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[-] cerement@slrpnk.net 14 points 1 week ago

at this point, is the entirety of Disney just their (in)famous legal department?

[-] whotookkarl@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Taking the Oracle approach

[-] LadyButterfly@lazysoci.al 1 points 1 week ago
[-] cerement@slrpnk.net 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)
  • Disney has regularly been laying off large swathes of their creative staff, and are now adding TV & film staff and and finance staff, but no mention of legal staff
  • Disney is notorious for their legal team going after anyone who even thinks of touching their IP (also why everyone enjoyed the spectacle of DeSantis threatening Disney)

EDIT: if you have four hours, watch how they managed to disappoint a Disney fan, a Star Wars fan, and a theme park fan all in one go

[-] LadyButterfly@lazysoci.al 1 points 6 days ago

That's really helpful thanks

[-] tetrachromacy@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

That video is a great watch. She does a fantastic job of breaking down why the new Star Wars hotel sucked and then closed down. I watched it over a few days - it's broken up into little chunks so you can stop and start it if you don't have 4 spare hours.

She relates the hotel to the general trend of service/experience degradation that Disney is seeing now. It's a function of there being zero legitimate competition - nobody else is opening a hotel themed after Star Wars, and rich nerds will pay any amount to be in that universe, even for a brief moment. Instead of maximizing the experience, which is why people wanted to go, they cut as many corners as they could to take in the maximum profit.

I won't spoil more plus she does a better job of explaining. This video an exhaustively compiled labor of love, but she didn't love her experience at the hotel. Instead, her heart was broken when she saw what a soulless money grab it was, so she was compelled to document its many failings.

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