Bob Iger returning to Disney as CEO?

ToTBellHop

ToTBellHop

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Aaronardo said:
There's nothing more on-brand for this man than this being one of the few freely-licensed, and therefore usable on Wikipedia, photos of him. It's literally the best one they can find.
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And here he is visibly perturbed at guests watching a cavalcade for “free”.

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Your $109/day buys you access to benches (*when available) and toilet stalls for 15 seconds per 2-hour window. Anything else will cost you!
 
dovetail65

dovetail65

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Iger was nowhere near as bad as some here make it seem.

1) January 24, 2006, under Iger's leadership, Disney announced it would acquire Pixar for $7.4 billion in an all-stock transaction.

2) In August 2009, Iger spearheaded negotiations that led Disney to acquire Marvel Entertainment and its associated assets for $4 billion. As of August 2014, Disney has recouped over $4 billion at the box office through the Marvel movies.[34

3) In October 2012, Iger signed a deal with film producer George Lucas to purchase Lucasfilm Ltd. for $4 billion following several months of negotiations. As a result, Disney acquired the rights to the Star Wars multimedia franchise and Indiana Jones.[37] Following its release on December 18, 2015, Star Wars: The Force Awakens grossed over $2 billion at the box office.

Roy Disney said of Iger: Animation has always been the heart and soul of The Walt Disney Company, and it is wonderful to see Bob Iger and the company embrace that heritage by bringing the outstanding animation talent of the Pixar team back into the fold. This clearly solidifies The Walt Disney Company's position as the dominant leader in motion picture animation and we applaud and support Bob Iger's vision.

All I know anything that Iger may have started or been aware of like charging for a new skip the line scheme fell and falls on Chapek. Chapek could of reversed course when he came in. It is debatable Iger would of ever gone through any of these so called in the works plans anyhow. That's like saying out current president couldn't change course on Afghanistan in the several months he actually had to change course once he saw what was happening, but not doing so blaming his predecessor for a deal the predecessor made a year before when things were completely different.

All I know is some of the best trips of my life happened under Iger's watch and the worst WDW trips have been under Chapek. Unfair maybe, but Chapek made decisions that I feel were blamed on Covid that looking back I feel may have had little to do with Covid. Covid was used as an excuse to make these changes that never could of happened under any other circumstance without enormous blow back. Chapek made the decisions during Covid that he made, so it's on him, period.

So for me Iger in heartbeat, no way he couldn't have done at least as well as Chapek has, in my eyes anyhow.
 
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ToTBellHop

ToTBellHop

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dovetail65 said:
Iger was nowhere near as bad as some here make it seem.

1) January 24, 2006, under Iger's leadership, Disney announced it would acquire Pixar for $7.4 billion in an all-stock transaction.

2) In August 2009, Iger spearheaded negotiations that led Disney to acquire Marvel Entertainment and its associated assets for $4 billion. As of August 2014, Disney has recouped over $4 billion at the box office through the Marvel movies.[34

3) In October 2012, Iger signed a deal with film producer George Lucas to purchase Lucasfilm Ltd. for $4 billion following several months of negotiations. As a result, Disney acquired the rights to the Star Wars multimedia franchise and Indiana Jones.[37] Following its release on December 18, 2015, Star Wars: The Force Awakens grossed over $2 billion at the box office.

Roy Disney said of Iger: Animation has always been the heart and soul of The Walt Disney Company, and it is wonderful to see Bob Iger and the company embrace that heritage by bringing the outstanding animation talent of the Pixar team back into the fold. This clearly solidifies The Walt Disney Company's position as the dominant leader in motion picture animation and we applaud and support Bob Iger's vision.

All I know anything that Iger may have started or been aware of like charging for a new skip the line scheme fell and falls on Chapek. Chapek could of reversed course when he came in. It is debatable Iger would of ever gone through any of these so called in the works plans anyhow. That's like saying out current president couldn't change course on Afghanistan in the several months he actually had to change course once he saw what was happening, but not doing so blaming his predecessor for a deal the predecessor made a year before when things were completely different.

All I know is some of the best trips of my life happened under Iger's watch and the worst WDW trips have been under Chapek. Unfair maybe, but Chapek made decisions that I feel were blamed on Covid that looking back I feel may have had little to do with Covid. Covid was used as an excuse to make these changes that never could of happened under any other circumstance without enormous blow back. Chapek made the decisions during Covid that he made, so it's on him, period.

So for me Iger in heartbeat, no way he couldn't have done at least as well as Chapek has, in my eyes anyhow.
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Bob, is that you?
 
dovetail65

dovetail65

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ToTBellHop said:
Bob, is that you?
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No it's me, but facts are facts.

  • Disney has earned more than $8 billion from sales of movie tickets this year, the most any studio has ever made.
  • The company’s net income has increased 404% under Bob Iger
  • The first three acquisition I mentioned alone have earned Disney more than $33.8 billion at the global box office

And I forgot about 20th Century Fox, he also was instrumental in acquiring them.

Even working with Cameron for Avatar and bringing an entire themed land based on ONE Movie, it wasn't like the Star Wars dynasty. Making the Pandora area based on only one movie as big as it was took guts and vision, it could of went badly easil/.

I just don't see the dissing the first Bob. That is a pretty good 15 years work and all while I was having the time of my life at WDW.

I think too man people dont like the guy personally or don't like him because he has a billion dollars, so what we all die. I don't really care about that stuff. His work speaks for itself and I eat it all up myself.
 
yensidtlaw1969

yensidtlaw1969

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dovetail65 said:
No it's me, but facts are facts.

  • Disney has earned more than $8 billion from sales of movie tickets this year, the most any studio has ever made.
  • The company’s net income has increased 404% under Bob Iger
  • The first three acquisition I mentioned alone have earned Disney more than $33.8 billion at the global box office

And I forgot about 20th Century Fox, he also was instrumental in acquiring them.

Even working with Cameron for Avatar and bringing an entire themed land based on ONE Movie, it wasn't like the Star Wars dynasty. Making the Pandora area based on only one movie as big as it was took guts and vision, it could of went badly easil/.

I just don't see the dissing the first Bob. That is a pretty good 15 years work and all while I was having the time of my life at WDW.

I think too man people dont like the guy personally or don't like him because he has a billion dollars, so what we all die. I don't really care about that stuff. His work speaks for itself and I eat it all up myself.
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If you really think the success of Pandora is due to the “guts and vision” of Bob Iger, you may be a little too lost in the sauce.
 

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