Thanks Shanghai, ROL, Alice Movie Failure, Zika, Terror and Tragedy

[jknc]

With those news topics circulating the past few weeks its been a rough time for the Disney brand but they are all meaningless compared to the pain being felt by those who have lost loved ones this week.

We all need to Wish Upon a Star for peace and comfort to all who have lost a spouse, a brother, a sister, a parent and a child this week and remind ourselves what truly matters in this life.

http://money.cnn.com/2016/06/15/media/disney-crisis-bob-iger/index.html

 

[Robo]

http://money.cnn.com/2016/06/15/investing/disney-orlando-stock/index.html?iid=EL


I wondering what informed journalist would write the following sentence...
(Bolding mine.)

It is not clear that these tragic events will impact Disney's theme park business. Will there be a rush of canceled visits to Walt Disney World and Epcot Center?

I mean, it hasn't been called "Walt Disney World and Epcot Center" since about 1988.

 

[Oswin]

I mean, it hasn't been called "Walt Disney World and Epcot Center" since about 1988.

I was thinking the same thing!

 

[MickeyMinnieMom]

http://money.cnn.com/2016/06/15/investing/disney-orlando-stock/index.html?iid=EL


I wondering what informed journalist would write the following sentence...
(Bolding mine.)



I mean, it hasn't been called "Walt Disney World and Epcot Center" since about 1988.

"CNN Money" and "informed journalist" appear frequently to be incompatible.

 

[epcotty]

I think Epcot dropped the "Center" in '94 and dropped the year after Epcot in '96. A lot of people still say Epcot Center because they're used to saying that. And it's always just called Walt Disney World, mentioning Epcot is redundant. Still shouldn't have got past the editor unnoticed

 

[Lumiere Lover]

We get brochures from a bus/touring company that still calls it Epcot center. Drives me crazy!!!!

 

[agavegirl1]

I do not consider CNN a credible new source for anything theme park related. Or half the other stuff they cover for that matter.

 

[Robo]

I think Epcot dropped the "Center" in '94 and dropped the year after Epcot in '96. A lot of people still say Epcot Center because they're used to saying that. And it's always just called Walt Disney World, mentioning Epcot is redundant. Still shouldn't have got past the editor unnoticed

It's not that the reporter called it "Epcot Center." (That's just a bit of minutia that mostly true "Disney folk" would take note of.)

But, back in 1982 (and for a few years after that) Disney referred to WDW as "Walt Disney World and EPCOT Center."
But, that designation has long, long ago been dropped.
I'm trying to figure out how it got resurrected today, out of (as far as I can tell) "nowhere."