HenryMystic
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Do you promise Spirit? I could use an espresso or cider right now.
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Main Street Bakery to Serve Starbucks Coffee
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WDW1974
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. The Emporium is a giant WoD outlet that has swallowed half of MSUSA ... yet because it sells Disney-branded (expletive deleted) it somehow is OK to you?
captainkidd
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That's your opinion. That's not mine.
And with all due respect, rational, functioning adults wouldn't be nearly as rude as you and some others have been to others on this thread. It's astounding that people could possibly be so mean. And I'm happy to say, it's a concept I simply don't understand.
Is there a way to change a thread title? If I could I certainly would!
WDW1974
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I was told by another member that the creator can edit (or could before the new format) so I'm not sure ... but if you PM'd a moderator and asked them to do so, I'm sure they would. A better, and more accurate, subject might be 'Starbucks to be served on MSUSA' or something like that.
JustInTime
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It's hard to do when flawless people keep liking my post and pressed people keep quoting it.
I think the days of the Emporium selling truly unique merchandise are long past. The last time I went in there, last year, I didn't see anything that you couldn't find at any number of other stores on property.
GoofGoof
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asianway
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There's two threads on this topic on the front page of DIS I daren't open for fear of my cerebral cortex melting...
TalkingHead
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Spirit, you're a smart guy. Please tell me you see some middle ground here.
It's not all "STARBUCKS DRINKY GOOD" and "LOSE BAKERY CRUSHING BAD."
The middle ground is ambivalence: Coffee might be improved, but this is yet another step toward the standardization of the park.
Dare I say it? Starbucks is basically a trendy Walmart. Along with McDonald's, these stores/shops are largely responsible for the homogenization of the American landscape -- you know, you go to Miami and see the same crap you see in Northern Virginia which is the same crap you see in San Antonio, etc. I think that's lousy, and to see that homogenization introduced into MK is regrettable IMO. It may be themed, but it's still homogenization.
Now you may like Starbucks products better than Walmart's. Sure Starbucks has the suburband middle-class status symbol thing going for it, but other than that...it's just more Disney outsourcing, more lazy problem-solving.
It's not all "STARBUCKS DRINKY GOOD" and "LOSE BAKERY CRUSHING BAD."
The middle ground is ambivalence: Coffee might be improved, but this is yet another step toward the standardization of the park.
Dare I say it? Starbucks is basically a trendy Walmart. Along with McDonald's, these stores/shops are largely responsible for the homogenization of the American landscape -- you know, you go to Miami and see the same crap you see in Northern Virginia which is the same crap you see in San Antonio, etc. I think that's lousy, and to see that homogenization introduced into MK is regrettable IMO. It may be themed, but it's still homogenization.
Now you may like Starbucks products better than Walmart's. Sure Starbucks has the suburband middle-class status symbol thing going for it, but other than that...it's just more Disney outsourcing, more lazy problem-solving.
JustInTime
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We are talking about corporate America. A land of nothing but McDonalds, Walmarts and Starbucks. Yet you forget that Disney is the biggest corporate monster in the entire world. People use this same argument against Disney everyday. Most recently with the possible standardization of the Star Wars series. I find it ironic Disney fans are worried about Starbuks doing to Disney what Disney has been doing to everything it's touched since it's inception.
Vader2112
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Early summer here in Fl is like March lol
TalkingHead
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And I've never been a fan of Disney cloning MKs to the far corners of the earth.
However, there isn't a MK on the corner of every street. The same can't be said of Starbucks.
Incidentally, you assume that I'm a fan of Disney media empire. I'm not.
TalkingHead
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And before the smart guys jump in with their Coke and Nestle counterexamples...let me rephrase:
"...to see that homogenization FURTHER introduced is regrettable..."
JustInTime
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What is weird is that I am a fan of the Disney media empire and you assumed I wasn't. I was just making a point and a very valid one. Take from it what you may, but I was not pointing any fingers toward what you prefer. I'm not even sure what part of my post indicated that I was assuming your feelings toward the topic. However, it is an excellent point that has yet to be brought up in this thread. It's a double standard. People hate it when they are a part of a double standard. Clearly.
WDW1974
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I think so. The more I read a thread like this, the smarter I get!
Honestly, very, very little. I view Starbucks improving the coffee much like I view OLC running the TDR. Disney doesn't have the desire (and possibly the ability) to provide a high quality product. And standardization? I have a hard time with that when this will be the only locale to get those tasty Starbucks beverages and food items. As opposed to having the same Disney crap at the Emporium available in pretty much every location in the MK (to some degree as obviously one location is much larger).
This is actually something I laud Disney for. They are going to improve MK (and EPCOT, which naturally no one mentions) with this move. UNI has one, and I don't think 'gee, I'm at a strip center in Tulsa, Tuscaloosa or Tallahassee' when I've had coffee there. It's located in a NY city themed backlot area and fits perfectly and that locale actually does have all the Starbucks signage that this one will not.
I don't disagree with the core point. But I'll say Disney has done far more to damage the MAGIC of the MK with the Disney BRAND plastered and in your face in every corner of the park than this will ever do. Jack Sparrow merchandise and tooned attractions in Tomorrowland ... Tink costumes and Jack Skellington mugs and Pooh X-mas ornaments in Liberty Square have damaged the MK far, far more than this.
Honestly, I'm not saying this just because I like their coffee (for the record I just had McD's coffee, not Starbucks!)
Too late man, this is all your fault
It seemed so harmless at the time.
I love the people that can't be bothered to read even a single page of the thread before they post their opinions. Twitchy McTypesalot.
GoofGoof
Premium Member
Those threads have generally stopped a lot sooner than this one ... this one will keep going ... maybe I should make something up and start a thread just to get people's eyes off this one?
Go with a monorail expansion. Works every time.
I say Star Wars themed Monorail from MCO to Downtown Disney that gets attacked by Na'vi while crossing I4.