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Insult to Injury: Disney Parks Guests Complain About Less-Than-Magical Experiences Today
PJ Media ^ | 06/11/2022 | Chris Queen

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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TOPICS: Music/Entertainment; Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: disney; espn; groomers; grooming; magickingdom; okaygroomer; worldoflaughter; worldoftears
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To: atc23
We used to go to Farrell's regularly to pretend to study high school physics.

One day I saw them running around with The Zoo on the stretcher. They dropped it on the floor, scooped it up and kept on running toward the "lucky" kid with the birthday.

And that was back in the 70's.

61 posted on 06/12/2022 3:09:30 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (This is not a tagline.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

The only black people you see in Disney parks are the ones they portray on ads for their parks/movies. I doubt a single black family has stayed at the Star Wars hotel, but it’s all you see in their ads.


62 posted on 06/12/2022 3:09:55 PM PDT by Houserino
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To: The Fop

the following = the sheeple


63 posted on 06/12/2022 3:11:00 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (This is not a tagline.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
I remember when you could get to the front of the line if you were handicapped, so people started hiring handicapped people to visit the park with them so they could cut all the lines.

Disney put a halt to that.

Then people would purchase these apps that were sorta like WAZE for Disney which purported to show which rides had shorter or longer waits. But Disney didn't like this, so they created their own app that supposedly did the same thing. Basically so they could manage the crowds.

It's basically Spy vs Spy at Disney these days.

64 posted on 06/12/2022 3:13:42 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (This is not a tagline.)
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To: SeekAndFind

“Nothing is more futile than schemed merriment.” -Samuel Johnson


65 posted on 06/12/2022 3:45:34 PM PDT by Fester Chugabrew ("Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese." -G.K. Chesterton)
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To: SeekAndFind
Over the last couple of decades, Disney's rapacious corporate executives realized that costs could be squeezed by deferring maintenance and cleaning, squeezing employee pay and benefits, reducing employee qualifications, selection, and training, and jacking up prices and increasing attendance. This inevitably and gradually took a toll on the quality of the guest experience.

Previously, in fidelity to Walt Disney's vision, Disney's maintenance and cleaning schedules aimed at a conspicuously high standard, employees were carefully screened, well-paid, and well-treated and expected to do everything within reason to accommodate and charm guests, and ticket prices were restrained and park attendance limited. The goal was to maintain Disney as a special place, not just as a unique theme park but as an idealized version of America itself.

An emblematic example of Disney's disregard for its guests was the death in June of 2016 of a two year old toddler from Nebraska who was snatched and devoured by an alligator on the lakeside beach at a Disney hotel. The presence of menacing alligators was well-known, but instead of having them trapped and installing protective fencing, Disney chose to simply put a sign out at the beach warning of the danger.

As it happened, the sign was not visible enough and even at best was inadequate to warn new guests. Disney employees had previously complained to management about the danger to guests with no effect. In effect, Disney's risk management standard regarded a dead toddler as an acceptable cost of doing business. Alienating parents by wokeness and LGBT grooming is a new low but of a piece with Disney's long, deliberate decline.

66 posted on 06/12/2022 4:41:41 PM PDT by Rockingham
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To: N. Theknow

The only thing I liked about Disney was that giant food court at Epcot Center where you could have food and drinks from every country. Otherwise all I really remember is standing in long lines out in the hot sun for hours on end. I never liked going on rides. When my kids grew up, we started going to Las Vegas instead. Way more fun and we never got hot because we were always indoors with AC. We spent less money in Vegas than at Disney World too.


67 posted on 06/12/2022 4:53:15 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (3,243,136 active users on Truth Social)
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To: SeekAndFind
Nobody should be giving money to Disney other than pedophiles. Cry me a river.
68 posted on 06/12/2022 4:54:29 PM PDT by Vision (Elections are one day. Reject "Chicago" vote harvesting. Election Reform Now. Obama is an evildoer.)
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To: Houserino
Disney World struggling to fill 100-room, $5,000 'Star Wars' hotel
69 posted on 06/12/2022 5:30:29 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Those are all 3 months ago. I imagine that place is a ghost town now, you don’t even see the ‘influencers’ talking about it again.


70 posted on 06/12/2022 5:43:32 PM PDT by Houserino
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To: SamAdams76

Communicore in Future World Epcot ruled. Loved playing the touch screen games as a kid. Now it’s all branded crap.


71 posted on 06/12/2022 5:44:44 PM PDT by Houserino
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To: dkGba

Yes, they are.


72 posted on 06/12/2022 6:34:18 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (Wanting to make America great isn’t an insult unless you’re trying to make it worse! ULTRAMAGA!!)
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To: stars & stripes forever

2nd that. The Ark was really cool. I like Universal too. Not super high expectations, it’s a fun amusement park. Not advertised as magical or fantasy junk. That’s not attainable with today’s employees or the type of guests that come


73 posted on 06/12/2022 7:12:18 PM PDT by pangaea6
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To: Dilbert San Diego

No matter what you do with ur cell phone, I don’t think any day at freaking Disney can be relaxing. They need to charge $1000 per person and then you would get some equilibrium


74 posted on 06/12/2022 7:14:15 PM PDT by pangaea6
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To: pangaea6
They need to charge $1000 per person and then you would get some equilibrium

They should. Then pick a couple of days each month for middle class folks. A lottery, if you will. So that way, Disney appeals to everyone, instead of a plaything for the wealthy and the woke.

75 posted on 06/12/2022 8:33:24 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: SeekAndFind

I went to Disney World twice last year, and having to reserve a park a day and not being able to park hop made it not the best experience. Luckily I got their days after they stopped requiring masks outside(!).

I just spent the same amount of money going to London for nine days that I did going to Disney World for five. Guess where I’ll go again instead of Disney?

My favorite park is Epcot, but they’re Disneyfying it and ruining the original plan. Because of Covid, there weren’t the usual cast members from each country, which was always an interesting part of Epcot.


76 posted on 06/13/2022 2:51:57 AM PDT by Moonmad27
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To: struggle

I did Fuji when I was 36. I took about 120 soldiers up and as 1SG had to be in the flow but still was 19th up. Two of my NCOs and I went down the lava flow in 45 minutes.

I envy you.


77 posted on 06/13/2022 8:35:06 AM PDT by Jumper ( )
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To: Rockingham

bkmk


78 posted on 06/13/2022 4:27:30 PM PDT by sbnsd
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