News Bruce Vaughn Returns to Disney as Co-Lead of Walt Disney Imagineering

[yensidtlaw1969]

So where does WDI go from here? In their present form they aren’t capable of fulfilling Bob’s recent comments or any of the blue sky stuff, or $60B (lol) in future capital spending.

Are they hiring? Attracting the best talent? You’d figure that for anything of significance to be done this decade that this would be occurring already?

It’s also a lazy to blame Chapek for this. The institutional rot was well metastasizing before he was “in charge”.

It is.

 

[Rosso11]

So where does WDI go from here? In their present form they aren’t capable of fulfilling Bob’s recent comments or any of the blue sky stuff, or $60B (lol) in future capital spending.

Are they hiring? Attracting the best talent? You’d figure that for anything of significance to be done this decade that this would be occurring already?

It’s also a lazy to blame Chapek for this. The institutional rot was well metastasizing before he was “in charge”.

Yes they have been bulking up for a while now and are still hiring.

 

["El Gran Magnifico"]

I no longer have any confidence in current management to effectively run this company.

There needs to be a purge in upper management starting at the very top.

Sad. But true.

 

[Jrb1979]

It is.

I will believe it when shovels are in the ground. At the rate they build things, we won't see anything major til 5 years after Epic Universe is built.

 

[Sirwalterraleigh]

So where does WDI go from here? In their present form they aren’t capable of fulfilling Bob’s recent comments or any of the blue sky stuff, or $60B (lol) in future capital spending.

Are they hiring? Attracting the best talent? You’d figure that for anything of significance to be done this decade that this would be occurring already?

It’s also a lazy to blame Chapek for this. The institutional rot was well metastasizing before he was “in charge”.

…yeah…this is a bit of naïveté going in the comments.

When did Rhode leave and why? I think we may be glossing over that

 

[Sirwalterraleigh]

I no longer have any confidence in current management to effectively run this company.

There needs to be a purge in upper management starting at the very top.

Sad. But true.

We have been there for quite sometime

The cracks go back until at least 2015

 

["El Gran Magnifico"]

“Raise your hands!!!! I’m a raccoon and don’t have hands!!!”

I know a raccoon. I interact with a raccoon. I'm friends with a raccoon. And you sir, are no raccoon.

 

[Sirwalterraleigh]

I know a raccoon. I interact with a raccoon. I'm friends with a raccoon. And you sir, are no raccoon.

…the best debate line ever

 

["El Gran Magnifico"]

…the best debate line ever

Dunno. "Who am I and why am I here?" is pretty close.

 

[yensidtlaw1969]

I will believe it when shovels are in the ground. At the rate they build things, we won't see anything major til 5 years after Epic Universe is built.

Keep an eye on Tiana's Bayou Adventure.

Once they get things going, that's the new pace.

 

[Jrb1979]

Keep an eye on Tiana's Bayou Adventure.

Once they get things going, that's the new pace.

I will believe it when I see it. It will be good if that's the case than that possibly means they finally understand have far behind they are in regards to capacity

 

[Sirwalterraleigh]

Dunno. "Who am I and why am I here?" is pretty close.

I can think of some others…but the way bentson spiked dan right on the debate a stage is classic

 

[monothingie]

Keep an eye on Tiana's Bayou Adventure.

Once they get things going, that's the new pace.

They’re rushing it urgently because a reskinned water ride opening in December when it’s not warm to lackluster crowds won’t be a good look. Also Summer 2024 is looking very bad for WDW and there is the hope that this will move that needle. (lol)

 

[monothingie]

…yeah…this is a bit of naïveté going in the comments.

When did Rhode leave and why? I think me may be glossing over that

WDI right now has 34 positions being advertised on Disney Jobs. 1/3 are for interns. After the mass exodus of talent in the past decade, does anyone realistically believe that WDI is as good now as they historically were?

 

["El Gran Magnifico"]

1/3 are for interns

Is that the WDI equivalent of the " Disney College Program"?

 

[Sirwalterraleigh]

WDI right now has 34 positions being advertised on Disney Jobs. 1/3 are for interns. After the mass exodus of talent in the past decade, does anyone realistically believe that WDI is as good now as they historically were?

I think he was told they were done spending for about 10 years

And you know why I think that?

 

[Sirwalterraleigh]

They’re rushing it urgently because a reskinned water ride opening in December when it’s not warm to lackluster crowds won’t be a good look. Also Summer 2024 is looking very bad for WDW and there is the hope that this will move that needle. (lol)

…pay no attention to the drop of attendance behind the curtain

 

[mkt]

If most of the creative work is outsourced, does it?

a combination of outsourcing and contract employees.

 

[mkt]

WDI right now has 34 positions being advertised on Disney Jobs. 1/3 are for interns. After the mass exodus of talent in the past decade, does anyone realistically believe that WDI is as good now as they historically were?

They are not.

What scares me is that they might be following the Boeing model.

 

[Epcot81Fan]

Looks like Tower of Terror on shrooms but the C-suite had to approve this.

Heck, I think we’re actually doing Joe a disservice.

One could make the argument his creation is the ugliest monstrosity of this scale in global theme park history!

Well done, Joe, well done.