Interview 3367 – Caption Index: 545
I got a call from Riverbanks that said, where is this Royal Zoo?… Read More
I got a call from Riverbanks that said, where is this Royal Zoo?… Read More
No. (laughs) Sorry about that. One other question. (laughs) And then if there’s anything we haven’t covered, you’ll say something. No, I think we’ve (mumbles). What was your, you talked about relationships and so forth. Read More
What was your relationship to the Royal Zoo?… Read More
What happened to the relationship?… Read More
(laughs) Well, the, you know, the, the Royal Zoo saga, I guess, or whatever you want to call it. We were always big believers in actually, if, if you might recall, I got up in front of, and kind of rather pointedly and loudly argued in favor of, you know,… Read More
But it made us a fair amount of money in the beginning. And then as IMAX have done all over the world, they, you know, the attendance tapered off, partly because the, the guys that were producing the IMAX film and the IMAX corporation were not terribly user-friendly and they… Read More
I don’t have any other questions. Read More
Did you ask about the Royal Zoo?… Read More
We do. Read More
How did you decide to develop that?… Read More
Well, that one was, that was one of them that, that actually, you know, that wasn’t one of my ideas. That was a chairman of the board saw an IMAX, liked it, got a, you know. We went to see the IMAX in, at the Sony Center in New York. Read More
The timing was, the timing was right at the point where IMAX, where IMAX theaters were really at their peak in their cusp. And, you know, they, they were really, really, really generating a lot of, a lot of income and a lot of excitement. Actually, you know, we put… Read More
I don’t know. Yeah, we, well, I think we get, we, we do well. I mean, statistically speaking, we say it’s for the kids, but statistically speaking, you know, we’re assuming that anybody 12 and over as an adult, we have a lot more adults come than kids. And I… Read More
Turns out it was since it was used, it was relatively inexpensive and it’s made a huge amount of money for us because we get really great ridership. Plus it’s fun. It goes right across the top of the giraffe, across the ostriches, cheetahs, rhinos, across the, it crosses the… Read More
(chuckling) Am I correct that you have an IMAX at the zoo?… Read More
What role did their participation play in developing Omaha Zoo?… Read More
Say again?… Read More
Sorry. Thank you. They say that the, it’s easy to say the zoo is for the families, for the kids, families. Read More
How do you get teenagers to want to come to the zoo?… Read More
And plus now we expanded that by acquiring more land, and recently the, you know, the Rosenblatt stadium, the ballpark, we just acquired that and are in the process right now of tearing down the stadium. So we picked up another 37 acres of prime parking land, you know, right,… Read More