Very true. That list definitely is slightly misleading on paper and the length of the tour at the time does indeed make a difference. Even so, it's still a fairly weak opening day menu IMO. I remember going there that summer before Indy opened and it didn't take us all that long to see everything.
My apologies. You add those attractions in and it's a much different park. When you think about it, they added a lot to the park in those first five years, but I guess they kind of had to.
They rushed to get it open before Universal. DCA on the other hand took a decade to finish.
Not discounted - subsidized. You pay a lower price in exchange for a locked in contract term.. whose price includes dollars to offset the upfront phone cost. But this is changing.. carriers are switching to models where they charge full price for the phone, in exchange for no contract and lower monthly fees. (This is the AT&T Next program in a nutshell). For the most part, all they are doing is moving the phone subsidy out of the monthly contract price.. and asking you to pay the full price of the phone, even if on an installment program.
Carriers are fighting the old contract lock-in and EFT arguments... so their answer is 'fine, no contract.. no subsidy... and we pitch it as if you can get a new phone every 2 years'. sure, you can BUY a new phone as often as you like
Very comparable since both of them only use a fractions of what they used to.
I was talking about the personalities. The people are still around, notably Tom Staggs and Jay Rasulo.
OK, but I still feel strongly that they would have to take their cue from the man what am in charge. The interpretation of the Strategic Plan at this point would be in Iger's court. I'm not saying it's any different then with Eisner, I just don't know. I would think, considering the fact, that Iger has been all over buying up other properties that it has changed quite a bit from Eisner, who wouldn't spend the money on things that he thought they could do on their own. Such as Pixar.
What if one of those two becomes the man in charge?
Staggs started out with Disney with the strategic planning group in 1990 under Eisner. He rose up to run the group until he became CFO under Eisner in 1998. He was CFO until 2010 when he did the whole "trading places" bit with Jay. He was CFO for both the Pixar and Marvel acquisitions and with his Wall Street background I'm sure he had a big part of the financing for the deals. So while he was definitely brought up through the ranks under Eisner I don't think he seems to be opposed to Iger's plans either. Eisner did broker the deal to buy ABC when Staggs was still part of Strategic Planning.
Right, like I said... The strategic plan is different now then when Eisner was around. The original was set up under the supervision of Eisner and not necessarily the brain child of those two. It has changed and that is the way they flow now. Who knows what they really want, but, that is true with whomever gets in charge. I don't think either one of them are necessarily a shoe in for Iger's job.
I haven't been talking about a plan, but the Strategic Planning Group, the group of people that advised Eisner at his worse.
One way to look at it, but not at all what goes on with most acquisitive companies. Acquisitions are done because the buyer thinks it can do better than the seller. The seller has a business worth $4 billion. You buy because you think you can turn into something worth $6 billion. Iger, i think, believes that since Disney has done gangbusters creating content and monetizing it in every way possible, it can do the same with purchased content. So Disney continues to create content (Frozen, Disney Channel movies, Cruise Line, etc.) and make much money off of it. But creating content takes time, while buying existing is quicker. And if Iger is right, and Disney can monetize content better than others whether that content is Disney-created or not, the Company makes more money by buying other content in addition to making its own.
