Another Voice
Charter Member of The Element
- Joined
- Jan 27, 2000
So if you don't know anything about running an entertainment company, then how can you judge if my opinions are sound or unsound. You don't have any basis to make a decision, do you.We call this projection!! And to add....I never said i know how to run an entertainment company. That is my whole argument. I nor most posters here know how to run Disney.
Like so many "fans", anything "Disney" is beyond comment. You either love them or you're a bad, ignorant person.
If you go back into the archieves here you'll find many, many threads that paint a sad history. People were complaining that the Disney stores were focusing on the wrong products and weren't well maintained. The "better people" here told everyone to shut-up the stores were fine and Disney knew what it was doing.
Disney ended up giving away the entire store business.
There were other threads about how the feature animation films were growing rushed, that Disney seemed more interested in selling Happy Meals than making a good film. We were told we didn't know a thing, that the public LOVED Disney movies and would wait in long lines for Brother Bear and Treasure Planet would be the top grossing movie of the year. It was only our hatred and ignorance that kept us from seeing those "facts".
Yet Disney shut down Feature Animation and spent the value of Walt Disney World to buy another studio.
Some of us said that California Adventure violated every rule that made Disney Parks unqiue. We were screamed at by fans that we were stupid, hateful people that just wanted Disney to fail.
Yet now a ticket to DCA is a giveaway when you buy a ticket to Disneyland.
All in all, it really does seem like a lot of people here know much more about running Disney than its current management does. Perhaps it's because we know about Disney, we know it's history, its past mistakes, the elements "behind the scenes" that makes things work. That's certainly a lot more knowledge than a failed studio suit and a failed network exec brought to the CEO job.
Maybe your Starbucks friend should give it a shot.