Sound Off #107 - Party Booking AI Agents, Disney pivots, Padel LBE, & more!

Sponsored by Intercard!Sponsored by Alan-1!On this week's show we look at how AI agents now handle first-contact birthday party and corporate bookings, why you still need skilled closers, and what that means for conversion and margins. We also unpack Disney’s pivot toward original-trilogy Star Wars, leadership moves in FEC chains, the pickleball and padel ceiling, soccer tech venue competition, and a new 360‑motion VR platform built for LBE.• AI agents qualifying party and group sales• why human closers still decide the outcome• filtering tire kickers and surfacing real budgets• Disney’s Star Wars parks shifting back to originals• leadership changes at Family Entertainment Group• techno pickleball hype, naming pitfalls, weak dwell• Crossbar vs Toca Social and membership pivots• the case for wow‑factor XR and 360 motion VR• upcoming Amusement Expo and AWE plansSubscribe and visit LBX Collective for more!