Okay I tried doing something kinda different. I don't really have blogs like others do here but I tried an analysis of a Disney character throughout mediums:
https://www.deviantart.com/e-122-psi/art/Character-Over-Analysis-Bambi-785937168
Bambi is kinda interesting to talk about through interpretations, since there's a rather unique change in writing direction besides just "the sequel is lower quality than the first film".
So I saw some guy on DeviantArt today mention how he thought Disney was going to buy Sony Pictures next.
As for me? I think they're not going do that—at least not anytime soon. There are three big reasons for that.
The first reason is that they just bought 20th Century Fox for a massive $65 billion, making it their biggest purchase ever. Disney's previous major purchases—Pixar, Marvel, and Lucasfilm, were all spaced several years apart each. They had to be, because the company needed to fully absorb the cost of each one before moving onto the next one. All of those earlier purchases were about $4 billion each, which means Disney saw a return on them within a few years. But Fox is different. Disney probably won't break even on its acquisition of Fox for at least 5 years. And until then, it would be stupid to make ANOTHER huge purchase while they're still in the red from the last one.
The other reason is legal. With the addition of 20th Century Fox, Disney will control 40% of the American film market. Adding Sony to that would give them another 10%, pushing them over the 50% mark. In American anti-trust law, a company that controls at least 50% of the market for its product is considered a monopoly and can be forcibly broken up. Disney knows better than to do that.
The third reason is that there is no real reason for Disney to buy Sony Pictures. Everything Sony Pictures is doing, Disney already does too. The only possible reason I can think of for them to do this would be to regain the rights to Spider-Man. But even that isn't much of a reason. See, there’s a clause in a contract relating to the Spider-Man movies which says if Sony were to be sold, the rights would revert back to Marvel. So no matter who ends up buying Sony, Disney will still get Spider-Man regardless.
Edited by ElSquibbonator on Feb 26th 2019 at 9:44:51 AM
Especially since they have the agreement with Sony.
Disasturbator
Also they probably wouldn't be allowed to,they needed a lot of approval to buy Fox and they won't go through the whole process again for a long time
New theme music also a box
Is Sony even for sale? I mean, the studio is kind of struggling, but this is nothing new.
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There were rumors that CBS was interested, but that was before Jumanji saved them some face.
And with Into the Spiderverse and the expected success of Far from home they should be good for now.
https://variety.com/2018/biz/news/sony-pictures-chief-studio-tony-vinciquerra-natpe-1202666886/
Says here that the CEO of Sony Pictures is NOT interested in anyone buying the company.
Disasturbator
But what do the share holders think?
New theme music also a box
I don't know. But I did read this: https://screenrant.com/sony-marvel-sell-movie-studio
Edited by ElSquibbonator on Feb 27th 2019 at 9:10:10 AM
screenrant? Yeah...if it doesn't come from the Hollywood reporter it is most likely just clickbait.
What do you think is going to be Disney's next big purchase, assuming they make one?
none, they will need the next ten years to truly finish THIS merger.
they might be on the look-out for a game company with potential, though.
Honestly, I think Disney should but more funding into their internal infrastructure. I think the Parks don't nearly have the regular maintainence funding that they really should have and it often feels like, when one gets an update, others really suffer or some other park is having an identity crisis. I also think they need to work on developing newer original ideas rather than constantly re-living old successes like the Live-Action Remakes.
Disney has had massive expansion over the last decade and a lot of major purchases. And the more money behind every film means the more it will hurt if they have a MASSIVE flop. I would be warry because there are a TON of moving parts here and 'Too Big To Fail' is something Disney doesn't want to get close to.
Disney basically needs to regroup and reorganize. But that's what they are currently doing, so no worries there for now.
It doesn't feel like it. They have a MASSIVE line up for the next few years. A movie almost every month or so. Not all of those can be a golden success right now.
What has the line-up to do with that?
x4 One thing that really needs help is the Disney World Monorail. The current fleet has been in service since 1989, and desperately need to be replaced.
It’s especially frustrating, since California got a beatiful new fleet a few years ago.
Edited by megaeliz on Feb 28th 2019 at 11:15:52 AM
We finally got a sneak peak of Star Wars Galaxies Edge!
Disney gave the Orlando Sentinel and a handful of other media outlets a behind-the-scenes tour of the Disneyland site for Galaxy’s Edge, which is about 80 percent complete. The company is promising reimagined merchandising and advanced ride technology — all servicing a goal of making its Star Wars experience as authentic as possible.
The company did not reveal specific dates for the highly anticipated grand openings expected to draw hundreds of thousands of fans to Anaheim and to Disney’s Hollywood Studios in Orlando.
At both parks, Disney has created Batuu, a Wild West planet where bounty hunters, smugglers and other shady characters go to be under the radar.
The star is the Millennium Falcon space ship, 110 feet from tip to tip.
Visitors waiting in long lines will get to admire the iconic ship from all angles as the queue takes them around and above it into a ride called Smugglers Run, which lets guests fly the ship. Up close, people will notice all the details, including what looks like a spot of damage, as if the beat-up ship had just narrowly escaped another run of trouble.
The ride is a motion simulator, similar to the Star Tours attraction. People take their spots as drivers, gunners and engineers in the six-person cockpit, but if someone slacks on his job, it affects the Falcon’s flight. It is essentially a giant video game moving in real time.
Bad drivers can’t go as far as crashing the Falcon or destroying it, Disney said, although the ship can sustain damage.
The second ride, the Rise of the Resistance, will be longest in Disney’s collection, said Bob Chapek, chairman of Disney parks. Disney executives declined to say exactly how long it will be but it is shorter than 28 minutes, dispelling recent Internet rumors.
The ride comes across as perhaps a bit intimidating. In the massive loading bay of the Star Destroyer, which features a 100-foot space window, will be 50 Storm Troopers and First Order officers, barking orders.
At one point, passengers will leave the vehicle behind and walk into a detention cell, awaiting a confrontation with the villainous Kylo Ren.
Throughout the ride, characters Finn, Poe, and Rey — played by the same actors in the films — will appear in some form as either a hologram, animatronic or on a screen.
Here’s a bit about the shopping:
Instead, there are Moroccan-inspired markets and vendor stalls, some decorated with baskets and crates stacked against the walls and hanging from the ceiling. Many of the areas for retail and the cantina bar aren’t huge spaces but are designed to be more intimate.
“The merchandise inside the shops won’t be in boxes that are cardboard that say, ‘Disney’ on them,” Chapek said.
In another space, an animatronic alien is a proprietor in a store with a taxidermied 12-foot wampa, the Yeti-like creature that attacked Luke Skywalker in the snow in “Empire Strikes Back.”
For sale will be everything from a bust of Yoda, a Princess Leia white dress and her famous bun wig and a porg puppet, the cute penguin-type animal from “The Last Jedi.”
And the food:
“We know our fans have for 40 years been asking the question: What is blue milk?” said Scott Trowbridge, a Disney Imagineer.
Fortunately for visitors visiting on a humid Florida day, it’s not actually milk. The frozen slushy drinks — the blue tastes berry and melon flavored while the green is more tropical and citrusy — are made with non-dairy products.
For food, the land won’t have a table-service restaurant but will offer two quick-serve restaurants and a cantina with alcohol and snacks.
A tasting of some of the options included more sophisticated plates than traditional theme park fare, including ribs, a shrimp noodle bowl as well as a chocolate cake topped with chocolate and coffee mousse. Some dishes were designed to surprise, like a raspberry cream puff that is pale green.
Edited by megaeliz on Feb 28th 2019 at 5:05:52 AM
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Man this land sounds amazing. Also, blue milk is real?!
If a tree falls in the forest and nobody remembers it, who else will you have ice cream with?
Well, real blue milk (along with its ice cream and milkshake counterparts) would be the ticket to get me visiting Disneyland again!
I could see Disney trying to buy Sesame Workshop so as to have more control over the Muppets (as well as having a large library of educational shows), but I dont know if SW would be willing to sell (Though at least then we could have a more complete release of The Electric Company complete with the Spider-Man shorts).
Professional Moldy Fig/Curmudgeon
When the Jim Henson Company was selling the Muppets to Disney, Sesame Workshop did everything they could to buy their Muppets so they'd never wind up in Disney's hands - and thank God they did!
"They say I'm old fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast."
@ink dagger this so much. Disney needs to focus on originality more, that's what pushes the company forward rather than keeping it safe with sequels and remakes. I hope at least in the animation department that it will get better, but with this slew of live action remakes, the future seems uncertain. Part of why I think disney animation really took over pixar's reign is because they focused more on original ideas than the sequel machine that pixar became this decade.
On the parks, Disney World feels very neglected compared to Disneyland, I'm glad they've been adding some stuff lately, but when I hear that Disney "plans to spend less on parks in the future," I feel they are really blundering. The parks make up a huge part of Disney's income, they can't turn a blind eye on it and expect it to always do well.
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This is something of an interesting curiousity. Apparently WED actually built a third People Mover, similar to the WED Way (now Tomorrowland Transit Authority) People Mover in Magic Kingdom, in the Basement of the Houston Airport. It runs on the same Linear Induction technology that the Magic Kingdom one.
The technology behind this is actually pretty cool (if somewhat impractical). The one at Disneyland worked differently (an explanation of how they worked and their ultimate fate can be found here)
, but both the ones is Disney World and Houston use electromagnetic Motors embedded in the track to passively propel the trains, and are actually extremely reliable and low impact.
Edited by megaeliz on Feb 26th 2019 at 2:09:20 PM