Can we trust WDWPro/That Park Place?

[Laura's Dad]

And yet Inside Out 2 just became the first 2024 movie to hit 1 billion dollars worldwide. So maybe ease up on the hyperbole.

I am not knocking the movie, but 1 billion dollars at today's inflated prices does not mean it is a world wide phenomenon. I take box office figures today with a grain of salt. What needs to be looked at is net profit adjusted for inflation.

 

[fatmanatee]

I am not knocking the movie, but 1 billion dollars at today's inflated prices does not mean it is a world wide phenomenon. I take box office figures today with a grain of salt. What needs to be looked at is net profit adjusted for inflation.

You're responding to a post from June, two weeks after it had been released. Revenue finished up at $1.7 billion worldwide.

 

[Brian Noble]

It's also the top film of the year (so far) based on tickets sold.
https://www.the-numbers.com/market/2024/summary

Deadpool might well pass it. Probably not much else this year.

It would have been the top movie in 2023 (surpassing Barbie), as well.
https://www.the-numbers.com/market/2023/summary

I think "sold more tickets than Barbie" probably qualifies. In fairness Top Gun beat it out in '22, but it still would have been #2 that year.

 

[hertamaniac]

WDW Pro's zoom interview with the woman from Tampa trying to get a DAS for her son's condition was one of his best episodes.

 

[TsWade2]

WDW Pro isn't all negative. He praised Inside Out 2 stating how good a movie it is.

Oh yes he is!

 

[Jimmy Mouse]

Oh yes he is!

Negative ghost rider.

 

[cdoc29]

Just had this pop up in my youtube algorithm, watched a couple of videos and they seem like they are the Proud Boys version of Disney Haters.

 

[embracejg]

I hate to bring new life to this old thread, but no, you should absolutely not trust anything WDW Pro or his website puts out.

For one, real, trustworthy journalists do not hide behind pseudonyms. It's just one way he's trying to avoid accountability for when he's wrong. His self-evaluations where he declares he was 90% right about reporting over the past year are absolute nonsense. That's not what actual journalists do.

He uses almost exclusively anonymous, vague sourcing when he reports anything original. Again, not responsible journalism.

And he has a clear agenda that he's trying to push. That colors everything he publishes. If you want that perspective, fine. But it also means he's not above making up sources to push that agenda and engaging in ragebait.

The theme park community's standards for news and information are terrible, and WDW Pro is probably the worst of the bunch.

 

[curse reversed]

Put it this way. WDW Pro used to have an account on another fan forum (and might still have one; I haven't been there in awhile). During the second half of 2020 and even into early 2021 he/she continually claimed that WDW was losing more money every day that it was open than it had when it was closed and that TWDC was days away from closing it again with no guarantee that it would ever reopen.

 

[Scalemaster34]

Conflict gets hits and hits is what makes money of these ones...

 

[Lewisc]

He's a blogger posting rumors. You can "trust" some of them will be true and some won't. He's looking for clicks. He exaggerates his wins and minimizes his mistakes.

I think Lance at Screamscape.com is more balanced. Lance separates rumors from speculation

 

[embracejg]

He's a blogger posting rumors. You can "trust" some of them will be true and some won't. He's looking for clicks. He exaggerates his wins and minimizes his mistakes.

I don't think it's that clear cut. Screamscape and other bloggers/reporters in that vein have sources for things. It's not clear to me that WDW Pro really has any sources or has ever truly broken a news story.

If you're dealing in theme park/entertainment rumors, it's very possible to just make educated guesses and be right at least some of the time -- but that doesn't mean you had any real information to back up the claim when you made it and you're therefore a trustworthy source.