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Disney: The Renaissance and the Empire · Acquired
- ▶ 1:16 Ben Gilbert And Luke Skywalker, and Darth Vader, and Winnie the Pooh, and Disneyland, and Disney World, and Disney Cruises, Disney Hotels, but now it's also The Simpsons, and Avatar, and National Geographic, plus the entire studio of 20th Century Fox.
- ▶ 20:39 David Rosenthal One of the first things they do that ends up, I think, really setting up all the following success that Eisner and Wells and Katzenberg have is they raise the ticket prices at Disneyland and Disney World.
- ▶ 21:11 David Rosenthal So parking at Disney World and Disneyland when Eisner and Wells come in to run the company is still only a buck.
- ▶ 48:02 Ben Gilbert And like explaining the rides, and I think this is also when they started the campaign where the winning Super Bowl MVP would always say, I'm going to Disney World, right after they won the Super Bowl.
- ▶ 48:38 David Rosenthal It goes from, ah, yeah, we got Disney World, and we got Epcot, and sure, come to Florida.
- ▶ 48:54 David Rosenthal We went to Walt Disney World.
- ▶ 1:15:38 David Rosenthal I mean, they try to put, ah, what, ESPN World of Sports in Disney World and stuff like that.
- ▶ 3:41:57 Ben Gilbert Then they designed, built, opened, and operated a Star Wars-themed hotel at Disney World that I was very excited to go to.
- ▶ 3:54:51 Ben Gilbert After you finish up at Disney World for three or four days, you may want to go hop on a cruise for three or four days, and so you sort of depart from Florida and then go down to the Bahamas and come back up.
- ▶ 3:56:52 Ben Gilbert And what do you have to do to justify a trip to Disney World or a cruise costing thousands of dollars now?
- ▶ 4:18:04 David Rosenthal And it's like one 50th the size of Disney World.
The Walt Disney Company: The most successful enterprise for monetizing human nostalgia (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:09:49 David Rosenthal This is the trip that ultimately results in the, uh, Disney film Saludos Amigos and the Three Caballeros, if you've seen those or been to the Three Caballeros ride in, uh, Disney World and Epcot.
- ▶ 2:37:48 David Rosenthal And if you go to Disneyland or Disney World today, most of the steam engines of the railroads are named in callbacks to this period and this inspiration in Walt's life.
- ▶ 2:38:00 David Rosenthal So there's the Lily Bell engine at Walt Disney World.
- ▶ 3:21:44 David Rosenthal And then, of course, you know, fast forward to today at Disneyland or Disney World.
- ▶ 3:21:55 Ben Gilbert And if you're going to Disney World, then they're there a whole week.
- ▶ 3:46:24 Ben Gilbert Yes, this whole thing is this amazing testbed for audio animatronics, which Disney kind of invents and then popularizes in Disneyland and then in Disney World.
- ▶ 3:57:57 David Rosenthal So, immediately after Walt's death, Roy renames the whole Florida project Walt Disney World in his honor, and Roy postpones his own retirement to dedicate himself to finishing this project.
- ▶ 3:58:18 David Rosenthal Full approval from the Florida State Legislature to build Epcot, to build Walt Disney World.
- ▶ 3:59:05 David Rosenthal So he does see Walt Disney World through, but he dramatically scales it back.
- ▶ 3:59:27 Ben Gilbert They built the Magic Kingdom, the Walt Disney World.
- ▶ 4:00:06 David Rosenthal I mean, look, like, how could you say Disney World isn't a success?
- ▶ 4:00:34 Ben Gilbert I'm pretty sure the underground tunnels are actually street level, and all of Disney World is up one story.
- ▶ 4:01:23 David Rosenthal Tragically dies two and a half months after opening Disney World at the end of 1971.
- ▶ 4:02:35 David Rosenthal So in 1972, the first year of Disney World, films do seventy-eight million in revenue and forty-four million in profit.
- ▶ 4:03:29 David Rosenthal Pretty comparable right after Disney World opens.
- ▶ 4:22:02 David Rosenthal And it is married to this incredible commerce engine that is in of itself beautiful and like Disneyland and Disney World and all the parks are the most perfect expression of that.
- ▶ 4:24:38 Ben Gilbert There's a great one on the, the Florida project, so I highly recommend Defunctland.
10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:43:23 David Rosenthal Uh, I think, I think news just came out today that Bluey is coming to Animal Kingdom in Disney World in twenty-twenty-six.
Trader Joe’s: Hawaiian shirts and counter positioning (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 54:14 David Rosenthal If you go to Disney World, you can still see some vestiges of this.
- ▶ 55:28 David Rosenthal Influence and Disney World and Hollywood and movies and books.
Google Part II: Alphabet (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:18:10 Ben Gilbert They go big and get a huge plot of land in Florida to build Walt Disney World.
- ▶ 2:20:04 David Rosenthal All right, maybe the Disney World analogy is, uh, even better than we gave it credit for a minute ago.
- ▶ 2:37:26 Ben Gilbert We have built our local government district on the desktop around our Disney World, and uh-oh, looks like mobile needs a district, too.
Mars Inc. - The Chocolate Story (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:26:29 Ben Gilbert In fact, they operate a M&M's store in Disney World or in Disneyland.