News Cost Cutting Measures Coming Early 2025

[Bocabear]

That is typical after price increases across the board...and added programs where your admission ticket gives you a basic experience, but then you have to pay an additional $10-$20 to go on the more popular rides.... and now cost cutting measures that will no doubt lessen the experience... With all the increased prices I would expect them to be enhancing the experience for the guests...

 

[John park hopper]

Disney death by a thousand cuts

 

[Tha Realest]

With all the increased prices I would expect them to be enhancing the experience for the guests...

That’s one part of the problem. The other side of the coin is that many of the enhancements as of late are generally viewed as downgrades (CommuniCore Hall, TBA WDW, TBA DL, imminent ROA changes).*

*DL Haunted Mansion “enhancements” TBD

 

[FiestaFunKid]

All for a stupid stock price...

When will stockholders and the rich realize they would actually benefit from investment in the parks and not cuts??

Has over-investment ever killed a park or a project? Sure! But have cuts ever improved visitation numbers? No.

The obsession with per-guest spending is a direct result of the cuts, you need to find the money for the revenue sheets somewhere and that's where it will come from.

It genuinely feels like Disney would rather have 10 people spend $100 million on one vacation each rather than a million people spend $1,000 each which is absurd

Yes - but you are taking a measured long term view.

They are looking at juicing the next quarter's earnings report and maybe one beyond for their own incentives. The cuts can definitely have a positive impact on near term profitability and margins.

Executives are less concerned about long term top line revenue, b/c who knows if they will be there and they are loaded up with massive equity incentivizing them to drive up the current price and cash in.

If Disney was a private company, none of this would be happening. You likely wouldn't own Pixar, Star Wars, or Marvel, but I'd still prefer it.

 

[Ayla]

All hail the stockholders.

 

[John park hopper]

WDW and Disneyland should be stand alone companies IMO the parks would be better off -Disney has gotten to big for it's own good

 

[JackCH]

WDW and Disneyland should be stand alone companies IMO the parks would be better off -Disney has gotten to big for it's own good

I think Tokyo is a proof of concept as to how Disney parks seem to be at their best when they are co-owned by someone else.

I'm not nearly as doom and gloom on the parks as most people here, but the cost-cutting and simultaneous price gouging drives me insane.

 

[HauntedPirate]

Of course they would. Why wouldn’t they. Same amount of money with less cost.

I’m sure you’d rather work 4 hours a week at $1000/hour than work 40 hours at $100/hour.

Because the number of people in Group A could fit into a thimble compared with the large lake of people in Group B. You burn through your potential audience very quickly at the higher price because so few can afford it.

The work example is a false equivalency.

 

[HauntedPirate]

I think Tokyo is a proof of concept as to how Disney parks seem to be at their best when they are co-owned by someone else.

I'm not nearly as doom and gloom on the parks as most people here, but the cost-cutting and simultaneous price gouging drives me insane.

OLC fully owns the Tokyo parks. They pay a royalty to TWDC for various rights.

 

[Tha Realest]

The Giving Tree, except it’s the Parks self-sacrificing to prop up ill-fated tech and streaming ventures.

 

[JackCH]

OLC fully owns the Tokyo parks. They pay a royalty to TWDC for various rights.

Oh duh that's right. My bad. I think I mixed it up with Shanghai in my head. Appreciate the correction.

 

[PREMiERdrum]

Enjoy that wide open, day-of TS dining availability while it's here.

 

[Tha Realest]

Enjoy that wide open, day-of TS dining availability while it's here.

Hmm. I can’t tell if this is suggesting that 1) the parks will be busier in the coming months, or 2) shuttering of TS restaurants is on the horizon

 

[Animaniac93-98]

Hmm. I can’t tell if this is suggesting that 1) the parks will be busier in the coming months, or 2) shuttering of TS restaurants is on the horizon

Probably a mix of both, but not necessarily shuttering TS, instead reducing hours.

 

[castlecake2.0]

Hmm. I can’t tell if this is suggesting that 1) the parks will be busier in the coming months, or 2) shuttering of TS restaurants is on the horizon

I’m guessing dining offers? I think based on labor and staffing and work bids it’s not as easy to just shut TSRs down

 

[Fido Chuckwagon]

Heard from multiple people that all areas of WDW are being asked to cut costs effective across the first few months of 2025. Not sure exactly how these will show up, but expect the usual like reduced hours, and labor cuts.

Paging @Sirwalterraleigh . @Sirwalterraleigh please report to the cost cutting thread.

 

[Sirwalterraleigh]

Paging @Sirwalterraleigh . @Sirwalterraleigh please report to the cost cutting thread.

…you mess with the bull, you’ll get the horns, Bender

 

[JoeCamel]

So they just extended park hours......
Yeah I get that the daylight hours are increasing but one or two hours a day will spike the labor costs

 

[co10064]

Hmm. I can’t tell if this is suggesting that 1) the parks will be busier in the coming months, or 2) shuttering of TS restaurants is on the horizon

They could also just cut staff at the restaurants… fewer servers and cooks will mean less tables available (assuming they want service times to remain the same).

 

[Sirwalterraleigh]

They could also just cut staff at the restaurants… fewer servers and cooks will mean less tables available (assuming they want service times to remain the same).

They did that along time ago

Those restaurants are not fully available much of the time