The Miscellaneous Thought Thread

[wdrive]

Ok, guess we'll see.

Hope I'm still seeing Evil Queen and several other normal villains next month.

I hope so too!

 

[Disney Analyst]

To me a Disney performer talking like this, knowing it’s going online, knows fine well that they are being booted out. People have been fired for less.

I do fear this means she is done for, which is sad as everyone loves her.

 

[Disney Analyst]

I’ve emailed in my feedback.

 

[Disney Analyst]

So I messaged MC, as they usually have sources around, they will look into this, but they did mention:

“They’re huge staffing cuts on the way across the entire resort. Disney’s record wage theft settlement, combined with softness in the tourism market have caused them to cut the budgets drastically for labor.”

 

[Comped]

No chance they'd cut villains out at DLR permanently minus the October-ish period. Budget cuts (especially as the characters are now unionised) are likely the reason why we might not see as many, but they'd never get rid of them that easily like is being claimed. DLE would have fits (as it'd reduce the availability of villains for their shows), and wider WDI would too.

 

[PiratesMansion]

No one is seriously arguing at this point that they're dropping villains forever, so why do we keep going back to that rather than focus on what is clearly happening: massive, current layoffs of character performers?!?

 

[Disney Irish]

No one is seriously arguing at this point that they're dropping villains forever, so why do we keep going back to that rather than focus on what is clearly happening: massive, current layoffs of character performers?!?

Because that was part of the topic being discussed. If we all want to agree they aren't getting rid of villains I think we can all drop it.

 

[coffeefan]

It's really sad to see CM lose their jobs, especially in this economy. I thought DL was doing well compared to DW though. Perhaps they are forecasting trends. In any case, I hope they keep the Evil Queen and the other CMs.

 

[Disney Analyst]

It's really sad to see CM lose their jobs, especially in this economy. I thought DL was doing well compared to DW though. Perhaps they are forecasting trends. In any case, I hope they keep the Evil Queen and the other CMs.

Part of it seems to come down to this settlement they had to pay out. $233 million.

 

[Disney Analyst]

Found another video - this one is pretty explicit.



We will miss you Evil Queen