Why should a company worth a quarter of a trillion dollars care about what a blogger says?
I don’t understand how they have a press pass for Disney. Spreading false rumors is not news. I know he post pictures from the parks and does reviews. However, they have enough press that don’t spread crazy rumors.
I hope that you're right. Unfortunately many of the writers/ bloggers at DisneyParks Blog struggle with accuracy and some are more fickley than others. Not so much recently but it can be embarrassing and even sad to read as a fan.
) and Twitter's Passport to Dreams. In fact, Passport to Dreams has been on the drum beat for people to write to Disney to save the Tiki Room. Which is probably why DPB is responding to the rumor.
And the DPB post never eliminates the possibility of an overlay. They simply state that the birds aren’t going away and very clearly mention their stories evolving.So... WHAT. A. MESS.
DPB calls out "...sources" (let's put aside their scruples for a moment) for saying the Tiki birds are going away. You know, like @Ronnie Sanford (shakes fist at Ronnie!!!
Now, Corless never said the Tiki room or the birds were going away. He said it's getting a Moana overlay (an old rumor once mentioned by @marni1971 ).
But Corless is interpreting the reference to "unscrupulous sources" as being a reference to him. <engage hissy fit> Corless rightly defends himself as saying he never said it was going away, just reporting on a rumor of an overlay.
And now everyone is schadenfreuding all over Corless for no good reason (this time). If a Moana overlay comes through, he'll be (rightfully) throwing this all back in your faces (you who are dancing on the grave of his reputation).
It pays to read carefully, folks.
So... WHAT. A. MESS.
DPB calls out "...sources" (let's put aside their scruples for a moment) for saying the Tiki birds are going away. You know, like @Ronnie Sanford (shakes fist at Ronnie!!!
Now, Corless never said the Tiki room or the birds were going away. He said it's getting a Moana overlay (an old rumor once mentioned by @marni1971 ).
But Corless is interpreting the reference to "unscrupulous sources" as being a reference to him. <engage hissy fit> Corless rightly defends himself as saying he never said it was going away, just reporting on a rumor of an overlay.
And now everyone is schadenfreuding all over Corless for no good reason (this time). If a Moana overlay comes through, he'll be (rightfully) throwing this all back in your faces (you who are dancing on the grave of his reputation).
It pays to read carefully, folks.
But...but...Clickbait!So... WHAT. A. MESS.
DPB calls out "...sources" (let's put aside their scruples for a moment) for saying the Tiki birds are going away. You know, like @Ronnie Sanford (shakes fist at Ronnie!!!
Now, Corless never said the Tiki room or the birds were going away. He said it's getting a Moana overlay (an old rumor once mentioned by @marni1971 ).
But Corless is interpreting the reference to "unscrupulous sources" as being a reference to him. <engage hissy fit> Corless rightly defends himself as saying he never said it was going away, just reporting on a rumor of an overlay.
And now everyone is schadenfreuding all over Corless for no good reason (this time). If a Moana overlay comes through, he'll be (rightfully) throwing this all back in your faces (you who are dancing on the grave of his reputation).
It pays to read carefully, folks.
Either way, the writer of the post vehemently shut down the rumor through an official source, so if plans to do otherwise were still on unbeknownst to the writer, they inadvertently put said plans in a PR corner.
I do think he should be more cautious. Some share info here, but these are fan forums. When you present your theories on the front of a website where you lead others to believe you are an expert on all things, it will sporadically blow up in your face. I’m happy to share things I hear here, but I’d never make a blog post over it. Our own Steve is very wise to not post every old rumo(u)r. If you want to run a respected source for information, you have to be conservative in what you write.
Mr. Thompson added the original restaurant "intent" oddly.Let’s unpack this.
1. Everyone’s favorite Disney villain Blogger has clearly gotten under the skin of Mr Thomas Smith and/or his corporate overlords. Taking a “pot shot” indicates that clearly there is some degree of TRUTH to both of these rumors, otherwise why be annoyed?
2. They still have not commented on CBJ which indicates the rumor has a very strong degree of truth to it. I’m sure the thousands of emails management has received has bothered them that this was even leaked in the first place.
3. The original rumor post re: Tiki was (correct me if I’m wrong) an overlay. And Thomas Smith did ZERO to dispel those rumors. “Evolving”, “no plans soon” are such vague terms. They didn’t dispute any overlay at all.
3. After 11 comments appears the DPB locked out any further comments as most kept referencing CBJ.
Disney’s silence is defeaning it seems
