Jrb1979
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Less content is one way to profit. Lol.
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News The Walt Disney Company Board of Directors Extends Robert A. Iger’s Contract as CEO Through 2026
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What Iger said three quarters ago is finally registering with some people.
Jrb1979
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That attendance was down cause of the heat?
Disstevefan1
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Casper Gutman
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That never shut you up when Disney was building Star Wars Land or Avatar Land or other additions. It didn’t shut me up either. And it shouldn’t. New construction doesn’t excuse the dramatic decline in quality of what already exists. That’s true at Disney and it’s true at Uni.
Indy_UK
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Ah OK, so hit profitability finally on DTC and then slow down how much content to make for it which will prompt people to stop subscribing. Great Plan Bob
Jrb1979
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For Universal I give them the benefit of the doubt as they are building a whole new park. If it was just a land I would be hard on them too. I do get where you're coming from. The new Minion ride is filler and not good. The Studios park needs lots of work. After next year I can see them working on it if Epic does as well as expected.
Where I give Universal credit, even if the ride isn't great, it at least fits where they put it. Lately Disney has no rhyme or reason on where an attraction goes.
Nubs70
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This is acknowledgement that they are producing negative margin product. People do not want what they are making. So, just produce enough product to keep a market presence.
Sirwalterraleigh
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Really? Check my join date…
Sirwalterraleigh
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As much as yes men are part of the problem…yes
But Disney has operated more or less like an top down dictatorship for an even 30 years
That’s on Eisner and Bob
One created it…one drinks it every day like wine
Sirwalterraleigh
Premium Member
That’s their big gamble…the blue ocean nonsense…
All the streaming services lag when they don’t crank out new content…but Bob says the label only matters…so why not save the cost of content?
It’s so stupid…it’s actually what they sold themselves
Casper Gutman
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two years before Star Wars Land opened and a few months after Avatar?
Sirwalterraleigh
Premium Member
That didn’t cover the construction period
1. I love avatar…a fine addition (which is an actual addition)
2. I was very optimistic about Abrams land (I made an obvious mistake in retrospect)
…so I went to the one in Anaheim when there was one…then I went in Orlando
Now I’ve bypassed them on several trips.
Well built…but it turns out if the imagination says “meh”…the body follows
And galactic catastrophe reinforces that take
Sirwalterraleigh
Premium Member
Quizzically it is a bad service that they were very late to the party and haven’t done enough for…
No excuses for Comcast…if they wanted them which I’m not sure they do?
BrianLo
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I assume there will be some sort of consolidation on that end. Peacock and Paramount and maybe even Max. They (Peacock) just don't have the subscriber count to ratchet down content to make it profitable, nor the subscriber count to boil to actually pay for the content they have.
I think there was a very logical rational Bob had about running a 'very lean' service with 60-90 million subscribers, as was his original plan. 30 million on the other hand is just going to be a non-existent service soon enough.
200+ million and you can have yourself a Netflix kitchen sink like Chapek wanted.
Sirwalterraleigh
Premium Member
Well if that’s their thought…they’re backward
Content will drive subscribers…you don’t create it only after you have subscriber money
And service that doesn’t churn out content will bleed subscribers and money
It’s just the basic reality.
And I know - we live here outside of reality…where we have parks that they just jack prices while trying not to provide any justification. To the point we all accept it and they dont even bother trying to excuse it
World gone mad
Tha Realest
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Maybe because Universal didn’t sacrifice their box office as tribute to the Streaming Gods
Sirwalterraleigh
Premium Member
See I’m not sure I accept that explanation for Disney either…
I think they attempted to “reposition” their audience…failed miserably…and produced obvious crap in the process…
But that’s just me.
An interesting test case is about to be rolled out by Sony in a few weeks