Currently, a Fox theme park is being built in Malaysia that is only 25~ acres. Could Disney compete with some of the regional northern theme parks by building small Fox parks now that they own Fox? I think it's an interesting idea that could work.
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Regional Fox Parks
- Thread starter EricsBiscuit
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lazyboy97o
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These parks are licensing deals and Disney is doing away with the last vestiges of its regional entertainment ambitions.
True but they could use regional entertainment as a hook to funnel people into the destination resorts. I think the implementation of DQ was a disaster and was a waning concept
There are actually 3 Fox parks being built. Malaysia, Dubai, and Korea.
POLY LOVER
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NO, you will just dilute your primary entertainment business. It's like fast food chains on every corner, their product is no longer special. Disney primary goal should be to make their product high quality and unique. When you do people will flock to your door.
lazyboy97o
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ESPN Zone was also part of those ambitions and the last one is not long for the world.
Regional parks aren’t going to funnel people to the Disney parks. You don’t get people to buy a premium product by offering them a seemingly unrelated, lesser product. You’re talking about parks that would have to be built for what Disney is paying for single attractions.
You'd have to build it at Disney quality but differentiate it from the destination resorts with the Fox logo/brand. It's like how in the 90s Disney made a ton of films but the big tent pole ones weren't diluted.
I disagree, I think that you can build them in places like New York with high population densities were most people don't go to Disney parks. I think there's a market for high quality parks up north (based on a hunch, no hard evidence i.e. data to back me up). If they enjoy the parks then they might be more inclined to go to the Disney destination resorts in FL and CA.
lazyboy97o
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You’re not going to get Disney to magically build Disney quality without Disney cost. $500 million would be high for a regional park and a Toy Story Land would eat up half of that.
nickys
Premium Member
Well I'm glad they're licensing deals then. Dubai has goodness knows how many theme parks being built, but there simply isn't the footfall for them to make any kind of profit. Most of them will likely fail within 5 years. Tourists go for a week tops, and there is a limit as to how many theme parks they will visit!
Malaysia, well it depends where it's being built. The main draw naturally enough are the beach resorts of the north, with Kuala Lumpur being a 2/3 day stop-over. Korea may end up doing best, but it's not a great time to be building it if it's underway already.
Cmdr_Crimson
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To be fair arcades were dying and theme parks are notYeah...They learned their lesson from this boondoggle...
Cmdr_Crimson
Well-Known Member
I think that was slightly misleading. I love DQ and spent many nights playing my dad at air hockey, but it was an arcade at heart.Not to how "They" were promoting it as shown on the brochure...
