Filthy ride vehicles...

[Sonconato]

I think two things are happening:

1) You can make excuses for Disney all that you want but they charge a premium for a premium resort. They charge this because you know you're not going to Six Flags. It's their job (company) to keep it clean. I think this is just more cuts. You can make the argument that they have more nighttime things and all that but then you just hire more staff to clean at night. It's like the excuse for the monorails being dirty and people saying, "..but they run all the time and have 1000s of people going through them each day so there's no time to clean them.." Then Disney, the premium resort charging premium prices, really ought to buy more trains so that they can swap them out and have some being thoroughly cleaned/refurbished while others are out working. They should hire the staff to ensure that this happens.

2) You're right in that people are slobs - more-so today than in decades past. I think we were probably around our peak (USA) with the crying indian days of the late 1970s/early 1980s. Everyone seemed to be making a conscious effort not to litter because it was well out of control in the 1970s. About 15-20 years ago I noticed more and more people (young people, mostly) tossing their garbage out of the window of their care without a care in the world. You didn't see that in the 1980s as it was taboo. By the mid 1990s that taboo was starting to wane with the next generation. It's starting to become common place again. In the late 1970s and through most of the 1980s you could, and would, be ticketed for having trash fly out your window, even if you didn't intend for it to happen (windows down and the wind carries it out). When was the last time any of you ever heard of someone getting a ticket for littering? They're just signs now and, even then, there seem to be fewer of them than there were decades back.

In addition to all of that: Buzz is just gross now. I don't even go on it because it's so gross. This is Disney's "junker" ride, now. Things barely work. It's filthy. I live near Six Flags Over Georgia and I can't think of a worse-kept ride there. Buzz isn't even a well-themed ride. You have Buzz at the front (or you use to - they may have removed him) with the blurry face (it was really cool when he was new, though) and plywood cutouts for the most part on the inside. Also, it's in Tomorrowland. Everything is wrong with this ride.

Your first comment reminded me of this story I came across on a website called justdisney.com. I would be curious how things would be run differently if Walter E. Disney were still running the show based on this story:

 

[GVentola]

I have a phobia of trash & garbage. When at Magic Kingdom a couple of weeks ago, I had to sit on the small world boat trying to ignore what looked like a discarded hand wipe. Or maybe it was a tissue (even worse) or napkin. Anyway, I didn't like it. It doesn't happen to me every time I get on a ride, though. I usually go to the park in the early afternoon or early evening.

 

[GVentola]

This would be a good time to drag out the song Ludwig Von Drake did on Litterbugs. Can anyone find it?

 

[RandomPrincess]

This would be a good time to drag out the song Ludwig Von Drake did on Litterbugs. Can anyone find it?

 

[bethymouse]

Water bottles are the worst! They're everywhere!

 

[TotallyBiased]

We went a few weeks ago (not realizing that it was spring break) and it was mobbed. We commented a number of times on the trash everywhere in the bushes, even 2 feet away from a trash can. We kept our kids in check (though my 17 yr old did forget a water bottle in the pouch on EE), but it was still pretty sad seeing the disrespect that people have for just about everything. I took my youngest down in '13 and while looking for a spot on the sidewalk for the Electric Light Parade, we went to sit down and one mother said "Don't sit there, I just let my son urinate." ON THE SIDEWALK. I don't know what the mentality is, I just can't grasp it.

 

[Incomudro]

We went a few weeks ago (not realizing that it was spring break) and it was mobbed. We commented a number of times on the trash everywhere in the bushes, even 2 feet away from a trash can. We kept our kids in check (though my 17 yr old did forget a water bottle in the pouch on EE), but it was still pretty sad seeing the disrespect that people have for just about everything. I took my youngest down in '13 and while looking for a spot on the sidewalk for the Electric Light Parade, we went to sit down and one mother said "Don't sit there, I just let my son urinate." ON THE SIDEWALK. I don't know what the mentality is, I just can't grasp it.

Whaaat??!!
Just when I thought the bar couldn't go any lower.