All those chairs, tables, banisters, all the glass and mirrors, glasses, plates, all that stuff in one bar that gets broken up PER FIGHT most have set them back more than a thousand bucks at a crack.
Add in the cost of all the bullets, booze, food and whatever else in the other two "lands" that we only got brief glimpses of and you're in the red from the first foundation.
There's no way this "resort" turned a profit, way too much overhead.
I'm going to have to agree with you there. Yes, $1000 was alot of money in 1973 (or the future where this was set), but even based on those prices, the damage and staffing required certainly ran to more than they made/day.
At minimum, we see
-10 low paid guys who pick up the dead bodies/clean up in the morning (per world)
-10 higher paid guys receiving and doing basic maintenance on the dead bodies (and there must be even higher paid guys who do the real maintenance, trouble-shooting for the ones that are malfunctioning)
-10 high paid guys in the central command center
-6 directors/scientists
So all that is just staffing (even forgetting back office staff like accountants/HR).
Then you have rebuilding a good portion the town EVERY day - fixing the bank, the blown out jail wall, the bar. Those type of things probably happen daily given the guests' penchants for destruction. Are they able to finish this all in one night even? Probably less maintenance required for medieval and Roman, but they spent alot on food over there.
But the biggest expense of all would be the computing system. Buying that much computing power back then was very expensive. And you need programmers. And they don't seem shy about always upgrading to the latest technology.
:) Bottom line, suspension of belief, I was quite happy with this movie.
One on-line calculator indicates that $1000 in 1973 would equal $5500 in 2016.
All I know is that I saw this film in 1973 when it first came out. It was a pretty packed house and when the announcer in the introductory commercial said, "Was it worth $1000 a day?" people in the audience gasped. Literally, gasped.
Of course, in 1973, an adult could get into Disneyland with a 15 ride ticket book for $5.95.
> Then you have rebuilding a good portion the town EVERY day - fixing the bank, the blown out jail wall, the bar. Those type of things probably happen daily given the guests' penchants for destruction.
I agree. The biggest expense would be to have a crew of workers to repair all the damage every night.
We saw about 20 new guests each day and maybe they spend five days each there. So, Delos brings in about $100,000 a day. Is that a lot to fix the damage caused by 100 guests spread across three theme parks?
Maybe. Labor was cheap back then, but computers were expensive. Fixing all the damage to the town would probably fall in the middle somewhere.
> Are they able to finish this all in one night even?
Well, they should not have to. Maybe there isn't a bank robbery every night and it takes a week to fix the bank. And some robots are so damaged that they take a few days to fix, so different robots are put into service. And, blown-out walls can be left for a few days to add character to the town.
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the biggest expense would be the creation and maintenance of the robots, just the windows OS has millions of lines of code and after 20 years they still cant make it bug free, now image the code to mimic the human brain, not to mention the very sophisticated mechanics to make a robot walk.
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