Walt's Frozen Head
DIS Veteran<br><font color="blue">A comfortable 32
- Joined
- Feb 11, 2002
To a certain extent, in a certain sense, I've got to come to 'Scoop's defense, here.
All he has done is made his own value judgement, based on what the parks mean to his vacation in Disney World.
He does not remember having to stand in line for Pirates out past the parrot... yet feeling completely rewarded for it; not being able to wait, that intervening 357 days, until you got the chance to do it again.
I'm a person who wouldn't mind paying extra, including the extra extra of having to stay on-site to qualify, for E-nights or Early Entry or whatever, if they were giving me the same kind of effort and creativity as was put into Pirates, but with the materials, techniques, and technologies of this here millenium. That's the place I have to kick 'Scoop to the curb... there was something in many of the old attractions, that just isn't present in many of the new ones (it might be impossible to quantify, but I really don't think it can be denied); I don't feel WDW is giving my money's worth, anymore.
It is particularly onerous that these things keep happening well after quite a few folks have paid their money and made their plans. Yes, yes, I know it says "hours subject to change," and I know it's wartime, but Disney has been doing this as SOP since at least June of 2001, well before Hussein and Iraq, I mean bin Laden and al Qaeda, dusted TriBeCa.
Travel is down... so Disney gives people less reason to visit, soon; and aggravates a certain number of particularly dedicated guests who had the bulk of these vacations planned three months ago.
I've heard people try to justify these kinds of cuts from a business perspective... I still don't see how it's supposed to pay off in any meaningful way.
-WFH
All he has done is made his own value judgement, based on what the parks mean to his vacation in Disney World.
He does not remember having to stand in line for Pirates out past the parrot... yet feeling completely rewarded for it; not being able to wait, that intervening 357 days, until you got the chance to do it again.
I'm a person who wouldn't mind paying extra, including the extra extra of having to stay on-site to qualify, for E-nights or Early Entry or whatever, if they were giving me the same kind of effort and creativity as was put into Pirates, but with the materials, techniques, and technologies of this here millenium. That's the place I have to kick 'Scoop to the curb... there was something in many of the old attractions, that just isn't present in many of the new ones (it might be impossible to quantify, but I really don't think it can be denied); I don't feel WDW is giving my money's worth, anymore.
It is particularly onerous that these things keep happening well after quite a few folks have paid their money and made their plans. Yes, yes, I know it says "hours subject to change," and I know it's wartime, but Disney has been doing this as SOP since at least June of 2001, well before Hussein and Iraq, I mean bin Laden and al Qaeda, dusted TriBeCa.
Travel is down... so Disney gives people less reason to visit, soon; and aggravates a certain number of particularly dedicated guests who had the bulk of these vacations planned three months ago.
I've heard people try to justify these kinds of cuts from a business perspective... I still don't see how it's supposed to pay off in any meaningful way.
-WFH