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Does Disney read these boards.

Figment632

New Member
Original Poster
Do you think any Disney CM's read these boars? Im not talking about the everyday CM Im talking about higher up's and policy makers.

I would guess no what do you think?
 

Lee

Adventurer
Oh, yes. Disney management are quite aware of what goes on here.

Hah! I just remembered that one time when I posted photos from inside Pirates while it was under the big refurb. Only took a few minutes before Steve got a request to have me take them down.:ROFLOL:
 

WDITrent

Active Member
^If I were one of them I wouldn't listen to us. It's not like we can complain together online and cause the largest entertainment company in the world to do something.
 

Master Yoda

Pro Star Wars geek.
Premium Member
Well they certainly dont respond to most of our views in improving WDW.
That is because they are not scouring these boards looking for ideas. And lets be honest here, most of the fan ideas for improving the parks make about as much sense as whizzing on an electric fence. For the most part they are concerned with CM posting confidential information. At best a plant might throw out a rumor for a blue sky attraction, or change to an existing procedure to gauge public response. It also has been suggested that a few imagineers have poster rumors of their shelved ideas to try and bring them out of the basement.
 

goodtimes5286

New Member
I believe they have a team that reads and monitors many boards and summarizes and reports to the higher-ups.
REALLY?
Oh, yes. Disney management are quite aware of what goes on here.

Hah! I just remembered that one time when I posted photos from inside Pirates while it was under the big refurb. Only took a few minutes before Steve got a request to have me take them down.:ROFLOL:
Idk I find that hard to believe to be honest, but your an insider so you would know. You would think with massive public outcry for things like a SGE demo paired with it's lack of attendance, WDW would do something (like AE resurgence) or they would hurry up and get MI Coaster going (since DHS is now in last place in the 4 attendance war, even with all of the events they hold there AND people have been complaining about them needing E-tickets for how long?)

And idk y they'd want you to take them down, its a small community whose who purpose is centered around disney, it builds interest and thus brings in customers and revenue. Why not allow a referb pic or 2?
Well they certainly dont respond to most of our views in improving WDW.
LMAO:ROFLOL:

I think you mis-spoke though. You said most, but what I think you ment was ANY
It also has been suggested that a few imagineers have poster rumors of their shelved ideas to try and bring them out of the basement.
No wonder why there clearing out land around DAK. THANKS JOE ROHDE FOR THE BEASTLY KINGDOM TOPICS!!!!
 

Master Yoda

Pro Star Wars geek.
Premium Member
REALLY?

Idk I find that hard to believe to be honest, but your an insider so you would know. You would think with massive public outcry for things like a SGE demo paired with it's lack of attendance, WDW would do something (like AE resurgence) or they would hurry up and get MI Coaster going (since DHS is now in last place in the 4 attendance war, even with all of the events they hold there AND people have been complaining about them needing E-tickets for how long?)

And idk y they'd want you to take them down, its a small community whose who purpose is centered around disney, it builds interest and thus brings in customers and revenue. Why not allow a referb pic or 2?

LMAO:ROFLOL:

I think you mis-spoke though. You said most, but what I think you ment was ANY
You don't even need to be an insider to know this. They publicly said that they monitor these boards in a press conference a few years ago. They even mentioned a change to their dining plan because of the responses on these boards.
 

David

Active Member
I was pricing a trip on the WDW website last week and was asked to take part of a survey. A few of the questions asked which other Disney sites I visited and it had this one among the choices. When I selected WDW and a few others, they asked other questions about the information I received from them. So yeah, I think they look.
 

wdwmagic

Administrator
Moderator
Premium Member
If you were a company and you had a fan site that had 63,000 members and over 3 million posts talking about you, wouldnt you be interested? It's a great free focus group.

They obviously don't change things in specific reponse to everything they read online, but it certainly helps them to know what a lot of people are thinking about the additions and changes they make.
 

pacochran

Active Member
As others have said, and I would agree, if you have this many people it's a way of getting feedback without paying for it. The higher ups probably don't come on that much themselves, but probably have staff to do it for them. That would be a great job, but wonder with all the staff cuts if they still have a job (if there is such a job).
 

DizneyPryncess

Well-Known Member
If you were a company and you had a fan site that had 63,000 members and over 3 million posts talking about you, wouldnt you be interested? It's a great free focus group.

They obviously don't change things in specific reponse to everything they read online, but it certainly helps them to know what a lot of people are thinking about the additions and changes they make.

I originally thought that there was no way anyone high up was reading the boards - but that makes sense. I guess if it were me, I would certainly be checking things out too.

It's funny to think that someone around here could be 'the mole'. I could be talking to someone who I think is from smalltown,usa when really it's some WDW bigwig. :D
 

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