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When I took my kid to Disneyland for the first time, I got the question on the way “dad, can we go to Netflixland as well?”

This question from a kid made me realize how much of an entertainment empire and revenue generator Disney is versus Netflix.

With Netflix, buying the monthly streaming service is the most you’ll spend. With Disney, it’s likely the least: the toys (with Disney royalties), the movie tickets for the family and finally - for some - a Disneyland trip where we dropped more over a few days than my lifetime Netflix spending will be.

The amount of investment that went into making Disney what it is today is incredible, and Netflix has a lot of catching up to do.

Will there ever be a ‘Netflixland’? Does Netflix even want to compete with Disney, head-on-head?

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I want to ride the OA ride at Netflixland where the suspense and excitement builds up and you get a glimpse of the intense downhill part but then the ride just suddenly ends.

Super sad panda face

I was on a rollercoaster at Netflixland, but I couldn't enjoy it because an employee was sitting next to me the whole time listing all the rides I should try next.

Yeah, but being able to skip the line and keep riding without exiting is certainly a nice feature.

Except if you don't give the signal within 5 seconds of your ride ending, it immediately restarts the ride with you on it.

Walt Disney made a famous sketch of his business strategy with exactly this point: https://i.insider.com/55a6bb002acae74c2f8b48b8. He'd be pleased to see that, modulo a few updates for changing times (comic strips aren't much of a thing these days), it's still working pretty much exactly as intended.

Wow! 1957. Amazing flow chart.

Disney ducks are still a bit of a thing in Europe I hear.

They are very popular in Finland. A bit of news a few years ago was that the Finnish translation of Donald Duck had the largest readership of all weekly publications in Finland.

Yes, it all leads back to the park.

The only problem now, is the park isn't big enough! Imagine the amount of money a third park in America would make. (And cost)

Yes I'm surprised that Disney hasn't built a third park somewhere in Texas yet. It seems like they're leaving money on the table. I understand they want to keep the parks somewhat special and aspirational, but the market has grown a lot. There's a huge group of customers in Mexico who would love to visit.

They went pretty far down the path toward building a new park in Virginia. I believe they even acquired land. In the end it failed because of intense regional opposition to it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney's_America

Disney owns Marvel Comics, and still pretty important for feeding ideas and promotions.

Netflixland is actually a great idea. I would go.

Imagine a stranger things themed section of a Netflix park. $$$$

Or a Love, Sex and Robots themed section. $$$$$$$

Sounds more like a Vegas casino tie-in.

That would be Ozarkland.

“How to build a Sex room” - now as a 4D experience!

Is this the X-rated version of the show?

https://strangerthings-experience.com/san-francisco/

Stranger Things has been the main theme at Universal Studios Halloween Horror Nights in the past

What would Netflixland have? I feel like they don't own enough rights to most of their content to pull that off.

Imagine living in the 80s, but everybody has a cell phone. That’s Netflix land

I got some ads for a "Bridgerton Experience" and "Stranger Things Experience" in SF a few weeks ago. I thought "wow it would be cool if they did this for the content I'm more interested in," then realized that there's already Marvel and Star Wars themed sections of Disneyland. Bit different in the scale of their executions...

There have been some articles about this idea but nothing seems to be decided. They may go into parks later or may not. Some thinks they may just license the IP so you could go to a Stranger Things ride in some other park. Building a park like Disney Land is very, very expensive.

The short answer is...maybe. Franchises with sufficient power behind them usually end up with park deals. Universal operates the Nintendo park in Japan and Harry Potter. Disney is operating the Avatar park (before they even bought Fox).

> dad, can we go to Netflixland as well?”

Who wouldn’t want to visit upside-down land?

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