Originally Posted By dresswhites so is meg crofton the head of the whole resort or just the magic kingdom. do people see her in the parks at all? cynthia harris had many faults, but you did see her in disneyland alot.
Originally Posted By CTXRover <<There's no way they haven't been maintaining the outside since the mid-90s ... I think I would have noticed ... it's got to be a much more recent development that I somehow missed (maybe because most of my Mansion visits are at night?).>> When the MK first opened, the area in front of the HM was a well manicured garden as you seem to remember. I believe that look was abandoned sometime in the mid 90's though. The resulting look was to give the area a spookier look consistent with the story inside. Here are some pics from January 1999 that I was able to find on disneypix.com showing the less maintained garden front back then: <a href="http://www.disneypix.com/MagicKingdom/LibertySquare/1999-01/HauntedD03.htm" target="_blank">http://www.disneypix.com/Magic Kingdom/LibertySquare/1999-01/HauntedD03.htm</a>. I seem to remember the front having a more disheveled look for some time now.
Originally Posted By CTXRover <<IMHO, pavers look a whole lot nicer than red pavement.>> I actually like the new look of Main Street's new pavement that has been slowly making its appearance over the past year. It reminds me of a red version of DLP's beige colored sidewalks with various colors and sizes of stones throughout the pavement. It gives the sidewalks more 'character, not to mention that from a maintenance perspective those pesky stains shouldn't show up as clearly now. I like the brick pavers at DL also, but don't necessarily think it adds more thematic presence than the new sidewalks at MK's Main Street.
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 <<so is meg crofton the head of the whole resort or just the magic kingdom.>> She is the figurehead president of the entire WDW resort. <<do people see her in the parks at all?>> No. Not unless there is a media opp. She tends to show up for Business Women of the Year meetings ... and at DD to congratulate the cast at WoD for doing record-breaking business selling crap ... and then she goes and makes candy apples at the Candy Cauldron (really ... saw it in a recent Eyes and Ears). But actually walking through the parks, talking to guests and cast about what Disney is doing right and wrong, no, I don't believe she does that. <<cynthia harris had many faults, but you did see her in disneyland alot. >> Cyn had more faults than the state of California ...
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 <<I actually like the new look of Main Street's new pavement that has been slowly making its appearance over the past year. It reminds me of a red version of DLP's beige colored sidewalks with various colors and sizes of stones throughout the pavement. It gives the sidewalks more 'character, not to mention that from a maintenance perspective those pesky stains shouldn't show up as clearly now. >> I really don't care what Disney chooses to use for pavement, although we all know the MK's surface costs a whole lot less. What I care about is them maintaining it and cleaning it. You know like when they used to pressure clean nightly. They really did this until a little over a decade ago. And there was never any filthy disgusting stained pavement ...
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 One other quickee MK observation from last Friday night ... the place was packed yet both of the park's newest attractions (Stitch's Great Escape and Monsters Laugh Floor) were walk-ons at 8:30 p.m. I don't really know what can be said about these disasters except that wouldn't have it been smarter to not spend a penny and just keep Alien Encounter, which was very popular, and Timekeeper, which wasn't but was still a people-eater, open until you could budget for QUALITY replacements that people actually wanted to experience? That on the most basic level is why anyone associated with these abominations should be looking for work elsewhere. Tens of millions of dollars thrown out the window and the new attractions are less popular than the old. Sad, but true.
Originally Posted By RoadTrip I really enjoyed Timekeeper. I thought Alien Encounter lost about 90% of its impact after you saw it once, but it still was massively better than Stitch. I will keep an open mind until I've seen the Laugh Floor for myself, but I will likely end up agreeing with you that it would have been better to keep what was there.
Originally Posted By BeautysBeast Spirit of 74..im glad LP exists for folks like you..U spend so much time convincing others of your "importance" to the disney company..Us regular folks are safe to enjoy our park experience while ur rambling away on this site
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo BB - I'm guessing you are quite new to the Disney park experience. I guess some of us have been going for too long. But Spirit and many others are right on the money. We would not go if we did not still enjoy it, but then again, we would enjoy it more if the standards were not slipping.
Originally Posted By tonyanton I love brand-new posters who come on here and feel the need to criticize and/or be snarky with those that have been contributing to these boards for years and have shown a genuine love and appreciation for WDW/Disney/etc. Spirit...keep the posts coming. I always enjoy hearing your balanced view of things.
Originally Posted By jmuboy Laugh Floor was OKAY at best......but woefully out of place in TL!!!! And I mean woefully! No attempt to tie this show to TL is EVER made. Disney could just have put in FL for all the effort they made to have it work in the TL theme. The theme job on the queue.....nothing can be said other than lazy. I have seen better themed queue lines at Sea World. It would be neat if Disney had created an Alien Comedy Club. Not a contrived character tie in. Aliens would work in TL much better. maybe a re-imagineered version of the never built Plectu's Galactic review. What about Plectu's Intergalactic Comedy Club? I could swallow that pill much easier!
Originally Posted By dresswhites ^^^that would actually be kind of cool. WDW doesn't steamclean the sidewalks at night anymore?? wow. disneyland tried to get away with this in 97. by the fall of that year, the park went back to the steam cleaning the entire park. Also Cynthia did have as many faults as california, but the one thing that i admire about her was she was very friendly with us cms and guests. if she saw you working, she would always take the time to say hello. maybe she was fake, but still for the president of a theme park to do this was impressive in my book. perhaps it because Paul Pressler never went out of his way to do this. Paul Pressler always looked very unconfortable dealing with cms. YOu could actually see the pain on his face. he was not an impressive at all.
Originally Posted By TDLFAN >>WDW doesn't steamclean the sidewalks at night anymore?? wow. disneyland tried to get away with this in 97.<< That is correct. You can see how bad the dirt has become dried glued to the floors. But then again... even Custodial CMs have told me the cleaning is not done nightly. Yet, Magament does not care... as for one.. they are out to save money and two, most guests to WDW come from far and nearby places that are not that clean to begin with (no, I won't be specific to avoid embarrasing the guilty), reason why to this day, guests walk at WDW in amazement of how "clean" it really is... (Rolls eyes)
Originally Posted By DLFAN1979 Cynthia and Paul have NOTHING on Phil and Meg, as far as the way they handled themselves w. the cast, guests, and the park
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 <<WDW doesn't steamclean the sidewalks at night anymore?? wow. disneyland tried to get away with this in 97. by the fall of that year, the park went back to the steam cleaning the entire park. >> No. As a matter of fact, I'm still trying to find out if they actually do this AT ALL (any CMs with first-hand knowledge -- meaning you've seen with your own eyes?) anymore. To see some of the filth at the MK and Epcot, it's safe to assume if it is done at all, it's maybe once every few MONTHS. <<Also Cynthia did have as many faults as california, but the one thing that i admire about her was she was very friendly with us cms and guests. if she saw you working, she would always take the time to say hello. maybe she was fake, but still for the president of a theme park to do this was impressive in my book. perhaps it because Paul Pressler never went out of his way to do this. Paul Pressler always looked very unconfortable dealing with cms. YOu could actually see the pain on his face. he was not an impressive at all. >> So much I'd like to say here ... oh, so much ...
Originally Posted By DAR Interesting observations. It'll be interesting to see my perspictive when I return next month for the first time in five years.
Originally Posted By TDLFAN >>No. As a matter of fact, I'm still trying to find out if they actually do this (preassure washing the MK) AT ALL (any CMs with first-hand knowledge -- meaning you've seen with your own eyes?) anymore. They still do Spirit, but not nightly. I have been to the MK at opening time, and you can tell the park has been washed when there is still residue of water all over... but on some other days at opening time, the park is dry like Glendale's coffers of ideas.
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 <<They still do Spirit, but not nightly. I have been to the MK at opening time, and you can tell the park has been washed when there is still residue of water all over...>> Interesting. I'd still like to hear from CMs ... c'mon boys and girls, someone must know what kind of schedule they're on. <<but on some other days at opening time, the park is dry like Glendale's coffers of ideas.>> They have plenty of great ideas in Glendale. The problem is in the past decade most of them never made it off the drawing board, they were basically designed to go on walls, sell as LE art and go in coffee table books touting what WDI can do (or could if the coffers were open). There's been a lot of change there recently ... including the return of a truly talented guy who was forced out a decade ago and will be leading the efforts to make DCA a great park. WDW's future when it comes to WDI is a bit different, though.
