Fine. You can have your Disney-Nestle "Everglades Special Swamp Water" coffee if you want to be a "Disney purist," in a strange meaning of that word. Me and my friends have no qualms about Starbucks in the Parks.
Extra Credit Assignment: (Rating: Easy) Go back to the very beginning of
Disneyland, and find commercial sponsors that appeared in Disneyland, on buildings, on signs, in advertisements, with Walt's blessing and encouragement. Next, explore early Magic Kingdom and some very prominent business sponsors whose names appeared on WDW buildings and signs.
Some of today's commercial names that appear in Disney Parks now include Siemens, Kodak, Nestle, Dole, Coca-Cola, National Car Rental, Segway, Edy's, HP, Stanley Works, Brawny, Smuckers, Minute Maid, Hanes, Ocean Spray Craisins. There must be hundreds more.
Your idea of Disney Parks being commercial-free wonderlands is just not reality. It's always been a place of commercial partnership, led by Walt Disney himself. You have to look closer at signs on buildings outside and on walls inside; it's all there. How about the Illuminations Earth Ball in the middle of the Epcot lake. Doesn't it read something like "sponsored by Siemens" when Illuminations begins?
Haha just kidding! But in all seriousness I am super excited that Starbucks is finally making a presence in WDW, Starbucks is the only coffee I like and going to WDW is painful without Satrbucks, I would always go offsite to get my coffee, now I'll be able to get it onsite!
