Originally Posted By Witches of Morva ORDDU: Four For a Dollar was already mentioned, MPierce, duckling. ORGOCH: Yeah! Pay attention!
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo Oh, I thought you meant they disappeared all together. They were charging for embroidery when we were there in 2006. At DLP, it is not available at all, and there are not many ears for sale at DLP at all :-(
Originally Posted By ChiMike >>and aren't they canceling either the statue or the stick guy that roam AK<< Not sure when it happened but I didn't see the Living Statues in World Showcase last time I was there either.
Originally Posted By blueharvest82 what about confirmed gains? American idol, fry cart in frontierland, the recently opened cars meet and greet, the exterior refurbishments being done in fantasyland by Pinocchio's village haus, The brand new celebration on which you actually get something for free for your b-day, a new mini-parade repalcing the family fun day parade, pixie-hollow, the expansion of the xmas lights to cover the whole castle this year. Also recently with Pixar place and toy story mania. I think Walt was the one who said that disney is constantly changing and evolving. Also, lets not forget the changes in downtown disney with the new stage, trex, and the new outside dining patio and 'foods of the America's' concept, which just posted concept art up in the old pleasure island. Leave it to the good old spirit to come up with such a nice post I hope one day disney finds out where he works and makes negative forums about his company.
Originally Posted By Jiko and His Man It has been some time folks since I said howdy. So, 'Howdy Folks' from the great state of Texas. Well partners, it seems to me my best spot for some fixins is still Jikos. I miss my Jikos and they best not mess with it like they done messed with other good down home cookins like that 9 Dragon from the epcot park
Originally Posted By Bob Paris If you consider American Idol a gain then no wonder you're happy with WDW at the moment.
Originally Posted By jkayjs Can I please add one that happened some time ago-please, please, please. No objections? OK! Breakfast @ Tony's. Actually & more to the point it happened before they stopped serving breakfast. Those "free" cinnamon rolls. It was so great to book an early am time, sit in the solarium and enjoy those rolls with a nice cup of joe. They were sm but there was a half dozen of those little gems. The food wasn't bad either. You could see all the folks coming into the park, most with happy faces. The wee ones would be so excited. OK I know your thinking "let it go jkayjs" but I just can not.;( I'm sure there are many things I could add but this one is my own personal obsession. Thanks for listening, I'm starting therapy next wk but don't think it will help. The only cure is for WDW to bring back breakfast @ Tony's, let me the 1st guest and as soon as I sit down place a plate of those sweet rolls right in front of me.
Originally Posted By A Happy Haunt ^^while they're at it, they should bring back The Adventure Land Veranda...OMG!! I loved those hamburgers with the pineapple slice on top... YUM !! YUM!! YUM!!
Originally Posted By ImaginingDisney OMGosh..... I thought I was the only one that saw all this happening. You do realize, this did not just happen, things have been disappearing, slowly for a long time, years to be exact. WDW has been my favorite destination but they keep squeezing that darn buffalo nickle, making him grunt. So makes you think, if they have to lessen our experiences by cutting cast members and restaruants and attractions, and still charge more money for less AND the ticket costs till go up, is this a sign of bad management? I am still mad that the 20,000 leagues was scraped while they found a reason to keep the much older DisneyLand subs. I miss Walt ID MagicKingdom / EPCOTcentre / DisneyMGM / AnimalKingdom
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 <<what about confirmed gains?>> Start your own thread for them. Let's keep this one just on what WDW has been cutting back to deal with the financial disaster ...
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 <<while they're at it, they should bring back The Adventure Land Veranda...OMG!! I loved those hamburgers with the pineapple slice on top... YUM !! YUM!! YUM!!>> I loved them too, but that place closed shop in 1994. I'd kind of like to just have a thread that focuses on from late summer of 08 onward ... kind of a pet consulting project of my own going on here
Originally Posted By Sport Goofy << Let's keep this one just on what WDW has been cutting back to deal with the financial disaster ... >> Amazing that you use the word "disaster" to describe the financial situation in the macro-economy, but still consistently foam at the mouth about cutbacks. What prudent business wouldn't be cutting back in this "disaster" environment? As a stockholder, would you want your company to be burning through cash in an economy where cash flow is drying up?
Originally Posted By A Happy Haunt <<<I'd kind of like to just have a thread that focuses on from late summer of 08 onward ... kind of a pet consulting project of my own going on here >>> Not to sound rude but, the threads gonna go where the threads gonna go!! Remember the lecture on lettuce we all got!!
Originally Posted By Witches of Morva ORDDU: Here's another example of a cut back for you. Just yesterday, while keeping company with one of our favorite waiters who works at a certain restaurant in one of the Disney parks, we were told that a 7 ounce serving of Macaroni and Cheese was reduced to just 2 ounces while the price remained the same. ORWEN: Talk about PRICE gouging. Disney oughtta be ashamed of themselves. ORGOCH: 'Course they AIN'T cause they stopped listenin' ta their conscience an' Jim Crick in the neck along time ago!
Originally Posted By bobbelee9 <<Not to sound rude but, the threads gonna go where the threads gonna go!! Remember the lecture on lettuce we all got!!>> You tell them! Alas, the Cape Cod manatee died on his way down to Sea World. Sad.
Originally Posted By ImaginingDisney WHAT ABOUT THE LETTUCE? I stayed at FortWilderness, and cut backs occur here too. It took 3 days of DAILY complaining to get them to fix the soap dispensers in the rest rooms and it too over 2 weeks of daily complaining to try to get them to replace all the burnt out lights in the camping loop. By the time we left, they had still not relamped the loop. One of the cast members said the guy that used to care for the loop lighting retired and DISNEY never bothered to replace him. HUH? Talk about bad management. Not to mention the paint is peeling off of the monorails. What happened to keeping the parks brite and shiney? ID MagicKingdom / EPCOTcentre / DisneyMGM / AnimalKingdom
Originally Posted By Kennesaw Tom I also feel that Spirit is being a bit overly negative here. With all due respect Spirit, I know your a nice guy and I agree with you most of the time on most discussions. But, I really don't think the sky is falling. However, since I'm at WDW right now I have noticed a few things. First off the outside facade to the Hall of Presidents is dirty and in need of some new paint. Walking between Casey's and the Crystal Palace my party noticed leaves on the ground which surprised us as the area should have been blown clean that early in the day. Today we noticed one of the wooden screens over the lighting in the big queing room ( the one showing the movie clips ) was bent. The was dings, scratches and torn off paint in the queing area for Toy Story. So general matience is down.
Originally Posted By Witches of Morva ORDDU: My sisters and I always like to say that Spirit of 74 doesn't MAKE the news he just reports it. And we're quite proud of anyone who isn't willing to hold back on the truth of a situation--even if it means risking offending others. After all, nobody should defend mediocrity. That's one of the reasons America is having the current problems it's having now.
Originally Posted By Kennesaw Tom Not to be a Pollyanna but lets face it there are somethings that WDW is doing right. So just dwelling on the negative is not very helpful. As for the reasons America is having the "current problems it's having now" is open to interpretation all of which belong in World Events section. I'm not posting my political viewpoints here. I wish others would refrain for that as well.
Originally Posted By leobloom One of the things Disney's doing right is not adding any new attractions. After all, they'd quickly fall into disrepair with little hope of repair(Nemo is apparently the latest victim on this count). Better that they don't add anything at all. Can't get your hopes up that way.
