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Anya posted:It’s the sweet sweet sugar and magic that makes me buy overpriced shirts and meals Do it! It was my first marathon and the environment made it way less intimidating.
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Diabetic posted:It baffles me on this take, piss off the mouse enough they will abandon Florida to the swamp it is. I frankly would love to see it. That won’t happen. They’ll be around long after DeSantis. (Do I need to register with Florida to make this post?)
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Bottom Liner posted:Do it! It was my first marathon and the environment made it way less intimidating. Honestly I think I will. This was my 5th half but it was a really enjoyable race, despite my complete lack of prep. If I’m going to finally bite the bullet on a full, I might as well do it in a fun place.
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They’re allowing it to get this far because it will be a lot easier for them to fight it when it’s shown to directly damage them.
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I rode Tron today. It's pretty good. The launch is really fun but the whole ride is short. I think I prefer Guardians at Epcot but it's a solid addition to Magic Kingdom. Oh and the locker system is very clever.      
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Nah, they won’t because they’ll never put together a property deal like that again unless they go to a part of the country where there’s no way the weather will let them operate year round. There’s a reason they haven’t built a resort in the Midwest somewhere.
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Cutting investment to Florida while just going all-in on explicit anti-Republican messaging country-wide would be another option. End every ad with "Local Republicans mad about this? Blame Ron DeSantis!"
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Coasterphreak posted:Nah, they won’t because they’ll never put together a property deal like that again unless they go to a part of the country where there’s no way the weather will let them operate year round.
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I think this is the start of our cyberpunk future where the corporations take over the political scheme
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Coasterphreak posted:Nah, they won’t because they’ll never put together a property deal like that again unless they go to a part of the country where there’s no way the weather will let them operate year round. There’s a reason they haven’t built a resort in the Midwest somewhere. Give it 5-10 more years the way the weather is and they could probably build in upper NY without worrying about blizzards. I honestly don't know why they don't invest somewhere else, though. Somewhere that's still cold now, but sincerely, in a decade or two it oughta be changed enough to work with year-round. Especially if it's mostly indoor stuff.
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Because building a new theme park would be really, really, really expensive and a pain in the rear end.
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Epic Universe is a six billion dollar project for a theme park, two hotels, and infrastructure projects.
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Coasterphreak posted:Epic Universe is a six billion dollar project for a theme park, two hotels, and infrastructure projects. That sounds way cheaper than I imagined. By like, half at least.
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Bottom Liner posted:That sounds way cheaper than I imagined. By like, half at least. If you include the money Vivendi spent buying it from Lockheed and doing environmental remediation, plus the bullshit after, you're probably not wrong in 2023 dollars.
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It’s also taking significant advantage of existing infrastructure too. Not that they can’t afford it, but the cost for building in a brand new area would be much higher.
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Finally coming back down to visit after I moved away so I can ride Tron and Guardians in May. Blessed.
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Aphrodite posted:It’s also taking significant advantage of existing infrastructure too. To be fair, Disney is the reason most of that infrastructure is as robust as it is.
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Fluffy Bunnies posted:Give it 5-10 more years the way the weather is and they could probably build in upper NY without worrying about blizzards. Disney likely has some decades-forward plans for new parks if California and Florida become completely non-viable, but those sorts of plans would be very closely held since they're also easy for competitors to disrupt before they've even gotten started.
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They did exactly that to Universal with MGM Studios themselves.
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Midjack posted:Disney likely has some decades-forward plans for new parks if California and Florida become completely non-viable, but those sorts of plans would be very closely held since they're also easy for competitors to disrupt before they've even gotten started. When Disney starts buying “random” plots of land in Idaho, head for the hills.
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Silly Burrito posted:When Disney starts buying “random” plots of land in Idaho, head for the hills. I expect there's a REIT sitting on a few hundred square miles in either of the northern corners of the country since the late 90s.
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In Disney adjacent news - took my daughter to see the broadway version of Aladdin. I bring this up because the cruise line version of the same show aboard the Fantasy and Wish on DCL is actually better across the board. I also don't know why they felt compelled to bloat the runtime of the story to almost 3 hours. If you haven't seen it, they added a B-plot with Aladdin's three best friends from the streets of Agrabah who he runs schemes with and who later go on to bust Al out of the sultan's prison.
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Aside from a more interesting take on Genie, I really disliked the Aladdin Broadway. What they did with the Genie was really a solid alternative to the hard to beat Robin Williams performance.
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Doronin posted:In Disney adjacent news - took my daughter to see the broadway version of Aladdin. I bring this up because the cruise line version of the same show aboard the Fantasy and Wish on DCL is actually better across the board. Wasn't that essentially in the first draft of the movie? I seem to recall hearing they even had a song that was written for the four of them and had a demo recorded before the whole thing got cut.
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couldcareless posted:Aside from a more interesting take on Genie, I really disliked the Aladdin Broadway. Agree on Genie. I thoroughly enjoyed that version, assuming it's the same regardless of where you see it and whose playing him. I didn't necessarily dislike it though. Although the more I think about it, the more soured I get toward it. Like, the Friend Like Me segment in the Cave of Wonders felt nearly as long as the actual movie, and Jasmine barely had anything to do. Jafar also didn't sing much, which is a shame because that performer had a big booming voice I'd like to have heard more of. Superrodan posted:Wasn't that essentially in the first draft of the movie? I seem to recall hearing they even had a song that was written for the four of them and had a demo recorded before the whole thing got cut. I had to Google, but apparently, that was the case. I'll be damned. I knew the song Proud of Your Boy was cut from the original movie, but I didn't know the early drafts were basically the basis of the broadway version.
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https://twitter.com/Blog_Mickey/status/1633104458044395526 Hey, what if this had just been a Star Wars Hotel like we all wanted from the start.
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All this means is they have a five day active week and two days downtime to run repairs, upgrades, bring new cast up to speed etc. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that Disney planned for an initial huge surge and it lasted longer than they thought it would given how slow they are to release blocks of bookings. They still haven't opened bookings to people from outside the USA (and maybe Canada?) yet either, so there's still a market there that's not had a chance to try pay for it.
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That makes me feel better. I've been squirreling away money like crazy to try and get in on this hoping it doesn't close before I get my chance. I also cringe a bit at the cost of putting together some costumes...
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What was the first single IP land? The little mermaid area in DisneySea?
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couldcareless posted:That makes me feel better. I've been squirreling away money like crazy to try and get in on this hoping it doesn't close before I get my chance. I also cringe a bit at the cost of putting together some costumes...
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Arquinsiel posted:Throwing something "good enough" together is pretty trivially costed compared to almost any other expense for a Disney trip. The toughest part to find is shoes.
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Those are actually called "chelsea boots" and are one of the easier Star Wars footwear things to find. You'll still probably drop 50+ on a pair though.
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BlueBayou posted:What was the first single IP land? It may actually be Jurassic Park at Islands of Adventure.
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SweetMercifulCrap! posted:It may actually be Jurassic Park at Islands of Adventure. Does that predate Marvel island? And Seuss? I assumed they were all there at opening.
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Bottom Liner posted:Does that predate Marvel island? And Seuss? I assumed they were all there at opening. They were, but JP is a single IP. Both Marvel and Seuss contain multiple related IPs. E: and that wasn’t even what kicked off the IP land thing, it was Harry Potter. Coasterphreak fucked around with this message at 22:50 on Mar 8, 2023 |
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Bottom Liner posted:Camp Snoopy in 83 at Knotts? poo poo, I didn’t even think about that. Probably the correct answer. I guess Smurf Island at Carowinds would also qualify but that didn’t open till 84.
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