The Suggestioning

RE: theme parks -- it should be pointed out (the guys were a bit fuzzy on this during the ep) that none of the discussed parks are stand-alone. Star Wars Land will be Disney; Wizarding World of Harry Potter is Universal Studios. WWHP will have its own discrete entrance, the same way California Adventure has a discrete entrance from Disneyland, but it's a Universal Studios experience.

What I'm surprised no one brought up is that these theme parks/lands/however you want to think of them are based on media for which a tremendous chunk of its appeal is the world of the story itself.

Yes, people love Harry Potter for the whole adventure good-vs-evil story, but what they love even more -- what really made it transcend other stories of the same kind -- is the idea that THEY could someday get a Hogwarts letter and go get a wand at Ollivanders and walk through the doors of the Great Hall for the Sorting. People love Luke and Leia and Han but -- as we are all well aware -- they love even more the idea of living in that world, of swinging their own lightsaber or piloting their own fighter in a space battle. Avatar -- for which Disney is also building a Land in Florida -- didn't make a billion dollars because anyone gave a tin shit about Jake and Neytiri, it made a billion dollars because people wanted to take a three hour trip to Pandora as many times as they could.

So given the resources, why WOULDN'T you do the obvious thing and make that world people want to inhabit a world they can inhabit?

EDIT: LOCKE is great. Watched it because it's very much the aesthetic and sensibility I want for a project I'm hacking away at. The guys know what I'm talking about, hopefully the rest of you will soon enough too. But yeah, it's Tom Hardy in a car taking phone calls - half of them about pouring concrete for god's sake - and it's somehow riveting.

The other recent (couple years now but) 80s throwback action flick Trey may have been thinking of is JACK REACHER.

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Why is no one mentioning the Trey Dick song?  That had me howling in the car.

Are there some effects artifacts hanging on for all the talky after the song?

The what what?

If Eddie didn't say it, I was going to. Forumers be slacking

Tricky Moby Dick...

I wonder how much of that comes from the creative side. Given it's all work for hire, if you come up with a new, brilliant idea for an attraction, Disney owns it and you see no royalties. Why give them your best stuff? Unless that's not the case.

Regarding animation, Hullabaloo is a crowd funded cel animated project a bunch of Disney animators are putting together.
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/hull … mated-film
Their pitch is they're trying to save cel animation by showing what it can do for a small budget, to get the kids into it. Given most anime is still 2D, I'd say it's not dying. Miyazaki's last film, The Wind Rises, cost $30 million for two hours of animation and looks incredible. Frozen cost $150 million. If you have the artists, you can do a good hand drawn cel animated film for a reasonable amount of money.

If it's not on Adventures in Faking This, I will retroactively un-produce the album.

I still think that if they ever wanted to do some sort of fundraiser, going through the episodes and editing together a "Story Time With Trey" episode would be a good idea

Also I wanna solve a crime with him in the 70s so we can be Blokes & Stokes.

Disclaimer: if you dislike the tone of a post I make, re-read it in a North/East London accent until it sounds sufficiently playful