I thought this was interesting - excerpted from an interview with Disney CEO Bob Iger in the Wall Street Journal. Looks like we'll get more Disney parks/ideas worldwide, but not much new in the current parks:
WSJ: What are your plans for the theme parks? Are you planning to expand the existing parks?
Mr. Iger: We're not currently planning that. There will be more parks built around the world. I can't say exactly where, although we've said publicly we've been in discussions about Shanghai for a long time. That will end up getting resolved fairly soon. There are three or four entities in the world, locations with money, that are looking for site-based entertainment, I'll call them theme parks but they won't necessarily be along the same lines as parks we've built before. I would guess, not necessarily in the next few months, but in the next year to two years that we will commit to creating a new concept or some entity outside the U.S.
Rest of the article touches on animation, selling ABC shows on the iPod, and the culture of Disney. It's on the Wall Street Journal website, though I believe you have to be a paying member to read it. (I'm not going to post the whole article here for obvious reasons).
WSJ: What are your plans for the theme parks? Are you planning to expand the existing parks?
Mr. Iger: We're not currently planning that. There will be more parks built around the world. I can't say exactly where, although we've said publicly we've been in discussions about Shanghai for a long time. That will end up getting resolved fairly soon. There are three or four entities in the world, locations with money, that are looking for site-based entertainment, I'll call them theme parks but they won't necessarily be along the same lines as parks we've built before. I would guess, not necessarily in the next few months, but in the next year to two years that we will commit to creating a new concept or some entity outside the U.S.
Rest of the article touches on animation, selling ABC shows on the iPod, and the culture of Disney. It's on the Wall Street Journal website, though I believe you have to be a paying member to read it. (I'm not going to post the whole article here for obvious reasons).
