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    Quality of available merchandise significantly reduced?

    The TSA rules concerning liquids is when this particular merchandise change occurred. Visitors returning home could no longer keep them under their control, and carry them on a plane. So the option was to put them in checked :eek: or pay to have them shipped. Sales declined, and the product...
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    Quality of available merchandise significantly reduced?

    I think it's a result of paid Lightning Lanes, plus Covid revealed to Disney how big they had gotten, and Iger and Chapek both have stated the goal is to slim down their labor force. People didn't suddenly have that extra money to spend on the LLs, so they took it from souvenirs and dining...
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    Rumor Disney resort of some kind in Texas?

    Exactly. Disneyland and MK at 18-20 million is not a good experience. If attendance dropped into the 14-16 million range, it would be a lot more comfortable and therefore enjoyable for everyone, and allow WDW breathing room to properly build out underdeveloped or underutilized areas to...
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    Rumor Disney resort of some kind in Texas?

    Same with our nephews. They are all into YouTube stuff. They have access to Disney+ and other than the Mandalorian which hasn't been on for awhile and some movies, they don't care.
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    Rumor Disney resort of some kind in Texas?

    Given Universal's project, and things like Sesame Place I think it's pretty likely that plans exist for some sort of smaller scale, younger kid-friendly entertainment option. Disney would be negligent not to have plans. The days of the kid-to-Disney pipeline thanks to the TV shows (for...
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    Lightning Lane at Walt Disney World

    I'm coming back into this thread, on the last page so not really on top of the flavor of the discussion at the moment, but what a good page it is. I've always been curious about the ride slots per day. And while for a non LL analysis, this leaves stuff out like the AA shows, it's good enough...
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    News The Walt Disney Company Board of Directors Extends Robert A. Iger’s Contract as CEO Through 2026

    No one comes out well in that article. Iger, Chapek, the Board. I don't know how people can read that, and everything else and come away thinking Disney is a well-run company that just hit the same unanticipated roadblock everyone else did (pandemic and coming out of it). Chapek seems like he...
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    How much does your average Disney World vacation cost?

    I have shared this before. My Mom was a CM, and had met the eligibility requirements for my Dad to keep his Main Entrance Pass following her passing. He lives north of MK. So tickets and lodging are free. I only have to pay for my plane ticket, and whatever I chose to spend in the park...
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    News Monster Inc Land Coming to Disney's Hollywood Studios

    I actually considered, what if they move Muppet*Vision to the Magic Eye Theater, move the Carousel building between the Land and the Living Seas and erect a giant hedge around the three of them + The Land, where inside is no longer the Walt Disney Company, but a thing like Retlaw, where Burbank...
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    News Monster Inc Land Coming to Disney's Hollywood Studios

    Re: Transformers They explain a lot in the queue videos. The line is usually not long enough to watch all the videos in the course of your wait, but they have it open so you can watch the queue videos at your leisure. They're probably on YouTube somewhere. Rise would be a lot less...
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    News Monster Inc Land Coming to Disney's Hollywood Studios

    I am enjoying these recent typos... Galaxy's Ledge and Smugglers Fun. Might be better than the actual names.
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    News Monster Inc Land Coming to Disney's Hollywood Studios

    I’m pretty sure Frank has moved on. “You can’t go home again.” The Muppets are no longer what they were for him, when it was him and his friends.
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    Rumor D23 2024 WDW Rumors, Predictions & Discussion

    He is one of the stable of Festival mascots. Along with Figment, Mickey & Minnie, Spike the Bee, Remy and more recently Encanto. Plus, some occasional references to Adventureland.
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    Rumor D23 2024 WDW Rumors, Predictions & Discussion

    Because this is how WDW handles popular IP. The mistreatment for such a huge franchise should have been obvious, and I raised the point about Frozen needed to be a bigger scale, if they really wanted to move the attendance needle of the park it was in, but many people latched onto the "but no...
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    News Monster Inc Land Coming to Disney's Hollywood Studios

    This might have been one time where they said, “Let the people break the stalemate.” If people just shrugged, said Muppets ran their course, focused more on what was coming and not what was being lost, it very well could be MC not AC. I still don’t want to celebrate, until we hear something...
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    News Cars-Themed Attractions at Magic Kingdom

    So my first anecdotal story in the wild. Disney section of the Funko HQ in Washington. Dad asked his preteen daughters if they heard that they were taking out Tom Sawyer Island and the whole river for… he was a little confused if it was Cars or Villains. So I explained Cars for the River /...
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    News Monster Inc Land Coming to Disney's Hollywood Studios

    You can walk up to Muppets, spend a half hour between the preshow and main show, where you get to sit in A/C and laugh at corny jokes and cheap 3D tricks… and people want to swap that out for a LL fee or an 80 minute wait on your feet, and 2 minutes! Sometimes I really hate people… cue Agent K...
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    News Cars-Themed Attractions at Magic Kingdom

    It read to me like the type of explanation that sounds good and technical to people who lack the expertise to refute it. And because that kind of expertise isn’t standard, people who have a general understanding of why it feels off, can’t explain it satisfactorily to the believers. If it were...
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    News 2023 TEA/AECOM Global Attendance Report, EPCOT Sees Significant Growth

    I would like to take this time to plug the classic 5-day park hopper. Once Disney started charging extra to hop, guests started eliminating it as a way to save on tickets, then the stupid 2PM restriction lasted far longer than it should have. If Disney is really worried that guests are...
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    News Cars-Themed Attractions at Magic Kingdom

    This is a risk that Disney is taking on. People may hear this news, and simply assume they are putting a ride on the island, and building a bridge, so no river transportation. So then, this plan is “fine.” It will still have the same general aesthetic, and familiarity, and what makes Disney...
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