A Spirited Dirty Dozen ...

[Magenta Panther]

Loved the read on Rolly as well!
There is an Imagineering book/biography featuring Rolly that is fantastic. I remember it being titled "It's Kind of a Cute Story". Very good read. My favorite story (as I remembered it) was when Rolly rode his motorcycle through the halls of WED,,, and the look he got from Walt... that must have been priceless!
I would love to know where we could view the documentary mentioned in the article.

Yes, I have that "Cute Story" book. Great read! Rolly understood and appreciated Walt, and vice-versa. I'd recommend it very highly to anyone who wants to know what Walt was really like to work with, as opposed to the slander floating around out there.

 

[ford91exploder]

It's the CDN that makes it expensive...but, many use third parties, like Akamai (which you mentioned)...

BamTech is a CDN that's why I'm puzzled as to why Disney bought it with their miserly spend on IT. Or do they think they can just own it and it will mint money after stopping those senseless upgrades...

 

[englanddg]

BamTech is a CDN that's why I'm puzzled as to why Disney bought it with their miserly spend on IT. Or do they think they can just own it and it will mint money after stopping those senseless upgrades...

(they'll just outsource it, because no americans can do the jerb)

 

[ford91exploder]

(they'll just outsource it, because no americans can do the jerb)

Just awesome and so fitting for the company which outsourced it's IT operations to Cognizant and others.

 

[englanddg]

Just awesome and so fitting for the company which outsourced it's IT operations to Cognizant and others.

I note that HP Enterprise is now doing MDE...

 

[Mike S]

Retired 'Imagineer' A Disneyland Pioneer: Rolly Crump helped design Tiki Room, Small World and Haunted Mansion attractions

http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/2016/aug/10/disney-imagineer-rolly-crump-profile/

(He doesn't have kind words to say about Walt Disney World though)

I did not expect this

"Disneyland hugs you but this park didn’t,” he said of Florida’s Magic Kingdom. “They lost that love and caring. It wasn’t Disney anymore. What we were left with was a dog’s breakfast.”

 

[ford91exploder]

I note that HP Enterprise is now doing MDE...

Are they? I'm sure you are correct but it's been a while since I had any reason to interact with MDE praise finagle, Not visiting WDW does have positive side effects like more money to spend on other projects and not needing to deal with an app which crashes your phone 4-5 times a day.

But I'll admit that I liked WDW even better when the phone went into the room safe on checkin day and was only taken out on checkout day...

 

[englanddg]

Are they? I'm sure you are correct but it's been a while since I had any reason to interact with MDE praise finagle, Not visiting WDW does have positive side effects like more money to spend on other projects and not needing to deal with an app which crashes your phone 4-5 times a day.

But I'll admit that I liked WDW even better when the phone went into the room safe on checkin day and was only taken out on checkout day...

Yep. I happened to notice it today...my guess is that this happened sometime in the past year or so, because I don't recall the cobranding logos with MDE before...though I could have overlooked them... Funny thing is, the site is still clunky and slow...

 

[Cesar R M]

That's sold as socialism in America nowadays? Rewarding the people who actually earned all that wealth? Who turned their company into a success?

I thought the idea was that if you work hard in America and succeed you get paid for your success. And now that's dismissed that as socialism?

current CEOS dont exactly "build to succeed". they build to return money to a certain groups and ruin the rest while they run with golden parachutes once the company crashes down.

 

[KikoKea]

Companies typically sell stock to get money (a.k.a. "generate equity"). When they repurchase (a.k.a. "buyback") stock, they are returning that money to the people who gave it to them (a.k.a. "returning equity to shareholders")........

A stock buyback indicates that the people running the company don't have good ideas to "generate shareholder value". Effectively, when Iger buys back stock, he's saying, "I don't know how to spend the money Disney is making so I'm just going to return it to the investors and let them figure out how to spend it."

Thank you and thanks to @GregIsNewAroundHere for explaining. I thought Disney was creating and buying up new stock.

Seems to me there are puh-lenty of places to invest Disney's income to update and add more attractions and excitement to the parks, which would yield even more income in the future. But, that's just a housewife's opinion.

 

[brb1006]

I did not expect this

That quoted caught my attention where he compared Disneyland to WDW


"Disneyland hugs you but this park didn’t,” he said of Florida’s Magic Kingdom.
“They lost that love and caring. It wasn’t Disney anymore. What we were left with was a dog’s breakfast.”

 

[PhotoDave219]

Just throwing this out there..... simply because you can use twitter and throw out clickbait doesnt mean you're a "News" outlet whatsoever, even in the tourism sector.

Changing a lightbulb or replacing a projector with a new one is not newsworthy, especially if its a ten-year-old effect; instead its just clickbaity and adds to the chaff we're all trying to weed through.

 

[asianway]

Just throwing this out there..... simply because you can use twitter and throw out clickbait doesnt mean you're a "News" outlet whatsoever, even in the tourism sector.

Changing a lightbulb or replacing a projector with a new one is not newsworthy, especially if its a ten-year-old effect; instead its just clickbaity and adds to the chaff we're all trying to weed through.

Even if you went to WDW 138 times and never went to Typhoon Lagoon?

 

[Mike S]

Just throwing this out there..... simply because you can use twitter and throw out clickbait doesnt mean you're a "News" outlet whatsoever, even in the tourism sector.

Changing a lightbulb or replacing a projector with a new one is not newsworthy, especially if its a ten-year-old effect; instead its just clickbaity and adds to the chaff we're all trying to weed through.

Who/what is this in reference to?

 

[PhotoDave219]

Who/what is this in reference to?

Me popping a vein in my forehead when some idiots put it on twitter that there's a new projector displaying Barbosa and Davey Jones on POTC.....

 

[MagicHappens1971]

My uncle was in from New York over the weekend, he used to work for Disney high up in corporate, and we were talking about the "Save Disney" era, how they revived, and that there's only really been two CEOs since Walt died, well I guess really three, Roy, Michael Eisner, and the current CEO Bob Iger. He felt that Eisner did less for the parks then Iger, and we also went into detail and he felt that Disney was going back in the right direction for a while, but now they're heading downhill again. He talked about how he heard how cheap the new Frozen ride was, minus the AAs. And more about the incessant need to add IPs everywhere, and that Disney prefers to go the cheap route. Also more or less that the ESPN/ABC-TV group needs to either be sold off or Disney needs to invest in more TV networks, I don't know how i feel about that. Just thought I'd post this here to kinda add some conversation.

 

[GiveMeTheMusic]

My uncle was in from New York over the weekend, he used to work for Disney high up in corporate, and we were talking about the "Save Disney" era, how they revived, and that there's only really been two CEOs since Walt died, well I guess really three, Roy, Michael Eisner, and the current CEO Bob Iger. He felt that Eisner did less for the parks then Iger, and we also went into detail and he felt that Disney was going back in the right direction for a while, but now they're heading downhill again. He talked about how he heard how cheap the new Frozen ride was, minus the AAs. And more about the incessant need to add IPs everywhere, and that Disney prefers to go the cheap route. Also more or less that the ESPN/ABC-TV group needs to either be sold off or Disney needs to invest in more TV networks, I don't know how i feel about that. Just thought I'd post this here to kinda add some conversation.

Not to be a pain, but there have been 6 CEOs of the company, including Roy O. Disney. Five of them held the title after Walt and Roy's passings: Donn Tatum, Card Walker, Ron Miller, then Eisner and Iger. *the more you know* *shooting star*

 

[MagicHappens1971]

Not to be a pain, but there have been 6 CEOs of the company, including Roy O. Disney. Five of them held the title after Walt and Roy's passings: Donn Tatum, Card Walker, Ron Miller, then Eisner and Iger. *the more you know* *shooting star*

I thought he sounded wrong, but I wasn't sure. I was just going off what he had said. His point was that Disney's executive management doesn't change much

 

[GiveMeTheMusic]

I thought he sounded wrong, but I wasn't sure. I was just going off what he had said. His point was that Disney's executive management doesn't change much

It changed big time in 1984 and hasn't changed much since. Most of the execs around under Iger were around under Eisner. Eisner was publicly vocal about wanting Staggs to be the CEO after Iger - Staggs was hired by Eisner years ago.

The best thing that could happen to Disney in 2018 would be fresh, bold blood from outside.

 

[SorcererMC]

I thought he sounded wrong, but I wasn't sure. I was just going off what he had said. His point was that Disney's executive management doesn't change much

Two CEOs (Eisner and Iger) since 1984. so from just before the 'Save Disney' era.