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That Park Place Receives "Cease and Desist" Letter from Black Girl Gamers

Happy day everyone!

I apologize for not getting something out yesterday. It's not too often I have a fourteen-hour day with no breaks from beginning to end. However, we've had some interesting developments that required attention.

One interesting development is that Black Girl Gamers had threatened legal action against That Park Place via a no-response-allowed 𝕏 post. We strongly believe that the statements in their threat regarding the journalism, research and conclusions of t...

Disney Implodes -- Total Abandonment of Lawsuits Against Florida

How many of you heard from so-called "experts" that Disney would absolutely win their lawsuit against Florida? How many of you heard that Disney was doing the obvious, 100% correct step of fighting Florida over DEI initiatives and state-sponsored curriculum aimed at bedroom issues for small children? Well... those who told you Disney was on the right-side-of-history are now stuck being on the opposite side of Disney. You see, Bob Iger's House of Mouse has agreed to settle with Florida and it'...

WDW Pro on World Class BSers

Folks, hop in here and have some fun with us as we talk about Star Wars The Acolyte and more! And when you arrive, make sure to let Jeff know you found out via the WDW Pro Patreon! In fact, if you drop a comment here... Pro just might even answer your commentary (or respond) during the show!

Sweet Baby Defenders Step Up Rhetoric to Dangerous Levels

They're now calling for a "purge"...

A games pundit backed by UK government funds and appearing on the BBC is making some very incendiary remarks. Jules Hardy is claiming that she wants to "purge the hate" from gamers who essentially disagree with Sweet Baby. That's couched in the idea that a toxic contingency of gamers just won't evolve with the rest of society. It's far more aligned with the idea -- in reality -- that significant parts of society have a fundamental disagreement with i...

First Q&A Session Is Here!

Folks, make sure to check the responses to your questions from Monday's very first Q&A session. It was an honor to chat with so many of you who dropped by with your thoughts. I look forward to doing it again very soon.

Your pal,

Pro

"Bob Iger Is SCARED" Q&A

After watching the video for March 25th at 10:30 AM ET, drop a comment down below and let me know if you have any questions or thoughts regarding the topic. I'll weigh in over the next 24 hours.

This is a new perk of the Patreon we will be doing 1-2x per week. For our first time, this is available to paid and non-paid Patrons. This will typically only be for paid Patrons in the future.

Disney Lays the Groundwork for Character Assassination of Nelson Peltz

Calling Former Disney CFO Jay Rasulo out-of-touch, analog and a failure at his next business ventures has not proven highly successful for Bob Iger. The ISS institutional firm has endorsed Nelson Peltz, meaning that 1/3 of institutional investors will likely back Peltz in next week's proxy fight. That puts Peltz in line to possibly win the vote... I think probably about 50/50. After all, if 1/3 of institutions follow ISS and a small percentage outside of ISS' influence follow along, you only ...

New Feature

Starting next week, we're thinking about adding a new Patreon Perk where paid members can ask me direct questions based on videos that have released. This might happen twice-a-week. Is this something you would find meaningful?

Partisans WANT Marvel Embroiled in Politics NOW

As I said in the video where Steven and I reviewed X-Men 97's debut, there is a clear effort by some to destroy Marvel. The way that you can do that is by making it be a show set in the 90s that tackles extremely divisive issues of today. You retroactively have the characters talk about issues that hadn't even been invented in the 90s, you make clear reflections of modern, divisive concerns, etc. But for the most part, Disney was careful to diversify background villains enough that it muted c...

More Notes Regarding the Collapse of Hasbro and Disney's Influence

Not often someone goes to such effort to relay this for our Patreon members, but a close friend of the channel has this to say regarding what's going on behind the scenes regarding the toy industry:

The new Haslab announcement comes only 7 months after their previous project successfully funded (The Ghost spaceship from Rebels and Ahsoka, which cost a whopping $500 usd).

• Hasbro’s previous 2 successful Star Wars projects were the aforementioned Ghost and...

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Hasbro Fears Total Loss of Star Wars as Evergreen Product

According to information sent our way via a contact in the toy industry, Hasbro now fears the total loss of Star Wars as an Evergreen Product. The reception of The Acolyte with the dislike ratio is the cherry-on-the-top after Hasbro already had great fear of ANOTHER mostly female Star Wars effort.

According to the source, any additional Acolyte products are being halted by Hasbro so long as they're not under contractual obligation to meet quantity thresholds. The view is that this is a...

Disney Removes Splash Mountain from Survey

Disney Parks recently sent out a survey of cast members to have them select their favorite ride, existing or gone. But they left out the attraction which has been voted the most popular attraction in any park in the entire world.

Splash Mountain.

This gets even worse when you realize that they're using this for data collection yet falsifying the data by removing the most obvious choice. Even better, Splash Mountain still exists in Tokyo Disney!

They know they've destroyed ...

AMC Drastically Cuts Ticket $$$ for Luca

If they won't buy them for normal price, why let the theater sit empty? That must be what. AMC is thinking as they run a promo to get families in for Luca at just five dollars. Lucky for theaters this month... Kung Fu Panda will draw families regardless!

Disney May Delay TWO Movies Due to IATSE Strike

The Walt Disney Company has a mess on its hands, even if it's hard to see at the moment. I'd like to remind my dear friends here on the Patreon that I have consistently said that Nelson Peltz was unlikely to win the proxy battle this year. I've also said that if he stays in the fight for another year, his chances go up dramatically (and for more board seats). So when George Lucas' name was placed on the statement for yesterday, it didn't rock me to my core the way it seems to be impacting som...

Hollywood Insider Responds to My Acolyte Analysis

From a good friend and Hollwood insider in regards to my evening video on The Acolyte:

So I just watched your Acolyte video. You got it...but you missed it. The BIGGER issue, in my not-so-humble-opinion, or rather the TWO are:  (A) Leslie Hedlund LIKES Villainy--she thinks people, causes, and actions we "normal" people find to be villainous and evil to be, well...COOL and FUN. But SECOND (B) The whole evil point of that statement about how it isn't about good and evil bu...

George Lucas Joins the White Slavers

There are many out there today questioning or gloating when it comes to George Lucas and his backing of Bob Iger in the Disney proxy war. But there are a number of things which need to be taken into consideration... and in doing so, the truth might be better revealed as less sanguine for those who want a victory.

First, one might question why George Lucas in his encore years would wish to weigh in on such a battle -- this is something he's never done in the past. One might also wonder w...

Using Art to Change the World

Good evening!

I hope everything is okay in your world this evening. I thought it would be nice to share something with you that I am working on apart from what I do on YouTube and the typical Pro persona. I am, in my private time, working with an effort to provide a new type of homeless shelter concept that might actually help pull people out of homelessness. It's a totally new concept that I can't discuss too much except to say that it is related to a pilot program that could be a nati...

WDI Turns to Rhyming for Shop Name

Get out of the way, Briar Patch... it's time for a store that sells hats. Except it doesn't -- at least not mostly. Rather, it will sell a few hats, but the word "hat" in French rhymed... so thus the name.

It's like having a souvenir shop called Yoda's Sodas... and instead of it being a place where soft drinks are sold, it's just a convenient name so they put a cooler in a corner as an excuse. 

Matt Walsh, Sweet Baby, Geeks and Gamers, etc

As quickly as it seemingly started, the conflict between Geeks and Gamers and Daily Wire seems to have come to a close. Matt Walsh and Jeremy of GnG have spoken and set aside differences (for now) in order to more appropriately cover the Sweet Baby Inc debacle. But what caused the two sides to attack one another over the past few days?

In understanding how the two sides came to verbal blows, we must first recognize that while Daily Wire has generally played nicely with pop culture pundi...

Bayou Bots

If you saw the video on Gina Carano and bot armies this morning, you might be interested to know we're following a new story of the same variety. It turns out that Tiana's Bayou Adventure just might be receiving the faux excitement treatment to try to battle back against expected negative reception.

Notice anything in the image above? 

It's the same weird phrasing shared amongst a number of posters. Do we have more? You bet! And it's a story we'll be bringing out very soon......

The Disney Water Parks Tell a Secret

Disney World is currently designed to make you feel it's crowded. A crowded park is a park where you'll pay to skip lines. So over the last decade, nearly every change has been to REDUCE capacity, reduce attractions, reduce ride length, etc. They want to in the retail spaces, walking always, buying food, hot and thirsty (no, that's not a eupemism).

Disney has gone to such lengths as to artificially limit the number of guests in the park. But why all this effort?

Well, years ago, D...

Which Park Fix Video Is Next?

This morning we released a video on how to fix Animal Kingdom. Which park should we discuss how to greatly improve next? 

Tiana's Tree Problem

One of the once well-understood principles for WDI was perspective. It's everything in creating illusion and immersing guests within it. But a key problem is facing the new wave of Imagineers.

Trees.

No, seriously. 

When they designed Tiana's Splash Rehash in miniature, I'm sure the fake bayou trees looked awesome and at scale. The problem is when they're built and WDW's version has many real trees next to them. It turns out those imposing faux giants are but mere babie...

Secret Exposed WDI Construction Instructions

Bundled in the latest images is a real secret Easter Egg located at Magic Kingdom. Did you know that there's one place where budgetary cuts meant you can actually see the instructions for building a permanent scenery item once it arrived on site? Plus, another example of how things dropped during the modern Disney Parks era... check out one of the worst sight lines in any Disney themed area! 

But it must not be all bad... combined spring breaks in Orange and Osceola Counties has MK...

Updates from Disney World

Thoughts are coming. Crowds are high. Gotta be in the parks to report on the parks. There are many things in need of HUGE investment to repair the Disney experience. 

Where in the Disney World...?

Let's have some fun, folks. Open to everybody today, tell me where you think this photo was taken at Walt Disney World Resort!

Early Access Analysis of Disney White Paper by LW Ghost

Part of this will be appearing soon on That Park Place, but I want to give Patreon members early access. LW Ghost has provided extensive thoughts on the Disney white paper sent out to try to stop Nelson Peltz and Jay Rasulo from gaining access to the board. Mr. Ghost is a tremendous asset in understanding Hollywood as he earned an iMDB page about a mile-long filled with many of the shows that define our culture. He also has served at very high levels in positions that give him tremendous insi...

The Death of Domestic Disney Parks Investment

The Walt Disney Company decided to release a counter white paper to take on Nelson Peltz. To say it isn't going well would be an understatement of gargantuan proportions. In one of the most bizarre moves I've ever seen from the company, they actually said the quite part out loud. The thing that we've been discussing on the WDW Pro Channel for months, hated by the pixie dusters, is now out in the wide open.

Disney plans to kill domestic park investment. 

Looking at the image a...

Military Path to Polynesian Removed

Video coming in the morning... I have questions. 

Flower and Garden Festival

No matter what happens with poor leadership of Disney, the parks remain beautiful as a legacy of past greatness. More updates coming...