It was behind construction walls not completed when I was there. But I'm sure it probably looks like this given the hysteria about it.
Quite the opposite, no?
The last major attraction to open in any of the 4 WDW theme parks was 9 years ago. And the next one is still 16 months out. 11 years between E-Tickets in 4 theme parks is ridiculous.
Honestly, I don't believe it has anything at all to do with how much time it takes. When I see other posts suddenly thinking they will now have time to steam clean every inch of the room now, I just shake my head LOL.
If you have ever seen them make one, it takes seconds - since they know what they are doing, it doesn't take much longer than folding a towel the normal way for them. I think people envision it like the first time you do origami and it takes you ten minutes to make a swan because you are reading and trying to follow unfamiliar directions, vs. once someone who really knows what they are doing they can make one in ten seconds.
Disney has "discouraged" them for awhile because people actually DO complain when they have gotten them before and don't get them this time, for whatever reason. Really, people call/write to complain about them. And since not everyone knows how to do them, or cares to do them, it creates issues. It also seems to come from folks who don't see that often there is a correlation between leaving a tip for the housekeeping staff and them appearing.
I agree with you. But...
Observing this back and forth (not just your post here, or any of your posts specifically) but this general back and forth between many different members over the past month or so as it has seemed to become a bit of a "thing" - once the memes start, you know it's a "thing" LOL.
Whenever those words are used together, they either are trying to explain something that it may actually apply to ("Disney is a business") or as a juvinile pejorative ("Dizzny iz a Bizzness" etc.) which just stalls the discussion.
The truth, like many things, is somewhat in between.
Why isn't there a new E-ticket every year? Because Disney is a business...publicly held...in the fiscal environment of 2015... one of the world's major corporations, and is so large at this point that folks tend to really over-idealize what they realistically could do.
That's why I find a good portion of the direct criticism thrown at Iger is completely unrealistic, because if the CEO of our dreams suddenly showed up - he'd still have to deal with the board - and if they started spending as lavishly as we wish as park-focused fans he would be out of a job in 3-5 years. It cannot be ignored that the WDC is a publicly held corporation. The stock market is really no more than a glorified gambling ring, and a few moves seen as wasteful or bad investments (even if long term they may not be) can make the stock price take a dive and reduce the companies value by billions.
On the other hand, yes, there is a bit of a "Disney Difference" - but this is no longer a company run by two brothers, and the WDC of today is of a scope that simply wasn't even conceivable back then. Yes, they should be holding to that spirit as much as they can, but on the other hand - if Walt were trying to build Disneyland today, it never would have gotten off the ground to begin with. It's not just "One Man's Dream" anymore - it's the wallets, pocketbooks, college funds, 401K's, and life savings of a very large portion of people who invest in the stock.
Wall Street is full of jokers, but remember - it's people who own this stock, and many suffer when stocks don't do well. It's not just Wall Street greed - for many folks, it's the only thing they have to prepare for the future (right or not, that's how it is - no retirement plans anymore, a 401k is really the best you can do).
So...there definitely is a valid time to say "Disney is a business" - and a valid time to say, "But, it's Disney" - but reducing them to memes, catchphrases, and rhetoric ignores the good points on both sides and really doesn't tell the actual situation by situation story.
I agree with you. But...
Observing this back and forth (not just your post here, or any of your posts specifically) but this general back and forth between many different members over the past month or so as it has seemed to become a bit of a "thing" - once the memes start, you know it's a "thing" LOL.
Whenever those words are used together, they either are trying to explain something that it may actually apply to ("Disney is a business") or as a juvinile pejorative ("Dizzny iz a Bizzness" etc.) which just stalls the discussion.
The truth, like many things, is somewhat in between.
Why isn't there a new E-ticket every year? Because Disney is a business...publicly held...in the fiscal environment of 2015... one of the world's major corporations, and is so large at this point that folks tend to really over-idealize what they realistically could do.
That's why I find a good portion of the direct criticism thrown at Iger is completely unrealistic, because if the CEO of our dreams suddenly showed up - he'd still have to deal with the board - and if they started spending as lavishly as we wish as park-focused fans he would be out of a job in 3-5 years. It cannot be ignored that the WDC is a publicly held corporation. The stock market is really no more than a glorified gambling ring, and a few moves seen as wasteful or bad investments (even if long term they may not be) can make the stock price take a dive and reduce the companies value by billions.
On the other hand, yes, there is a bit of a "Disney Difference" - but this is no longer a company run by two brothers, and the WDC of today is of a scope that simply wasn't even conceivable back then. Yes, they should be holding to that spirit as much as they can, but on the other hand - if Walt were trying to build Disneyland today, it never would have gotten off the ground to begin with. It's not just "One Man's Dream" anymore - it's the wallets, pocketbooks, college funds, 401K's, and life savings of a very large portion of people who invest in the stock.
Wall Street is full of jokers, but remember - it's people who own this stock, and many suffer when stocks don't do well. It's not just Wall Street greed - for many folks, it's the only thing they have to prepare for the future (right or not, that's how it is - no retirement plans anymore, a 401k is really the best you can do).
So...there definitely is a valid time to say "Disney is a business" - and a valid time to say, "But, it's Disney" - but reducing them to memes, catchphrases, and rhetoric ignores the good points on both sides and really doesn't tell the actual situation by situation story.
What does that have to do with what I was saying? LOL.
The point is - people are descending into rhetoric over the phrase "Disney is a business" - and people on both sides are not analyzing the things they are talking about properly by engaging in the kind of dismissal that both use the phrase for. It's the Disney version of Goodwin's law.
And you know that the whole "good corporate citizen" thing was was never a real thing, right? It was an invention of corporations in the 1960's to enhance their images to keep government regulation at bay. It's a myth of the "Mad Men" era that was co-opted and romanticizes a notion that never really existed as more than a PR campaign to begin with.
Corporations have always sucked.
We just pay far more attention now.
Perfectly said!
You're a terrorist, how dare you subject an unknowing victim to Skyline "Chili".
Look at that beautiful convex mirror that makes looking at the fireworks so easy!
