I don't think he says Imagineering hates Avatar. If I remember correctly he says they are determined to wow people with Avatarland. With the kind of things that they could do with Avatar you would think they would be excited. It will be the first theme park with floating mountains
maybe they mean 17,000 bus cycles per day(or week) for all the total 300 buses?
Or possibly bus seats?
It was a pretty passive "challenge".
Simmons suspension seems more like a warning for the other personalities/anchors to keep quiet on this subject than a punishment of Simmons for cursing and taunting management.
No I've listened to several of his recent podcasts and Jim says imagineering just wishes they didn't have to do this project they would rather be working on Star Wars or something. He has said they wouldn't have done this deal if they would've known they would own Lucas. That's what I heard at least.
I don't think he says Imagineering hates Avatar. If I remember correctly he says they are determined to wow people with Avatarland. With the kind of things that they could do with Avatar you would think they would be excited. It will be the first theme park with floating mountains
the last time I listened to a pod cast from maybe 1 (Disney 5 year plan) month ago he specifically mentioned how excited they were about avatar
Well okay, I'm not saying they hate it, they just wish it could be something else I guess. I'm actually very excited for avatar and what they may be able to do with it. Jim has just mentioned a few times that if disney would've known they would own Lucas they wouldn't have mad a deal with James Cameron.
it was episode 62 when it was briefly mentioned
I know I did listen to that episode. I guess I was just basing it on what he said today. jim did one of his well... Imagineers wish they would've known they would have Lucas film at their finger tips.
I'm not sure how true this is, but i've read some places that Disney actually lost the license to Tarzan. If that's true, then i'm not sure what they're allowed to do with Tarzan anymore besides rerelease media they've already made and keep existing park attractions open. The only Tarzan character I ever see at AK is Terk (i found a post about Tarzan and Jane making a rare appearance last year but this seems to be practically unheard of nowadays). Terk wasn't from the original books and i'm guessing is a Disney owned character. And in the Disney Infinity video game, apparently only Tantor and one of the minor ape characters called Flynt are featured in the game (i don't think Tarzan, Jane or any other characters from the movie or books are present).
They've begun land preparation for the foundation at least. Apparently no vertical construction started yet, but i'm guessing it's happening regardless. Don't know if they can cancel the project at this point in time. I've not heard of a project getting this far being canned (then again they did build unused ride buildings for several of the World Showcase pavilions so I guess anything is possible).
That sounds like his typical dancing around pointing blame at the leadership. The idea for acquiring the Avatar rights originated above Walt Disney Imagineering and Disney already had the theme park rights to Star Wars and Indiana Jones.
