News Walt Disney Imagineering Leaving California, Moving To Florida... EDIT: Never Mind!

flynnibus

flynnibus

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Imagine the bipolar views that must be happening in a TWDC workplace resources office these days....

Dealing with a company that is now spread all over the place due to acquisitions...
Dealing with wfh or not mandates...
Dealing with consolidation across huge swaths of businesses...
Dealing with huge layoffs and consolidation...

And then having major realignment/relocation initiatives being thrown out and then having to pivot and figure out what your next steps are. Are you shrinking, are you growing, are you tight, are you not... It must be a whirlwind in there.
 
Disstevefan1

Disstevefan1

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In my opinion, the Lake Nona campus was TWDC retaliation against the state of California for the extended shutdowns there during the pandemic.

The stoppage of this project could be TWDCs retaliation against the state of Florida for what (you know who) is doing.

Or it could be simply more cost cutting.

I do think the residents of Lake Nona are probably happy this is cancelled. Less people, less traffic.
 
SSG

SSG

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Ron's retort. Pretty weak sauce.
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I also like how Disney buried the Star Cruiser closing under the Lake Nona story.
 
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PiratesMansion

PiratesMansion

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Disstevefan1 said:
In my opinion, the Lake Nona campus was TWDC retaliation against the state of California for the extended shutdowns there during the pandemic.

The stoppage of this project could be TWDCs retaliation against the state of Florida for what (you know who) is doing.

Or it could be simply more cost cutting.

I do think the residents of Lake Nona are probably happy this is cancelled. Less people, less traffic.
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Lake Nona was in the works before covid was a thing, and before it became clear that California would take the stance it did about reopening businesses.

Not to say there were no ulterior motives at play whatsoever, but I don't really see any way that this could be one of them.
 
TP2000

TP2000

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PiratesMansion said:
Lake Nona was in the works before covid was a thing, and before it became clear that California would take the stance it did about reopening businesses.

Not to say there were no ulterior motives at play whatsoever, but I don't really see any way that this could be one of them.
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Agreed. Disney also seemed to have put Lake Nona on ice a year ago, before the Great Tallahassee-Burbank War of 2022-23 began.

It didn't help that many of the Californians who were slated to be moved to Lake Nona, particularly at WDI and Glendale's Grand Central Campus, absolutely threw a fit over this concept in 2021. They were furious and not about to go along with it without quitting. Messy!

What I think this is a good reminder of is that even the biggest and most successful companies don't have a solid plan that looks more than a year into the future. They may have long-term strategy in the works, but things can change fast and companies have to adapt, cancel, shift, reorganize, and backtrack all the time.

What sounded great in 2019 for a public rollout in 2021, suddenly was radioactive poison in 2023. Stuff happens!
 
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shambolicdefending

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All the big economic indicators still point to Florida. Disney is basically just announcing that movement to the swamp will be more gradual and based on natural turnover instead of being forced.
 
TP2000

TP2000

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Figgy1 said:
Another genius gone too soon
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She was fabulous!

Everyone at the time focused on Jane Curtin and that suspiciously skinny redhead on the cast (whose name escapes me), and while those two women were also great talents, my favorite was always Gilda Radner.

To this day almost 50 years later, while out at the supermarket or Target I will sometimes under my breath quietly do a Roseanne Roseannadanna monologue about "teeny, tiny little tings!" when I notice the packaging and portion just got smaller again. 🤣

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Figgy1

Figgy1

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TP2000 said:
She was fabulous!

Everyone at the time focused on Jane Curtin and that suspiciously skinny redhead on the cast (whose name escapes me), and while those two women were also great talents, my favorite was always Gilda Radner.

To this day almost 50 years later, while out at the supermarket or Target I will sometimes under my breath quietly do a Roseanne Roseannadanna monologue about "teeny, tiny little tings!" when I notice the packaging and portion just got smaller again. 🤣

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I never got to see that when it first aired:(
 
TP2000

TP2000

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Figgy1 said:
I never got to see that when it first aired:(
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SNL was hysterical in the late 70'!

On a Saturday night, bars would turn up the sound on their TV's and people would stop dancing to watch. Not because Disco was dying, but because SNL was just that good. A lost era.
 

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