Once again, another video with Disney showing the yeti moving.

[Goofyernmost]

An operational Yeti symbolizes what makes Disney, Disney. If it doesn't work, it's a bad show, something Walt would have never allowed. Everything should work. At least, every major thing. It's a completely different ride without Yeti. I'm not going to say a trashcan not emptied is signaling the end, but a Yeti broken for years is unacceptable and wouldn't have happened on Walt's watch.

Your mentality is sound and logical, but Disney at its best is not always about ROI. The very issue with the parks today is that they are beginning to be operated purely on ROI and an "Is it worth the expense" mentality. If enough things slide, Disney will become just like any theme park and will lose Walt's DNA.

I'm not saying it makes me hate Disney, but I genuinely care too much to just let it slide and think it's just one small thing. Those things add up and ultimately help define what separates Disney from everyone else.

I have no inside information but I don't think that the "Yeti" problem has anything to do, at least right now, with ROI. I has to do with a park that is in dire need of something for people to do and that fixing the "bad show" would require shutting it down for an extended period of time. I can't even classify as the entire ride as a "bad show". If it were it would be far less popular. If nothing happens after the tall blue people arrive, then they have a lot of splainin to do!

I also wouldn't be so quick to assume that Walt would have or could have done it any different. If he would have had millions of dollars sunk into a major attraction and something went bad that he couldn't instantly fix, he might not have much choice but to live with it, at least for awhile. Contrary to popular belief he wasn't god like.

 

[tk924]

It kind of annoys me about how it's misleading, and their advertising with the yeti moving, yet it's not in reality. Their doing this a lot and it kind of annoys me a bit.

It doesn't really bother me as it is no more misleading than showing Mickey and Minnie out in the park or showing the family in areas around the park with hardly no one else around. Disney commercials are usually misleading.

 

[EOD K9]

This is true whenever I see a commercial where characters are walking freely without being mobbed by guests as they walk to their M&G Spot.

In Russia, characters mob you!!