Originally Posted By Mr X Boy I miss this guy. The blog route seems to work better though. I enjoy reading what he has to say about this stuff (and, surprise...agree with a lot of it). <a href="http://jonvn.blogspot.com/2008/04/marty-sklar-and-dave-smith.html" target="_blank">http://jonvn.blogspot.com/2008...ith.html</a>
Originally Posted By Mr X "What is incredible, though, is that the people running this corporation can’t seem to figure this out at all. Instead they have their employees issue corporate letters either chastising the public for being too dumb to appreciate their ingenious efforts at destroying their own products, or flat out stating they have no comprehension as to why this is even a problem at all."
Originally Posted By Schmitty Good Vibes Jon makes some great points. I think we ought to support him on his site. (not that we can't discuss it here)
Originally Posted By liveforvacations I just read Jon's blog and he has really articulated the whole Small World mess really well! It was nice to read something that made so much sense and written well also! Thanks Mr. X for once again reminding us of his blog and for the record, I really miss him too!
Originally Posted By WorldDisney Don't understand, did he leave or something? Why can't he just write a blog and post here as well?? Didn't realize he was even gone until I read this thread lol.
Originally Posted By Skellington88 Jon writes it better than I ever could! Disney I hope you are paying attention to what he is saying because after this year I am not renewing my AP and me and my family will not be visiting the parks again until I start seeing attractions that are NOT based on animated films.
Originally Posted By mawnck >>Don't understand, did he leave or something?<< You missed all the "fun." He was ejected from our little community for some mysterious transgression on April 1st. A lot of us thought it was a joke. It wasn't.
Originally Posted By WorldDisney LOL, I know Mr. X! Everytime I come back here, I read where a long time poster has suddenly quit or got the boot lol. Maybe I should post more so people know I didn't get the boot . Well, second time Jonvn been sent packing. It took him YEARS to get back here the first time around, maybe he'll be allowed in again later .
Originally Posted By Bob Paris "Well, second time Jonvn been sent packing" Oh is THAT so? According to him he has NEVER been booted off a Disney discussion board. Does anybody have a link to the offending thread?(for me to poop on)
Originally Posted By WilliamK99 Bob Paris does it really matter at this point? What's done is done, we had just gotten it put behind us, no need dredging it back up...
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Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan Jon summed it up perfectly. I loved this especially: >>I have said, others have said, in fact, nearly all people have said that the park must change. That is not the issue. So repeating that Walt Disney said the park would change is utterly beside the point. Yet, they persist in going down this road over and over again. In press releases and in letters to individuals, they keep saying this same exact thing. It’s like talking to a broken record that can only regurgitate one single phrase endlessly.<< Exactamundo. Any fool thing they come up with is excused away with the old "Disneyland will never be completed..." speech. How DARE anyone question anything? Instead of using that paragraph as a justification for adding cartoon characters everywhere, perhaps they should go back and try to understand the bigger challenge that line was meant to imply -- that Disneyland would always be trying to top itself. Instead, it's used as a "get out of jail FREE" card anytime people balk at the cartoonization of the parks, as if Walt himself would have wanted them to do this. What lazy nonsense.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan And thank you for this, jonvn: >>They are wrecking what were once theme parks with all kinds of entertainments by changing them to ones that have one single type of entertainment.<< Perfectly said. Hope someone at Disney gets it.
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo Agreed. BTW Toony, I dreamt about you last night (and a number of other LPers), check out the I dreamt of an LPer thread.
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA <Now, if somebody could either link me or fill me in on what happened I'd appreciate it and will then move on.> Look for yourself, Bob Paris.
