crispy
Well-Known Member
I apologize,it was supposed to be "balance".
I know. Just having a little fun! And I really do miss the Golden Girls house at DHS.
I apologize,it was supposed to be "balance".
To follow up on a previous post, Frozen sold 3.2 million discs on its first day of release, 50% of which were Blu-ray discs.
http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=13577
If I might add a thought here, I wondered about DCA myself. As for Africa, Asia, etc., in DAK and all the countries in World Showcase, well, they aren't just outside the gate when you leave are they. Many are places that most people will never have the opportunity to ever see up close and personal. California, on the other hand is just outside the entrance to the park. If you live there or if you have traveled halfway around the world to get there, it is still just outside the gate. Those other places are not.I'm not defensive, just asking a question. What about EPCOT? Those are real countries that one can visit. How do you feel about that park?
You really need some new material, this little zinger got old a long time ago.
So are you under the impression that the only thing people on this site do is ride the rides (aka attractions)? We don't eat, we don't visit world showcase while in Epcot, we don't stop to watch when a parade goes by, nor do we watch when fireworks go off.
Wow that's about all I can say about some of this lol it really makes me question what WOULD make some of you happy
Wow that's about all I can say about some of this lol it really makes me question what WOULD make some of you happy
Just like bashing Disney for everything (including the good)
Name something you consider good that we've bashed. Maintenance cuts aren't good, value engineered dark rides such as Mermaid are mediocre, tearing down and replacing rides with either inferior versions or nothing I can hardly consider good. Spending 2.5+ billion on wristbands instead of park attractions is hardly praise worthy (especially since even Iger realizes it's a flop financially). There have been good Disney projects, but they have largely avoided WDW's gates. Star Tours 2.0 and Festival of Fantasy are some of those exceptions (though again there have been a lot of negatives to offset these like the loss of Spectromagic).Just like bashing Disney for everything (including the good)
There's plenty that would make me happy. More attractions on the level of quality of the following would work- Imagination 1.0, Horizons, Spaceship Earth (94 version or prior), World of Motion, Pirates of the Caribbean, Splash Mountain, Big Thunder, Haunted Mansion etc. Or rides similar to those from Disneysea. And the reopening of even non ride attractions such as Diamond Horseshoe, upstairs Imageworks or Wonders of Life. Cars Land has a lot of quality with Radiator Springs Racers, Hong Kong just received the really cool Mystic Manor along with the also neat Grizzly Gulch.Wow that's about all I can say about some of this lol it really makes me question what WOULD make some of you happy
Well then, why don't you share some of the information your inside sources have provided to you and give those people a legitimate reason to have some optimism?
Everyone is entitled to an opinion, why do you find any criticism of WDW so abhorrent? I know you like to play the "you're all being negative and critical for the sake of it" card but is it really that hard to believe and accept that they have genuine gripes with WDW that they might want to express on a discussion forum?
I mean, you consistently bash Universal (including the good) so why do you have such an issue with people expressing any type of criticism of WDW?
And again, that is NOT spin. In that topic I took exact non-reworded excerpts of POSITIVE reviews on Avatar from RT's top critics section. Throughout the vast majority, even the ones that enjoyed the movie admitted directly that the story and characters weren't good and it was the visuals and tech that was winning the praise.
The magic bands being a huge disaster are not MY opinion, I have yet to try them out. Myself and every single guest could love the things for all it would matter (which they absolutely don't but that's beside the point) and they'd still be considered a huge failure to the executives who came up with them. They have gone massively over budget (with still not end in sight) and they aren't providing the return of investment Iger, Rasulo and his gang promised when they sold it to stockholders. That is no opinion, that is fact. I can come up with a lot of objective reasons for holding the opinion that booking rides weeks or months in advance is a stupid thing, but it doesn't matter whether I like it or not when internally the magic bands are an objective mistake for the executives who created them (with more budgets for maintenance and projects being slashed).
I feel like a new psychological syndrome should be added to the DSM-5.
Pixie-Dust Disorder (PDD)
Overview:
PDD is caused an over-exposure to Walt Disney World in which the patient's cognitive outlook is skewed to reject any anti-Disney press and downplay any competitive advantages.
Symptoms:
-Over-inflated opinion of the WDW parks
-Deflated opinion of the competition's parks
-Defensive to any "anti-Disney" jargon
-Tendency to elicit emotionally charged retorts of Disney "naysayers"
-Provide little support to their claims
-Prone to meltdowns
Treatment:
-A trip 5 miles up I-4.
-A big glass of butterbeer and a ticket to Platform 9 3/4.![]()
Parades and fireworks aren't bad, restaurants are pretty popular, and DTD even in its horrid state is bursting at the seems
You keep saying you're leaving and done with the conversation yet you keep responding...Wow did you ever just prove my point with some of you - case closed
Goodnight
"Bursting at the seems?" Are you f'ing kidding me? You are no longer worth my time. Wake the eff up dude!
You say MM+ has a been a failure financially and that it's a fact. But I thought Iger and the gang have been very tight lipped about it and have not released any financial information on the project. Not even the budget, which here on forum posts has gone from $1B to $2B to $2.5B in what seems like just a matter of months.
All of this could be true, but the last few pages keep stressing the importance of factual statements, and right now, we don't have any figures.
If I might add a thought here, I wondered about DCA myself. As for Africa, Asia, etc., in DAK and all the countries in World Showcase, well, they aren't just outside the gate when you leave are they. Many are places that most people will never have the opportunity to ever see up close and personal. California, on the other hand is just outside the entrance to the park. If you live there or if you have traveled halfway around the world to get there, it is still just outside the gate. Those other places are not.
To take it a step further into wonderment, the park itself is in California! Shouldn't the park have a mini DCA within DCA to completely show the full California?
I don't bash Uni I just don't think it is as good as Disney....by a long shot
I have plenty of criticisms for Disney as well but I don't have blinders on my eyes and become a hater because I fail to see the good
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