to sell 20th Century Fox (Studios) because Disney is in a debt crisis right now!

Better yet...they need to rehire the talent behind Blue Sky. I am sure Disney and Pixar could use the extra animators... or at least give them to whatever studio animated Buck Wild and the new Wimpy Kid films.

 

[MisterPenguin]

It didn't gain them subscribers and viewership was low for both.

Wandavision regularly made Nielsen's top 10 for new series. So, that's how we know there has been at least 5.4B minutes watched.

After five weeks of tracking, Andor has 2.3B minutes watched and is also consistently making the top ten.

 

[Sirwalterraleigh]

How could anyone sleep with that awesome Elton concert on Disney+??

It was a really good live event, I was impressed.

…hockey was on

 

[Disney Analyst]

I just woke up. My iPad was bursting with notifications. This is going to be an interesting ride, not that I expect Iger to reverse any decisions.

In a few short months (weeks… one week?) everyone will be back to complaining about Iger.

The cycle shall continue.

 

[TwilightZone]

How could anyone sleep with that awesome Elton concert on Disney+??

It was a really good live event, I was impressed.

There's an Elton concert?
Which me questioning probably shows how poorly they are advertising it. Why?

 

[Skywise]

Robinson's was a troubled production.

The Pixar acquisition happened near the end of it and Lasseter stepped in with his new company roll to try helping punch it up but I think they knew that one was a bit of a lost cause.

Watching objectively, you can see how all over the place it really was.*

Two things I remember most vividly about my theater viewing of that one was the new Walt Disney Pictures intro and the way they kept hitting us over the head with the Walt line "... keep moving forward".

That last part, especially how it was used in the movie, felt like a message to the audience not to judge the future on the movie they had just seen (made by a different organization) from the past.


*I'll admit I liked the Tom Selleck meta joke, though.

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It's not a great movie but Meet the Robinsons grows on me with each viewing. (unlike, say, Treasure Planet)

 

[Disney Analyst]

There's an Elton concert?
Which me questioning probably shows how poorly they are advertising it. Why?

His final show in the US (according to him, ever) was tonight at the Dodgers Stadium.

It was livestreamed on Disney+ tonight.

 

[Casper Gutman]

In a few short months (weeks… one week?) everyone will be back to complaining about Iger.

The cycle shall continue.

Why wait?

The current Disney is the Disney Iger built.

I'm curious - is there one, single, solitary element of the parks that can be attributed to Chapek without any involvement from Iger?

 

[Sirwalterraleigh]

I just woke up. My iPad was bursting with notifications. This is going to be an interesting ride, not that I expect Iger to reverse any decisions.

That was the force that woke you up, Padawan.

Slow news night/morning

 

[Sirwalterraleigh]

Why wait?

The current Disney is the Disney Iger built.

I'm curious - is there one, single, solitary element of the parks that can be attributed to Chapek without any involvement from Iger?

Amen, reverend

 

[Skywise]

Wandavision regularly made Nielsen's top 10 for new series. So, that's how we know there has been at least 5.4B minutes watched.

After five weeks of tracking, Andor has 2.3B minutes watched and is also consistently making the top ten.

Only at the beginning of the series, not the end when it lost viewership.

 

[Disney Analyst]

Why wait?

The current Disney is the Disney Iger built.

I'm curious - is there one, single, solitary element of the parks that can be attributed to Chapek without any involvement from Iger?

It’s hard to know where Iger ends and Chapek began. There was such little time between them.

But everyone’s been celebrating all over the internet as if the Wicked Witch has been melted and a saviour has returned.

As if they all forget the same criticisms had been levied at Iger before he stepped down…

 

[MerlinTheGoat]

 

[Elijah Abrams]

Is there also hope for Splash Mountain to stay as-is now that Chapek is gone?

 

[TwilightZone]

Why wait?

The current Disney is the Disney Iger built.

I'm curious - is there one, single, solitary element of the parks that can be attributed to Chapek without any involvement from Iger?

Play Pavillion (possibly) going bye bye (or postponed) off the top of my head

 

[Sirwalterraleigh]

It’s hard to know where Iger ends and Chapek began. There was such little time between them.

But everyone’s been celebrating all over the internet as if the Wicked Witch has been melted and a saviour has returned.

As if they all forget the same criticisms being levied at Iger before he stepped down…

Chapek didn’t have enough time to really change much of anything…

Taken 5 years to build a clone of a roller coaster…

Da hell could he change in 2??

 

[TwilightZone]

Is there also hope for Splash Mountain to stay as-is now that Chapek is gone?

Splash was done under Iger, so I'd say no.

 

[Henry Mystic]

Is there also hope for Splash Mountain to stay as-is now that Chapek is gone?

I'd at least hope for a better direction. While it would be painful to lose Splash, the current direction looks awful, so while I doubt they would cancel it, fingers crossed it gets modified.

 

[TwilightZone]

In a few short months (weeks… one week?) everyone will be back to complaining about Iger.

The cycle shall continue.

I'd still say I prefer my metaphorical Disney ice cream Iger flavor vs. Chapeak flavor judging by what I've seen out of the two.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯