HMF
Well-Known Member
Done... but we all know no message will be sent... The best way to send a message is to stop spending any money at WDW...
Not a problem for me. I have not spent a dime at WDW since 2008.
Done... but we all know no message will be sent... The best way to send a message is to stop spending any money at WDW...
I am concerned that WDW may be getting close to a point it cannot recover from. How many more cutbacks, broken AAs, removals, quality reductions with a price increase, dumbed down menus, etc before the WDW just won't be able to recover it once heralded level of quality and service?
.....or have we already reached that mark?
2008 might as well been yesterday.
Yep ... you do get it quite well now that you traveled beyond ... Pennsylvania
We need to get you to Anaheim ... and then Asia.
You may never want to return to The Timeshare Kingdom of the World unless you are visiting that other place up I-4.
~Fanbois always get the point ... ~
Another Disney is melting thread that Disney will not notice.i'll pass.
Disney is one of the cheapest companies I've ever had dealings with ... they don't seem to quite understand that there is something called the cost of doing business.
Good job passing....
Another Disney is melting thread that Disney will not notice.i'll pass.
Two declines I cannot fathom are glaring shuttered locations in the Magic Kingdom, one in Frontierland and one in Tomorrowland. The Golden Horseshoe and Tomorrowland Noodle Station are areas that could be used to generate $ (the most important thing in the eyes of management) by being signature dining locations, both with dinner shows. The Noodle station could be remodeled/enclosed adding high end finishes and service with views of the fireworks. The Golden Horseshoe is an empty shell closed to guests so often. God forbid a talented cast would be kept on staff and paid to put on a show. How many have been cut? The Golden Horseshoe, Mainstreet performers, Adventurers Club, Future Corps..etc.
Missing curtains...schmurtains.
The real issue with Energy is missing Radoc cubes. The real missing reveal is not curtains opening to reveal a wider screen, but curtains opening to reveal giant mirrors to create a full 360 degree theater. What's missing from Energy is dazzling show, great songs, laser show. Missing is the 'spirit of EPCOT' which meant innovation all around: a theater that moves, the largest moving vehicles of any ride anywhere, solar power, guided tracks.
That's what missing. What's really missing. Malfuntioning curtains is merely declining by degrees. Turning Universe of Energy into Ellen is where Mickey turned into Rizzo. :fork:
That isn't surprising. Disney's MBAs have all been pushing everything outside the company since they rose to prominence in the mid/late 90s.
I've seen 4-star resorts have pool issues and Bubba from St. Cloud or Davenport drives his pickup up to the place (BW was where I saw this) to fix it. And you're thinking (or I was) that with hundreds of pools and spas on property they shouldn't need to call someone outside the company, this is what happens when beancounters decide 'we don't need to do this crap inhouse' ... it's why if you're one of the less than .005% of WDW guests who are awake at 1:30 a.m. and walk thru a lobby you'll see some outside company coming in and attempting to clean ... love watching people using buckets of water on the wood floors of the WL.
That might be a good column ... what WDW outsources in 2012 that it didn't in 1992 and how it might just lead to those pesky Declines by Degrees.
~The Tix are free? OK, I'm in!~
...and, lest we forget, buy a Diet Coke from a magical (and period appropriate) soda machine. One of my favorite scenes in Tom Sawyer is when Tom and Huck visit the soda machine and it eats their dollar bill.....and over in Florida, guests can sit down on a bench and watch the nails slowly rust themselves out over at the abandoned Mike Fink Keelboat station or count the spider webs on the shuttered Aunt Polly quick service location.
Two declines I cannot fathom are glaring shuttered locations in the Magic Kingdom, one in Frontierland and one in Tomorrowland. The Golden Horseshoe and Tomorrowland Noodle Station are areas that could be used to generate $ (the most important thing in the eyes of management) by being signature dining locations, both with dinner shows. The Noodle station could be remodeled/enclosed adding high end finishes and service with views of the fireworks. The Golden Horseshoe is an empty shell closed to guests so often. God forbid a talented cast would be kept on staff and paid to put on a show. How many have been cut? The Golden Horseshoe, Mainstreet performers, Adventurers Club, Future Corps..etc.
but I haven't seen Ellen's curtains in a while...
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