Word: parks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...driver through a want ad. Walking through Disneyland one Sunday afternoon, he peered at the plastic | leaves on the Swiss Family Robinson tree house, noting that they periodically wear out and need to be replaced leaf by leaf at a cost of $500,000. As his family strolled the park, he and his eldest son Breck stooped to pick up the rare piece of litter that the cleanup crew had somehow missed...
...Disney team sees endless possibilities for its empire -- a new Disneyland in South America or Asia; a new American theme park based on the workplace, where visitors would watch ice cream, baseball bats and computer chips being made. Muses Roy Disney: "I suspect my father and uncle would be pleased with the direction we're going. The world has changed to the point where they'd probably be doing a lot of the same things." That portends well for the Eisner regime. "I see myself here forever," says Eisner. Inevitably, though, another new crew of Disnoids will be taking over...
DESCRIPTION: Disney stock price yearly closings, 1978-1987; Net income in millions of dollars, 1978-1984. Color illustration: two amusement park rides...
...that Disney's Golden Age is only beginning. The company will break ground this summer for a $2 billion Euro Disneyland near Paris, which is expected to open in 1992. At the Florida park, Disney is building $1.4 billion worth of new attractions. In animation, the company aims to release one new feature-length fantasy every year, an ambition Walt never achieved. Two are due in 1988: Who Framed Roger Rabbit? in June and Oliver and Company at Thanksgiving time. And coming to a mall near you is a Disney Store in which the company will sell thousands of licensed...
Eisner had been a latecomer as a Disney fan. Growing up on Manhattan's Park Avenue, he seldom watched TV or went to the movies. Eisner's parents -- his father a lawyer-entrepreneur and his mother the president of a medical- research institute -- strictly rationed his pop-culture consumption. Recalls Eisner: "For every hour of television I watched, I had to read for two hours." Eisner dabbled in premed studies as a freshman at Ohio's Denison University, but eventually found better chemistry in the literature and theater departments. The first time he saw a Disney film was several years...