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Comment by RC_ITR | Hacker News Reader

Say what you will (should this even be on HN?), but Disney is giving is a masterclass in professional revenge.

The massive plan to expand the Anaheim park drops on the same day.

https://www.foxla.com/news/disneyland-forward-disney-anaheim...

"Possible". Culture wars are always fascinating in the tradeoffs people are willing to make in their rational. Californians will scream "More Housing! Get rid of Golf Courses and build houses!" But a massive theme park expansion in the middle of a developed area? All good if it hurts someone you hate.

> Californians will scream "More Housing! Get rid of Golf Courses and build houses!" But a massive theme park expansion in the middle of a developed area? All good if it hurts someone you hate.

Weird that people like theme parks, yeah.

And people don't like golf courses?

The density of people that can enjoy a golf course vs an equivalently sized theme park is what? 100x?

Disney's a big corporation but they don't have the power of eminent domain. If (if!) they ever attempt to grow the Anaheim property beyond their current holdings they will pay an absolute king's ransom for each and every square foot.

Besides, reading the actual plans it's pretty clear that Disneyland Forward is more about repurposing and optimizing their current space rather than a "massive expansion" as you call it. Really feels like you're just making up a situation in order to "both sides" the issue.

Disney Forward primarily seeks to build in Disney-owned surface parking lots.

In practice, this would about double the size of the current park (The detailed drawing represent the new areas, which are currently parking lots)

I guess we disagree on whether 2x is “massive”?

Actually looking at the plans, it becomes clear that Disney is looking to replace surface parking with other uses.

I think very few Californians are against converting surface parking into workplaces.

I'm also unclear how this is 'culture war'? Could you expand on that?

The only masterclass Disney is running is how to take a world class company and run it into the ground. Source: $Disney stock price.

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