Disney has to start to look and see that its "core people, " the Baby Boomers of the late 40's and 50's.. with 57 being our biggest birth year, is starting to die off. Those of us who watched Davy Crockett and Annette with such intense, are going away.. I am 59.. I watched the Mickey Mouse Club in black and white.. WDW gave me a place to encourage my love and to give in to all those things we were taught on a daily basis.. a place where my siblings who are much younger , have no idea what churns in my inner being when I walk or drive under that Banner on the south side of the property.. They never had THAT DISNEY EXPERIENCE.. and never will . We have been the ones to bring our kids..but because our kids never had the daily indoctrination they get Disney but only to a certain point.. They still do not quite understand , why does DAD cry at Disney... ? what causes that type of deep emotion.The new Mouse Club was a whiff of the original show.. We were taught lessons of life and honesty and how to be a good person. Not to lie or cheat but to help one another. And there are less of us each and every day. Including many of the Mouseketeers ..We got WDW to this point.. and we have brought others with us.. .but the deep loyalty is not as deep as it was with us core people .. and it never will be, and it can't be.. and the less it gets.. The more management needs to work to keep the spark and the dream alive.. They need to offer more and not less. and if they don't see this people can change. .No one would ever think that GM would go out of business. but in effect, they did.. Sears is going to close.. JC Penney isn't far behind.. a husband and wife friend of mine, worked at one each 25 years ago.. and the morning joke was , Which store was bigger, number one in sales, as they were one and two at the time.Now both will soon be gone..Dance parties will not carry WDW into the next 25 years. No matter how often management says to let us "eat them".. as the old quote " let them eat cake .." Let them EAT DANCE PARTIES...
I agree with you completely. I am 66 y/o and remember all of that. We could never afford to go to Disneyland when I was a child, but I loved watching "World of Color" and MMClub and wish and wonder if I would ever make it to that magical place.
Well, my first trip was when our kids were 5 and 7, and I have seen the decline ever since then. My husband and I are in a place where can go to wdw every year, and we have been doing that for several years.
It saddens me to say that this year may be our last year onsite, surrounded by the bubble. If things continue the way they are going with cut services, entertainment, food quality, charging more for what used to be free to onsite guests, etc, etc, the list goes on, then we are going to stay offsite in a condo and go to all the other wonderful places Florida has to offer
We tried Universal last year and Loved. It. We want to explore that option more. Never been to discovery cove, so that is one as well. We love Sea World, and will include that as well as beaches.
I hope Disney wakes up and sees that you cannot go on forever on your brand name only. You are right about Sears and Gm. I remember when Sears tools meant quality made. Then they went cheap and go foreign cheaply made tools, and their business went down from there, as an example. No One is immune to this happening.
Oh how I would love to read on these sites that Disney has increased CM's pay and training once again, that they were adding more entertainment and not charging extra for it, that they cared about customer service once again. Sigh..............
