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News Bob Iger is back! Chapek is out!!

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Skywise

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MrPromey said:
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)
 
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Skywise

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MisterPenguin said:
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.
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Only at the beginning of the series, not the end when it lost viewership.
 
Disney Analyst

Disney Analyst

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Casper Gutman said:
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?
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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

MerlinTheGoat

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Sirwalterraleigh

Sirwalterraleigh

Premium Member
Disney Analyst said:
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…
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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??
 
MrPromey

MrPromey

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Skywise said:
It's not a great movie but Meet the Robinsons grows on me with each viewing. (unlike, say, Treasure Planet)
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Can't say I was a fan of Treasure Planet but regarding Robinsons - I have a child and have it on Blueray (thanks to forgetting for way to long to cancel my move club membership about eight years ago) and honestly, I think less of it every time I see it.

The concept is good, the message is good, it had a few really cool scenes but I could make a list of all the things I felt were off about it and believe me, I've had to sit through it enough to have made that list in my mind a few times over.

I'm not talking Home on the Range bad but still bad in my opinion. (and also, the last movie from that chapter of Disney's animation history)

... But I like plenty of stuff other people hate so I'm not about to consider myself the arbiter of good taste.

... Unless you also liked Good Dinosaur. Then there's something wrong with you. 🙃
 
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MerlinTheGoat

MerlinTheGoat

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Elijah Abrams said:
Is there also hope for Splash Mountain to stay as-is now that Chapek is gone?
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Not at all. The decision to remove it was in the works before Chapek became CEO. If anything, Iger was likely more responsible than Chapek for getting rid of it. It's closure is also imminent and the replacement concept/budget finalized. Outside of budget cuts DURING construction (which you should hope doesn't happen here), they're not altering course.

If what I heard is accurate, the current concept of the ride (apart from the salt mine backstory) is also sounding a lot better than what they had in mind prior. Allegedly it has a much greater budget, the proposed story/script has even skeptics impressed, and apparently they are going to retain the old animatronics and add even more to the roster. We'll see, but it's the only decent news i'd heard about the ride. The prior concepts called for a super low budget and removal of most/all animatronic figures.
 
MisterPenguin

MisterPenguin

President of Animal Kingdom
Premium Member
Skywise said:
Only at the beginning of the series, not the end when it lost viewership.
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It is amazing the factual things you keep getting wrong. According to Nielsen's top ten for new shows in millions of minutes watch.

434 - first week, first 2 episodes dropped
376 - ep. 3
431 - ep. 4
589 - ep. 5
596 - ep. 6
720 - ep. 7
732 - ep. 8
924 - ep. 9 finale
388 - next week people catching up
252 - next week people catching up

You can see how it most definitely did not fizzle out.

What exactly are your sources of information which have been so thoroughly misinforming you?
 

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