Kevin Yee- Airing of Grievances

jt04

jt04

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njDizFan said:
I cannot agree with most of this post. You are blaming Harvard professors for the the management decisions of TWDC. Do we even know what percentage of TDO middle management has an ivy league backround? And are all these professors advocating for the abilition of long term growth for the quick dollar as you suggest. The problem comes from much higher than some accounting executive, its built into the Disney heirarchy. It's the people in charge making these decisions so they can post double digit quarterly earnings for Wall Street.

I understand your sentiment; that hard working, middle class people who love their business and love Disney ideals would be more apt to encourage long term health of the parks. But by demonizing the Ivy league graduates as elitist scum who's sole purpsose is to take the cash and run is innacurate or at least too broad encompassing.

Let's put the blame on the shoulders of the people who run the company and make the decisions. I'm sure there is some of what you talked about within TWDC and all fortune 500 companies but they created that culture.
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What we need is less Harvard and more MIT.
 
jt04

jt04

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Strip the show elements from Splash Mountain. Add a theme that fits the area (Lone Ranger?) and is more state of the art including the external show aesthetics. Reopen to rave reviews.

Next problem for me to solve?:cool:
 
the.dreamfinder

the.dreamfinder

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jt04 said:
Strip the show elements from Splash Mountain. Add a theme that fits the area (Lone Ranger?) and is more state of the art including the external show aesthetics. Reopen to rave reviews.
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The Empress Lilly

The Empress Lilly

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jt04 said:
Strip the show elements from Splash Mountain. Add a theme that fits the area (Lone Ranger?) and is more state of the art including the external show aesthetics. Reopen to rave reviews.

Next problem for me to solve?:cool:
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I think this is a fantastic idea.
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Splash in the MK is an eyesore and a thematic misfit. In DL, there is a logical progression from New Orleans -> Southern Mansion -> Southern countryside of Splash. SM works there as headliner in its own land, next to the old Bears, or to the current Pooh.

In WDW, Splash clashes. Cartoons in Frontierland is plain daft. Splash at WDW is geographically misplaced too. And the transitions used to work so well! Westward from LS through FL up to Thunder, and northwards from the Spanish Main of Caribbean Plaza to the Spanish American Southwest up to Thunder.


Splash may need a refurb of such proportion that one perhaps might as well tackle it's thematic issues in one go. Rip everything out and replace with something new. Tackle both the thematic and maintenance problems at once, get the thing ready for the next twenty years.
Star Tours and TT showed just how succesful WDW can be with extreme make-overs. But please not Lone Ranger. Give us something original. Maybe even harken back to elements of Davis' WRE.
 
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CountryBearFan

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The Empress Lilly said:
Splash in the MK is an eyesore and a thematic misfit.

In WDW, Splash clashes. Cartoons in Frontierland is plain daft. Splash at WDW is geographically misplaced too. And the transgresions used to work so well! Westward from LS through FL up to Thunder, and northwards from the Spanish Main of Caribbean Plaza to the Spanish American Southwest up to Thunder.
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(buzzer sounds) Wrong! Wrong all around! Splash fits in perfectly in Frontierland and you know that!

Quit looking for trouble!
 
The Empress Lilly

The Empress Lilly

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CountryBearFan said:
No, we need the opposite! Less Kevin and more JT!

Besides that. Kevin should be ashamed of himself for this recent article! It's also not the "real" Kevin Yee anyway--the evil Spirit hacked into his account! :mad:
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Disregarding all the sillyness, I do wonder if maybe a little Spirit got in the back of Yee's head indeed. :)

If the Spirit is on a mission, Yee always just calls it as he sees it. Yee does this from a sense of fairness, of balanced reporting, of an urge to report both the good and the bad. Maybe Yee felt his recent work has been mostly praiseworthy of WDW. Spirit's criticim about Yee losing a certain edge may have nestled itself inside Yee's head. Got him to consider restoring the balance with a critical column this time. If only simply by getting the very thought in his head.

Would be cool. No need for a column by 74 himself, agitation here is enough to let Yee write that critical column in his place.
 
KevinYee

KevinYee

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I suppose ^that's possible. I do read widely what is said on this site and a few others, and I'm the sort of thinker who believes that subconscious stuff works on our psyches all the time, so yeah, I could see it.

Then again, I also have a long history of writing "contrary" articles. It used to upset Spirit that I'd counteract my negative articles with an occasional positive one, which I would do for balance but he would call artificial balance.

So it's cosmic you'd invoke Spirit in this case for the *opposite* kind of article :)
 
jmuboy

jmuboy

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Lee said:
It will depend very much on the potential management changes that are likely to happen in the next few months, along with the also likely rescinding of the One Disney initiative.

Part of the reasoning behind these moves is to bring a new philosophy to TDO that, it is hoped, will allow for somewhat of a TDA-style renaissance.

That, along with whether or not NextGen flies or flops, will tell the story of the resort for the remainder of the decade.
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Well I hope and pray FastPass+ is a huge disaster. Something has gotta happen to grab Burbank's attention. In my mind WDW is now worse than DL was at it low point about 10 years ago. Funny how DL reached its lowest point in the years just after its 40th and had a rebirth by its 50th. I can only hope that pattern repeats itself in Orlando.

But I have put my money where my mouth is. I have not vacationed at WDW in the last three years. In the same time period I have made 4 "5-day" plus trips to DL. TDA deserves my vacation cash. TDO does not.
 
Jones14

Jones14

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the.dreamfinder said:
But, if they then say, " WWoHP and Antartica was amazing"...
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It's funny you mention that, because two years later, I still tell people to visit WWoHP, and to check out the new projections on The Mummy and Spiderman. This is a guy who used to loathe the family trips to Universal because Disney did it so much better. Did, not does. I still love Disney, but I can't help but rave about how great Forbidden Journey is and how excited I am for Transformers. Whether or not they want to, people notice things, and it affects their decision making as far as theme parks go (and in everything, really).

I think one thing that separates Disney even further from the other companies is that Disney markets the crap out of everything. They make an enormous deal over a one-night flying dragon for the opening of an expansion that has so far only added an attraction and a half while ignoring the rest of the parks, while Universal, SeaWorld and Busch Gardens work hard on strengthening the upkeep, customer service, variety in mechandise, and overall experience of their parks, and stay quiet until they can unveil something top-tier (such as Forbidden Journey, Antarctica, Cheetah Hunt, Turtle Trek, Despicable Me, etc.) If Disney didn't call so much attention to themselves, it would be a lot harder to notice the declining details.
 

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