Whenever someone says they like Iger, I lose all respect for their comment. I’ve never liked him and while many consider him a brilliant business person, I think he’s just an egomaniac without a creative bone in his body. He just likes to spend other people’s money on franchises, ruin their creativity, and reward himself handsomely. I mean come in, he’s the first ceo who wouldn’t wear a Mickey Mouse tie…. Just quit Bob, quit
I would say he’s actually overperformedWhenever someone says they like Iger, I lose all respect for their comment. I’ve never liked him and while many consider him a brilliant business person, I think he’s just an egomaniac without a creative bone in his body. He just likes to spend other people’s money on franchises, ruin their creativity, and reward himself handsomely. I mean come in, he’s the first ceo who wouldn’t wear a Mickey Mouse tie…. Just quit Bob, quit
Honestly, I’ve had it with the Disney-run parks until whenever their next major round of investment is done (looking like a 2030 completion at this point).
I honestly feel like skipping Disney this year for the first time, and just heading to Tokyo Disneyland next year once Fantasy Springs opens. There’s just no equal and the gap is only going to grow larger.
He was talking about packing the parks with more bodies than the limits already in place. Indicating the reservations aren’t going away. The daily overall park capacity, as things stand right now isn’t increasing. He wasn’t talking about it in the way we usually talk about it.I'm confused by the title of this thread. Where did Bob say increasing CAPACITY was not smart?
That went from an amazing documentary to an Iger self made praise fest so fast. I remember how they edit Walt giving Disneyland's opening speech with Iger giving the same speech in Shanghai Disneyland but he has zero emotion.the Imagineering Story Shanghai episode makes this evident. The episode is a time where the show took a turn from mentioning CEOs and leadership at different times to making the episode about him. There is once a clip where there is a quote at one point where he says "I did it."
That tells you all you need to know about Bob Iger.
Yeah, it is sad that the series turned into that.That went from an amazing documentary to an Iger self made praise fest so fast. I remember how they edit Walt giving Disneyland's opening speech with Iger giving the same speech in Shanghai Disneyland but he has zero emotion.
I'm sure he sees himself as a god.
Under Eisner:Iger 2018: "We’ve made a number of steps to essentially grow revenue, in some cases actually at the expense of some attendance where we’re changing our pricing approach sometimes in part to moderate attendance so the park experience is a little bit better,"
Iger 2022: "We were not perceived to be as accessible or as affordable to many segments, as we probably should have been."
Bob can eat my ***.
Single Day Park Tickets during the original tenure of Robert Iger.
Jan 2006 $63.00
Aug 2006 $67.00
Aug 2007 $71.00
Aug 2008 $75.00
May 2009 $75.00
Aug 2009 $79.00
Aug 2010 $82.00
Jun 2011 $85.00
Jun 2012 $89
Jun 2013 $95 – MK $90 – other theme parks
Feb 2014 $99 – MK $94 – other theme parks
Feb 2015 $105 – MK $97 – other theme parks
Feb 2016 $124 Peak $110 Regular $105 Value
Feb 2017 $124 Peak $115 Regular $107 Value
Feb 2018 $129 Peak $119 Regular $109 Value
Oct 2018 $129 Peak $122 Regular $114 Value
Mar 2019 $159 Holiday $139 Peak $125 Regular $117 Value $109
Even if we bypass the January 2006 increase, he still oversaw ticket pricing increase by 63% to 137%
That’s why the Parks are packed. He’ll lower the ticket prices and we’ll see the crowds die downIger 2018: "We’ve made a number of steps to essentially grow revenue, in some cases actually at the expense of some attendance where we’re changing our pricing approach sometimes in part to moderate attendance so the park experience is a little bit better,"
Iger 2022: "We were not perceived to be as accessible or as affordable to many segments, as we probably should have been."
Bob can eat my ***.
Single Day Park Tickets during the original tenure of Robert Iger.
Jan 2006 $63.00
Aug 2006 $67.00
Aug 2007 $71.00
Aug 2008 $75.00
May 2009 $75.00
Aug 2009 $79.00
Aug 2010 $82.00
Jun 2011 $85.00
Jun 2012 $89
Jun 2013 $95 – MK $90 – other theme parks
Feb 2014 $99 – MK $94 – other theme parks
Feb 2015 $105 – MK $97 – other theme parks
Feb 2016 $124 Peak $110 Regular $105 Value
Feb 2017 $124 Peak $115 Regular $107 Value
Feb 2018 $129 Peak $119 Regular $109 Value
Oct 2018 $129 Peak $122 Regular $114 Value
Mar 2019 $159 Holiday $139 Peak $125 Regular $117 Value $109
Even if we bypass the January 2006 increase, he still oversaw ticket pricing increase by 63% to 137%
Eisner did oversee the addition of 2 waterparks and two theme parks, So of course there would have been an increase that is a higher margin.Under Eisner:
Day he took over, $18.00
Day he left, $59.75
That is an increase of 231.9%
Gotta love the philosophy of let our customers debt themselves to come here.That’s why the Parks are packed. He’ll lower the ticket prices and we’ll see the crowds die down
There is no set of circumstances where a rational, reasonable person looks at these numbers and doesn't conclude that the people who have run Disney since Eisner are the worst human beings on the planet. None.
There is no set of circumstances where a rational, reasonable person looks at these numbers and doesn't conclude that the people who have run Disney since Eisner are the worst human beings on the planet.
If they looked like EPCOT did in 1982, I'd be delighted to take that deal at $45 over today's Epcot at $124. The Magic Kingdom, too - at the very least it was clean and the trash got collected.Good and bad doesn’t apply, this is purely supply and demand.
If a park ticket cost $45 they wouldn’t have spent billions redoing DCA, spent billions on Galaxy’s edge, spent billions on Pandora, etc, etc.
I’d rather pay $124 to go to a current Disney park than pay $45 to go to the parks we’d have if a ticket actually cost $45. If you want to see exactly what that would look like you can go to Knotts down the street, a moderately sized, well themed park full of teenagers.
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