Originally Posted By leobloom >> And this is just the sort of thing that would ruin that. If someone or something you really like promises you something huge, and you don't get it, what do you think is going to happen? I can't see people blatantly defending a blunder such as this. << If they're dependent on the parks, then it doesn't matter who is in the executive position. All that matters is that the addicts can get that next ride (7,438 but who's counting?) on Pirates or Space or Splash or Thunder Mtn. And this move/promotion may get derided by the fans, but I don't see anyone "giving up" the parks because of it. Certainly not in Florida, where it would appear things will continue their current course.
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 <<Facebook page already up. Click like and start commenting now! <a href="http://www.facebook.com/" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/</a>#!/pages/Dont-Put-Meg-Crofton-in-Charge-of-Disney-Parks/166936780039771>> More comments to come maybe tonight (have to take call shortly) ... but THIS is exactly why social media isn't a good thing if you are as poorly run as TWDC is. I wonder if Disney will force it to be pulled ...
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer >>>And this move/promotion may get derided by the fans, but I don't see anyone "giving up" the parks because of it. Certainly not in Florida, where it would appear things will continue their current course.<<< Well, that's my point... Disneyland is a totally different animal. The APers over there could really change things again.
Originally Posted By leobloom ^Maybe, but I'm skeptical. They have DCA 2.0 and Carsland to tide them over.
Originally Posted By HMButler79 i would't be surprised if she starts taking the knife to CarsLand tommrow. Paul tried to kill Indy in the middle of construction!
Originally Posted By leobloom With the synergy and merchandising of Cars, you can be assured that won't happen.
Originally Posted By HMButler79 There goes any snowballs chance of Tony even doing the SLIGHTEST redo to the dark rides for New Fantasylands 30th. I wonder if we'll even see the Hatbox Ghost now. I assume she'll let SoundSational run itself into the ground.
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt I dunno... I feel like the Internet community goes through these management changes on one level or another every 2-3 years. I think some people here might be getting more worked up than need be. Sure, this isn't great news for WDW, but I say let's see how things play out before jumping to conclusions on how her management trickles down to DLP and DLR.
Originally Posted By HMButler79 ^^ We waited and saw how things played out with Paul, Cynthia and Meg as just WDW Pres. We don't need more previews. The main show is horrific enough.
Originally Posted By HokieSkipper ^^^While I think people are slightly overreacting, because I think for the most part DL has good people running it that can compensate, it's pretty worriesome when someone who oversaw the second half of the "decade of decline" at WDW was promoted to oversee 2 other resorts. If that's the kind of performance that gets you promoted...IDK. Doesn;t make much sense to me.
Originally Posted By HMButler79 It dosen't matter now who's running DLR cause now George must bow down as subject and supplicate to Queen Megara. Hell, i doubt we'll even see little thing like the RoA redo get approved. Or the perfume shop reopening. TDA basically needs permission from the Queen. Disgusting.
Originally Posted By HMButler79 Does anyone know how similair this is to Al's old position? It seems that they just split Al's position between two people.
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt "While I think people are slightly overreacting, because I think for the most part DL has good people running it that can compensate, it's pretty worriesome when someone who oversaw the second half of the "decade of decline" at WDW was promoted to oversee 2 other resorts" Yes, that is indeed disturbing, however I still question how influential she will be on the long term operations at DLR and DLP in such a broad role. I guess we'll just have to see. It's a little perplexing that she will continue to hold the reins as President of WDW and be the President of Disney's European and North American theme parks. I have to think that eventually a replacement will be found to run the operations at WDW.
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt "Does anyone know how similair this is to Al's old position? It seems that they just split Al's position between two people." It's the same job with less international oversight (she isn't responsible for the Asia parks). The odd part is that she's still the President of WDW.
Originally Posted By HMButler79 Al was Pres of Worldwide Operations and stayed Pres of WDW. Now that i am rereading it, it definatly seems that they cut Al's position between 3 people. Meg gets all of the U.S. and France, Karl gets DVC, and Bill Ernst gets Asia. Instead of one Al and 11 parks.
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt "Al was Pres of Worldwide Operations and stayed Pres of WDW..." Wait, I thought Crofton was the President of WDW and reported to Weiss who was President of Worldwide Operations for Walt Disney Parks and Resorts. Before that role he was WDW's President but he did not hold both positions simultaneously. "Karl gets DVC..." Ooops. I overlooked that.
Originally Posted By dagobert Who might have thought that it can get worse for Disneyland Paris. We are already doomed by the current DLRP management and now this. The worst maintained Disney parks on earth will be falling apart again.
Originally Posted By Bolna Still a bit surprised about all the news happening right now... And not sure how much of a difference this new structure will really make as compared to having Al Weiss in the job which seems now to be split among several people. Certainly it does not sound like an improvement though. Reminds me of a story in Latin class when an old lady was the only one praying for a long life for the ruling tyrant - upon being questions (they suspected her of mocking the ruler) she answered that after having experienced that a tyrant would always be followed by one even more cruel and since she could not bear one even more cruel than the current one, she would rather pray for long life of the current ruler.
Originally Posted By Bolna <<If suddenly there was a wave of new things planned for the parks, and a few of the things got done... don't you think that public opinion would shift and pin the blame (good blame) on who's in charge? I think so. It makes sense if you don't think about it too much. >> EE, I think your theory about what will happen is very likely. I can very well imagine the comments about how Meg wasn't able to acchieve anything because she had Al Weiss holding her back. But now that she is in charge we see all these wonderful things that are going to happen! We have seen it when Bob Iger was made CEO. So many people just wanted to believe so badly that everything would be wonderful from now on and that everything would change now. Well, we see how that has worked out so far.
