Originally Posted By bayrr326 Disney's 12 ... er ... 10 ... um ... Would you believe 8 Days of Christmas? by Max Shilling <a href="http://jimhillmedia.com/blogs/max_schilling/print/7353.aspx" target="_blank">http://jimhillmedia.com/blogs/ max_schilling/print/7353.aspx</a> "As of this holiday season, only 8 of the 12 Days of Christmas displays are still fully intact. The amusing part is that -- only a few months ago -- with the exception of two missing signs, all the original theming was still present. So it seems that -- in putting up the seasonal Christmas decorations in this store -- WDW's decorating staff actually replaced and/or removed the 12 Days of Christmas décor that the store is named for & themed around. Now I understand that this may seems like the typical nit-picky, let's-take-pictures-of-peeling-paint, Disney Dweeb nonsense that you find all over the Web. But take a step back and look at the big picture here: The store named “Disney’s Days of Christmas†is now missing 4 of the Days of Christmas. So its not like they removed an irrelevant prop, or tweaked a display. In removing those 4 days, they have more or less eliminated the cohesiveness of the story they are trying to tell." If you read the whole article he goes on to discuss what has happened to the theming of the shop. I am sure most people are gonna say that this is the usual nitpicking by a Disney dweeb. But once you start adding up all of these little losses of theming around WDW it becomes a problem. It is these little touches that always made Disney stand out from the rest of the pack. But when we continue to see sloppy show like this it is very disappointing. I love going to WDW. I am there almost every other week. They do many things right but these little things like this and the Q of Buzz Lightyear that has been in crappy condition for months it is just not acceptable.
Originally Posted By mickey_ring I miss the Christmas store of yore. The Christmas Chalet of the 1980s was a 20something foot tall A-frame centerpiece of the old WDW Village. The front was all glass, showing off a huge decorated tree. You could get some really unique ornaments and light sets that were not all Disney character stuff. Now the Christmas store looks like it's crammed into a storage building, with all the same stuff I can get in the parks.
Originally Posted By trekkeruss <<I am sure most people are gonna say that this is the usual nitpicking by a Disney dweeb. But once you start adding up all of these little losses of theming around WDW it becomes a problem. It is these little touches that always made Disney stand out from the rest of the pack. But when we continue to see sloppy show like this it is very disappointing.>> While it's tough for us dweebs to see standards slip, the problem isn't as big as we make it out to be, otherwise people would spend their money elsewhere. But we know that's not the case. It's like the standard was so high before that only the biggest geeks would know or care about such minutiea... on a scale of 1 to 10, Disney was like an 11. Now it's more like an 8, 9 or 10. Still very, very high, but not over the top as it was before. It's high enough that it doesn't keep people from coming.
