Micheal Eisner was cancer to Disney. Walt Disney I guarantee would have never hired someone line that. People like the part of Disney created by Walt not Eisner. Its too bad the Disney family don't own enough stock to take the company back from these people.At this point, when the sneaky evil Murdoch boys from Fox will likely be taking over after Bobiger retires with his stacks of acquisition cash, one has to ask: Was Micheal Eisner really that bad? He went in on the parks.
Animal Kingdom and the rest are Walt Disney ideas. MGM was Eisner and it has no magic and is the lowest attendance theme park Disney. I go there and people tell me they don't like it and the original Disney parks are much better. Alien encounter has no attendance and that was 100% Eisner. The stock price was in the toilet under Eisner. Walt Disney and his family including Roy have said that this is not the direction that the company is suppose to be going. My family voted to kick Eisner out with our shares then we sold them.
They lined up all their computer programmers to fire them one by one in an almost execution style and made them replace them with Indian foreign workers under a program design for people who are unable to get Americans to do the job by using some cloak and dagger style shell companies. This was even such a big deal, it was brought up in the presidential debate and Disney was mentioned by name for doing this. Lets not forget that they fired guy that came up with the Pixar technology for the crime of coming up with the pixar technology. They eventually had to buy it back in the form of Pixar. Everything they paid for Pixar was something they could have had for free if the did not fire that individual. Unfortunately when a company goes public, its selling your soul to the devil in order to get some short term money and one day the devil comes to collect. In Disney case, that devil is in the form of Eisner.
I can guarantee you the park would be much better today if Disney and his family remained in charge vs Eisner and his goons.
Dude, you shouldn’t pass opinion as fact.Animal Kingdom and the rest are Walt Disney ideas. MGM was Eisner and it has no magic and is the lowest attendance theme park Disney. I go there and people tell me they don't like it and the original Disney parks are much better. Alien encounter has no attendance and that was 100% Eisner. The stock price was in the toilet under Eisner. Walt Disney and his family including Roy have said that this is not the direction that the company is suppose to be going. My family voted to kick Eisner out with our shares then we sold them.
They lined up all their computer programmers to fire them one by one in an almost execution style and made them replace them with Indian foreign workers under a program design for people who are unable to get Americans to do the job by using some cloak and dagger style shell companies. This was even such a big deal, it was brought up in the presidential debate and Disney was mentioned by name for doing this. Lets not forget that they fired guy that came up with the Pixar technology for the crime of coming up with the pixar technology. They eventually had to buy it back in the form of Pixar. Everything they paid for Pixar was something they could have had for free if the did not fire that individual. Unfortunately when a company goes public, its selling your soul to the devil in order to get some short term money and one day the devil comes to collect. In Disney case, that devil is in the form of Eisner.
I can guarantee you the park would be much better today if Disney and his family remained in charge vs Eisner and his goons.
^^^^ ThisMichael Eisner was instrumental in turning Disney into the company it is today. He was also instrumental in turning the man himself into a legend, which in turn, has helped the company. Whether TWDC would've been more successful without him is impossible to know. It might've been chopped up and sold. It might've been super successful.
Wow please do your research first. This is almost entirely factually incorrect.
Wow!Animal Kingdom and the rest are Walt Disney ideas. MGM was Eisner and it has no magic and is the lowest attendance theme park Disney. I go there and people tell me they don't like it and the original Disney parks are much better. Alien encounter has no attendance and that was 100% Eisner. The stock price was in the toilet under Eisner. Walt Disney and his family including Roy have said that this is not the direction that the company is suppose to be going. My family voted to kick Eisner out with our shares then we sold them.
They lined up all their computer programmers to fire them one by one in an almost execution style and made them replace them with Indian foreign workers under a program design for people who are unable to get Americans to do the job by using some cloak and dagger style shell companies. This was even such a big deal, it was brought up in the presidential debate and Disney was mentioned by name for doing this. Lets not forget that they fired guy that came up with the Pixar technology for the crime of coming up with the pixar technology. They eventually had to buy it back in the form of Pixar. Everything they paid for Pixar was something they could have had for free if the did not fire that individual. Unfortunately when a company goes public, its selling your soul to the devil in order to get some short term money and one day the devil comes to collect. In Disney case, that devil is in the form of Eisner.
I can guarantee you the park would be much better today if Disney and his family remained in charge vs Eisner and his goons.
Legacy is a funny thing, ain’t it? For all the negative, and there’s plenty, TWDC would not be in the position it is in today without Michael. Folks typically only view the company from the perspective of P&R, but Michael and Frank took advantage of the legacy and emerging businesses left to them and then established new ventures and made acquisitions that make up the modern Walt Disney Company. Michael’s legacy is a net positive and I suspect folks will come around as time passes.^^^^ This
I agree, I read through this and all I could do is wonder if I had fallen asleep and was dreaming this discussion. Eisner did seem to be overwhelmed toward the end of his tenure, but, the first few years saved the Disney Company from total extinction. I know we are a society of "what have you done for me lately", but that whole rant lacked in any clarity or fact.
I remember I did a research paper in 2004 on Disney for a corporate finance class I was taking in college. One thing I can recall from that project is how Eisner resurrected Disney from incredible mediocrity in the 1980s. Were some of his decision unpopular? Absolutely. BUT we would not have the Disney we have today without the vital role that Michael Eisner played.
Also, let's not forget that Eisner completely revamped the cast member model and instituted the guest service process spelled out in his famous book "Be Our Guest."
He also destroyed Disney's cash machine. Eiser was responsible for pushing Disney movies into the homes and out of the theaters. Prior to Eiser if you wanted to see Snow White you waited the 7 or so years until Disney pushed it out to the theaters again or didn't see it at all. Eiser pushed all the movies out to make a fast buck, and while it has continued to serve them well as technology went from VHS to DVD to BluRay with each iteration given Disney the ability to resell the same movies over and over, the reality is when the movie gets to a format that doesn't require upgrading you don't get to make as much off the movie as before because there will be enough discs of the movie in circulation that it doesn't demand the same premium as before. It was only by luck that technology kept changing or the money Disney pulled in from classic movies would have pretty much dried up 20 years ago. Eiser was the poster boy for quick buck at the expense of long-term revenue.Don’t forget, WDW enjoyed its greatest expansion under Eisner. Aminal Kingdom, Hollywood Studios, Splash Mountain, Tower of Terror, etc were all under his watch.
He had his problems but what he helped build is what allowed the margin sucking management of today to succeed with zero expansion and utter apathy toward WDW.
He also destroyed Disney's cash machine. Eiser was responsible for pushing Disney movies into the homes and out of the theaters. Prior to Eiser if you wanted to see Snow White you waited the 7 or so years until Disney pushed it out to the theaters again or didn't see it at all. Eiser pushed all the movies out to make a fast buck, and while it has continued to serve them well as technology went from VHS to DVD to BluRay with each iteration given Disney the ability to resell the same movies over and over, the reality is when the movie gets to a format that doesn't require upgrading you don't get to make as much off the movie as before because there will be enough discs of the movie in circulation that it doesn't demand the same premium as before. It was only by luck that technology kept changing or the money Disney pulled in from classic movies would have pretty much dried up 20 years ago. Eiser was the poster boy for quick buck at the expense of long-term revenue.
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