@parcorama
Account based inBelgium
About this account
- Account based in
- Belgium
- Connected via
- Belgium App Store
Account-level information from X, not a live location or the device used for a specific post.
Overthinking theme parks & providing unsolicited opinions on other trivial topics • Podcast @LaFiledAttente • Tweets parfois en Français
Joined February 2011
- Tweets31K
- Following889
- Followers5.2K
- Likes24.7K
Pinned Tweet
Hey it’s #Pride month!
Disney won’t make films featuring LGBTQI main characters, so here is an excellent vlog series featuring two fantastic gay main characters in Disney World: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL…
☑️ English subtitles available
Disney on Sept 29: Fires 300 employees, bringing total layoffs to ~10,000 since 2023 😥🎻
Disney on Oct 6: Here's more AI-made concept art, lol 🤪
This is how you publicly speak to executives who conduct mass layoffs just to protect their own jobs, massive salaries, and sweet bonuses.
They'll fire people due to mergers, mind you, Dana Walden arrived at Disney through the Fox acquisition.
Le Parcorama retweeted
What I want it to be
vs
What it will actually be
The official synopsis for Former Disney CEO Bob Chapek's BEHIND THE CASTLE WALLS memoir.
"For the first time ever, Bob Chapek breaks his silence on his tenure as the Walt Disney Company’s CEO, offering a behind-the-scenes account of the challenges he faced—from getting the job just weeks before a worldwide pandemic, to the shifting political landscape, to his ousting given Bob Iger’s apparent desire to return.
In 1993, Bob Chapek began his career at the Walt Disney Company as the marketing director for home video. After twenty-seven years of hard work, climbing the corporate ladder, and garnering respect across the wide variety of businesses that Disney has, he earned the most coveted (and scrutinized) position of all: In 2020, he was named CEO of the Walt Disney Company.
Born and raised in small-town Indiana by a World War II–veteran father, Chapek learned early in life that grit, resilience, and curiosity can take you far. These values are what got him to Disney. However, within weeks of starting at the top, the COVID-19 pandemic shut down parks, resorts, cruise ships, live sporting events, and film and television production, forcing Chapek to steer the billion-dollar empire through unprecedented times. The stakes were high, the decisions unforgiving, and the backlash often inordinate, leaving him wondering whether he had become the corporate scapegoat of it all. In 2022, he got his answer—Chapek was out, Iger was back in.
Was he really given a fair shot or was he set up to fail? What drove his ousting and Bob Iger’s return? What happened behind the scenes at Disney during COVID, and how did those decisions impact what we see today? Four years later, after reflection and healing, Chapek is ready to tell his story, sharing what he hopes will be his true legacy.
Even now, after everything, he’s still a lifelong fan, and wants the magic of Disney to endure for generations.
Behind the Castle Walls is a revealing and thrilling memoir of ambition, power, and corporate intrigue in the happiest company on earth."
PSA: Do NOT download Bob Chapek's book for free on piracy sites like Z-Library.
It's illegal, and just because he squeezed every penny out of you everywhere he possibly could when running Disney Parks doesn't mean you can do the same to him.
I finally rode the highly praised Ride to Happiness. I didn't like it. Most inversions happen at very low speeds with zero G-force, leaving you hanging toward the ground held only by the lap bar like a piece of meat, like this video: there's just no thrill in such an element.
Not surprised by this because I never thought the current business model for Universal’s flagship theme parks could satisfy shareholders without Harry Potter driving the revenue.
HAS HARRY POTTER JUST BEEN CONFIRMED FOR UNIVERSAL UK?… because I think this might actually be happening. 🪄⚡️
Remember last night when we asked whether you’d like to see The Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal United Kingdom Resort?
Well, over 1,100 of you reacted to that post… and now, less than 24 hours later, some VERY interesting new information has come to light. 👀
Before we get carried away, we need to make something very clear.
Universal has NOT announced Harry Potter for Bedford. This is not official confirmation and we are joining some dots here.
But they’re some pretty big dots.
A publicly accessible PCL Construction project page on HammerTech carries this rather interesting title:
“Project 1307 UUKR WWoHP”
Now, UUKR is fairly straightforward. Universal itself uses UUKR as an abbreviation for Universal United Kingdom Resort.
But WWoHP?
Surely we’re all thinking the same thing…
Wizarding World of Harry Potter. 🪄
And this is where it gets even more interesting.
PCL Construction has a serious history with Universal and Harry Potter.
PCL helped build the original Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal Orlando, including Hogsmeade Village and Hogwarts Castle.
More recently, PCL was also involved with The Wizarding World of Harry Potter – Ministry of Magic at Universal Epic Universe.
So just think about what we have here…
A construction company with a history of building Wizarding World projects for Universal.
A project apparently connected with Universal United Kingdom Resort.
And a project title containing “UUKR WWoHP”.
That is VERY hard to ignore. 👀
Could WWoHP mean something else? Yes.
Could Project 1307 relate to something other than an actual Harry Potter land or attraction? Absolutely.
We don’t know the scope of PCL’s involvement and, until Universal says otherwise, The Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Bedford remains unconfirmed.
But this certainly feels like one of the strongest clues we’ve seen so far.
Especially when rumours of Harry Potter and potentially a Hogsmeade-style area at the UK resort have already been circulating.
Last night we were asking:
“Would you like Harry Potter at Universal UK?”
Less than 24 hours later, maybe the question is starting to become…
“What Harry Potter experience could we actually be getting?” 👀🪄
Hogsmeade and Hogwarts?
Diagon Alley?
Ministry of Magic?
Or something completely new for the UK?
We’ll say it again: nothing is confirmed.
But “Project 1307 UUKR WWoHP” has certainly got our attention.
What do you make of it?
Are we joining dots that aren’t there… or is The Wizarding World of Harry Potter actually heading to Bedford? ⚡️🪄
Follow Project Universal for all the very latest news and rumors, you'll find us here on Facebook, Youtube, Instagram and TikTok.
#ProjectUniversal #UniversalUnitedKingdomResort #UniversalUK #HarryPotter #WizardingWorld #Bedford #fblifestyle
Images: PCL. Thank you Alicia Stella for the tweet and Mike for waking me up this morning on Whatsapp to share.
What's your experience with DLP standby lines lately?
Is it just me, or are we back to the doomed FastPass era ratios (similar to current WDW situation)? Too many DPA prioritized: you move 4 meters, stop dead for 5+ minutes, and repeat until loading. 💀
It’s always strange how DLP hotel outdoor areas are constantly empty and sad, and DLP seems to have given up on outdoor offerings years ago. Meanwhile, theme park hotels like Europa-Park's are full of life with people drinking, dining, and hanging out outside.
Disney Hotel Sequoia Lodge with outdoor seating at one it’s restaurants, something you don’t see anymore today. #disneylandparis
Unless there’s a solid storyline reason, LED rainbow/demo mode should be illegal in theme parks. Actually, in all design, ever 🚮
De lamp bij #Gondoletta
Moet zeggen dat ik alle verschillende kleurtjes hier niet zo vind passen. Eén kleur is denk net zo mooi.
#Efteling
Effrayant de voir à quel point la presse se contente de réciter béatement le communiqué mirobolant de l'Élysée et de l'Arabie saoudite sur le projet de parcs Dragon Ball. Aucune analyse sur la plausibilité des annonces ni sur les enjeux pétroliers, et donc environnementaux.
