Science, which appeals to both children and adults, seems to be good theme-park material.
If you like your rooms big and your entertainment theme-park style then there is plenty on offer for you there.
Mr Pittman's television and theme-park triumphs have all had the backing of a media giant: first Warner Communications, then Time Warner.
But Eisner makes a point of involving Iger in areas that had solely belonged to the Disney chairman, such as film and theme-park development.
Pay phones in the Times Square area feature X-rated talk-show host Byrd describing the neighborhood before Disney musicals and theme-park stores made it safe for tourists.
As an idealistic 24-year-old, Hall championed the effort and spent the next two decades tenaciously fighting casino developers, theme-park boosters and slippery politicians to create the world's largest developed park.
Set in some unspecified but very seventies looking future, Peter Martin (a luxuriously moustachioed Richard Benjamin) and John Blane (James Brolin) head off on a thousand-dollar-a-day vacation to adult theme-park Delos.
"You cannot put a price on the message that the Walt Disney Co. sends to the world in choosing Hong Kong for its third international theme-park destination, " she said.
The theme-park operator's exposure to a rebound in consumer spending and plans to pay a dividend of about 3% drew buyers, according to traders and bankers familiar with the deal.
Since this is the most popular area of the park, where wait times for some rides can run up to several hours, that combination "completely changes the theme-park experience, " he says.
But that glow faded as the weeks wore on and I dealt with more students exactly like her: tourists who saw tennis as no more of a priority than a theme-park ride.
While Disney World understandably needs a lot a lot of juice to keep the massive crowds of theme-park enthusiasts cool, calm and composed, the gas gluttonous City of Vernon cannot claim the same excuse.
There was a measure of agreement from archrival Singapore, where Renton de Alwis, head of the National Association of Travel Agents Singapore, said Hong Kong Disneyland would be another attraction in the region for locals looking for theme-park experiences.
The theme-park industry has two tiers.
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Since HFR and 3D have only been together in a handful of IMAX films and theme-park rides, seeing both must have been a shock to CinemaCon viewers, and the rest of us might also need time to adjust -- probably in direct proportion to our film-going experience.
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Hong Kong has taken the possibility of a far-in-the- future Disney theme park and a first-step deal between Microsoft and Hong Kong Telecom as excuses for a mini-rally.
While it is nowhere near the theme park-style extravaganza of Universal Studios a few miles northeast, the two-hour walking tour offers an intimate look inside the filmmaking facilities.
Ferrari World, an enormous, family-friendly theme park on Yas Island, offers thrill rides that imitate the g-forces of Ferrari racing, and Yas Waterworld Abu Dhabi just opened in January with epic waterslides and wave pools.
After Hurricane Katrina, there were serious calls to transform New Orleans into a Colonial Williamsburg-style theme park.
Disney will spend that amount every ten days for the next five years building its 1, 000-acre theme park in Shanghai.
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Hence its proposal for an American-history theme park outside Washington, DC (a scheme thwarted by the objections of local residents).
Abu Dhabi is also pitching to a different kind of audience with Ferrari World, a red-hued theme park celebrating the famed racing cars.
Disney has already unveiled plans to build a multi-billion-dollar theme park in Shanghai, and also has had retailing and other investments in the country.
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Dolly's dedication to her image has helped push the small town country girl up the ranks from gifted singer and songwriter to international icon complete with her own Dolly-branded theme park.
The Hong Kong government and Disneyland are to announce this week what is expected to be an agreement to build the world's fifth -- and Asia's second -- Disney theme park in Hong Kong.
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For months it has been rumored that Disney wanted its second theme park in Asia - after Tokyo's - and its fifth in the world to be located in China.
Mr Gibney said they advertised the attraction, in Matchams on the Hampshire-Dorset border, on the theme park's own website, in newspaper adverts and with flyers - with the aim of attracting as many visitors as possible.
It turns World Park, in Beijing, a theme park of tacky reduced-scale reproductions of cultural wonders (from the Taj Mahal to the Eiffel Tower), into a derisive microcosm of China.
He built roads, an international school, a hospital, a first-class hotel and a theme park.
To continue to grow at its current pace, Disney needs to keep producing films that are going to provide the company with opportunities for theme park attractions, TV spin-offs and lots and lots of merchandise.
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