Originally Posted By WDWVacationer Well, this has all gotten very interesting. Bob and Tom with a Saudi Prince? Bob, Tom and STEVE?! No doubt something big if the company's largest shareholder is there. Especially with his health.
Originally Posted By dshyates Oh, ok, got it. Maybe he could, idk, maybe ask his friend if he could post it?
Originally Posted By WDWVacationer Forgot to add the second part of my thoughts... I do find it fishy WDWFigment hasn't posted the image. But he is a photographer himself and pmaybe wants to protect the photographer's right to the image, as he would want done with his pictures. And a Saudi Prince undoubtedly travelling with a large entourage would stick out like a sore thumb in WDW, same with Steve Jobs being there. So I don't see how no photos would exist at least of those two.
Originally Posted By HokieSkipper If Iger's there it's a non-story. IMO. If Jobs and/or the Prince is there, it's bad news bears for people who want Parks and Resorts to stay under the Disney ownership.
Originally Posted By WDWVacationer <<If Jobs and/or the Prince is there, it's bad news bears for people who want Parks and Resorts to stay under the Disney ownership.>> If Iger is there, I won't demand photographic prooof because, whatever, he's the CEO. But I absolutely demand proof if a Saudi Prince and Jobs are there because that is something HUGE. HUGE.
Originally Posted By ReelJustice I call shenanigans. With all of the Social Media Whores and Fanbois running around EPCOT every day, how is there no picture?
Originally Posted By Britain How do we know that the tweets about the Saudi Prince and the Cupertino Prince weren't made as a joke AFTER someone read Spirit's posts?
Originally Posted By Britain I found the tweet in question. <a href="http://twitter.com/" target="_blank">http://twitter.com/</a>#!/samlink Says June 28. After Spirit started this thread, but before any mention of Saudi Prince.
Originally Posted By Britain Looked up this photographer's site. Looks legit, albeit rather edgy for what you'd expect for photographer of a Fortune 500 CEO and Saudi Prince. Dunno. I'll go give the newsie on the corner a nickel to keep his ear to the ground and tell me if anything suspicious happens.
Originally Posted By Britain I do note that the photographer said nothing about Steve Jobs. I find the rumor about Jobs incredibly hard to believe. Jobs is notorious for NOT attending Board of Director business. He's busy with Apple and frequently ill. He's not going to be in Florida to have dinner with the Prince.
Originally Posted By HokieSkipper ^^^I completely agree. It is an odd hurricane of happenstance and hearsay.
Originally Posted By Pentacat There's no possible way to confirm the validity of those tweets unless you know those people personally and are willing to vouch for them. That said, reading through the Twitter streams of both people (especially the music producer, @HeirJ0rdan) neither of them seem to have any interest in Disney beyond that of the casual bystander. Also, neither of those tweets said ANYTHING about WHERE they met the public figures. It's very possible it was outside of the parks/resorts or in a semi-public place.
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer >>>No doubt something big if the company's largest shareholder is there. Especially with his health. <<< Granted, the D23 Expo IS coming up... One wonders if things are being scouted out? Even if they won't get done in the end....
Originally Posted By HokieSkipper <<Granted, the D23 Expo IS coming up... One wonders if things are being scouted out? >> There's no way Jobs would apparently be there if that's the case. Or this apparent prince.
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer >>>There's no way Jobs would apparently be there if that's the case. Or this apparent prince.<<< Well, you don't know that. Apple could be involved, even the prince could be, somehow with funding. Granted, that's just a guess, but a lot of this is.
Originally Posted By Britain Things being assembled for D23 in CA would have been decided upon by now and sites would have been 'scouted' months or years ago. What seems more likely to me is that if the Saudi Prince is in O-Town, it would probably be because (SHOCKER) he likes to visit Disney properties from time to time. I'm sure he has a big Michael Jackson-esque security detail which would prohibit anyone from getting too close for pictures, unless you were a hired professional photographer. In this case, it's very possible that Iger came to WDW simply to give audience to this wealthy business partner, NOT to check up on the condition of the resorts and not to make people THINK he's checking up on the condition of the resorts. This does indeed leave room for the P&R speculation, but it could also simply be what Iger does for dignitaries that help bail out DLP.
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer >>>Things being assembled for D23 in CA would have been decided upon by now and sites would have been 'scouted' months or years ago.<<< Still, last min things are probably floating around. It's unlikely, but not totally improbable.
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 This just gets more bizarre by the day (or is it minute?) I'm almost at a loss as to where to begin, but maybe that's the place Disney would like us all to be. Oh, and I did say 'almost'. I left the thread after tossing out two, in my educated opinion, possible buyers IF (repeat that word a dozen times) TWDC was interested in selling P&R after Explorer asked for it. After that, someone discovered that one person (with no known connection to Disney or the fan community or VC's on Wall Street?) Tweeted that he took a photo of Bob Iger and the Prince on June 28th. No poof. No other comments. Now, we're going to say that a man most believe is dying decided to spend time with Bob 'I love theme parks' Iger and Tom 'I'm not really a money man' Staggs apparently sans any Saudi prince, but at some location where a hip-hop artist/promoter with no visible ties to TWDC would somehow meet them. And not take a picture because ... well, how could that help his career? ;-) All of these incredibly important men had nothing better to do then come to Orlando this holiday week and hang out in public places where absolutely no one took a photo of them ... no CMs have seen him, no fanbois, no bloggers ... and, more importantly, no one from any local/national/international media saw or reported their presence. What's next? John Lasseter, Jobs and the Prince were seen riding Peter Pan together? (PhotoShoppers get to work now).
