Staggs promoted to COO

Vegas Disney Fan

Well-Known Member
He can't be worst than Iger - him and his profit sheets.

I'll never understand the hate for Iger, the previous presidents and CEO's gave us a lot of expansions but it was all done on the cheap.

Iger has overseen:

1) a redo that turned DCA into the 3rd best park in the US (IMHO)
2) the largest expansion in MK history
3) a complete renovation of DD into Disney Springs
4) the largest expansion in AK history
5) the largest expansion in HS history (most likely)
6) the acquisition of Pixar, Lucas Arts, and Marvel.
7) the Disney Dream and the Disney Fantasy
8) and incredible profits.

I don't agree with everything he's done and wish it would have taken 10 years instead of 20 for all this to happen but it's a pretty impressive list.
 

JordanNite

Well-Known Member
I'll never understand the hate for Iger, the previous presidents and CEO's gave us a lot of expansions but it was all done on the cheap.

Iger has overseen:

1) a redo that turned DCA into the 3rd best park in the US (IMHO)
2) the largest expansion in MK history
3) a complete renovation of DD into Disney Springs
4) the largest expansion in AK history
5) the largest expansion in HS history (most likely)
6) the acquisition of Pixar, Lucas Arts, and Marvel.
7) the Disney Dream and the Disney Fantasy
8) and incredible profits.

I don't agree with everything he's done and wish it would have taken 10 years instead of 20 for all this to happen but it's a pretty impressive list.

It's not really. He's invested next to nothing in the parks. There has been no worldclass attraction for a long time now at Disney. The minor expansions in Florida have been more about land space than anything major.

He is a movies man. He's been a disgrace for Disney Parks.

But that's what you get when you hire a CEO whose salary is dependant on profits. If Iger commits 200 million to parks, it eats into profits, and won't see that money back for years. But if you invest 100 million on a movie you can get your money back and profit within a year. He's calculated.

Disney should never hire a CEO whose salary is dependant so majorly on profits. And if they do, they should have guidlines on investment, etc ... because Iger has damaged the Orlando parks. He simply hasn't invested in the parks. DCA was one of those situations he had to invest or it would have gone down the pan, otherwise he wouldnt have bothered with that either. Most CEO's develop attactions, maybe one every 2-3 years. Iger has done nothing.]

Go look at Hollywood Studios - that parks is a disgrace now to what it once was. Don't talk to me about plans - because so far there is no plans we have heard off. And at the rate Iger has invested in new projects it will take 5 years before we see anything. He's content seeing small rise in growth, and that's all.

It will take a decade at least to get investment back in and get the parks running back to worldclass levels.
 

lazyboy97o

Well-Known Member
I'll never understand the hate for Iger, the previous presidents and CEO's gave us a lot of expansions but it was all done on the cheap.

Iger has overseen:

1) a redo that turned DCA into the 3rd best park in the US (IMHO)
2) the largest expansion in MK history
3) a complete renovation of DD into Disney Springs
4) the largest expansion in AK history
5) the largest expansion in HS history (most likely)
6) the acquisition of Pixar, Lucas Arts, and Marvel.
7) the Disney Dream and the Disney Fantasy
8) and incredible profits.

I don't agree with everything he's done and wish it would have taken 10 years instead of 20 for all this to happen but it's a pretty impressive list.
It's not an impressive list given the size of The Walt Disney Company, the motivation behind the projects and the creative neutering of themed entertainment.
 

HauntedMansionFLA

Well-Known Member
I'll never understand the hate for Iger, the previous presidents and CEO's gave us a lot of expansions but it was all done on the cheap.

Iger has overseen:

1) a redo that turned DCA into the 3rd best park in the US (IMHO)
2) the largest expansion in MK history
3) a complete renovation of DD into Disney Springs
4) the largest expansion in AK history
5) the largest expansion in HS history (most likely)
6) the acquisition of Pixar, Lucas Arts, and Marvel.
7) the Disney Dream and the Disney Fantasy
8) and incredible profits.

I don't agree with everything he's done and wish it would have taken 10 years instead of 20 for all this to happen but it's a pretty impressive list.
Yes, he has to answer to the stockholders. And The company is more than just the Theme parks. People might look at it different after looking at your impressive list.
 

asianway

Well-Known Member
I'll never understand the hate for Iger, the previous presidents and CEO's gave us a lot of expansions but it was all done on the cheap.

Iger has overseen:

1) a redo that turned DCA into the 3rd best park in the US (IMHO)
2) the largest expansion in MK history
3) a complete renovation of DD into Disney Springs
4) the largest expansion in AK history
5) the largest expansion in HS history (most likely)
6) the acquisition of Pixar, Lucas Arts, and Marvel.
7) the Disney Dream and the Disney Fantasy
8) and incredible profits.

I don't agree with everything he's done and wish it would have taken 10 years instead of 20 for all this to happen but it's a pretty impressive list.
It wasn't the largest expansion in MK history
 

Matt_Black

Well-Known Member
EPCOT was and was done in TWO years by a far smaller 'Walt Disney Productions', Now it takes 3+ years to build a kiddie coaster.

Not exactly. Many of the pavilions didn't have their restaurants, Horizons and Journey Into Imagination debuted a year later, the Morocco Pavilion 2 years later, the Living Seas 4 years later, and Norway 6 years later.
 

ford91exploder

Resident Curmudgeon
Not exactly. Many of the pavilions didn't have their restaurants, Horizons and Journey Into Imagination debuted a year later, the Morocco Pavilion 2 years later, the Living Seas 4 years later, and Norway 6 years later.

It was open to the PUBLIC in TWO years, And expanded over the next decade
 

JordanNite

Well-Known Member
Iger's salary works this way :

eg, your account sheets shows money spent, and money made - this will give you a yearly profit. If this profit is high, Iger will get a cut of this profit.

Now this is bad news for parks. If Iger commits 100 million to a new area, that capital will have to go on money spent, and will eat into profits. So let's say Iger has made 90 million profit for Disney in the year. If he commits to a new attraction at the parks, it's vitually wiping of the profit, thus meaning his salary will be down.

Now the parks need investment to keep their long term future alive, and without this investment you damage the parks for the future. But that's not Iger's problem. He will be long gone by the time Disney starts retreating into negative growth.

Iger is a movies man. He flopped hard with Lone Ranger, John Carter of Mars - both were massive record breaking losseS - but the man struck lucky in a film he had little faith in - FROZEN. He got lucky with that and has bought in massive profits for the company.

Disney should never again appoint a CEO with this kind of salary based on profits. It's bad news for parks if they repeat this.
 

Matt_Black

Well-Known Member
It was open to the PUBLIC in TWO years, And expanded over the next decade

Yeah, with 5 attractions. If Disney opened a 5th gate today that only had five attractions at the outset, you KNOW people here would be raising a fit, and saying how much better Uni was. Heck, by 1984, they had 7, which is what AK has now, and people call that a half-day park.
 

Vegas Disney Fan

Well-Known Member
EPCOT was and was done in TWO years by a far smaller 'Walt Disney Productions', Now it takes 3+ years to build a kiddie coaster.

Epcot is a separate park, I don't know anyone that considers Epcot part of the magic kingdom park.

I also think people have selective memories and tend to forget many attractions have gone up fast but many took years, even in Walt's time. The haunted mansion was 8 years from announcement to completion, splash mountain was 6 years from concept to completion and only possible because they closed America sings and reused all its anamatronics. Every time I read about how it's bad show to have the hub torn up for construction all I can think about is how DL ran rides inside the construction zone when they were expanding tomorrowland. Every work project is ugly and they always have been, people just forget the bad and think this is some new phenomenon caused by current management but it's been that way since Walt was in charge.
 

Matt_Black

Well-Known Member
Epcot is a separate park, I don't know anyone that considers Epcot part of the magic kingdom park.

I also think people have selective memories and tend to forget many attractions have gone up fast but many took years, even in Walt's time. The haunted mansion was 8 years from announcement to completion, splash mountain was 6 years from concept to completion and only possible because they closed America sings and reused all its anamatronics. Every time I read about how it's bad show to have the hub torn up for construction all I can think about is how DL ran rides inside the construction zone when they were expanding tomorrowland. Every work project is ugly and they always have been, people just forget the bad and think this is some new phenomenon caused by current management but it's been that way since Walt was in charge.

Quite right. "The Golden Age was never the current age", to steal one from the American Adventure.
 

Duckberg

Active Member
Mr. Staggs REPLACE that movie in Soarin, FIX things that need fixin at WDW and do it NOW!!!

DEEDS not WORDS will determine if people keep opening their wallets for what is offered :cool:
 

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