Remember, IoA added one attraction, along with appropriate stores, and rethemed two older attractions to fit the new HP look. They did not add three new ones. Was changing Alien Encounter to Stitch major?
As a previous poster mentioned, we now have the Magical Express...which at the time of its inception was only supposed to run for a year and they continued it indefinitly. I'm not a savvy business person, but I feel like the reason it was continued was to prevent the masses from renting a car and having the ability to easily exit the DW area and enjoy food, entertainment and shopping elsewhere. Fine by me...I have never left Disney property. It is an escape from reality.....my family loves the immersion. Don't have to worry about driving anywhere. I am taking my 6 yr old daughter down for a quick 4-nighter on Thur. I have no hesitation or worries because I know that Disney will take care of me. We are DVC members and truly love all things Disney.The point is that Disney did too.
It depends: Nostalgia that evokes positive feelings is good; nostalgia that evokes negative feelings is bad. Because nostalgia is not reflective of current reality, its only constructive value is the positive feelings it evokes. Unfortunately, the bias of nostalgia, the way it is typically practiced, is against the positive feelings and toward the negative feelings. It's essentially, counter-productive, overall.
Absolutely, and that's really the problem with nostalgia, the way it is typically practiced. It generally obscures memory of the negative things and exaggerates memory of positive things. Essentially, it fosters negativity, cynicism, pessimism, and fatalism; and does little to highlight the reasons for hope, optimism, anticipation, and satisfaction.
I mentioned it in my earlier message. If you claim that was too long ago, then defend why it took Universal so long to do WWoHP after their previous "big thing". No theme park opens new multi-million dollar attraction areas every year.
Precisely as Disney did.
Disney does something big, then Universal, then Disney, etc. See how this works?
That all said though, I must say I do enjoy USF/IoA very much, have had an AP there for years.
Their technical wizardry is outstanding.....Spiderman, Men in Black, ET, Jurassic Park River Adventure, etc.They do seem to do more of the whiz-bang attractions, while Disney focuses more on building a less ride-centric vacation experience. Good thing - different strokes...That all said though, I must say I do enjoy USF/IoA very much, have had an AP there for years.
I understand how it works but I think that Disney slacked off a bit for a while at least where WDW is concerned. They seemed to concentrate more on other locations but hopefully with the new Fantasyland area and the new Star Tours
woohoo: ) that is changing.
Yup, I remember how out-of-touch with the reality of the industry many of the people involved in the Save the Toad protest were. It was like they felt that the World revolved around them and their personal preferences.
There aren't many apologists now, at least not in these forums. That's just a scurrilous personal attack that some folks stoop to when they don't have any legitimate objections to people pointing out the vacuous nature of some of the complaints against Disney. How better to try to deflect attention away from how myopic, out-of-touch, or self-centered certain criticisms are, than to try to cast aspersions on the folks pointing out those weaknesses?
Sorry, but I believe your memory is faulty. There are just as many folks tilting at windmills online now as there were then, as compared to in the general population. I think what has changed is that time has afforded us all the history to fall back on, something that we didn't have early-on. There was a belief then that online presence could change the world. Instead, what was learned is that it is just another medium, and that it won't change the results; it'll just have the same results - the appropriate results - arrived at via another means, with the only major impact is just how quickly we may get there.
We have been visiting the parks on a regular basis for 8 years. Prior to that it was a trip here or there. I honestly have not noticed a decline.
Also on a side note. My mom and dad were with us on a trip several years ago. My dad has since passed away, but at the time he was battling cancer and developed pneumonia while stay at OKW. My mom called the front desk to ask about transportation to a hospital and within minutes the paramedics and resort manager were at the door. She did not ask for this, they just sent them over. It was determined that my dad would be ok, no need for the hospital and that his Dr. from home called in a perscription which was delivered. The resort took care of everything...and my parents never received a bill. They also received twice daily check-up phone calls from management, allowed my parents to stay longer in the villa and helped my mom schedule a later flight home. That is service!
