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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HauntedPirate" data-source="post: 8695943" data-attributes="member: 3992">Placing movie IP into the parks can be done and done well, when it's well-placed, appropriate, etc.  However, P&R management views every problem as a nail and their only tool is a hammer - movie IP.  You can guess the rest.For example:GotG coaster - Good concept and ride potential, terrible placementMMRR - Good concept and ride potential, terrible placementTron coaster - Good concept and ride potential, terrible placementSW:GE - Good concept and ride potential (someday...), appropriate placementDisney thrived for decades on creating new things (and yes, I know they borrowed from fairy tales and presented them in their own way), of pushing the envelope and doing things "the Disney way".  They don't seem to be in that mindset much anymore and are relying almost solely on acquired properties to pump the P&R bottom line.  Such things as PotC, HM, much of EPCOT Center, Space Mt, BTMR, et al., are/were timeless, classic, and quintessentially Disney.  Hard to find that sort of thing these days, when quarterly numbers are all that matter and every square inch of the theme parks has to generate a profit.  They were a creative company that used to lead by leaps and bounds but has slowly regressed to the mean, relying more on retreads and remakes and acquired properties and shoe-horning things in wherever they can than creating that timeless content they were once known and revered for.  And since the masses these days eat up whatever TDO feeds them (it's a cultural thing, not going to get into it again here), there's zero chance things will change.  And no amount of posts on an internet forum is going to change that.</blockquote>

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