Recent content by Future Guy

I find myself unable to get worked up about the color scheme on the outside of the buildings when the inside of the buildings is just a large expanse of nothing. I mean, why should I care what color they paint an enclosed expanse of nothing? Disney can continue extending the middle finger to...

Boy, Jay Rasulo has really let himself go.

Reminds me of a Dilbert strip where the CEO introduced some obviously idiotic new executive by saying "We hired an executive with no experience in our industry because we wanted someone who doesn't know what can't be done!" Are we even surprised? At this point they could make a soap carving the...

When did Jay Rasulo learn to throw his voice? It's less a matter of stooping than bending over.

Future World East.

Comics are a niche market. No matter how well the Figment & Dreamfinder comic sells, there's no way it could ever make enough noise to inspire the suits to spend the money on an Imagination refurb. Even if the people in the suits weren't idiots. (Of course, if that were the case then the...

Called it! On Sunday I was in a Twitter conversation (yes, I realize that is frowned upon here, but I don't care) in which I speculated that the fire effect would break by Tuesday, and that Phil Holmes would use the money saved by not fixing it to give himself a bonus. And people wonder why I...

I believe it was a guy named Joe Goebbels who said that if you repeat a lie often enough it will eventually be accepted as the truth. (And for the tiny minority who knows who Goebbels was, I am not saying that lying about MM+ is as bad as helping to orchestrate the Holocaust)

A real conversation I had yesterday: Me: "Y'know, for the what it costs to go on a WDW vacation and stay at the Poly, you could just take a trip to actual Hawaii." Other guy: "Yeah, but Hawaii doesn't have Disney." Me: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

It wasn't name-calling. I was referring to WDW1974's frequent assertion that the "lifestylers" who continue to spend money at WDW and defend everything it does are mentally ill, not making that assertion myself.

So instead I should continue paying ever-increasing prices for a rapidly-diminishing experience that I don't enjoy? Isn't that what those mentally-ill Lifestylers do, the ones you're always criticizing for being so ridiculously loyal to a BRAND that doesn't love them back? I don't believe that...

For the last 20 years or so, Walt Disney World management has been pursuing a strategy of cutting attractions, entertainment, maintenance, and anything else that might contribute to a positive customer experience while constantly raising prices. It's time to stop giving them our money. No, I'm...

The executives definitely spend their days with their heads buried in something, but it's not their smartphones.

It's a mistake to attribute a singular corporate intent to everything that happens under the very large Disney umbrella. The company is like a very large and obese man being controlled by a disorganized committee of alien beings that are divided into several feuding factions. It can't muster the...

The downturn was just a convenient excuse. Yes things were scary there for a bit when it looked like Wall Street was going to implode. But that phase was over fairly quickly and large corporations like Disney were back to making record profits. (Ordinary people got the short end of the stick...