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MK Cars-Themed Attractions at Magic Kingdom

Charlie The Chatbox Ghost

Charlie The Chatbox Ghost

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JohnD said:
Forbes just dropped an article about all this.

www.forbes.com

Disney Facing Furious Backlash Over $17 Billion Theme Park Investments

Disney’s Magic Kingdom is known as the most magical place on earth but industry luminaries have warned that incoming changes could cast a dark spell on the historic theme park.
www.forbes.com www.forbes.com
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I get the point the article is making, but man is this poorly written. So many run on sentences and very little commas where commas are needed. Also, saying that Cars would fit better in Fantasyland? Seriously?

That said I hope Disney really feels the pressure here. Once you replace the rivers, there’s no going back, and if the Cars land is ugly and the attraction is unreliable… well, maybe it’s safer to expand the park and leave the river alone.

Also seeing that Iger quote where he’s like “oh yeah we used to make non-IP stuff but when we made Cars land it was a game changer so now we’ll only ever do IP from now on” makes me mad cause the way he talks about the non-IP stuff like it’s worthless is awful. “It’s just an attraction.” Like yeah no duh Sherlock? Why do you think people love Figment or the Mansion despite them not being your precious IP?
 
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MisterPenguin

MisterPenguin

President of Animal Kingdom
Premium Member
mickEblu said:
What’s wrong with WDW Pro? Seems like a straight shooter to me.
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Three quick examples since this is getting off-topic:

1. When Frozen 2 was being released, he said he had insider sources in Disney itself saying that Disney thought it was going to bomb. And he kept that up even as F2 was at $.6B (wound up $1.45B in the end). And he refused to acknowledge he was wrong. This was the beginning of the end of his time on the forum as he became the butt of a joke. Self-inflicted.

2. He's part of the Kathleen Kennedy derangement club. For the past decade he's echoed that KK was definitely and totally about to fired... all based on the echo chamber's 'inside sources.'

3. Go to his YouTube page and click on the videos tab and despair over the decline of Western Civilization based on the thumbnails alone. Clearly rage-bait.

All three point to the undeniable fact that he is *not* a "straight shooter." That anyone would use him as a "source" for an article says a lot about that person's credibility.
 
Giss Neric

Giss Neric

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I used to see WDW Pro in this forum pre-pandemic (It that really him?). He has always been extremely negative. I also noticed a significant increase of these grifters on socmed and it seems Disney is always their main target with their ridiculous looking thumbnails in their videos.
 
Incomudro

Incomudro

Well-Known Member
MisterPenguin said:
Three quick examples since this is getting off-topic:

1. When Frozen 2 was being released, he said he had insider sources in Disney itself saying that Disney thought it was going to bomb. And he kept that up even as F2 was at $.6B (wound up $1.45B in the end). And he refused to acknowledge he was wrong. This was the beginning of the end of his time on the forum as he became the butt of a joke. Self-inflicted.

2. He's part of the Kathleen Kennedy derangement club. For the past decade he's echoed that KK was definitely and totally about to fired... all based on the echo chamber's 'inside sources.'

3. Go to his YouTube page and click on the videos tab and despair over the decline of Western Civilization based on the thumbnails alone. Clearly rage-bait.

All three point to the undeniable fact that he is *not* a "straight shooter." That anyone would use him as a "source" for an article says a lot about that person's credibility.
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Yeah, i might agree with him a bit on the general sentiment of a dislike of certain things or people - KK, Disney's plan with Rivers of America etc...
But I can't even watch his videos.
You are correct about them.
 
BrianLo

BrianLo

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JohnD said:
If it takes a poorly written, almost AI article by a bad author to drive home this point, then good. The dissatisfaction needs to go beyond fans and insiders to the mainstream.
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This isn’t mainstream. Her blog posts tend to get 4 figure views. Which is also why it’s been silly it has been given so much air here already, to the point of having a dedicated thread. We’ve formed about a third of its views and I assume Dis Twitter another large portion.

As I’ve said elsewhere: Tom Bricker and Len Testa have much bigger platforms. Heck, Jim Shull has a bigger platform as a key player in the article (whatever superlative he was assigned by her). WDWPro has a bigger platform.
 
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EricsBiscuit

EricsBiscuit

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Charlie The Chatbox Ghost said:
The most egregious example of this to me is the unused sponsors lounge in Tomorrowland sitting there while the Shooting Arcade gets closed for a DVC Lounge.
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That, SGE, Tomorrowland Terrace, Mike Fink Keel Boats dock is only used as HM queue space, there’s also plenty of underutilized and unused retail space. I’m sure others here can give more examples of space at MK that is abandoned.

ETA: and at Epcot they have a whole pavilion with an e ticket abandoned. Is that not “underutilized?”
 
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JohnD

JohnD

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BrianLo said:
This isn’t mainstream. Her blog posts tend to get 4 figure views. Which is also why it’s been silly it has been given so much air here already, to the point of having a dedicated thread. We’ve formed about a third of its views and I assume Dis Twitter another large portion.

As I’ve said elsewhere: Tom Bricker and Len Testa have much bigger platforms. Heck, Jim Shull has a bigger platform as a key player in the article (whatever superlative he was assigned by her). WDWPro has a bigger platform.
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My point is: We know these blog platforms. An average Forbes reader doesn't. If this article does anything, it expands the knowledge about this issue to a larger audience, bad writing, and subpar author notwithstanding.
 
BrianLo

BrianLo

Well-Known Member
JohnD said:
My point is: We know these blog platforms. An average Forbes reader doesn't. If this article does anything, it expands the knowledge about this issue to a larger audience, bad writing, and subpar author notwithstanding.
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I think you missed my point that these articles are getting a few thousand clicks. That’s what I meant by it isn’t mainstream, it’s not actually “Forbes”.

Tom or Steve tend to get 5-6 figure engagement and we aren’t defining those as main stream, but comparatively we should. You are being mislead by the blog platform label.

We need to stop giving it legitimacy or trying to assign it value. The twitter thread it quotes had more value.
 
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easyrowrdw

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BrianLo said:
This isn’t mainstream. Her blog posts tend to get 4 figure views. Which is also why it’s been silly it has been given so much air here already, to the point of having a dedicated thread. We’ve formed about a third of its views and I assume Dis Twitter another large portion.

As I’ve said elsewhere: Tom Bricker and Len Testa have much bigger platforms. Heck, Jim Shull has a bigger platform as a key player in the article (whatever superlative he was assigned by her). WDWPro has a bigger platform.
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Where can you see the page views for this article?
 

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