The worst decision WDW ever made?

[Mrs.Toad]

Tough question, but I'm going with something I don't think no one mentioned yet.

Disney MGM Studios rushed for Grand opening.

Dinsey MGM Studios grand opening in 1989 had the Great Movie Ride, Backlot Tour, The Magic of Disney Animation Tour,The Monster Sound Show, and Superstar Television as opening attractions. While Star Tours and Indiana Jones opened later in 1989, there wasn't a lot of attractions in the park as a working studio/theme park.

This is a good one. I remember being a kid and going around the time it was opened a few months. We went one morning and did the Backlot and GMR, I think ate at Sci-Fi, and had looked at a few shops front of park. Then it was like, Ok, all finished. Back to MK.

 

[Mouse_Trap]

Not extending the Monorail to all parks and hotels - Imagine the World Bus free!

Opening Magic Kingdom parks outside the US. Sorry Mickey is not French.

 

[copcarguyp71]

Monorails would be cool but there is no way they could come close to the capacity of the busses I think.

 

[lazyboy97o]

Opening Magic Kingdom parks outside the US. Sorry Mickey is not French.

Disneyland Paris is a much better Magic Kingdom than the one in Walt Disney World.

Monorails would be cool but there is no way they could come close to the capacity of the busses I think.

Individual buses have less capacity but greater flexibility and low construction costs because they use a shared right of way.

 

[StarWarsGirl]

Yikes! I don't spook easy. DH and I had an agreement from the get go raising our kids we wouldn't saddle our kids with our own fears, we'd actually try and make sure we didn't pass them onto our kids. My DH can't swim. I bought coast guard life jackets and he took the into the pools in Disney when they were small while I did laundry. I have a fear of heights (yet I ski mountains in Colorado.) So he took my kids on the Sky Way.

My DD has a genuine phobia with spiders. Going away to college she fretted about what she would do. I bought a can of hairspray. That won the war on Spider control for now.

Yeah, she didn't try to saddle me with her fears (she's afraid of thunderstorms and snakes, but I'm not) but she also knew her child who got nightmares from the Alien scene on GMR (I still don't watch that scene). I think she did the right thing not forcing it

 

[gleddo]

This is an opinion based thread just wanted to see what everyone thought.... I think getting rid of the old FP system and filling in the Lagoon and Closing 20,000 Leagues.

Failing to come up with an attraction based on the 70's era Mickey Mouse Club

 

[Gabe1]

Yeah, she didn't try to saddle me with her fears (she's afraid of thunderstorms and snakes, but I'm not) but she also knew her child who got nightmares from the Alien scene on GMR (I still don't watch that scene). I think she did the right thing not forcing it

Yeah the GMR made my kids pop from their seat a few time with that scene. As far as I know they didn't harbor any distress from it. I have a healthy respect for lightening. I was 3 months prego with my DD and driving in a strong thunderstorm. Lightening hit a massive Oak Tree on the side of the road and it fell about 25 feet before my car and I managed to stop just short of the feeder branches. If I was driving ever so slightly faster DD and I would be no more. I don't fear it but I respect weather far more since.

 

[Mouse_Trap]

Disneyland Paris is a much better Magic Kingdom than the one in Walt Disney World.

Can't agree sorry. Have you been there?
I find it completely devoid of magic whatsoever.

It was also the first Disney park I ever visited, it put me off visiting Florida for a long time (a trip to California was unimaginable back then).

 

[MickeyPeace]

This is a small one and maybe that's why no one has said it but-

Taking the adventure out of the Adventureland entrance by flattening the bridge.

Oh and making a joke of the haunted mansion with the ridiculous queue.

And then there's the lackluster New Fantasyland.

This is too easy. They just keep coming.

 

[ChrisFL]

Can't agree sorry. Have you been there?
I find it completely devoid of magic whatsoever.

It was also the first Disney park I ever visited, it put me off visiting Florida for a long time (a trip to California was unimaginable back then).

Let me ask you, as I haven't been (the only Disney resort I haven't visited)...was it a problem with cleanliness, staff or something else?

 

[kevinscruising]

I miss 20,000 leagues under the sea. With todays technology, I bet they could have really made that ride pretty awesome!

 

[Neph-Neph]

This is a small one and maybe that's why no one has said it but-

Taking the adventure out of the Adventureland entrance by flattening the bridge.

Oh and making a joke of the haunted mansion with the ridiculous queue.

And then there's the lackluster New Fantasyland.

This is too easy. They just keep coming.

I miss the old bridge to Adventureland so much

 

[Mrs.Toad]

Well, next Resort Mistakes. I can't do Epcot yet, because the list would be long and needs some thought. I'll have to let that marinate a bit.

Now I have stayed at the GF more than any place in WDW so I'll have to focus on this more.

-Well, this Poly Lobby thing has me worried for sure…but onto GF
-Narcoosee's had to get rid of the glass and wooden yards of ale years ago, because er, people were breaking them. Too silly when they got sauced, supposedly, or so we were told. My Dad was disappointed.
-Room Service quality of food has declined. Nothing new here…has been happening for some time. I'm sure depending where you stay it can vary though. The vase with flower, newspaper, and nice touches, I have not seen in awhile.
-I don't begrudge the princess tea for little girls, but it was interesting years ago, and the tea time had a different, more sober/relaxing feel when you would just see adults and older children.
-The old, turn-of the century-looking free bathroom toiletries. Green shampoo/tonic looking bottle. White, ribbed conditioner bottle. And the old-fashioned dark green tin with sewing kit. Now it is the standard shampoo/conditioner plastic bottles. I miss those little touches.
-I liked Gasparilla better years ago, menu-wise.
-The "Old" GF cafe where the menu changed more frequently. They had themes. One year was FLoribbean. My favorite year was Cajun. Now it never changes and I tried a few things and wasn't crazy about some. Some were fine, but in comparison to years ago…???

Let me explain Cajun theme. Imagine the best quality burger with blackened seasoning. With curly fries, and at that time, the first time I had seen them, now you can get them in most restaurants and in the frozen food aisle. And it came with a deep-fried pickle. It was so different, and I now I see the standard park burgers at GF and it is upsetting. I could have this burger at the Cafe or we ordered it for room service. The taste all together was amazing. The French onion soup, in general, was better. My brother got a steak sandwich with pepper jack on a toasted garlic hoagie. And the rest of the themed menu had more offerings and surely was not like the food there now. Ok, but depends what you order and the menu never changes.

Now I know this was in the years GF opened, and hotels around the world usually start cutting back or change after the first few new years of operation, but I can't help but miss the things I loved.

 

[pumpkin7]

So you were the guest that kept going in there!

I got suckered in there once, believing it to be something interesting. Oh how wrong I was!

Anyway, mine would be changing the Backlot Tour to what it is today. Awful!
I would also agree with many of the above, Dreamfinder, 20k etc. I want to say FP+ but been as I haven't used it yet, I'll hold off complete judgement until it ruins my next vacation.

 

[Goofnut1980]

I wonder if Disney has people that read the boards all day??? and sees these postings.

EDIT: I also think it has declined in the decorating and holiday theme-ing over the years... Each year something else is taken away, from Easter to Halloween to Christmas...

Plus, why have a Castle Suite, if you aren't going to use it!

 

[Csmith041177]

Agree with no Beastly Kingdom. I was also dissapoitned when the LTT characters went away. Really took away from the experience for me.

 

[Matt_Black]

I got suckered in there once, believing it to be something interesting. Oh how wrong I was!

Hey, now, when it was all about teaching guests about foley art and sound effects, yeah, it was neat. Plus, totally worth it for the David Letterman pre-show. "Remember, if you break anything, guards in mouse ears will beat you senseless."

 

[Marijil]

Hmm....
Swan and Dolphin
Kouzzina instead of Spoodles
Closing River Country and letting it rot
Jamming DVC units on any available land
Adventurers Club and Pleasure Island scrapping
Disneyquest
coming soon.....Avatar (hope im wrong)
getting rid of Tapestry of Nations parade

 

[Marijil]

I have no doubt that it did, but, it didn't work well for those that couldn't get one did it. That is where the problem originates, not with those that did manage to get one. If someone knew how to use the system, (the older one, not the present so much) it was great or if one could get to the kiosk before they ran out, also great. For those that had to wait in artificially long lines... not so much.

Not really a tough system to figure out

 

[Marijil]

Also...getting rid of that little cul de sac on Main Street for more retail space...ugh