Drew Taylor
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 23 Jul
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Business Wars · Universal vs Disney: The Battle for Orlando | Epic Rivalry | 4 · 23 Jul 2026
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So Disney went back to the Potter people and said, well, let's pitch things for around the world, because obviously Disney has theme parks in Paris, Hong Kong, Shanghai and New
Japan.
So, you know, there was a brief period where it looked like they might get those rights back for the global parks.
But Universal ended up hanging on to those because they were such good partners with JK Rowling and that entity.
But yeah, I mean, it forced Disney to up its game.
And I think that's what's really exciting about this current tussle between the two companies is that
Me, as someone who writes about theme parks and who loves theme parks and who loves going to these parks, is going to have a really fruitful few decades because they are constantly trying to one up each other.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
I mean, I think that they had had such success bringing these worlds to life in the theme parks over the past few decades.
Walt Disney World just celebrated its 50th anniversary and Disneyland celebrated its 65th not too long ago.
And, you know, I think that there was some hubris involved in that sort of like a
Yeah, yeah, you sit in the corner.
We kind of got this figured out.
You know, their plan was not super ambitious.
It was kind of an expansion of the Fantasyland area of the park in Florida.
You know, it was not what Universal...
proposed, which was really you're stepping through a doorway into the world of Harry Potter.
I think that they were taken aback by how successful it was.
And I think that they thought, hmm, maybe there is something to this.
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