Posted on 06/12/2022 10:58:31 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Disney has taken more than its share of hits lately after sticking its nose in Florida politics and coming out against the state’s Parental Right in Education law. Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Florida legislature ran circles around Disney, first by passing the legislation and then by revoking Disney’s Reedy Creek Improvement District.
The Walt Disney Company (TWDC) has suffered financially as a result of its far-left stance against protecting children from grooming, and the public has lost respect for the Disney brand in the wake of its wokeness as well.
One of Disney’s points of pride — no, not that kind of “Pride” — has been its theme parks and their ability to make guests feel like they’ve left the outside world behind and entered an immersive escape. Disney has traditionally thought of every detail and worked hard to accommodate guests at every turn, but as I’ve written before, TWDC has made it harder for guests to make the most of their hard-earned vacation. And I’m not the only one who has noticed.
Inside the Magic , one of the fan sites I follow, included several stories in Saturday’s email about guests who had less-than-magical experiences at Disney’s theme parks and resorts.
One article talks about a Disney guest who wrote on Reddit that he or she has concluded “that everything that made Disney unique is gone."
The Reddit user talks about garbage piling up in trashcans, sets and attractions “getting old” and falling into disrepair, and cast members who aren’t up to Disney’s standards for friendliness and politeness.
“It seems that, recently, it has become a common belief that the experience while visiting Disney World, or any other Disney Park, is declining, which is understandable considering the closures due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic,
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Disney staff keep asking people to come meet Ben Dover ?
That’s one of the things I hate about smartphones and apps. Businesses are becoming so averse to “dealing” with people face-to-face (or on phones) that they will set up any barrier possible to deflect customers from interacting with them and call it “convenient,” time-saving,” or hassle-free.”
Looking for a human to talk to? Use the app.
The app is confusing? Try harder.
The app is wrong? It’ll get updated after you need it.
Got an issue not covered by the app? It’s not our issue. La-la-la noitisn’t.
Your phone’s low or dead? Sucks to be you.
Thank you for that tip. I had never heard of Silver Dollar City. We were just looking for something to do this fall.
Please give us a report on what you experienced and/or observed first hand....FReepers are excellent reporters!
Leni
Your kids _wanted_ to go back to Cedar Point _because_ the rides were broken?
I’m with you. Lots of adults enjoy going there, but we took our kids twice when they were very young and that was it. I can’t stand places like that with made-up attractions.
I’ve been going through my dad’s 35 mm slides and I found some from 1955, the year it opened! We lived in LA for a couple of years, but my parents could not stand the place even then and we moved back to upstate NY.
Disneyland as created by Walt was a magical place for a little kid, maybe because it was true to so many fairy tales that we heard from our mom’s back then. The then-new Disney animation with hand-drawn cels brought them to life on the big screen in the late 30s and 40s. The books, movies and Disneyland were all tied together.
Now Disney churns out computer animated drek at a furious pace and it’s nowhere near as good as what Mr. Disney made in the 40s and 50s.
We used to go to the “Enchanted Forest” in Old Forge, NY. It was kind of a small-scale Disneyland and we little kids loved it. I found lots of slides of us at the Enchanted Forest, too.
OMG! I remember that place! Fairytale characters right?
Unlike the Fast pass, you are required to purchase the Genie pass. Good luck trying to get on the popular rides without one. It’s very different from the Disney experience we were all used to.
Yeah. Plus tall tales like Paul Bunyan and Babe, his Blue Ox.
I have worked for the Big Rat. The pits! If you are in the eye of the guests, you are a performer, even if you wait tables. As a performer, you audition for the job every 6 months. No one works there for any length of time as they don’t want ‘old-timers’.
The park is dirty. Tokyo Disneyland is owned by a Japanese company and they merely rent the rights to the name and run their park correctly. Clean, neat, non-woke.. and people can retire there as they are hired as career workers.
I guess if you are a fundamentalist protestant that would be an attractive destination.
Your post makes me think about all these chain stores, who in an attempt to create a friendlier environment, would have their cashiers say “the following guest, please”, when they were ready for the next customer, instead of simply saying “next, please”.
Well, that lasted a few years. But at a certain point, the minimum wage workers got lazy, so instead of saying the full “the following guest, please”, they shortened it to just “the following”. Now every single chain store in my area (greater NYC) has barely literate cashiers shouting “the following” all day long!
Like what is that even supposed to mean??.....”the following..
the following...the following”. It sounds lazy, stupid , and low class. But I guess the corporate suits aren’t bothered by it, as I hear it everywhere.
To me this is a metaphor for the decline of America. Less and less small businesses.... more and more people getting corporate jobs. The corporations go through the motions of giving us some kind of “special experience”. But then before you know it, it all goes to crap!
I think there must have been more than one Enchanted Forest because I was taken to one as a kid but definitely not in NY.
If you’re making $7.25 an hour, would you even show up? I’d be as rude as possible to those paying me that, and their customers too.
My favorite places The Ark Encounter and the Creation Museum.
Disney is expensive. So if you can afford it, it is supposed to be a "magicial" experience. It's not supposed to be Saturday afternoon at Wal-Mart. They can probably raise the prices some more to ensure a superior experience even though it prices out the middle class customers.
Fond innocent memories
Stunning and bravical!
The funny thing is on all those disney vacation cams, you will see no black people or mexicans. It’s nearly 100% fat white people.
Where's the equity?
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