1,000 Jobs Cut - LA Times

[HBK]

They think the goose will go on laying the golden eggs FOREVER!!!

Let me take this analogy a step further....Disney seems to think the goose will live forever....even if they don't feed it....


Money can still be made in Disneyworld.....but it will require a continued investment from the parent company.

 

[Peter Pirate]

Money can still be made at Disneyworld...but it will require a continued investment from the parent company.

Right & wrong. Money IS still being made at WDW and money will continue to be made at WDW. You are seeing the extent of the investment the parent company is going to make right now...Aladdin (spinners), new parades, new hotels, e-tickets in sponsorship with corporations, yearly "celebrations"...

Disney is in the milking stage. They have set up the cash cow so that it can run on auto-pilot for quite some time with little investment. It looks to me like they see no incentive to spend heavily when the turnstiles just keep turning. We will see tweaking and an occasional gem but no concerted effort for the Smiths'(Disney) to keep up with the Jones' (US) when the Jones' still aren't impacting the Smiths' business (good business model poor emulation of Walt's ideals)...

There are plenty of people who will squawk and maybe even quit going but the overall attendance numbers don't give Disney anything to really worry about and the expenditure for great, mind blowing rides obviously can't be qualified in dollars & cents...