Mike S
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They steal info from here and pass it off as theirs.
They also incorrectly blew up news that Joe Rhode left WDI when he didn't. They didn't even acknowledge they were wrong after that.
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They also incorrectly blew up news that Joe Rhode left WDI when he didn't. They didn't even acknowledge they were wrong after that.
bclane
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Points for the Dune reference. Lol!
Disneyhead'71
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RSoxNo1
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Tom proved to have good sources leading up to the D23 Expo, but he extrapolates. He gets part of the story confirmed and guesses at the rest of the story without differentiating between what is confirmed and what isn't. That's not a journalist.
Beyond that, Clickbait Corless is an appropriate name. I think/hope that the recent public shaming of that in the last year has led him to be a bit better with his headlines. He also doesn't take criticism well. When he gets something wrong (which he has on many occasions) he won't stand by it or engage those that interact with them. It's a childlike approach that reinforces the fact that he's not a journalist.
He was also heavily involved in Theme Park Connection which did some really scummy things.
The approach that I take with him is that if he has news or info I will absolutely properly source it. But if he posts something incorrect he needs to be called out for it. I do the same thing with the well respected people here like Martin or Spirit (although admittedly I'm usually disagreeing with opinions with them).
ford91exploder
Resident Curmudgeon
Dune is one of my favorite series of books. As to the movies David Lynch's version mangles the story but captured the feel. The miniseries was true to story but the feel was all wrong.
Anyhow I liked them both for different reasons.
As to Dune references. Wall St is almost frightening in its resemblance to CHOAM...
bclane
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Agreed. The original books were amazing and I read them all several times when I was a teenager. However trying to turn 10s of thousands of years of dense sci-fi history into a single movie was a stupid idea and then to mix up all that history and change it as much as they did was a crime. The mini series was better but yah, wrong feel. Denis Villeneuve Is apparently taking a shot at putting the series on film and I think he has at least a shot of doing it right for once. We'll see. I'm hopeful. I still think Universal should by the theme park rides and finally give me the chance to consume some spice and ride on the back of a giant worm. Cheeewhooooo!!!
Sir_Cliff
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I think I have precisely the opposite opinion on all of these issues!
I really like Crush's Coaster, but the capacity is horrible which means the wait is almost always longer than I'm willing to endure. At WDW you'd have to build three of them side-by-side for it to work!
Ratatouille will fit perfectly into the France Pavilion. I was just there a few weeks ago watching Impressions de France and thinking about what a nice feel the pavilion will have with those two attractions which both have a kind of gentleness to them which suits the country.
As for Hyperspace Mountain, I absolutely loved it when I was there in June! It does indeed clash with the theming of the exterior of the ride, but the on-ride experience was fantastic for me and I think they did a great job in using screens, music, and lighting to maximum effect. I was expecting a lame overlay but was very pleasantly surprised. The ride itself is always rough, but then my most recent comparison is WDW's Space Mountain recently which was both rough and totally underwhelming.
Enjoy DLRP!
FigmentJedi
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Yeah, a miniseries where a single matte painting with a big sandbox in front of it represents a vast desert was a terrible first impression for me of that franchise when I watched the mini a few months back.
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AEfx
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It's because just about everything noteworthy either appears here first, or if somehow it is sourced somewhere else, is analyzed, debunked, and/or clarified here and then regurgitated by the rest of the Disney-sphere. And it's rarely credited.
I too used to visit other Disney sites, but eventually learned this truth and now I simply don't because there really is no need.
The "hate" comes from watching all of these people, at one time or another, completely rip off content of this site and then profiting on it one way or another, be that directly with videos which they then monetize, to curry "press" access at Disney, or otherwise.
That said, the vitriol spewed over them is a bit laughable sometimes - I simply don't pay any attention to these people, and in order to continually criticize them, I'd have to pay attention to them in the first place. They aren't worth my time. So I'm surprised some here spend so much time following them and reading them in order to come up with new things to criticize.
This is the only serious WDW site there is - which is why you will even find places like Saturday Night Live and Real Time with Bill Maher having segments that were clearly lifted from here by their respective writing staffs. The only other site in the same league is MiceChat/Al Lutz, which is the Disneyland counterpart.
Mike S
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Examples? That's pretty cool.
rreading
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Really? Now I don't know the circumstance of Charley, but we were there for the Matthew hurricane last October (from Texas, and with my 11 and 7yo and my parents).
I had been watching the NOAA tracker for the hurricane, and it looked like Matthew was going to be a bunch of bluster but not much substance; we were taking our family vacation and intended to enjoy what was available. MK was open until 4-5PM - even running the FOF parade - and pretty vacant, despite the weather being mildly gusty though pretty rainy. My parents went back to the room early, but as the parks were going to be closed the next day and we were going to be cloistered in the hotel for the next 36h, we were going to ride the rides and enjoy the dearth of crowds. I agree that were I individually keeping someone from safely arriving home, I would have felt bad; but that wasn't my decision nor my responsibility so I bore no guilt. They offered the boat back to the GF, so we took that ride as well. I would have understood had it been closed but - again - not my decision, and it was nice to appreciate they boat captain's skill in the wind.
As it happened, the Disney magic was in full force over that stay, and we loved that trip. We were very appreciative of the multiple CMs who made our stay enjoyable (and told them so) and on arriving home wrote to corporate with names of many of the CMs who had been so great.
I suspect that your experience was colored by your desire to get home and your worry about your family, and is certainly understandable. Those who were visible at the resort showed no concern about needing to get home, and the impression presented was that they were going to be well attended to by Disney. And after a certain time ~6PM?, Disney was on lockdown, so those CMs weren't allowed to leave - out of concern of their safety. I've been on working in the hospitals during hurricanes and understand how this kind of thing goes: it's all about perspective, and doing what is needed in the situation.
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TiggerDad
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Fair points. Line for Crush was much worse. If that is caused by capacity it wouldn't work well in Florida. I do agree Rat is a better fit for Epcot thematically too. Just didn't like the ride as much. My kids loved Hyperspace and rode 4 times. Don't think the wait got above 20 min. It really slammed my head back at the end both times I rode, which colored my perception.
Thunder was amazing, down most of the day and 50-90 minutes when up so we only managed it once. But worth the wait. The ride goes under the river to an island where the mountain is, then after several lifts returns back under for unload. Pirates was also down much of the day. The dragon under the castle was very cool. My biggest complaint was crowd control or lack thereof. The Illuminations evening show looked great, at least what little I could see of it. Everyone was sitting, then stood up just as it began, so now no kids could see, so they either tried to push to the front or got parents to put them on shoulders, thus blocking everyone else's view. I saw no cast members helping clear the crowd after.
All in all, well worth the trip to Paris, and you should go if you possibly can.
UpAllNight
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I can't look the same at WDWs BTM after riding the one in Paris, which is far superior. However I prefer the older version of Space Mountain at WDW to the bells and whistles launched looping effort at Paris.
I made the mistake of attempting to listen to one of his podcasts, but had to stop because of how much of an ego stroke it was for him. He's accepting the moniker "Clickbait Corless" as a badge of honor that his dumb haters use to show how cool he is because he's always right anyway and people who use the insult are the real losers.
I was only 'meh' about him until I listened to the podcast. Now, there's great dislike.
I don't have much time here. Spent much of the day cleaning up from Irma (yeah, we really had a disaster in FL, even if you're reading this while gorging on cheap candy at the MK now!) and have more mosquito bites than most fanbois have worthless pieces of Disney crap.
I saw @lentesta had started a thread and I posted the following there and will put it here in case people aren't reading both:
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lentesta said: ↑
Word on the street is that layoffs in the thousands will be announced for Parks & Resorts in the next few weeks.
That's because the word is accurate. I touched upon Disney's disaster of a summer (overall, not just WDW ... although its summer was quite 'disappointing' according to someone who would know) in my thread this week.
Disney/Iger need to show they are being proactive ahead of the next earnings release and the start of the 2018 fiscal year.
P&R has had issues, mostly domestic as SDL (as I witnessed first hand) is doing great business for a new resort and DLP has shown improved numbers with the 25th Anniversary.
But WDW has just been abysmal. All the upcharges and prices increases and cost cutting mixed in with the desperation discounting has failed to yield the results, Iger, Chappie and Co. had demanded.
And, despite the BS you'll read on Micechat (you almost wonder if their column is being written from inside Cynthia's old office!), DLR has not been able to make up for that. Their Summer of Heros promotion was an utter disaster and despite what Chappie will crow, turning ToT into a GotG monstrosity hasn't moved the needle much, just like Pandora in the swamps.
You add this all together and ... you get lots of cuts to low and mid level management under the guise of cutting fat and duplication and all sorts of corporate buzzwords.
I was actually thinking about you the other day, Len (no, not in the way I think about @derekburgan but ...) as I was thinking about your recent experience at the All Star Music. A friend is planning an October visit and during what should be a week where rooms are scarce (except for a few moderates and the always available SS and OKW) and ALL the values except AoA are available and many at discounts. This is for a week in mid-October. What has become a peak season for WDW. It sure as hell isn't shaping up to be that.
And I wonder how many people working this week during Irma are going to be told they no longer have jobs headed into the holidays not because Disney is a failing business, not because Disney is doing poorly, but simply because the profits are never enough for Wall Street and Iger only cares what they think.>>>
I saw @lentesta had started a thread and I posted the following there and will put it here in case people aren't reading both:
>>>
lentesta said: ↑
Word on the street is that layoffs in the thousands will be announced for Parks & Resorts in the next few weeks.
That's because the word is accurate. I touched upon Disney's disaster of a summer (overall, not just WDW ... although its summer was quite 'disappointing' according to someone who would know) in my thread this week.
Disney/Iger need to show they are being proactive ahead of the next earnings release and the start of the 2018 fiscal year.
P&R has had issues, mostly domestic as SDL (as I witnessed first hand) is doing great business for a new resort and DLP has shown improved numbers with the 25th Anniversary.
But WDW has just been abysmal. All the upcharges and prices increases and cost cutting mixed in with the desperation discounting has failed to yield the results, Iger, Chappie and Co. had demanded.
And, despite the BS you'll read on Micechat (you almost wonder if their column is being written from inside Cynthia's old office!), DLR has not been able to make up for that. Their Summer of Heros promotion was an utter disaster and despite what Chappie will crow, turning ToT into a GotG monstrosity hasn't moved the needle much, just like Pandora in the swamps.
You add this all together and ... you get lots of cuts to low and mid level management under the guise of cutting fat and duplication and all sorts of corporate buzzwords.
I was actually thinking about you the other day, Len (no, not in the way I think about @derekburgan but ...) as I was thinking about your recent experience at the All Star Music. A friend is planning an October visit and during what should be a week where rooms are scarce (except for a few moderates and the always available SS and OKW) and ALL the values except AoA are available and many at discounts. This is for a week in mid-October. What has become a peak season for WDW. It sure as hell isn't shaping up to be that.
And I wonder how many people working this week during Irma are going to be told they no longer have jobs headed into the holidays not because Disney is a failing business, not because Disney is doing poorly, but simply because the profits are never enough for Wall Street and Iger only cares what they think.>>>
In other Disney news, no further proof is needed that Disney/Lucasfilm has no direction whatsoever for the future of the SW universe and the films and tales they will tell than by hiring JJ Abrams to helm and direct the Episode IX.
They have no clue. And this was a desperation hire and is being viewed that way by people in Burbank.
But ... people are loving the Spidey Homecoming Dance film in China and ... oh, yeah, that is still a Sony Pics joint.
They have no clue. And this was a desperation hire and is being viewed that way by people in Burbank.
But ... people are loving the Spidey Homecoming Dance film in China and ... oh, yeah, that is still a Sony Pics joint.
Oh, you have no idea ... I have often been presumed dead ... but just like a good soap opera character, I seem to have a hard time staying dead!
Very, very sad news. Even though he was very old, he was vibrant and part of the fan community until the end. And he contributed so, so much. I have been privileged to meet many great ones, some that are no longer with us, but I never met him personally ... I think he was at a few events I was at, though.
Like any great, though, he will live on in the work he left behind.
IanDLBZF
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Very sad to hear this, especially since it happened on the day after Irma blew through FL.