Igers meeting to the pres. to begin relations for filming in New Zealand, they have the largest of all tax breaks and they have a built in trained community that won't be in use much after the hobbit filming, now if he was meeting with the Tolkien estate we might be on to something. If the estate honors JRR's wishes Disney won't have anything to do with LOTR, but new line was technically a Disney subsidiary when the LOTR was filmed
What makes it worse is that Disney even has the Reedy Creek Improvement District which in the past enabled Disney to move so much more quickly than anybody else in the area.
I doubt they would call out the establishment by name in the legislation ... but the timing is very curious and the length of time it has taken to build the place only adds more ... speculation.
Most people that I know who visit WDW do so with a package deal. I'm not talking about the people on this board, but the families who go one time or occasionally. They get a package that includes free dining in some cases and park tickets along with their room. They have no idea how much a single day park ticket went up from last year. When Disney sells them the package they say if you book 7 nights in a room with us and buy a magic your way park ticket we will throw in free meals. They will tell you that your 7 day ticket averages a cost of $41 per day which is over a 50% savings from the regular price of $89. Then they will tell you that free dining would cost your family of 4 over $1,000 for the week. Most people feel like they are getting a great deal when booking this way since the park tickets are half price and the meals are free. They don't realize that the room rate is much higher to make up for it.
Orlando Sentinel said:
Okay, that makes a bit more sense ... the placement of Rocket Tower Plaza makes it seem an unlikely candidate for demolition, though. That would really alter/congest traffic patterns in an already congested part of the park.
Huh, wasn't aware that the WWOS bowling lanes would be for vacationers too. Two competing bowling alleys on property seems... odd. I'm a Walter Sobchak-level bowler here but I didn't see that demand coming.
Sarcasm on the net, whateverIt was a joke, hence the
Do you know specifically that this is Splitsville? I believe the exact quote was "giant bowling complex", which sounds more like the one for WWoS that was supposed to bring in tournaments. That's the kind of thing you get tax breaks for, not a nightclub/bowling alley that's already under construction. I think one of the requirements for many tax breaks around here is that the project wouldn't be financially viable without them, which is harder to argue when you've already started construction. I could be wrong, of course.
New Line was a TimeWarner, as opposed to Dis, subsid at LotR filming and is now folded into Warner Bros.. I saw site plan for Universal Studios Asia (proposed, never-built park) which had a LOTR show. Not to say Disney couldn't buy the rights.
Sorry I was originally thinking of miramax
You are correct and then new line bought the rights when they went into turn around
. If you think that enough was changed from the books to the movies with the ones made by New Line, you should have seen the story outlines for the 2 movies. They axed out so many characters and places it wasn't even funny.
