Roy E. Disney RESIGNS!

[hawkrn]

There's a thread on the "theme park attractions" board that another board member, Stanley Gold, also resigned.

 

[goofyguy1958]

Wow, my DW just read the letters posted here on disboards (her first time reading anything on disboards) and she said "that really upsets me." This is a blow to me as my DW never makes comments like that related to Disney, she lovingly referrs to me as the Disney geek. I think that all of us who own stock should raise up and let our voices be heard. I personnally am extremely disappointed with the stocks performance since 1996 when I bought it at $36/share. I am now also questioning if I should go on our May, 2004 Disney Magic cruise. Should we save the $5,000 we would spend on the cruise being so disappointed with the way things are going at Disney?

 

[jlawall]

Let's be optimistic in true Disney style......everything happens for a reason.....things will work out in the end!!

 

[Werner Weiss]

Originally posted by goofyguy1958
I am now also questioning if I should go on our May, 2004 Disney Magic cruise. Should we save the $5,000 we would spend on the cruise being so disappointed with the way things are going at Disney?

I wouldn't let the activities on the executive floor in Burbank get in the way of a Disney Cruise vacation.

There are still a lot of talented, dedicated people throughout The Walt Disney Company who understand what it's all about, and who carry on the traditions that made the company great in the first place. Disney Cruise Line is a perfect example of this.

Enjoy your cruise!

 

[ThreeCircles]

I agree with the above post. While some of us may appear a bit "disgruntled" with some of the management decisions made by Eisner, he is by far not the end-all and be-all of the Walt Disney Company. (Even if he wishes it were so!)

The Walt Disney Company has a spirit about it. It's something that you can't quite pinpoint. Something that's a little bit of magic in each of us when we're at one of the parks, on one of the ships, or in a theater watching one of their movies. It's some little bit of hope, or love, or childish delight and desire that makes us believe in the Company. That makes us smile and laugh (and hopefully applaud) when we see Mickey appear at the top of the Fantasmic amphitheater or when the clouds part and the Disney Magic or Wonder is show slicing through the moonlit crystal waters of the ocean. The Disney artists, Imagineers, and Cast Members are instilled with this spirit and it will never, in my opinion, cease to exist. It may ebb and receed at times, but it will never completley be extinguished. Eisner has lost much of the Disney spirit and should be replaced. Replaced with someone who's open to accepting that Disney spirit and fullfilling it.

It's also up to each of us. We can pass that Disney spirit on in many ways. By being a stockholder, by picking up a piece of trash that someone threw on the ground at one of the parks, by sailing with Disney Cruise Line, by thanking Cast Members when they embrace that Disney spirit.

It's like Walt said, it was all started by a mouse, but it's carried on in each of us.


[Is this "off topic"?]

 

[dianthus]

Hey, Roy still has his suite on DCL! Eisner doesn't!

 

[Werner Weiss]

Originally posted by dianthus
Hey, Roy still has his suite on DCL! Eisner doesn't!

Well, technically Roy E. Disney's late father, Roy O. Disney (brother of Walt), has a suite on the DCL ships. But Michael Eisner's father doesn't!

 

[shirley 38]

OK GIVE ME ALL THE GOOD THINGS MICHAEL DID FOR DISNEY.

THEN ALL THE BAD THINGS AND SEE WHICH ONE ADDS UP THE FASTEST.

MICHAEL JUST HAD TO HAVE THE DISNEY INSTITUTE BECAUSE HIS WIFE THOUGHT IT WAS A GOOD IDEA.

MICHAEL JUST HAD TO BUY A BASE BALL TEAM

MICHAEL JUST HAD TO HAVE A HOCKEY TEAM

MICKAEL IS STILL BUILDING HOTELS THAT HE CANNOT FILL AND THEN CRIES ABOUT IT.

WHERE FOR GOD'S SAKE IS THE MAGIC IN THIS SORT OF THING.
I JUST FOUND OUT THAT THE TREE HOUSES ARE NOT FOR RENT ANYMORE BUT FOR STUDENTS.
ALL WELL AND FINE BUT WOULDN'T THIS BRING IN REVENUE

NOW WE HAVE POP'S CENTURY. ANOTHER HOTEL. I BELIEVE HE IS IN LEAGUE WITH A REALTOR.

DISNEY STORES USE TO BE FANTASTIC UNTIL THEY BUILT ONE EVERY 10 MILES FROM ONE ANOTHER.

MAGIC KINGDOM CLUB. I AM SORRY YOU DO NOT TAKE AWAY FROM YOUR GUEST.

WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS A LOT OF MONEY NO REVENUE

THE RACE TRACK CLOSED DOWN FOR RACES.

WHO IN THE WORLD NEEDS 5 GOLF COURSES ON THEIR PROPERTY

PARKS CLOSING TOO EARLY I WONDER WHY

CAST MEMBERS CAN'T MAKE A LIVING WAGE. I WONDER WHY

VERY VERY POOR DECISIONS.
ARE THERE ANY I FORGOT.

 

[lrmillen]

i would not exactly say i am an extreme disney fan like some on this board, but disney is so huge it does effect everyone. i was lucky to be a kid with the great disney titles of little mermaid and lion king. i really appreciated those and wish my son, now a year, has great disney films to look forward to, but unfortunately i highly doubt that. the way it's been going i think he can just expect those sequels like aladdin 2 and little mermaid 2 as someone here pointed out. it's disappointing. so as someone relatively uninformed about corporate disney, i can still tell the quality is going down in the movie world. i don't know if finding a replacement for eisner is the answer, but the company surely needs a new spark for me to invest in their programming.

P.S. I will say that the Baby Einstien company is great! But I don't know how much they're governed by Disney.

 

[hawkrn]

I still think the movies are good-POTC was awesome, Brother Bear, Freaky Friday, Finding Nemo, Lilo and Stich,etc. They're not Snow White or anything, but I found all the "old" movies had those sad moments. Even Lion King to this day I won't watch because I hate the stampede/trampling scene. I think the animation/movie department has done great!

 

[jrabbit]

Little Mermaid 2, Peter Pan 2, Lion King 2 and soon to be 3, Aladdin 2 & 3, The Goofy movie 2, Beauty and the Beast 2 and 3 and the list of cheapening sequels goes on and on and on. I do not blame the animation departmert for these 3rd rate "movies". They are forced upon the animation department by someone who says "make it cheap, make it quick, make it make lots of money before anyone notices its crap".

You can't give the credit to Disney for Toy Story, Bug's Life, Monsters Inc, Nemo because the creativity was bought and paid for by Pixar. Disney just distributes it and makes tons of money off of Pixar's quality.

That's not to say that Disney can't make good animated movies any more. The recient ones have been pretty good (Atlantis, Treasure Planet, Brother Bear) - just nobody went to them. Treasure Planet was constrained by a marketing deal with McDonalds so it was released in November (along with Harry Potter and several other family movies at that time) instead of during the summer when it should have been released.

A prior poster suggested listing the good and bad over the past several years.
Disney's California Adventure, closing the Skyway arial tram, closing the submarine rides (no replacements) and the list of closures goes on. There have been some great additions: Indiana Jones, Mission Space, Tower of Terror, Rockin' Rollercoaster.

 

[ThreeCircles]

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[CRSNDSNY]

Roy Disney has started a web site about Disney
http://www.savedisney.com/