Snoogans...Most logical way to go:
I'm out of touch on a lot of things in this bizarre future decade of the 2010's. But one example, I still call them "stewardesses". They honestly don't seem to mind, and I still get a wink and an extra
As for soccer, I get it. It's hip. I've been to a couple Timbers games up in Portland the last few years, and it doesn't get any more hipster than a Timbers game in Portlandia. In drizzle. Wearing a scarf. And for the last one I stayed in the Ace Hotel the night before the game. Try to out-hipster that.
But I'm also old enough to remember the fashionable soccer-is-breaking-through! talk at WASPy upper-middle class dinner parties in the late 1970's. Soccer was really going to become America's Game back then. It was going to happen. Also the Metric System. Neither happened.
The TV ratings for soccer games in this country continue to drift somewhere below Real Housewives of Orange County, yet above reruns of Match Game '74 or that evening's Rachel Maddow Show. I think it was probably wise for TDO to close the temporary soccer store in Disney Springs.
I'm a little confused by this news because I thought Marvel couldn't open its own retail store within 60 miles of Universal. So is it legally okay for Disney to operate a Marvel store in Disney Springs as long as they don't call it "The Marvel Store" or some such?
It would have been considered a theme park in the same way Disney advertises Disney Quest. As an interactive theme park.
The contract says that the "Marvel Action Universe" may include simulators/virtual reality, but it doesn't necessarily have to. That was the source of my confusion.
But there are three United World Soccer stores in American shopping malls. While betting on stores is illegal, many people appear to be shopping at them. And, as @wdwmagic noted in the post, the temp store at DtD may well be replaced with a permanent one.
Ah, yes. Our refusal to adopt a logical, cohesive system of weights and measures. American exceptionalism at its worst.
The concept would have been themed entertainment, and given the language could have been quite large in some locations. That is why the concept is banned within 60 mi and the simulators banned within 300 mi.
Just the man I was hoping to hear from....thanks to you and @danlb_2000 for clearing that up.
Hey, they are going back to the mall.. How about an outdoor mall? Uh, uh? Kevin Smith, you listening bro????
*sigh* Well, I suppose I must explain. You see, Disney didn't use to be a warehouse full of well-worn already-developed franchises bought in order to exploit their merchandising. It used to be a creative company that bought the rights to books and concepts and then developed them itself for the big and small screen, giving them the special Disney magic that pretty much guaranteed that they'd live forever. That's the difference between acquisition and artistry, and that's why putting Marvel in any Disney park is about as appropriate as a turd in a punch bowl. Class dismissed!
And this again.
Nah, disagreed. Disney's always been about using popular stories and media and making them its own; even as far back as Bambi, it was buying a currently-popular novel and adapting it (very very loosely!) to animation.
