Six Flags May Not Be Down For Breakfast...

[Cheshire Figment]

If Landry's goes toward bankruptcy, I would imagine that Disney would be willing to release them from the lease with the proviso that they waive any claim against leasehold improvements and related intellectual property. This would give Disney the restaurants along with the theming and all furnishings.

[Zazu]

If Landry's goes toward bankruptcy, I would imagine that Disney would be willing to release them from the lease with the proviso that they waive any claim against leasehold improvements and related intellectual property. This would give Disney the restaurants along with the theming and all furnishings.

Yup, that's what Mickey did when the All Star Cafe couldn't meet payroll. Of course, Disney couldn't turn a profit in that location either until they modified the quality of service.

But yeah, can you imagine an RFC or T-Rex with Imagineering in charge of maintenance upgrades?

And I still don't understand why RFC doesn't sell comics featuring their signature characters. It seems like such a no-brainer.

[TdcOgre]

That article also mentions Landrys, which owns Rainforest Cafe and other eateries in San Antonio. Could that possibly affect RFC and T-Rex at WDW?

I, for one, would not miss either of them. It would be ironic if T-Rex went under after what Disney did to Pleasure Island and the much ballyhooed news releases about the "GREAT NEW" things for guests at PI. T-Rex being one of them.

Did you note some of the other companies on the list? Blockbuster, Krispy Kreme, Chrysler and Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group.

Blockbuster's been in a downhill spiral due to Netflix. They've tried to compete with BB online but it runs a very poor second. My experience with them was extremely short. I quickly became tired of seeing my number one and two picks in my queue passed over for nos. 9 & 11 even though 1 & 2 were marked available.

Krispy Kreme simply over-expanded and saturated the market. I have to wonder if Starbucks is far behind.

Chrysler, Ford and GM have been mismanaged for years. It wasn't just their reliance on big trucks and SUV's that got them but their being an also-ran behind the Japanese companies in the quality and extras department. SWMBO recently bought a new Camry. But not without first trying out several "American made" vehicles. Now, she wanted a car that would be good for her 45 min. drive to work and with nice accouterments. The local Chrysler dealer had nothing but plain black boxes and had not interest in getting her a car with the accessories she wanted. As we tried to leave they were offering to take huge sums off the price of the car but "Oh no, find you the car you want. NO way!" She went down the street and bought the Camry which does everything except walk the dog and got 1.9 % interest to boot.

As to Dollar Thrifty, we've used Dollar in Orlando several times but lately they don't seem to know their a** from a hole in the ground. Dirty, uncleaned cars and total ineptitude at car pick-up/drop off. Last October there were 8 of us including the grand babies so we rented two cars. When we returned them the attendants have a spasm because some sort of GPS tracking unit wasn't in the car. Not the type one rents but something they use to track the cars. Heck, we didn't even know there was one but they just about lost it when these weren't there. We're saying: "Look there's only about 140 miles on either car. What are you worried about?" Sheesh!!

[Amphigorey]

I figured the death knell was coming soon when that girl who got her feet cut off at Kentucky Kingdom settled for a ridiculously small amount. Her lawyer probably advised her that something was better than nothing at all although I remember thinking that the amount wasn't nearly what she should have gotten when some old bimbo gets millions for coffee burns in the crotch.

This is tangential, but the coffee incident was actually valid. McDonald's really did heat their coffee to a ridiculously high degree.

Look at it this way: if you put your coffee cup in your lap while driving, yeah, you take a chance that it might spill, and it'll hurt, and you should feel stupid for doing it. What you don't expect - and further, shouldn't have to expect - is that said spilled coffee will put you in the hospital for 3rd-degree burns. That's what happened to the woman who sued. The reason the settlement was so high was because the judge decided that anything lower wouldn't actually hurt McDonald's or change their behavior, so he had to slap them with a large judgment.

So yeah - my point is that there have been plenty of stupid lawsuits out there, but this wasn't one of them.

[TdcOgre]

This is tangential, but the coffee incident was actually valid. McDonald's really did heat their coffee to a ridiculously high degree.

Look at it this way: if you put your coffee cup in your lap while driving, yeah, you take a chance that it might spill, and it'll hurt, and you should feel stupid for doing it. What you don't expect - and further, shouldn't have to expect - is that said spilled coffee will put you in the hospital for 3rd-degree burns. That's what happened to the woman who sued. The reason the settlement was so high was because the judge decided that anything lower wouldn't actually hurt McDonald's or change their behavior, so he had to slap them with a large judgment.

So yeah - my point is that there have been plenty of stupid lawsuits out there, but this wasn't one of them.

I agree. The problem with mega-corporations is that until the fines/judgments get into the 8/9 figure range it's "chump change" to them and easier to ignore.

[HarryFromMarydelDE]

This is tangential, but the coffee incident was actually valid. McDonald's really did heat their coffee to a ridiculously high degree.

Look at it this way: if you put your coffee cup in your lap while driving, yeah, you take a chance that it might spill, and it'll hurt, and you should feel stupid for doing it. What you don't expect - and further, shouldn't have to expect - is that said spilled coffee will put you in the hospital for 3rd-degree burns. That's what happened to the woman who sued. The reason the settlement was so high was because the judge decided that anything lower wouldn't actually hurt McDonald's or change their behavior, so he had to slap them with a large judgment.

So yeah - my point is that there have been plenty of stupid lawsuits out there, but this wasn't one of them.

A lot of the most commonly cited frivolous lawsuits are actually very valid, and they are usually not cited properly to make them seem more frivolous than they are. The one that I see a lot is about the people who supposedly sued for buying a haunted house. I have seen this one mentioned a lot on anti-frivolous lawsuit web sites. Except that it is completely not true. They didn't sue because the house was haunted, they sued because the person they bought the house from published a book that said the house was haunted (thereby decreasing the property value). The book was already scheduled to be released when the house was sold, so the seller knew the value was going to decrease but didn't say anything about it. The seller claimed that it was the buyer's responsibility to check for anything that would decrease the house's value. The judge disagreed, saying that due diligence only covered the actual house itself and not calling publishers to see if they were putting out books about the house. Whether the house was haunted (the buyer claimed it was not) had nothing to do with the lawsuit.

It's a shame that people pick these examples because there really are so many bad lawsuits out there, and when people find out the most common examples are distorted they sometimes decide the whole problem may be imaginary, which is very much not the case.

-Harry

[Walt Disney]

Rest in pieces

[disneygeek]

jeez, I wonder WHO would buy a failing park???

any ideas???

Well, here in Rhode Island, Rocky Point Amusement Park is going to be made into luxury housing. Or it was, maybe there's not the market for luxury housing there was a few years back when that was announced! :D: