el_super
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So, again, you are advocating for raising theme park admission prices in order to pay for service level increases?
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So, again, you are advocating for raising theme park admission prices in order to pay for service level increases?
No. Service standards should not fall. Your argument is terrible. They have raised prices, and standards have fallen. You brought up a hypothetical that they were saving costs to help the parks remain affordable.
networkpro
Well-Known Member
- In the Parks
- Yes
Ron did a great job in that.
el_super
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Anything they can do to resolve these "issues" would require additional funding. Where should that come from? The guests? The employees? The shareholders? Someone has to pay.
Tha Realest
Well-Known Member
The parks make billions in profit every year. Why should guests bear more of these costs?
networkpro
Well-Known Member
- In the Parks
- Yes
They have to have some groups in the company that are making a profit to prop up D+ and theatrical releases that are funding black holes.
As of 2022, the debt of TWDC was $48B , billion with a B.
Tha Realest
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Oh I’m not defending the financial stewardship of the company. Within parks, they turn a huge profit. The operational costs should be used to provide a basic level of maintenance.
el_super
Well-Known Member
So the shareholders should pay? You think the one group that has the power to replace the leadership of TWDC to enact their will, should just willingly give up their money? You think that's a realistic answer?
Read The post again. A nine year low, they are paying for it. Shareholders don't like losing on their investments. They are not exactly being pleased right now. I said they are already paying, not that they should. I would love to explain to you in private messages if you would like to continue this, because you are reading things that no one here stated. Be done with it.
You already made it clear you don't think there are issues when you put the word in quotes. So not sure what your goal is, but whatever it is. It is not happening for you.
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JoeCamel
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Um defend the Dis at every turn?
Disneyhead'71
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I can't wait to see the spinning when they start jettisoning major components of the company like ESPN and ABC, and shutter The Disney Channel family of channels.
If that is the goal, than it is like a kid at a soccer game running to score in the other teams.
70% of current investors of TWDC are institutional investors . The men who had the power to replace / get rid of leadership (Eisner) was Roy and Stanley Gold. So far no one has done what they did to Save Disney.
GhostHost1000
Premium Member
If they made better decisions as a company, they’d have more money to use
Nubs70
Well-Known Member
No, WDW needs to allocate existing funds to a reasonable maintenance budget.
In Q&A during the shareholder meetings with Chapek and or Iger , oddly this concern was never raised.
JoeCamel
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I wonder how much of this is due to the loss of 30 year ride techs that knew every wire, nut, bolt and personality of the rides?
With the pandemic exodus they may have lost talent that can't be replaced anytime soon. No one left to pass on the knowledge so it is lost.