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News Bob Iger is back! Chapek is out!!
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Sir_Cliff
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See, that I completely agree with!
I tend to agree with all of this, too. There seems to be some room for nuance here. For example, the Lake Nona move appears to have been in the works when Iger was CEO. However, I've seen the suggestion that Chapek took a hardline approach that Iger is not likely to have taken which drove a mass exodus of talent all for the planned move likely being abandoned. I think a similar thing can be said about Genie+, etc. A lot of those ideas were almost certainly being incubated while Iger was CEO, but it was Chapek who declared that the pandemic meant that they could cast off taboos and do all the things they had been wanting to do for a long time leading to a sudden lurch in a direction most people don't seem to like and has led to a lot of bad press.I don’t think Igers a saint either, I just don’t see the line connecting the dots that others see.
I don’t think anything happens at Disney in a vacuum, there’s a dozen hands on everything, but I also don’t think Igers the puppet master pulling Chapeks strings, he had 2 decades at the helm to make these massive changes, if he’s the man behind them I don’t see why he wouldn’t have done them himself when he had full control.
I associate many of the positive park changes to Staggs so I really hope they bring him back, as a (recent) former parks exec I suppose he’s probably intertwined with all these horrible changes also though.
Yes its awful an absolute embarrassment
Tha Realest
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With the Lake Nona thing cancelled, I wonder what the future holds for Barbara Bouza. She came on during the Chapek years and was a Chapek hire/promotion.
The biggest knock on Eisner from my perspective is how the parks stagnated in the mid to late 90’s to the mid 00’s.
He did build AK during that time… i dk enough of the history of why many insiders & knowledgable Disney people here say his 2h was unforgettable but i truly would like to be educated on what are the main reasons for this assessment
Vegas Disney Fan
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I think he lost his nerve after Euro Disney, he went from money is no object ideas to keep building but do it as cheaply as possible.
DCA was horrible, MGM studios was a half day park at best, AK was better than MGM but cutting Beastly Kingdom and adding Chester and Hester was a horrible money driven decision.
Overall Eisner was great because he laid the foundation for what we have now, without him WDW is probably 3 parks at most and half the number of hotels. Quantity over quality but it forced Iger to spend money I don’t think he would have if he weren’t forced too.
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Yes you did have AK. But not much else. But I think a lot is based on perception.
At least from the Orlando perspective- Uni was starting to come into its own at that point after about a decade. Other things were happening.
Perception that Eisner wasn’t moving fast enough (at least in Orlando). A view I don’t necessarily agree with.
bhg469
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That guy was king of cringe. He didn't even realize how annoying he became.. Such an unhinged weirdo.
Wasn’t just you.
I felt like I wandered into a cult every time I clicked on one of his threads.
I’m just sad I never learned the secret handshake.
Sir_Cliff
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I didnt mind
I didnt mind the wand and hat like most did…
JoeCamel
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That is a crew
Eisner is gone almost 2 decades and AK and HS are both still half day parks imo lol…
Well. Yes. They are rather motley.
bhg469
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Epcot is for amateurs..
Joel
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1998
Br0ckford
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4 hours for Rise and 2 each for RnR and TOT. Full day right there. Brought to tou by Genie +
JoeCamel
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Well '85 was prime too