Originally Posted By TP2000 I saw this morning that the date for DCA's grand opening festivities are being rumored online. Here's the quote from you-know-who... >>"EDITOR’S NOTE 2/2: The dates for DCA's grand re-opening event have finally been chosen. June 14th will be the media day and private celebrity party, and June 15th will be the official first day of operation for customers. There will only be a handful of days for AP Previews and soft openings for Cars Land in early June, and those dates aren't confirmed yet. June 15th will also kick off DCA's new operating schedule of daily 8AM to 11PM hours through the summer. - Al Lutz"<< So, now we have a date, per Mr. Lutz. It's a Friday too, and according to the AP calendar on my fridge there aren't any blockouts that day. Should be pretty wild!
Originally Posted By tashajilek It sure is just around the corner! I cant imagine how many people will be waiting in the parking lots lol. Im debating going this August or not to see everything.
Originally Posted By Witches of Morva ORWEN: So glad to hear this. Then all of you ducklings can really come back and tell us cauldron gals if it all seems like a whole new park!
Originally Posted By ksargen Ok, methinks I'm going to try for trip midweek in earlyish August, based on this. Wait, that was the plan from the beginning, anyway. I'm going to hope that they do some more AP fun stuff in May, as well, to test new rides, but I won't hold my breath. It's all still dependent on just how well they're doing on their construction calendar...
Originally Posted By Manfried I hope Mr. Lutz is right, but what if he's (gasp) wrong? Could someone at Disney be feeding him lies? Only the Disney knows.
Originally Posted By Manfried Like why the company will never admit to keeping Walt in cryogenic suspension somewhere at Disneyland?
Originally Posted By FerretAfros No, no, he's in a Coleman Igloo cooler under the Partners statue! See, this is why you can't trust the internet. Some people will just never get the facts right.
Originally Posted By HMButler79 I wonder if Pressler, Braverman, Galen, and Cynthia will be there. BWAHAHAH.....
Originally Posted By TomSawyer I wonder if Pressler and Harris are paying any attention at all to what's happening and what they think.
Originally Posted By Manfried Unfortunately, there are a few other key people involved in the sadness that was DCA that are still with the company, or just recently retired. They will probably be there. They should have been fired.
Originally Posted By TP2000 Who are those folks still with the company Manfried? I had thought most of them left. I always wonder about Pressler and Harriss coming back for big events like this. It's no secret that prior top executives are invited back for high profile events and big grand openings. Jack Lindquist, Ron Dominguez, Dick Nunis, etc. were all at the 50th Anniversary events, and Matt Ouimet as a President of Disneyland for only 3 years (2003-06) has recently been invited back to Disneyland for window dedications on Main Street USA, etc. But Pressler and Harriss are never there, and never mentioned. And the way the current executives talk so frankly and publicly about DCA 1.0 being a mistake and something that needs 1.2 Billion dollars worth of fixing, it's now obvious Pressler/Harriss aren't invited and have been excommunicated from the Disney fraternity of former executives. According to a quick Linkedin and Google search I just did (the Internet is AMAZING), both Harriss and Pressler should have the time to attend the ceremony in June, if they get an invite. Paul Pressler is currently an advisor for a private equity firm in New York, amongst a dozen other advisors who report up to Partners, a President and a CEO of the firm. <a href="http://www.cdr-inc.com/professionals/partners.php" target="_blank">http://www.cdr-inc.com/profess...ners.php</a> That's quite a notch down the totem pole for a guy who used to be a President, Chairman, and/or a CEO of global companies himself. Cynthia Harriss is not currently working, and has not had a job since Metropark declared bankruptcy and closed all 75 stores last May. She still lives in Southern California. <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/cynthia-harriss/8/293/6" target="_blank">http://www.linkedin.com/pub/cy.../8/293/6</a> To attend DCA's Grand Re-Opening, Paul would need to get some vacation days approved from his bosses in New York, and Cynthia has all the time in the world right now and would just need to pick out a summery pantsuit for June 15th. It would be nice to see them there, don't you think?
Originally Posted By TP2000 Oh, and for the Pressler link, you have to scroll down through a dozen other people, past the executives and Senior Advisors, until you get to Pressler as one of a dozen junior advisors.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros Regardless of whether they're invited, I suspect that they know what the general reaction would be to their presence. I have a hunch that they know the public didn't think highly of them, and wouldn't be very supportive of them at the ceremonies. Personally, I think it would be great to have them there, but I doubt it will ever happen officially (they may visit with their families at some point, but I doubt that it would be picked up by the Disney Parks Blog).
Originally Posted By skinnerbox Most were fired, or forced into retirement *wink*wink*. I think Manfried needs to name names, in order to justify his statement. I can't think of anyone left at WDI who had any major decision making power regarding DCA 1.0. As far as I know, they've all been long gone.
Originally Posted By SpokkerJones If these people saved and invested their money, and don't live an extravagant lifestyle, they probably can retire comfortably.
Originally Posted By Yookeroo "I wonder if Pressler and Harris are paying any attention at all to what's happening and what they think." Am I the only who couldn't give a damn about what these guys think at this point? "Paul Pressler is currently..." "Regardless of whether they're invited, I suspect that they know what the general reaction would be to their presence." I suspect most of the general public wouldn't remember who they were...assuming they knew in the first place. "Cynthia Harriss is not currently..." This borders on cyberstalking.
Originally Posted By TP2000 Do you want Cynthia's Twitter account? That popped up in the 4 second Google search too. She's quite open to putting her recent picture and career info out there via LinkedIn and other purposefully public websites that magically appear in a quick Google search.
