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the.dreamfinder

the.dreamfinder

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Animaniac93-98 said:
Zootopia has the highest opening of any movie from Disney Feature Animation when not adjusting for inflation, but it still comes pretty close to what Lion King did back in 1994 (about $85 million in 2016 dollars) even when you do consider the difference in ticket price. As for overall attendence? I can't figure out a direct comparison.
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Speaking of which, if you have any desire to buy "The Art of Zootopia", I would recommend buying it on amazon(US) now. It's on sale for $24 and will very likely be hard to get in the weeks and months ahead. Just the art from Cory Loftis and Shiyoon Kim makes this an instant buy.
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Shiyoon Kim
The Art of Zootopia https://www.amazon.com/dp/1452122237/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awd_ywY3wbEM0Z41P
 
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RandySavage

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tfrog said:
I didn't see this being discussed, so fyi....

Head of HK steps down:

http://www.thestandard.com.hk/section-news.php?id=166998

Never mind, see it now...
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Tahu said:
New batch of Shanghai photos released. I'm loving the Davy Jones animatronic

http://shanghaiist.com/2016/03/08/shanghai_disneyland_sneak_peek.php
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Stepping down for Personal Reasons is typically Disney's euphemism for getting shown the door. Andrew Kam oversaw a steady stream of solid, quality investment in a park that opened with such a below-par menu. The bad results this year stem from the wider Mainland Chinese vs HKers issue, as amusingly demonstrated in the Shanghaiist expat comments section, which Kam can't really control.
 
Cesar R M

Cesar R M

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Tahu said:
It's more complicated then that. The Expanded Universe grew out of control, full of authors trying to one-up each other and publishing companies refusing to cooperate with one another. Full of dumb stuff like the sentient interdimensional meat cube, the unstoppable BSDM aliens from another galaxy, a succession of ridiculous superweapons, whatever the heck those "Glove of Darth Vader" books were, the video games about the Gary Stu Vader apprentice that can tear Star Destroyers out of orbit and founds the Rebellion, at least 12 different accounts of how the original Death Star plans were stolen, and authors trying to figure out what the Clone War was before the prequels came along. And this 30 years of storytelling was barely held together with a tier system ranking importance and doesn't necessarily mesh when trying to put it together.

In going forward with new movies and television, it was just easier to get rid of that material and start over again from the movies and Clone Wars, pulling elements from the old EU into a new continuity that makes a little more sense and has stories that can now be informed by the larger picture of the prequel era (which saved a bunch of EU concepts during the Clone Wars series). Rebels has already been bringing back elements of the old West End RPGs and the Knights of the Old Republic games. And unlike last time, you have Lucasfilm Story Group functioning as Editorial to make sure all these new stories mesh and connect, and its full of people who have been working on Star Wars stuff for years and would probably love to see some old EU stuff return.

The expanded universe/Legends isn't dead and totally abandoned, it's a Dreamport and Idea Bag for authors and writers to pull elements from.
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sounds exactly like Star Trek fanfictions and most "novels" lol.
 
Cesar R M

Cesar R M

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the.dreamfinder said:
Speaking of which, if you have any desire to buy "The Art of Zootopia", I would recommend buy it on amazon(US) now. It's on sale for $24 and will very likely be hard to get in the weeks and months ahead. Just the art from Cory Loftis and Shiyoon Kim makes this an instant buy.
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Shiyoon Kim
The Art of Zootopia https://www.amazon.com/dp/1452122237/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awd_ywY3wbEM0Z41P
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speaking of "sales".
I noticed that once Boxofficemojo published the record settings of zootopia.. the darn Bluray preorder hiked 10 USD from the average price.
Wow.
same as the book, but it quickly dropped again.
 
cheezbat

cheezbat

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sshindel said:
I find it quite humorous that you complain about non-investment in WDW while listing over a billion dollars in investment in WDW (and don't forget about all the investment in the shopping mall and the recent investment in MK for NFL/Hub!).

paging @ford91exploder to mention percentage of CapEx ;)
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I'm sorry but the current investment is about a decade overdue. Most of this should have happened around 2007-2008. Instead, they've waited and let the parks slowly decay and now the wait times are ridiculous and we have three parks seriously lacking capacity eating attractions. (And the hub? Geez wasn't that a time consuming job!)

The cruise ships are fine and all, and I expected new ones soon enough.
 

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