News Bob Iger is back! Chapek is out!!

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Lilofan

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TQQQ said:
Current wait times in HS:

ToT: Temp closed, Genie+ gone
Toy Story Mania: 120 mins
ROTR: 145 mins
Slinky DD: 160 mins
RnR: 120 mins
MFSR: 110 mins
MMRR: 100 mins


SO MINIMUM WAIT TIME RIGHT NOW IS AND HOUR AND 40 MINS

I don't think they've done a good job at managing attendance at the parks

But your family of 5 could have paid $145 for Genie+ and then another $125 for ROTR for a total of $270!
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Merchandise and foods teams can be trying to sell items to guests standing in line all that time not spending money
 
DCLcruiser

DCLcruiser

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HauntedPirate said:
You're reading waaaay too much into Joe's comment (one made when he was still an employee, so if you asked him now, he may have a different response). The problem with the yeti was unexpected and unforeseen and was very complex. It's not timely to replace the yeti, because it's not going to be something they do overnight, it would be months of downtime. But at least one potential replacement was designed years ago. The yeti has been removed a few times in the years after the ride opened, according to a few people around here I trust with such information, so it's not like they are in uncharted territory (or maybe they are, if all of the people who know about the yeti AA are gone).
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Dunno. Maybe. While I get that they are cheap, I believe Rohde when he says it wouldn't be easy.
 
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jpeden

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In the Parks
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Lilofan said:
Execs who left on their own have come back. Powell was fired and went to work for Airbnb .
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But I believe she was fired by Chapek because A. he saw her as a threat to his becoming CEO and B. he mad her the fall-person for Galaxy's Edge when it wasn't really on her shoulders.

Just throwing an option out there of someone who seemed to be liked by casts and helped really clean up the mess that was DLP for awhile.
 
Kirby86

Kirby86

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CaptainAmerica said:
I don't think that's true of Disney+ (or Peacock, ironically).

Netflix - Draw people in with Stranger Things and whatever binge drama or true crime documentary goes viral, but nothing to keep them around.

HBO - Draw people in with Game of Thrones, but nothing to keep them around.

Amazon - Draw people in with free 2-Day shipping, keep them around with free 2-Day shipping, doesn't matter what anyone watches.

Hulu - Attempt to be consistently good with FX content (The Bear, Reservation Dogs, Under the Banner of Heaven, Dopesick), but no major draw outside of The Handmaid's Tale, which has a super niche audience

Paramount+ - Pray that Taylor Sheridan can keep cranking out bangers

Peacock - Nothing to draw people in, but if they get some hits people will stick around to watch The Office and Parks & Rec for the thousandth time

Disney+ - Come for Mando, stay for the Library

Disney+ and Peacock don't need to spend on "sustainment" content, because they already have it. They need to spend on must-see blockbuster content that continues to bring people into the service. Once they're in, they're in. Churn should be much lower than most of these other services.
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Peacock needs that one big hit although they are makeing the Community Movie so they'll get one month out of me.

Paramount Plus is suprisng me with the turn around from CBS all access. However they made some good partnerships to drive that base up.

Hulu I think will get folded into Disney plus after Disney buys out Comcasts shares or Peacock in the unlikely event the opposite happens.
 
Sirwalterraleigh

Sirwalterraleigh

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castlecake2.0 said:
It just makes me shake my head, chapek closes Disney stores and radioDisney due to “changing consumer preferences” aka he couldn’t find any more ways to bleed money from them, but then there’s Disney+ just hemorrhaging cash. I think Disney Store definitely needed a slim down, but to close all but one in North America? And how much was radioDisney costing them to basically be a free commercial 24/7 for them?
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Every company is gonna shed anything remotely brick and mortar…Retail is always 10–15 years behind
 
CaptainAmerica

CaptainAmerica

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castlecake2.0 said:
Posted today in a group of former Disney Store cast members of a “Disney Store shop in shop”. Really hope this is something that is reconsidered.
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There are 2,000 Target stores in the US. I believe there were around 200 Disney Stores at their peak. 2,000 frumpy Targets are more valuable to Disney than 200 Disney Stores.

This was posted by "former Disney Store cast members." Random moms who see a disaster like this are going to blame Target, not Disney. Most people have no clue that the Disney section in Target is in any way related to the closure of the Disney Store.
 
Sirwalterraleigh

Sirwalterraleigh

Premium Member
jpeden said:
But I believe she was fired by Chapek because A. he saw her as a threat to his becoming CEO and B. he mad her the fall-person for Galaxy's Edge when it wasn't really on her shoulders.

Just throwing an option out there of someone who seemed to be liked by casts and helped really clean up the mess that was DLP for awhile.
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That’s on Iger too

Buy the biggest, most loyal juggernaut spending fanbase in movie history and make movies and park stuff without talking to ANY fans to get an idea of why they liked it?

Like it was neuroscience
 
DCLcruiser

DCLcruiser

Well-Known Member
TQQQ said:
Current wait times in HS:

ToT: Temp closed, Genie+ gone
Toy Story Mania: 120 mins
ROTR: 145 mins
Slinky DD: 160 mins
RnR: 120 mins
MFSR: 110 mins
MMRR: 100 mins


SO MINIMUM WAIT TIME RIGHT NOW IS AND HOUR AND 40 MINS

I don't think they've done a good job at managing attendance at the parks

But your family of 5 could have paid $145 for Genie+ and then another $125 for ROTR for a total of $270!
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Seems like a great reason to buy G+. Standby is very long. So, either no one is buying G+, or the wait times are inflated to entice G+ sales.
 
VJ

VJ

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Raidermatt said:
No. Eisner was horrible. The first 10 years he was in a power sharing arrangement with Frank Wells, and that is why things went (for the most part) well. Roy and the investors wanted Wells to run the company with Eisner as his second, brought in primarily for his Hollywood clout. Eisner refused to accept that arrangement, and Wells didn't have Eisner's ego, so they gave Eisner the CEO job with Wells as president, but with the unique stipulation that Wells reported directly to the Board, not Eisner.

Eisner was the face of the company, but it was Wells who kept it moving in the right direction.

The moment Wells passed, and Eisner became the sole leader of Disney, things began going awry.

This is not out of context, it is pure and simple truth. You can track all issues to that change in the power structure. Had Wells never been there, it likely would have been a complete disaster from the get-go. But fortunately that was not allowed to happen. By the time he had complete control, the company was no longer a takeover target (though Comcast gave it a shot in Eisner's later years).

Eisner was in many ways a different kind of bad than Chapek, but he was still bad.
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the only pro-eisner argument is "bu-bu-but nostalgia 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺"

he introduced the price hikes that the company is still doing today
 

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