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Bureaucracy = complacency = arrogance = late to the new game = layered = bloated = unimaginative = unresponsive = smug = 9 years of disco yeti = limp TTA narration = same annoying wake up call from Stitch for the past 10 years = management of the bureaucrats by the bureaucrats for the...

I see the point about some layers providing valuable information, but my delvings into bureaucracies tell me that most do not. Yet every layer of bureaucracy can finger-point when things go wrong. Walt, Roy and even Eisner had the luxury of being invulnerable to nearly everyone other than the...

That is precisely my point. Yet the best large companies can still be responsive to initiatives and market opportunities. Size and layering are exactly what a great company can overcome and still be great. Disney seems to have become so layered and bureaucratic that much of its original...

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs took about 3 years from idea to grand opening. That was a ground-breaking monumental achievement that obviously had never been done before. The company added hundreds of workers. Huge amounts of money had to be borrowed. Entire technologies had to be invented...

Sounds like some very difficult and indecisive people to deal with.

About 1,000 days ago it was 2014. Back then, we were dealing with fear of an Ebola epidemic, Robin Williams had died, a robot landed on a comet, ISIS was heard of for the first time, the Sochi Olympics and the Crimea were joint areas of big news, and we were just trying to figure out why a...

True, but they already have a working and successful Ratatouille ride in Paris. Three years to build an American version in a pavilion that sports a film with actors in 1970s fashions? I guess urgency is in the eyes of the beholder. To most great companies, the France Pavilion would scream a...

So what I'm hearing is that indeed the bureaucracy has taken over. I understand that layers have built up, and I even sympathize to an extent. Yet Disney used to be known as a responsive company that reacted quickly to market demand, and wasn't bogged down in bureaucracy. If, for example...

Let us also not forget that the Ratatouille ride already exists--In Paris. Disney is not reinventing the wheel, yet it still takes 3 years to build the thing? No, it won't be exactly the same, but it will certainly be very similar and not a grand departure from trails that were blazed four...

Layers of bureaucracy. Miles of red tape. No one person has unquestioned authority to get things done. "Stuck in committee" has become a valid excuse for doing nothing. "Ready-fire-aim" has been replaced with, "Ready--not yet--ready some more--question the readiness--start over--wait for...

The swamps that were Walt Disney World began to be cleared and drained in 1967, and Magic Kingdom opened four years later in 1971. This included the utilidoors under Magic Kingdom, the lakes and canals around Magic Kingdom, the monorail, miles of roads, acres of parking lots, the Contemporary...

I understand that you still "enjoy it", but do you think it is "Great"? My term for the current version is "jolly good". The crime is that it was and again could be "Great". For nearly a decade it has been far less than great. A sincere band-aid could have brought it far closer to great over...

The yeti is not the sole purpose of the ride, but it is a shadow of itself without it. The preshow, the queue, the overall theming, and the climactic point of the ride itself is that huge animatronic that used to be absolutely amazing. Now, the theming is meh while the popularity of the ride...

That's the first post I've read in a long time that made my blood pressure drop. Thank you thank you thank you. I'm feeling a dent in my Disney armor.

Oftentimes they're entouraging, but I assume sometimes they're on their own. Marty Sklar was all by himself, sitting at a table, taking notes.

Here's where "hassle" comes in: If instead of Disney I owned a beach front cottage and decided to spend a week there, leaving the place might indeed feel like a hassle. I am fully capable of handling day to day life, but imagine leaving my peaceful beach front cottage to deal with traffic...

My wife and I don't mind the planning ahead of time because we're still in work/home mode. I actually enjoy that part--thinking about vacation while not on vacation. My wife and I sit in our sunroom in the morning and enjoy the planning and going though the options. But once I'm there, I want...

I see your point 100%, but on those two occasions when we left Disney property, we returned with the feeling that we would have rather stayed. Fighting traffic was a big part of it. While sitting in the car, or tolerating less than Disney service at a restaurant or somewhere else, we all...

What eventually ends up in the equation is the cost of staying in a normal room, especially at the deluxe resorts (which is where DVC members would probably otherwise stay). I think most of us have seen discounts and deals and felt left out, wondering if we'd be better off not owning at all...

Quite true. There are many wonderful places not just in North America, but around the world. I've made travel a priority with my family over the last few years, spending way too much time and money on it. But now that my son's in college, I think it was all money well spent. The unique...