But Disney's global parks operation, which has an estimated 121.4 million admissions a year and generates $12.9 billion in revenue, is so huge that it can greatly influence consumer behavior.
Greenpeace will call for a moratorium on Arctic exploration of this type and fight tooth and nail to resist ownership of the Arctic, arguing that it must be a global commons – an international park – protected by the UN.
Edinburgh has become a global theme park for frivolous self-gratification, a staging post in the global elite's gap year.
(A few proposals being tossed around at the time, including a global peace park and a theme SpongeBob SquarePants hotel, didn't inspire confidence).
In a global theme park located outside a large Chinese city, visitors can spend the morning visiting simulacra of the Eiffel Tower, the Egyptian pyramids or Big Ben.
When the Expo opened on May 1, a sprawling multibillion-dollar global theme park came to life with hundreds of national pavilions, including Saudi Arabia's spectacularly expensive IMAX-equipped pavilion and Britain's design gem, known as the "seed cathedral".
Disney had been a mere behemoth, dominating sports television through ESPN, controlling the global theme park business and running Hollywood's No. 1 movie operation, with studios that include Marvel, Pixar and Lucasfilm.
The abiding allure of Japan's huge network of tiny details is that, like something in a Salman Rushdie novel, it seems to blur all notions of high and low, east and west, old and new into one state-of-the-art global amusement park that is wildly fresh and novel in its best incarnations, and at least zany in its worst.
The recent work that may best address this state of affairs is Jia Zhangke's 2004 fiction film, "The World". In a global theme park located outside a large Chinese city, visitors can spend the morning visiting simulacra of the Eiffel Tower, the Egyptian pyramids or Big Ben.
