Soooo true. Especially in the entertainment industry. Many long time home entertainment executives tried to warn the CEO's and Boards that streaming wasn't going to be the golden boy the techno crowd convinced them it would be. Now, lots of red ink that didn't have to happen.
While I agree that corporations can make mistakes and are far from perfect, that still doesn't change the fact the forums and the GP doesn't have the first-hand information they do - which means they have a leg up in that regard.
Yeah-- I wasn't getting a real clear picture of whether the Café, Bakery, Popsicle stand or counter are separate things or just areas within the Minion Café, but the popcorn stand was definitely a freestanding/unique structure although the idea I got was it was the corner where the drink stand was.
Yes, the executive decision-makers have a far wider and deeper pool of data. What they often lack is a specific knowledge of the history and cultural importance of their product, replacing that (particularly since the 80s) with a generalized, non-industry specific “business” background and an intense - often too intense -focus on Wall Street issues, frequently coupled with a dismissiveness for the specifics of their industry. You no longer have figures like Disney or Meyer or Laemmle or even Wasserman, people who built their businesses and are thus possessed of very specific knowledge even they wouldn’t pretend could be adapted to every other industry. This largely explains the industry-wide stumble over streaming, when a myopic obsession with an echo-chamber-driven Wall Street fad and an ignorance of the history of their own business field nearly killed every Hollywood conglomerate. It’s also, arguably, why Feige’s initial role as “low-level exec forced to actually read thousands of comic books so higher-ups didn’t have to” equipped him to be the best producer since Thalberg and Selznick.
VERY off-topic, but I’m just not sure what a satisfying Fast & Furious ride looks like. A coaster, the most obvious choice, is likely to be lightly themed and generic. Other then that … a screen-based flight simulator? Realistically, some version of Radiator Springs Racers seems like the best bet, but that’s gonna be VERY pricey. In reality, the combination of “fast” and “themed” is very difficult to do in the physical constraints of a theme park.
I’m curious - how many are actually left? And how much decision-making power do they actually have?
The same can be said about the well-versed message board yahoo concerning biases and blind spots - and while that doesn't mean an opinion should easily be dismissed as just someone on the forum, I have a hard time agreeing with the yahoo having a better idea than the execs despite the pool of data at their disposal, while we're on the outside looking in.
This is exactly how I feel about Villain-Con.
Facts and figures, even tainted by corporate blind spots are still closer to reality.
Thank you! Haha We're excusing the physical constraints for one, but not the other - when VC has way more constraints.
The physical constraints on Blast are largely self-imposed - the space absolutely could have housed an AA-driven dark ride, for which the Minions are ideally suited. The difficulty of building a slightly above-Fantasyland-level dark ride are in no way equivalent to the challenges of creating a realistic illusion of a lengthy, high-speed car chase.
Really thought there would be more discussion on this really cute and unique banana flavored popcorn stand being confirmed by permits
I just want statues all over this land. Minions Park is cute AF.
Agreed.
And I'll be back to have that discussion after I get done throwing up.
Banana flavored popcorn!?!?
I’ve been wondering when the Orlando parks would get on the “oddly flavored popcorn” bandwagon that’s so popular at Tokyo Disney.
