Originally posted by cymbaldiva
Very good questions!
For me personally, I have been feeling the "Magic" slipping away for awhile now. For me it's the little details that are being so very neglected now
I had always thought that the great attention to detail was a tremendous part of what made Disney what it is ( or was?)....I can't believe they're letting them all just disappear.
To answer the question - I don't know if the Magic will return. I don't think that it will ever be too far gone for vets like us, but for the Disney nuts in training it may very well be.
That truly disturbs me....I must take a moment now.
I'm with you, Diva...
I love WDW... I don't think any of my friends or relatives can quite comprehend how much I love it. In fact, I'm thinking of altering my upcoming job search to Florida, simply because I don't want to be too far from it.
However, I can understand what you mean about the Magic slowly slipping away. Sure, I can overlook a lot of things, because I love the parks so much, but there are things that remind me that WDW is still as beholden to the laws of man as anything else...
The lame ending to SE, where they have diorammas instead of animatronic figures, like the rest of the ride. The changes to PoTC, changes to the backstage tour at the Studios, the construction going all over the damn place...
Sure, it's lost some of its Magic, but you know what?...
Like I said to my friend that I went to Epcot to last week when it was pouring... "A day in the rain at Epcot is better than a day studying." FOr all of you, that could mean better than a day working, or a day sitting around at home or a day doing whatever...
Disney may not have the same Magic I remember all those years ago when I was a kid, and they may have problems right now, making it not as magical as it was, like, five years ago... but, I still love it.
So, to me, the answer to the question is this: Yeah, Disney may be losing some of its MAgic, but I'll tell you what... It beats the real world... and Disney is, I believe, on its way to being on a rebound... Not a crazy, "hey-let's-build-a-theme-park-we-won't-be-able-to-finish-completely rebound, but a rebound that will make all us Disneyphiles happy.