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Throughout the 1970s, if you drove to the parks there were all these signs telling you to turn on a certain AM radio channel, and there was a program on a loop that told you about all the things there were going to be for you to do. Back then the Orlando area wasn’t so built up, so kids knew...

There was one important aspect of early WDW that is easy to forget: Most Americans had never been to Central Florida then. Orlando was some random cow town with a weird name near the swamps. MK was only half-built, yes, but most of the things outside the parks that we use today weren’t built at...

One of the big reasons Avatar made so much money was because so many screenings were pushed to IMAX and 3-D, which had surcharges. The average ticket price was more than most movies. It was popular, but the numbers were also padded per guest.

I agree. What’s more, Disney does not deliver a quality level that is remotely close to what a true 1%er will be used to. From food to hotel amenities to service, Disney’s product may be luxury-priced, but it’s hardly luxury-quality. So I don’t know what the company thinks it’s doing by pricing...

Can you back this up with numbers, examples, and outcomes if it is eliminated?

The government can't attack you just because it doesn't like your speech. It's in the Constitution. It's very scary to see this kind of tyrannical attack by the state in a country that claims to value free speech.

Something crucial has been mostly missing from this conversation, and that is how so many families are buying Disney vacations on credit. The cost of Disney can go up while the income of customers is stagnant as long as those families have the credit cards to put the bill on. One of the most...

If the number of Premier pass holders is usually as tiny as Chapek likes to say it is, then the tiny number wouldn't matter.

I can't help but remember that as long as they produce coverage of it, every Disney vlogger and blogger (including Len Testa and ) will be allowed to write the price of the Galactic Starcruiser off their taxes as a business expense.

Many children have gay parents. Many children have gay siblings. This law is so poorly written that many teachers will be afraid to even allow mention of some kids' mommies or daddies. People who will be adversely affected by this law have been very clear that they will be harmed. You know...

The FTC rule has so much grey area. It’s written to target “relationships” between influencers and companies. What does that even mean if the influencer isn’t otherwise being paid or doesn’t agree to deliver a certain type of coverage? And it has nothing to say about print or media outlets that...

Even this can be a problem. Reporters who work for giant publications with giant expense accounts also never feel the sting of the real cost. Their bosses pay it. The people I trust the most are the people who really feel the sting of paying the full price. Only then do I trust a review that...

I fully agree with you. The company overuses it. It’s especially noticeable when it’s using the word to flog something that isn’t even a story, like a housing development.

At this point, if Disney is blaming the job market for 2 1/2 hour waits, the company is full of it. The phone situation has been dire for over a year. If they raised the salary to an attractive level and made the positions desirable, those jobs would be filled. Either that or the company just...

When Walt Disney chose the Orlando area for the location of WDW, African-American women were still being forced to give birth in the boiler room of the main city hospital. The maternity ward was for white women. So yeah, I think the facts of history might back this one up.

I don’t expect the additions to Friendship Faire to be as charming. I hear Disney has hired different writers than the ones who wrote the existing song, the one that’s so sweet and catchy.

This is a good point. Does anyone here have a read on where the relationship between Anaheim and Disneyland now stands?

You’d be better off showing me proof that most people love the increasing requirement of smartphones for their Disney days. You won’t. You can’t. Twitter alone is full of complaints. So considering that. I’ll believe my own eyes—there are plenty of huge Disney fans right here whose opinions...

I loved Magic Happens. But Disney really shortchanged it. Even when it was here, it was overshadowed in the publicity by the opening of Rise of the Resistance. And it’s a real shame, because MH was youthful and peppy and had fun music. Is it my imagination, but does MH look like it has a bigger...

You certainly entitled to disregard all the evidence of dissatisfaction that has been presented here.