What is Disney's next move?

bjlc57

bjlc57

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In light of this weeks tragedies , and all the loss of good will, what is Disney's next move? What can they possibly do to say to people.. hey, I want to go there.. This week has to have the powers that be, grinding in their guts.. They are already down in attendance. This extremely set of horrendous possibly once in a lifetime occurrences, cannot help.. What is Disney's next move..
 
danlb_2000

danlb_2000

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bjlc57 said:
In light of this weeks tragedies , and all the loss of good will, what is Disney's next move? What can they possibly do to say to people.. hey, I want to go there.. This week has to have the powers that be, grinding in their guts.. They are already down in attendance. This extremely set of horrendous possibly once in a lifetime occurrences, cannot help.. What is Disney's next move..
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As sad as it is to say, the general public will be distracted by something else in a few weeks and have basically forgotten about all this stuff.
 
Filby61

Filby61

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danlb_2000 said:
As sad as it is to say, the general public will be distracted by something else in a few weeks and have basically forgotten about all this stuff.
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Parks & Resorts management won't. They'll remain on "high sensitivity alert" internally for a long while. To the hyper-politicized culture of Disney management, this tragedy is more than the shock and sadness that individual managers are feeling -- like a boulder dropped in the middle of a pond, the waves of hind-sighting, finger-pointing and blaming will be sloshing back and forth for some time.
 
TP2000

TP2000

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bjlc57 said:
In light of this weeks tragedies , and all the loss of good will, what is Disney's next move? What can they possibly do to say to people.. hey, I want to go there.. This week has to have the powers that be, grinding in their guts.. They are already down in attendance. This extremely set of horrendous possibly once in a lifetime occurrences, cannot help.. What is Disney's next move..
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Long term, I don't think there will be a permanent "loss of good will". And for 2017 and beyond they've got Avatar, Toy Story and Star Wars lands that will open and create lots of good PR and hopefully drive attendance.

Short term, there may be a hit on attendance and this may be a slower summer than usual. But then attendance was already declining for the WDW parks this year before the terrorist attack and alligator death. In the last fiscal report Disney said this about the January to March fiscal quarter...

"Attendance at our domestic theme parks was relatively flat, as an increase at Disneyland Resort was offset by a modest decrease at Walt Disney World Resort."

That short term attendance trend for WDW won't be helped by the tragedies in Orlando lately. Long term though, the events of June 2016 won't have a lasting impact on WDW.
 
Bolt

Bolt

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bjlc57 said:
In light of this weeks tragedies , and all the loss of good will, what is Disney's next move? What can they possibly do to say to people.. hey, I want to go there.. This week has to have the powers that be, grinding in their guts.. They are already down in attendance. This extremely set of horrendous possibly once in a lifetime occurrences, cannot help.. What is Disney's next move..
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Well, I think Frozen Ever After, Princess Meeting, Soarin, MK Castle Show and Star Wars Fireworks were a nice way to end a bad week.
 
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JassiSidhu2000

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REALLY - another thread about this?

Do you know more people died from gun related incidents in Orlando in a few weeks than died in that terrible tragedy last week?

Have some perspective will ya, what happened was horrible - but these incidents happen all over the world, be it London, Paris, New York, California, Mumbai, Tokyo - everywhere. Stop letting the media scare you, and enjoy yourself.
 
noodles

noodles

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I booked a family trip for November just yesterday. We had planned to wait until next year. Our last trip was November 2014. All the tragedy of the last week, coupled with the fact that my wife, 49, suffered an unexpected heart attack back in December, led her to a change of heart. She told me, "Life is short, and so unpredictable. We don't live forever. Let's go to Disney World."
I, being the resident Mickeyhead, jumped all over that. So, we're taking our teenage daughters out of school for a week and living the life we have.
I read these boards almost daily, and find myself agreeing with most of the negative posts. I am well aware of WDW's shortcomings, the way that the Magic isn't what it used to be, the unbridled greed, the shoddy maintenance and upkeep, the smell of the monorails, etc. But now that I know we're going "home" 5 short months from now, every day of planning and dreaming is like Christmas morning to a 4 year old.
It's still my favorite place to be. I can't justify it, and I don't care to. I love Walt Disney World.
 
Goofyernmost

Goofyernmost

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Filby61 said:
Parks & Resorts management won't. They'll remain on "high sensitivity alert" internally for a long while. To the hyper-politicized culture of Disney management, this tragedy is more than the shock and sadness that individual managers are feeling -- like a boulder dropped in the middle of a pond, the waves of hind-sighting, finger-pointing and blaming will be sloshing back and forth for some time.
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I think you are overestimating the emotional connection that the management has. I can assure you that no one is blaming themselves for this and they shouldn't. It was a freak accident, plain and simple. They had nothing to do with the shootings, that's Orlando's situation, not Disney's. Water happens in Florida as well as Alligators. Since they have been spotted in WDW many times over the years, it's hardly a secret. They have a convenient blame target anyway. They have the people feeding the alligators from their posh bungalows in the lagoon. They have been told over and over not to do that, but, continued to feed them. Sadly, now they know why they shouldn't have. People are human and not even those doing the feeding ever would have thought that this might be the way this all might happen. They do now!

I will agree that they will stay on high alert, but, because of basic terrorism and that has been a focus for going onto 15 years.
 
Hakunamatata

Hakunamatata

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bjlc57 said:
In light of this weeks tragedies , and all the loss of good will, what is Disney's next move? What can they possibly do to say to people.. hey, I want to go there.. This week has to have the powers that be, grinding in their guts.. They are already down in attendance. This extremely set of horrendous possibly once in a lifetime occurrences, cannot help.. What is Disney's next move..
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kalel8145

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noodles said:
I booked a family trip for November just yesterday. We had planned to wait until next year. Our last trip was November 2014. All the tragedy of the last week, coupled with the fact that my wife, 49, suffered an unexpected heart attack back in December, led her to a change of heart. She told me, "Life is short, and so unpredictable. We don't live forever. Let's go to Disney World."
I, being the resident Mickeyhead, jumped all over that. So, we're taking our teenage daughters out of school for a week and living the life we have.
I read these boards almost daily, and find myself agreeing with most of the negative posts. I am well aware of WDW's shortcomings, the way that the Magic isn't what it used to be, the unbridled greed, the shoddy maintenance and upkeep, the smell of the monorails, etc. But now that I know we're going "home" 5 short months from now, every day of planning and dreaming is like Christmas morning to a 4 year old.
It's still my favorite place to be. I can't justify it, and I don't care to. I love Walt Disney World.
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Wish I could like this 1000 times. I feel,the exact same way.
 
JIMINYCR

JIMINYCR

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Disney will deal with this tragedy like any other corporation would. They have publicly stated their sadness over the death, they are doing what they can for the family, they are grieving as well, and they are doing what they can to make Disney safer for future guest visits. They will settle out of court and although we may hear that a settlement has been made, we might not hear a dollar amount. Guests will continue to come, Disney will continue to exist and hopefully we will never have to hear about another gator incident. Next year at this time the media will remind us of the past week and we will say... Oh yeah, I remember that. The family will still be greiving and have to deal with this every day of their lives.
 
rob0519

rob0519

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How many people do you think cancelled their already booked and paid for trips to Disney World since this tragic incident because they are scared of the alligator situation? Personally, I would think less than a handful, if any. Disney's PR and Operations personnel have said and done pretty much all the right things. I don't see this affecting the attendance one bit.
 
WDWLover#1

WDWLover#1

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rob0519 said:
How many people do you think cancelled their already booked and paid for trips to Disney World since this tragic incident because they are scared of the alligator situation? Personally, I would think less than a handful, if any. Disney's PR and Operations personnel have said and done pretty much all the right things. I don't see this affecting the attendance one bit.
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I think attendance won't change a bit. What could change it was the Orlando shooting but I still think that would only be a handful. The general reaction that I've seen on social media seems to be that this hasn't deterred anyone and that people should know there's alligators in Florida.
 

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