Originally Posted By crazycroc Would you rather have poop flavored chocolate or chocolate flavored poop or Oz land at Disneyland?
Originally Posted By Bellella I have a feeling that if they really go through with this "Oz" thing, they'll wind up eating that Hershey bar. At least I hope so. ENOUGH WITH THE FRANCHISES!!!!!!!!!
Originally Posted By LP Watcher "I can't recall seeing anything else non-Disney in his house apart from Oz memorabilia. He is rather fanatical about it. I gather from a friend at the studio that he even tried to give Joe Roth and Sam Raimi notes on their movie (he read several of the script iterations when he was working on theme park ideas). He is a devoted follower of Dorothy." Then you didn't pay much attention. Baxter's house has tons of non-Oz memorabilia.
Originally Posted By LP Watcher "He was given an ultimatum - take retirement or get kicked to the curb. There wasn't any trade-off. He has spent the best part of a decade working on his own agenda with little interference - none of that has seen the light of day beyond the small changes at DL." More like he was not allowed to work on any significant projects DUE to interference.
Originally Posted By LP Watcher "I always remember Eisner being given a run through on the financials for ToT at D/MGM. This analyst spent ages going through the impact that the attraction would have on attendance, guest spend etc. MDE stopped him in his tracks and said "I think this is a really cool attraction and we are going to do it no matter what. Go spend the money." He was prepared to think bigger and take the consequences if it failed and the plaudits if it succeeded. D/MGM needed a marquee attraction and got it. Under the current scenario an attraction like ToT is less likely to get built. Cars Land was the anomaly as SOMETHING had to be done to save DCA." After Wells died, Eisner got all his financial advice from MBA's who had NO CLUE as to what the parks were all about.
Originally Posted By leemac <<Then you didn't pay much attention. Baxter's house has tons of non-Oz memorabilia.>> I should have said except for Disney and Oz memorabilia. I don't recall anything else. Maybe I wasn't snooping around enough.
Originally Posted By leemac <<After Wells died, Eisner got all his financial advice from MBA's who had NO CLUE as to what the parks were all about.>> Bullcrap. The strategic planning unit was in place for years before Wells died in '94. Jay Rasulo joined in '86, Peter Murphy joined in '88, Meg Whitman joined in '89, Tom Staggs in '90 etc. Stat Planning was the seat of power at TWDC from MDE's early days at the Company. Wells was a lawyer by training. He didn't come from a finance background and almost always deferred to the various CFOs over his reign.
Originally Posted By Brad ""I can't recall seeing anything else non-Disney in his house apart from Oz memorabilia. He is rather fanatical about it. I gather from a friend at the studio that he even tried to give Joe Roth and Sam Raimi notes on their movie (he read several of the script iterations when he was working on theme park ideas). He is a devoted follower of Dorothy." Then you didn't pay much attention. Baxter's house has tons of non-Oz memorabilia." Indeed. While I won't spill details, when I visited there was a room taken up with a replica of an EXTREMELY famous vehicle from a seminal science fiction movie. And I guess Tony never showed the OP his pieces of the model from an even more famous SF film, rescued from a dumpster at Skywalker Ranch? And what about the scale model of DL's last great E ticket attraction he has and proudly showed me? While I know he is a MASSIVE Oz fan(he outlined to me a scenario for an as yet unproduced Indiana Jones 4 that actually wove in.....well, never mind!)and he has a fantastic prop from that film that, when I visited took centre stage in one room, these mentioned above are just three of the things that spring to my mind upon immediate consideration.
Originally Posted By mawnck >>an EXTREMELY famous vehicle from a seminal science fiction movie<< <a target="blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://michaelhutchenceandme.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/winnebago.jpg">http://michaelhutchenceandme.f...bago.jpg</a>
Originally Posted By dagobert >>>Bullcrap. The strategic planning unit was in place for years before Wells died in '94. Jay Rasulo joined in '86, Peter Murphy joined in '88, Meg Whitman joined in '89, Tom Staggs in '90 etc<<< How old is Tom Staggs? He looks so young. Iger looks also younger than he actually is.
Originally Posted By gurgitoy2 "<"Does anybody find it creepy that we're talking about these people like this?" Yes> Really? Why? I think it's like talking Washington DC or celebrity news. I wonder about the inner-workings and the politics of Disney and find it all fascinating." Well, for me, it's not so much creepy, but I just want to figure out the "why" of something. I don't particularly care about WDI politics, but when it has an effect on what gets built and what doesn't, I kind of care. So, hearing that there might have been a rift between to pretty great talents within WDI had me curious. Good to know it wasn't really true, but still internal politics nonetheless. Oh well.
Originally Posted By mawnck >>Does anyone else have an unexplainable crush on Bob Iger?<< Willow Bay. ZZZZZZZINNNNGGG!!!! (I'm sorry. I'll go stand in the corner now.)
Originally Posted By tonyanton Regardless of one's view of the most recent "Oz" films success, it is still a property/setting that can make a great attraction/land. I've seen pix of the short-lived area in Universal Osaka and it was a minimal retheming of another theme.
Originally Posted By mawnck >>it is still a property/setting that can make a great attraction/land<< As well as being public domain with an MGM minefield buried in it. Never gonna happen, says me. Too much of a PITA. (The same thing I said about the Nemo Subs.) >>I just looked her up, never saw her before.<< She was a news babe I was madly in love with in the early 1990s. She was snatched away from my (theoretical) loving embrace by some handsome rich jerk I'd never heard of before, whose name I will not mention now, but it rhymes with Blob Sliger.
