News Bob Iger is back! Chapek is out!!

[Andrew C]

Posted today in a group of former Disney Store cast members of a “Disney Store shop in shop”. Really hope this is something that is reconsidered.
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That is just a poorly run Target...

 

[Sirwalterraleigh]

But I believe she was fired by Chapek because A. he saw her as a threat to his becoming CEO and B. he mad her the fall-person for Galaxy's Edge when it wasn't really on her shoulders.

Just throwing an option out there of someone who seemed to be liked by casts and helped really clean up the mess that was DLP for awhile.

That’s on Iger too

Buy the biggest, most loyal juggernaut spending fanbase in movie history and make movies and park stuff without talking to ANY fans to get an idea of why they liked it?

Like it was neuroscience

 

[DCLcruiser]

Current wait times in HS:

ToT: Temp closed, Genie+ gone
Toy Story Mania: 120 mins
ROTR: 145 mins
Slinky DD: 160 mins
RnR: 120 mins
MFSR: 110 mins
MMRR: 100 mins


SO MINIMUM WAIT TIME RIGHT NOW IS AND HOUR AND 40 MINS

I don't think they've done a good job at managing attendance at the parks

But your family of 5 could have paid $145 for Genie+ and then another $125 for ROTR for a total of $270!

Seems like a great reason to buy G+. Standby is very long. So, either no one is buying G+, or the wait times are inflated to entice G+ sales.

 

[Sirwalterraleigh]

Recession baby.

That’s the first piper

The second in parks is that they will NEVER get past their numbers problem in a way Wall Street will accept until they actually cover the numbers problem.

 

[Sirwalterraleigh]

Seems like a great reason to buy G+. Standby is very long. So, either no one is buying G+, or the wait times are inflated to entice G+ sales.

Are you kidding? They’ve probably sold more genie + today than any day in its history.

It’s a math problem.

 

[VJ]

No. Eisner was horrible. The first 10 years he was in a power sharing arrangement with Frank Wells, and that is why things went (for the most part) well. Roy and the investors wanted Wells to run the company with Eisner as his second, brought in primarily for his Hollywood clout. Eisner refused to accept that arrangement, and Wells didn't have Eisner's ego, so they gave Eisner the CEO job with Wells as president, but with the unique stipulation that Wells reported directly to the Board, not Eisner.

Eisner was the face of the company, but it was Wells who kept it moving in the right direction.

The moment Wells passed, and Eisner became the sole leader of Disney, things began going awry.

This is not out of context, it is pure and simple truth. You can track all issues to that change in the power structure. Had Wells never been there, it likely would have been a complete disaster from the get-go. But fortunately that was not allowed to happen. By the time he had complete control, the company was no longer a takeover target (though Comcast gave it a shot in Eisner's later years).

Eisner was in many ways a different kind of bad than Chapek, but he was still bad.

the only pro-eisner argument is "bu-bu-but nostalgia "

he introduced the price hikes that the company is still doing today

 

[castlecake2.0]

Seems like a great reason to buy G+. Standby is very long. So, either no one is buying G+, or the wait times are inflated to entice G+ sales.

Studios is definitely the poorest experience of the 4 gates, even after spending all that money

 

[Sirwalterraleigh]

Dunno. Maybe. While I get that they are cheap, I believe Rohde when he says it wouldn't be easy.

The reality is removing the yeti and replacing isn’t necessary…it was done the minute it broke.

It’s not that Disney anymore. There’s no ROI to the operation

 

[Sirwalterraleigh]

the only pro-eisner argument is "bu-bu-but nostalgia "

he introduced the price hikes that the company is still doing today

I’m gonna give you two a pass and assume that neither are old enough to actually have lived through that whole era

 

[DCLcruiser]

Are you kidding? They’ve probably sold more genie + today than any day in its history.

It’s a math problem.

I have no way of telling G+ sales. How are wait times so long if everyone is using G+? You basically walk on with FP, maybe a 5 min wait?

 

[HauntedPirate]

Current wait times in HS:

ToT: Temp closed, Genie+ gone
Toy Story Mania: 120 mins
ROTR: 145 mins
Slinky DD: 160 mins
RnR: 120 mins
MFSR: 110 mins
MMRR: 100 mins


SO MINIMUM WAIT TIME RIGHT NOW IS AND HOUR AND 40 MINS

I don't think they've done a good job at managing attendance at the parks

But your family of 5 could have paid $145 for Genie+ and then another $125 for ROTR for a total of $270!

I'm so happy that they have limited attendance via the Park Reservation System.

 

[DCLcruiser]

Studios is definitely the poorest experience of the 4 gates, even after spending all that money

It has the most thrill rides. I find it to be the best park these days (EPCOT is my nostalgia park).

 

[Sirwalterraleigh]

I have no way of telling G+ sales. How are wait times so long if everyone is using G+? You basically walk on with FP, maybe a 5 min wait?

When the park is juiced…the genie lines are stretching out just like the stupid fp+ lines did

 

[HauntedPirate]

the only pro-eisner argument is "bu-bu-but nostalgia "

he introduced the price hikes that the company is still doing today

 

[Sirwalterraleigh]

I'm so happy that they have limited attendance via the Park Reservation System.

It worked perfectly…

Studios and kingdom are juiced and all the losers are forced to dak and Epcot.

Didn’t you get the memo?

 

[CaptainAmerica]

Got some non-paywalled version, or the text of the article?

It's a fairly throwaway paragraph.

Basically, they premier some shows on Disney Channel or elsewhere instead of sending them straight to Disney+, so that some of the production and marketing expenses stay off of the Direct-to-Consumer P&L.

 

[HauntedPirate]

It worked perfectly…

Studios and kingdom are juiced and all the losers are forced to dak and Epcot.

Didn’t you get the memo?

Dammit. I let my unfavorable guest card expire years ago, so I don't get those anymore.

 

[CaptainAmerica]

It worked perfectly…

Studios and kingdom are juiced and all the losers are forced to dak and Epcot.

Didn’t you get the memo?

They should introduce surge pricing for park reservations made within 14 days of travel. Get those MK single day rates out of the Epcot people who booked when there was nothing left.

 

[Sirwalterraleigh]

Studios is definitely the poorest experience of the 4 gates, even after spending all that money

I still can’t believe how badly they pooched That…after all that time and parking lot work…the park is still as underequipped as it ever was

 

[Chip Chipperson]

Out of all of those, the only one that interests us is Schitt's Creek, which we watched all of on Netflix already.

Don't sleep on "Only Murders in the Building." It's really good. I'd say it's Steve Martin's best work in a long long time. The entire cast is excellent.