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    Rumors that Disney is in negotiations to sell Star Wars back to George Lucas!

    Okay, I'll go with that (we've never seen Shrek and you make a valid point with Mario Brothers -- although their TV show didn't benefit much from the game's popularity). But then I compare the latest Minions movie to Buzz Lightyear and it seems to me Disney isn't doing so well with their own IP...
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    Rumors that Disney is in negotiations to sell Star Wars back to George Lucas!

    Perhaps so, but Super Mario Brothers blew most recent Disney films out of the water, and even Puss in Boots, which went to streaming within a couple of weeks, made more than Lightyear or Strange World. I think there is an audience for new stuff, it's just that Disney isn't connecting with it...
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    Rumors that Disney is in negotiations to sell Star Wars back to George Lucas!

    Beg pardon. You are correct. Which is much less unnerving.
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    Rumors that Disney is in negotiations to sell Star Wars back to George Lucas!

    Duh. I don't know where my brain was at. We like the Mandalorian, but for some reason I was thinking of the Marvel properties versus Andor. My impression is that Andor did well with the critics but not so well with the crowds. We liked it, though. They will owe Comcast a guaranteed minimum...
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    Rumors that Disney is in negotiations to sell Star Wars back to George Lucas!

    But have the Disney Star Wars movie or streaming projects brought in that much money? I'm thinking the biggest money-makers have been the additions to the parks, which seem pretty popular, but any deal they'd make would keep those with Disney.
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    Rumors that Disney is in negotiations to sell Star Wars back to George Lucas!

    I about can't watch that guy so I'm mostly replying to the headline. I'm thinking Disney is getting desperate for cash to pay off the last third of HULU. Come January 2024, Disney can force Comcast to sell, OR Comcast can force Disney to buy, and it's sounding like Comcast is planning to...
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    Parking Lot Trams

    Well, I've heard that, but I can't speak from personal experience so I didn't bring it up. But when it comes to hauling around toddlers and getting old, there I know whereof I speak! :p The idea that walking to the parks from the average Disney parking lot is not a hardship for some, or that...
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    Parking Lot Trams

    The price isn't the point. I've gotten a tram ride with free parking. I don't think I've ever been anywhere with lots the size of Disney's that don't offer tram rides -- Dollywood does, for example. SeaWorld and Universal in Orlando likely don't offer trams because SeaWorld's parking lot is...
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    I've never minded paying for what I perceive as value, but I hate feeling like I haven't paid enough

    Oh, no doubt. But I was seeing that claim when I first started seriously researching a trip in 2009, long after Disney had "cafeteria-ized" the experience. For all the raving about how great Disney food was, on our first trip I enjoyed my SeaWorld meals -- which were unabashedly cafeteria --...
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    If you're not going to Disney, where have you decided to go?

    Same is true of places like Wisconsin Dells and Pigeon Forge and Myrtle Beach. Most people go those places for the carnival atmosphere and shows -- but a vacation is what you make of it. Our vacation style is more art museum and national parks and hanging out at the resort a day or two, but...
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    I've never minded paying for what I perceive as value, but I hate feeling like I haven't paid enough

    This is what we discovered the first time we were heading to Orlando. We were only going to be there for four days and the kids wanted to do SeaWorld, so I didn't plan on doing the Disney parks, just visit some of the resorts, hit the Boardwalk while the magician was there, ride the monorail...
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    transitioning to off property resort

    Because Nashville is cool! Their Parthenon is still intact, and has a statue of Athena in it! ;)
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    Have your kids ever embarrassed you at Disney?

    I'm too lazy to rewrite it much, but I tell a story about that in one of my trip reports. The first time we visited Orlando, only middle daughter and I went to the parks because everyone else was a Disney skeptic and didn't think they'd have any fun there. Middle daughter -- Ballet Girl --...
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    Best Off Site Resorts

    We like quiet resorts and loved Silver Lake. Only thing we didn't like about it was that you don't pass through a welcome gate between the resort and the park -- which would be true of any of the onsite resorts as well, along with Bonnet Creek and some others. If you prefer the high energy...
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    Things to do in Central Florida outside of Disney (gasp) a few recommendations

    That boat trip has been on my list for years and we still haven't done it! :sad2: Just too many things to do in the area, that's what. I'll second Leu Gardens, and add the Morse Museum, which has a ton of Louis Comfort Tiffany stuff, including the chapel interior Tiffany designed for the 1893...
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    Staying Off site guilt

    Been a while since I've spent much time on the Disboards, but I see some things never change. Definitely not the first time I've seconded all of one of Gina's posts. :wave: Now we're old fogies, the "more rested" thing is huge! Hubby and I gotta have a king bed or it's not a vacation, while...
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    Disney's miscalculation with Genie/Genie+

    We've always stayed offsite and the only time we've ever dealt with traffic is when heading for Disney Springs later in the day. But we're ropedroppers, so we have been at the park for a good half hour before opening time. True. As an offsite rope-dropper, I loved Extra Magic Hours, because...
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    What they've taken away

    Well, I dunno. Our family's "adopted grandma" took her own two sons to Disney World in the 1970s, when the only park was the Magic Kingdom. They slept in the station wagon going down, spent one day at the park eating home made food, slept in the station wagon that night, then headed home...
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    Just going to the resort and skipping the parks

    True, but what most people mean by a resort stay is not just sitting at the resort they sleep in -- they tour the other resorts or visit them to eat, or they go to Disney Springs, meaning they're using Disney transportation, which is the main appeal for some. I don't mind driving, myself, and...
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    Details, details, and MORE details - just another photo op thread...

    Look at that detail! For some reason I did not expect the blue and the green to be mosaic tiles.




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