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DAK “Zootopia” is being created for the Tree of Life theater

KDM31091

KDM31091

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aladdin2007 said:
This!! This show is preschool fodder at best, and aside from the animatronic I would put this on par with that beauty and the beast sing along muck they chuffed into the France pavilion. Imagineering really has no high aiming bar any longer, that's sad. Its just whatever wherever no reason, sell the precious lighting lanes thats all that matters now.
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The Disney difference is becoming a thing of the past. Cheap lazy attractions and riding on nostalgia. Which will run out. Especially as the price keeps getting higher.
 
monothingie

monothingie

Raising Prices Excites Me
Premium Member
AidenRodriguez731 said:
Well I know I'm gonna be ripped apart for it but I absolutely love:

1. Tron
2. Tiana's
3. Cosmic Rewind
4. CBMJ
5. BOTH the Pandora rides.
6. Test Track 3.0
7. MMRR
8. Rise
9. Millenium Falcon (while it can use more scenes, I find it a very fun experience to fly)
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No Haunted Mansion
No POTC
No People Mover
No SSE
No Jungle Cruise
No TOT
No LWTL (GOAT BTW)

It would be easier if you had just said you were trolling us.
 
monothingie

monothingie

Raising Prices Excites Me
Premium Member
MisterPenguin said:
Fast, short cuts were the staple of MTV music videos from the 80s. You get longer single scenes on Tiktok than a music video (or an action movie fight sequence which intercuts stunt doubles every 2 seconds.)

Blame generation X.
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slap penguins GIF
 
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AidenRodriguez731

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monothingie said:
No Haunted Mansion
No POTC
No People Mover
No SSE
No Jungle Cruise
No TOT
No LWTL (GOAT BTW)

It would be easier if you had just said you were trolling us.
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Uh I was asked about new experiences that I like? I don't see where 20+ year old rides fit into this??

That wasn't a ranking of my favorite Disney rides, just examples of new rides I love.

Cosmic Rewind and ToT are my two favorite Disney rides of all time. I also love all the rides on that list, I just love theme park rides for the most part man idk
 
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Comped

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monothingie said:
Sounds about right. When Walmart pays better than Disney for CMs, don't expect miracles.
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Ironically, it seems that somewhere above GEMs but below execs are the most passionate about the company these days. At least the ones I've met. Now do many of them know enough about the company for my taste? No, I've mentioned that in previous posts... But they are better than most. And they actually seem to care about the parks and the company as a whole and have a passion for it. I had this whole thing written out about how I found that many frontlne CMs have, since the pandemic especially, become jaded and less likely to do anything but exactly what their job says to do (and barely prodivde great guest service), but we've all experienced it. Rarely do we see the coordinators hoding up the ship, like I've seen many times (both as a CM or a guest), or the GEM who only took the promotion for the cheque. I don't expct miracles, I do expect the same standards to be upheld I was trained on in Traditions, which have changed very little in over 70 years of Disney operating parks. And they simply are not.

I've blabbered on continuously about this issue (and another manager's Grand Floridian-related comment that is even worse), but there is very little appetite for change it seems. Just not a priority any longer to properly recruit and train CMs like they did 20-30 years ago. Unfortunately, because those were the days when Disney solidified great guest service and their reuptation for such. I've talked to people in HR who regret this as well, but again, it's tough to do anything when it all costs money that corporate simply will not give, because recruiting, training, and retaining the best in the business makes Disney no more money. In fact, it costs them quite a bit. Used to be conisdered just a cost of doing business, from Walt's time until Bob showed up. Now, it's considered an expense that must be cut, and cut it they did...
KDM31091 said:
Is there even any tiny homage to the bugs anywhere? I don’t see anything. Disney used to always include something (again part of the Disney difference)
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They kept the big ball in the lobby for some reason. Sure it's a "dirt ball", but I don't know what kind of soil they were using for that, because it doesn't look like dirt!
 
monothingie

monothingie

Raising Prices Excites Me
Premium Member
Comped said:
Ironically, it seems that somewhere above GEMs but below execs are the most passionate about the company these days. At least the ones I've met. Now do many of them know enough about the company for my taste? No, I've mentioned that in previous posts... But they are better than most. And they actually seem to care about the parks and the company as a whole and have a passion for it. I had this whole thing written out about how I found that many frontlne CMs have, since the pandemic especially, become jaded and less likely to do anything but exactly what their job says to do (and barely prodivde great guest service), but we've all experienced it. Rarely do we see the coordinators hoding up the ship, like I've seen many times (both as a CM or a guest), or the GEM who only took the promotion for the cheque. I don't expct miracles, I do expect the same standards to be upheld I was trained on in Traditions, which have changed very little in over 70 years of Disney operating parks. And they simply are not.

I've blabbered on continuously about this issue (and another manager's Grand Floridian-related comment that is even worse), but there is very little appetite for change it seems. Just not a priority any longer to properly recruit and train CMs like they did 20-30 years ago. Unfortunately, because those were the days when Disney solidified great guest service and their reuptation for such. I've talked to people in HR who regret this as well, but again, it's tough to do anything when it all costs money that corporate simply will not give, because recruiting, training, and retaining the best in the business makes Disney no more money. In fact, it costs them quite a bit. Used to be conisdered just a cost of doing business, from Walt's time until Bob showed up. Now, it's considered an expense that must be cut, and cut it they did...

They kept the big ball in the lobby for some reason. Sure it's a "dirt ball", but I don't know what kind of soil they were using for that, because it doesn't look like dirt!
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Just rely on the unpaid slave labor of the CP and make sure to lock them away at night at the Flamingo Crossing prisons. (They're all behind raptor fences...for their protection...)

Nothing says magic like a CP CM working janitorial oozing contempt for their life choices while cleaning the spilled popcorn of 3 year old throwing a tantrum because they can't see Elsa on the Frozen ride because their parents wouldn't spend the money for LL.
 
Sirwalterraleigh

Sirwalterraleigh

Premium Member
monothingie said:
Just rely on the unpaid slave labor of the CP and make sure to lock them away at night at the Flamingo Crossing prisons. (They're all behind raptor fences...for their protection...)

Nothing says magic like a CP CM working janitorial oozing contempt for their life choices while cleaning the spilled popcorn of 3 year old throwing a tantrum because they can't see Elsa on the Frozen ride because their parents wouldn't spend the money for LL.
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Ok THAT is nothing new…

The cdc is still awaiting test results from samples taken at the vista way pool from the late 1990s ☢️
 

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