Glacial Pace

Originally Posted By mousermerf


Is the slow pace of any new developments at WDW bothering anyone else lately?

Nothing is happening, everything is sitting around in poor shape, and the best thing we have the look forward to is that horrid Stitch show.

And please don't tell me they added another triangle to SSE. I'll smack you.

 

Originally Posted By dshyates

Well, they are really rushing to complete the 3 condo complexes to take advantage of the booming real estate market. And don't forget that a ton of money has to shipped off to Iger's bank account. That doesn't leave too much for actual attractions. We just need to step up our spending.

 

Originally Posted By trekkeruss

WDW is for rubes.

 

Originally Posted By Autopia Deb

<--- Not just a Rube, but a happy Rube! ;-)

 

Originally Posted By DlandDug

I must admit to feeling a strong sense of... reverse deja vu?... about all this.

Starting in the early 90s Disneyland was just about dead in the water. It seemed like everything was happening in Florida. There was open jeering at how old and tired Walt's original Magic Kingdom looked. All attention was on the fabulous new hotels, fabulous new atttractions, and fabulous new parks that were opening in Walt Disney World. The nadir was the announcement that Disneyland's 50th Birthday would be marked with FOUR NEW ATTRACTIONS... for Walt Disney World!

But now the worm has turned. The real question (to my mind, anyway) is this: How far will they let things slide at WDW until they start to turn it around. I don't mean to sound discouraging, but just remember how bad things were out here in Anaheim around 2000-2005. That may be where it has to sink before real action is taken.

(But I hope not.)

 

Originally Posted By A Happy Haunt

And the Rubes shall inhierent the Earth!

OMG!!! I was off LP for a day & I guess I missed all the fun!

 

Originally Posted By MPierce

>> Is the slow pace of any new developments at WDW bothering anyone else lately? <<

I don't know how you consider things slow at WDW. They raise the prices on food, and beverages almost weekly now.

Disney likes to think of this as a conservative approach during a recession. We all really know this is corporate talk for we are going to invest as little as we can get away with until the rubes finally catch on to us, and stop feeding Mickey their money.

My feeling is we will have a long wait for better times.

 

Originally Posted By MPierce

>> OMG!!! I was off LP for a day & I guess I missed all the fun! <<

What fun was that?

 

Originally Posted By -em

well they planted a bunch of bushes out front of the contemp/BLT and paved the parking lot

That is an attraction within itself... 2 if you add the monorail ride over it then walking on it...

 

Originally Posted By dshyates

I heard that in lew of building actual attractions, they are just going to put over-the-shoulder restraints on all the chairs in The Bay Lake Tower. Wheeee!!!!!!

 

Originally Posted By DlandDug

Sarcasm, sarcasm...!

 

Originally Posted By dshyates

I'm good like that.

 

Originally Posted By sjhym33

The reason you see new things at a glacial pace is because Disney realises that whether they add things or not people will come. I was at EPCOT last weekend and the place was busy. Whi spend millions of dollars on a new attraction when people will come anyway.

David Koenig did a great article a month back on Mousplanet that talks about the fact that World Showcase wont get a new country because unless it has a major attraction it will not add attendance to the park. Also Disney no longer looks at individual parks in its long term planning. They know that if they build one attraction in one park they can market it to get people to come to WDW and once they are here they will visit the other parks anyway due to the way ticketing is set up.

 

Originally Posted By dshyates

WDW's new motto, "Why try harder".

 

Originally Posted By Autopia Deb

Why try at all?


(was that too cynical?)

 

Originally Posted By mousermerf

Well, the good news is that discontent here is louder then usual and does seem to be elsewhere as well.

Am i the only one who thinks we need a WDW-blues type website again?

 

Originally Posted By Spirit of 74

<<I don't know how you consider things slow at WDW. They raise the prices on food, and beverages almost weekly now.>>

You sound like a bleeding heart liberal.

They're a business and have every right to charge whatever the market will bear.

Are you a Commie?

<<Disney likes to think of this as a conservative approach during a recession. We all really know this is corporate talk for we are going to invest as little as we can get away with until the rubes finally catch on to us, and stop feeding Mickey their money.>>

Yeah. Just what I thought. You just want them to spend, spend, spend. It almost makes me want to turn on Glen Beck and cry too because ... (starting to whimper ... ooh ... there's a sob coming ... there it is!) I just love my country so much. And that Obama is going to turn us into a SOCIALIST state.

<<My feeling is we will have a long wait for better times.>>

~Me too ... pass the vodka!~

 

Originally Posted By Spirit of 74

<<well they planted a bunch of bushes out front of the contemp/BLT and paved the parking lot>>

We need to get Denise over there with her camera!

<<That is an attraction within itself... 2 if you add the monorail ride over it then walking on it...>>

I wonder what Disney will do for excitement when they get these 'three' DVC resorts done (and they pretty much are).

~Oh let's see if we can get someone from the fan sites to take pics of UoE's new paint job!~

 

Originally Posted By Spirit of 74

<<Well, the good news is that discontent here is louder then usual and does seem to be elsewhere as well. >>

I just like when it comes from others and not the usual suspects (LIKE ME!)

But the discontent on another MAGICal realm gets shouted down by fanbois or disappears by someone who claims to be 'The Mom' but in no way is my mom because I asked her and she said 'No, it's not me. Disney World has really let itself go. Is your friend (blank) still working for them?'

<<Am i the only one who thinks we need a WDW-blues type website again? >>

No. What we need is a change in direction at the top.

Isn't it time Jay Rasulo moved on to WalMart? Isn't it time Al Weiss resigned to devote more time to his family and church? Isn't it time Inoverherheadmeg became a Realtor in Windermere? Isn't it time Erin Wallace took a nice long vacation?

~How Do These People Keep Their Jobs?~

 

Originally Posted By fkurucz

<<~How Do These People Keep Their Jobs?~>>

You know how we little people are constantly lectured by the upper class on the evils of unions? Well, they have their own union. Its informal, it doesn't have an official name. But when times like these pop up, they close ranks like the best labor union.

They take care of each other. At our expense.