I was in MK last night. It was my first time there since summer. After the new Dreams fireworks show ended (which is very good btw) Disney castmembers were detouring the guests' exit route to facilitate crowd traffic on Main Street. Half the crowd was allowed to continue walking down Main Street toward the exit, while they directed the other half (of which I was part of) through a Cast Member Only area behind the Plaza Restaurant and had us walk through about 150 feet of "off stage" area until they routed us back to Main Street at Exhibition Hall. I saw everything back there that traditional Disney operators would have NEVER allowed. Dumpsters, barricades, dirt, puddles, liter, mangy old signs and fences, etc. This was shocking to me, but it was even more troubling. I couldn't understand why they would compromise the magic and mystery of the Magic Kingdom just to expedite the exiting process by MAYBE 5 minutes.
This is not the first thing I've encountered at WDW in recent years that troubled me. Something has changed in recent years, whether it's the personnel up at the executive level of parks/resorts or the management at MK is doung something that the old school Disney execs are not aware of. The Disney that I grew up with would have never allowed this.
This is not the first thing I've encountered at WDW in recent years that troubled me. Something has changed in recent years, whether it's the personnel up at the executive level of parks/resorts or the management at MK is doung something that the old school Disney execs are not aware of. The Disney that I grew up with would have never allowed this.