Sirwalterraleigh
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I think he’s running it like he believes the BS he was fed over the last ten. Which results in the same thing
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News Disney plans to accelerate Parks investment to $60 billion over 10 years
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I think they should issue a statement that says “we’re not contracting right now because things are contracting right now,”
JoeCamel
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Bob is a magician, just magical, maybe even turbocharged!
el_super
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Sounds like he pretty serious about park expansion.
JoeCamel
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After he's gone......
Nubs70
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Only took a proxy fight to get him to be serious.
So serious that he announced plans to spend money long after he’s allegedly going to retire. For good. Seriously. This time he means it. For real. Seriously.
lazyboy97o
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What Disney really needs is people on the board to argue against building things in the parks. That will get things moving.
Phicinfan
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For the record, all Iger confirmed is there is enough land to expand up with up to 7 Disneyland sized parks. No where I saw did he commit to any specific add to any specific park.
You have to read what is stated, not what is implied by those reporting what was stated
John park hopper
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What was Igers point of saying "there is enough land to expand up with up to 7 Disneyland sized parks." If not to give false hope to Disney fans.
Andrew25
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Considering how few, if any, projects were under Chapek, it doesn't surprise me to see they are finalizing plans and can't really provide any details just yet outside of obscure broad comments.
D23 is their last chance to convince us that they are actually doing something with the parks and not just providing blanket statements.
D23 is their last chance to convince us that they are actually doing something with the parks and not just providing blanket statements.
Phicinfan
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Define false hope. Do I expect at some point they could expand existing footprints of parks already in the next 20 years yes. Do I think anything will happen in multiple parks in the next 2 nope.
el_super
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Not at all. Expanding the parks was the inevitable conclusion of ... well just about everything that has been happening over the last 10 years. There was a clear progression from building Shanghai, buying up Paris, building multiple Star Wars lands and eventually re-tooling all of the APs and discount programs.
I think it's clear now from Iger's POV that the admission retooling efforts are seeing the right results. There is more growth in revenue to be had in parks, confirmed by the outrageously good financial results they have seen in the last year.
el_super
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The parks are doing extremely well on the financial side, and Iger is indicating their desire to acknowledge and leverage that. It's just good business.
Disstevefan1
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I know Iger has no intention to build seven lands, you know Iger has no intention to build seven lands but casual fans may take what Iger says as Iger is planning to build seven lands.
He is just throwing out a sound byte so that folks misunderstand it and think he is going to build something.
When you think about it, saying they have enough land to build seven lands is like adding insult to injury, "We have the land to build seven lands but we really don't want to, we rather use our money elsewhere, like making "important" movies.
SamusAranX
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Did they not learn from ETR: UNM?
James Alucobond
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Even though they clarified what he actually meant, I am still unclear on why people have trouble believing that seven or more lands could be completed within the decade-long scope of this thread. That is not even out of the ordinary. The question is whether they’ll build what you want in the park you want and not bulldoze something else to build it.
As has been mentioned several times: It was in response to "fans" thinking that there was no room for growth at some seemingly 'land locked' parks. And it was a repeat of an earlier PR which was touting the ability for *every park* to expand capacity as part of the proxy battle. The point was growth. In the last interview in which Iger sloppily restated this capacity for growth, he used the word 'growth' at least 20 times.
It was all geared for investors. And partly for park fans despairing of any new growth or capacity.
So, this statement was not about planned growth.
It was the previous statement of $17B in investment in WDW, and $60B in all parks (with 70% reserved for increased capacity) which was the 'promise' of new stuff for parks. Within a decade.
Well, 70% of the $60B is supposed to be for new capacity and not a raze-and-rebuilt.
We hope.
Disstevefan1
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I agree there is not enough Moana. I think all attractions should be rethemed to Moana, examples:
It's a water world - starring Moana.
Moana's water funnel spin.
Moana's Water Jamboree.
Moana's Big Thunderstorm railroad.
Moana's river cruise.
Mad water balloon party - starring Moana.
Moana's underwaterharMagic.
Moana's flight over water.
Many adventures of Moana.
Moana's rainstormer.
Moan's family tree.
Moana's haunted undersea shipwreck.
Moana'a Hall of Demigods.
Magic flying canoes of Moana.
Moana's people mover canoes.
Under the sea - Journey of Moana.
Moana's Enchanted water grotto.
Moana's Carousel of water conservation.