New Disney ride simulates Disney-ABC merger
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I look forward to riding this one!
Visitors to the Walt Disney World theme park stood in line for hours Monday waiting to get on the Whirly Merge, a new thrill ride that promises all the excitement of the 1996 merger between the Walt Disney Company and Capital Cities/ABC, Disney officials said Wednesday.
“This ride has been 12 years in the making,” Disney CEO Bob Iger said. “Now you can experience for yourself the heart-stopping suspense when [former Disney chief] Michael Eisner tries to convince the board of directors to diversify its holdings and become the world’s largest entertainment conglomerate.”
“The [boardroom] shake-up was really scary,” Tyler James, 10, said. “I felt a little sick during the arbitrage part, but I still want to go again!”