Things are about to go into overdrive at Magic Kingdom says Disney Parks Chairman Josh D'Amaro

Delta-717 hours ago

Seriously, I’d rather for us to get back on topic of what could be beyond Big Thunder Mountain (which is why I check on this thread) rather than all this talk about Nintendo and gaming that doesn’t have anything to do with Disney.

The Mom2 days ago

Please get back on topic. Thank you.

osian2 days ago

Ahem, my generation is Space Invaders.

SailorMercury2 days ago

Beyond Big Thunder. That area is going to be Mushroom Kingdom. Haunted Mansion will be connected to it and be rethemed to Luigi’s Mansion.

Incomudro2 days ago

One wrestles Ju Jitsu, and one is taking the Iron Worker physical in a month. But thanks for the personal attack on them.

erasure fan12 days ago

Sonic alone beats them. Nintendo obviously has a few as well. The point is that it doesn't have to be a huge number. There's plenty of franchises that can be good adds to theme parks. It's really not a misconception. There's just multiple ways to look at it. You can't tell me there aren't popular franchises like fallout, halo, final fantasy, sonic... That wouldn't be a draw to the parks? Especially as a secondary attraction. Video games are a piece of the puzzle, not the end all be all. The first part, totally agree. And that's one of the points. There's lots of untapped potential in expanding video games and Disney doesn't seem interested. Now the second part, doubtful. If it goes for 6 or 7 seasons, and they're all as good as the first, maybe. Mainline fallout has sold at least around 40mil units and fallout shelter has something like 170mil downloads. So that's a lot of eyes on the games. I'm just going to guestimate with some averages, but if a movie ticket averages like 12/15, a 40mil unit sale game, you could say is somewhere around a 500/600mil box office. As far as individual eyes.The question should be, where is Disneys last of us, fallout, sonic, FnaF... There's many franchises ripe for success with the right care taken. It will be very interesting to see how borderlands does or BioShock.

ToTBellHop2 days ago

He’s going to Harambe south of FotLK while Pokémon goes to Adventureland and Zelda replaces Wonders of Life.

Purduevian2 days ago

Just a joke as this thread is quite far off from the title. Throwing in a personal opinion on this off topic discussion. IMHO Mario is in the elite group of super recognizable characters regardless of if you consume the media. Mickey, Darth Vader, Buggs Bunny, Picachu, Pooh Bear, Batman, Hello Kitty, Spiderman, and Elmo are others that are probably in the same category.

UNCgolf2 days ago

Pokemon is only partially a video game IP -- a lot of its popularity comes from other media (movies/TV show and the card game), so I think it's best to leave it out of these conversations. It's been a major cross-media IP from the very start. It's obviously massively popular, though. Fallout is a good example of how to expand video game IP market appeal with traditional media, because there will likely be more people who see the show than ever played any of the games. Minecraft is a massive outlier (it's by far the highest selling video game of all time, nothing else is even remotely close to it). I'm not sure there are any other video game properties with the overall reach of stuff like Encanto and Coco, though (there may be a few, but it's a very small number) -- this is the misconception I was talking about in my original comment. I didn't even realize what thread this was in, though, and we're clearly way off topic so I'll leave it here.

MJL922 days ago

As a lifelong Nintendo Gamer I booked a trip for USH as soon as Super Nintendo World opened. Had the highest of expectations but IP or not, the rides are lackluster. The kinetics of the land are really cool but I think the rides totally miss the mark with the demographic they're targeting with the IP they chose. Good IP =/= Good Attractions

erasure fan12 days ago

We are on our way. Fallout just dominated the streaming charts. It was loved by gamers as well as people who had no clue what it was. Mario did awesome, so did last of us. Sonic has done well and so did FnaF. A proper Pokemon film would do great as well. They are figuring it out and Disney doesn't have a horse in the race. That's the issue. A Minecraft ride would be a HUGE draw. More so than encanto, coco, Tiana, tron, or most of the ips being considered for the parks. Sure you could say Minecraft is another outlier. But I can think of a bunch of properties that would beat that list as well. But none of it matters because Disney has no plans to even be a part of that space.

DisneyRoy2 days ago

No. Universal owns the theme park rights to Nintendo properties.

Purduevian2 days ago

Just catching up on the thread. Is Mario going North/West of Big Thunder or the Adventureland expansion plot?

erasure fan12 days ago

Exactly. And it's not even really close, video games are bigger than movies and music and books combined. Unfortunately it's still thought of as this little sub sector of entertainment. Look no further than Iger, he has blown it off his entire career.