I keep saying it. The Disney animation house-style has to change. All these movies just *look* the same. Especially the character design. They need a variety of animation styles, and characters that don’t look interchangeable with just different hairstyles and skin color.
So what do people want from Disney? Every single movie seems to be struggling at the box office even if it is a high quality. Is it because of Disney+ or does the right-wing political aisle just hate Disney now?
Demand “softened” because Disney chased a LARGE portion of their audience away with price hikes, nickel and diming, needless complication, and a decrease in the overall quality of their domestic theme park product.
Cruise business is BOOMING as families look for value elsewhere
I rode this with my five-year-old daughter a few days ago and she mentioned how the lack of authenticity in the roof shingles really ruined the verisimilitude of the ride. “I just don’t feel like I’m really in Paris,” she said solemnly as we walked away from the pavilion.
Asphalt roof shingles was something I never saw when I lived twice in Paris, but there they are on buildings in the France pavilion. This is a theme park version of Paris.
#Epcot
#Parisarchitecture
American Disney fanatics are going to see this and lose their minds. Americans have all but forgotten how to fight for their workers’ rights, and when that fight involves the multi billion dollar corporation that they worship, they’ll always find an excuse to not defend workers.
I’m sorry y’all, but I’m getting the same feeling about Villains land. I don’t see it happening. It’ll get budget cut and watered down to just a new Villains ride in Fantasyland or something. Sorry.
12 years ago, Disney got caught flat footed when Universal opened Wizarding World of Harry Potter. And it looks like the same thing is going to happen in a couple of years when they come out swinging with Super Nintendo World at Epic Universe. This land looks incredible.
I’ve been saying this for YEARS because nothing about these hotels is luxury. They are designed to make people cosplay as wealthy for a week.
Expensive ≠ luxury
There’s a lot of reasons for this, but it needs to be said that over-simplifying and two-dimensionalizing the animation style just to make toy manufacturing cheaper is getting really hard to ignore. Never more egregious than in Wish.
Disneyland just hits different. Imagine this same scene at Magic Kingdom in WDW. They’d be mobbed by cameras, people shouting, Instagramers,
and Karen’s who’ll complain to guest services that their kid wasn’t picked.
Reminder: The parks aren’t seeing record-breaking crowds. There’s just fewer things to do in the parks. Year after year, more entertainment gets cut, more rides are breaking down due to lack of maintenance. And relief (new rides) isn’t in sight for AT LEAST 5-6 more years.
Sorry, but she played herself. She literally went out of her way to have the most expensive day possible so she’d have content.
• $900 for a night at a hotel?!?!
• THREE lightsabers?!?!
• Character breakfast
• All those snacks when you could’ve brought your own in
Last night we finished planning our 8-day vacation next month in Orlando. Not a single day at a Disney park. Not one. It’s too expensive, too complicated, Genie is causing longer lines, and the quality of their theme park product has fallen way too much to justify the prices.
It’s not just that Universal is building a new park; it’s hostile policies like this towards guests that will hurt Disney long term. Combine these with price hikes, lower quality food & attractions, half-baked “new” lands, and that’s how you send your customers to the competition
Am I the only person who wants a Jurassic World movie where nothing goes wrong? People just enjoy the theme park and you get to see all the rides and attractions. Am I asking too much?
Oh great. Another season of:
“Did you know the dinosaurs *fart noise* in Animal Kingdom *boink* aren’t real?! They are actually *giggle* robot animatronics *beep boop*”
Despite attendance being down, the parks *feel* packed because there’s less to do than ever. Disney has cut back on entertainment and live shows, and due to maintenance cuts, rides are breaking down more than ever. Fewer people in the parks all trying to do the same 5 things.
Watched Turning Red with my 3-year old TWICE. Not once has she asked me about puberty, or boys, or *gasp* rebellion. She just likes watching the girls act goofy and she likes it when the big panda gets mad and destroys everything. Stop projecting YOUR insecurities onto your kids
Crazy thing about Disney admitting they want to throw in the towel on Dinoland is that they’d be handing over to Universal total control of dinosaurs in the Orlando market. A HUGE coup considering kids are OBSESSED with dinos and parents (me) spend a ton on dino toys & merch.
A typical day in the Mad Max-esque dangerous hell hole known as downtown Indianapolis. People were doing things like: eating lunch, listening to live music, and letting their children play on the monument steps 😱
‼️Easily frightened suburbanites should stay far away ‼️
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Spoiler alert: They are entitles and see the drag queens as "less than," so they have no problem disrespecting them and invading their space. I was at a show in Toronto where the dj had to gather all the straight girls and go over all the rules 3 TIMES!
How is Universal working at such a blistering pace? Don’t they know there was a four month construction halt during the pandemic 3 1/2 years ago and that means all of their projects should be 2+ years behind???
NEW: Here's a high resolution look at the DinoLand reimagining artwork shared at Destination D23.
The artwork features a land inspired by "tropical Americas" and includes ideas for experiences inspired by Encanto and Indiana Jones.
If Disney is going to insist on charging a super premium price to experience their parks, they should have no problem when people become more critical of their product when it fails to meet expectations. Why is this concept so difficult for Disney adults to understand?
Headlines and Disney apologists will tell you Disney parks are struggling because “the economy,” but the cruise industry is BOOMING right now. It’s much more an issue of people wanting a good value for the money they’ve spent. Families are speaking with their dollars.
After years of complaining about screens at Universal, Disney people have been fooled into thinking trackless screen-based rides are the height of themed entertainment.
This land has:
• a coaster
• 2 flat rides
• a boat ride
• kids play area
• a popular theater show
Everytime I come here, I’m amazed Disney actually built this land. It’s colorless, lifeless and static. They took one of their most character and location rich properties and made *this.* The land is engaging in the worst ways (pay to play). Its a monument to corporate hubris.
When I get the time, I’ll sit down and write the story about the wealthy parent’s who’s kids work at WDW. Disney is courting these workers because the wealthy parents subsidize Disney’s low wages, AND the kids are built in influencers who post from inside the parks everyday.
It’s amazing to see companies like Royal Caribbean, Carnival, and Universal spending buckets of money to eat away at Disney’s market share, and to watch Disney sit there like a frog in boiling water.
JUST ANNOUNCED: Five immersive worlds. One amazing theme park. Universal Epic Universe opens 2025 at Universal Orlando Resort.
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The year is 2035. A one-day ticket will cost $500, and Disney apologists will still be citing a three-month shutdown that happened in 2020 to justify a resort full of half-day parks.
So WDW’s newest park is a quarter of a century old. Personally I feel that expanding the existing parks is the most beneficial route for the guests. But 25 years is a long time. Maybe they’re due a new park? What do you think?
My last few rides on Rise of the Resistance (including today), so many of the amazing effects are seemingly always broken. Kylo AA, the cannons, lightsaber in the ceiling, etc.
Is this the new Disney standard? Will these ever get fixed?
He low attendance numbers at WDW are spooking Disney, but they think it’s mainly due delta variant keeping people away and they “think” people are waiting for 50th festivities to start. They *hope* the “Disney is too expensive” narrative hasn’t taken hold, but it may have.
Almost $900 for a family of four to spend ONE DAY at Disney World (not even including food/hotel) and y’all are out here clutching your pearls when someone points out subpar building quality and cheap shortcuts???
I’d be nitpicking too. At these prices, hold them accountable.
Southwest: “Hey, we have $60 flights!”
Me: “Cool. Where to?”
Southwest: 🤷🏽♂️
Me: “Oh. Well, when?”
Southwest: 🤷🏽♂️
Me: “Do you have like a chart or something I can look at?”
Southwest: 🤷🏽♂️
If your feelings are hurt when one multi-billion dollar corporation throws a (very soft) jab at another multi-billion dollar corporation, you need to go outside and touch some grass. Y’all are way too invested in this silly stuff.
The amount of shade Universal throws at Disney is actually kind of irritating. They know their audience and they pander to the Disney haters. From in-park jabs like this or the random boss baby beignets, to passive aggressive Twitter posts.
I'm sure Disney welcomes it though.
When Dis changed red head, I had to tell adult white men, “This wasn’t done for you.” The same thing applies here. Disney is doing this for future generations. For kids like my daughter. So they can begin to see themselves in the parks. And not carry baggage from past generations
Y’all get the parks you deserve. Over a decade of making excuses for Disney and giving them a free pass and defending them anytime someone dared hold them accountable for sub-par offerings.
All the money and energy Disney spends on marketing and THIS low quality video is how they choose to reveal the final scene of their new ride.
Make it make sense
Acknowledging Disney treats its workers like trash, while simultaneously bragging about how you go to Disney parks everyday to create content to give the company free publicity is insane.
The last 10 years of commercial (retail/hotel) design have been plagued by buildings that are all designed to mimic the “open” and minimalistic style of a Starbucks or Apple Store.
I was hoping this trend would fade away as fast as the trend of smash burgers and pretzel buns.
I knew these stupidly oversized trucks were a menace to our streets, but today I learned that these attention-starved, low-t suburban alpha-male owners are out here paying over $1,000/month in payments (up to 72 months) for these goofy machines!!!
FIRST LOOK: Disney Parks, Experiences and Products Chairman Josh D’Amaro gives a sneak peek of lightsaber training in Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser at
@WaltDisneyWorld
Resort:
#DestinationD23
At some point we need to have a conversation about the condition of customer service at the domestic Disney parks, but I’m not sure if DisTwitter is ready for that conversation yet.
I keep saying it, THIS ISNT NORMAL. And the way everyone just accepted it as the new norm is deeply disturbing to me.
We get the theme parks we deserve.
$150 to get in. And if you don’t win the early morning fastest fingers contest, just pay another $20 to ride a roller coaster is wild to me.
Wanna ride twice? Play an app-based rapid fire tap game at 7am AND dish out money. Wanna ride three times? Too bad.
This feels wrong.
I’m so glad my daughter is growing up during a golden age of womens basketball and is able to watch such amazing female athletes right here in our city. Thanks to the
@IndianaFever
for making this moment happen today.
All of your saying, “You should have done your research!” to guest being locked out of riding new attractions; you are a dick. Not everyone is a super fan like you. Not everyone spends all day on twitter and message boards like you. It’s not the guests fault, it’s Disney.
Someone on this boat is having their first (and probably only) ride on this amazing attraction. It’s a shame that streamers, and others, continue to ruin these once in a lifetime experiences for others.
Seeing tweets from Disney people talk about how crazy it is to spend a ton of money to go on a windowless submarine, but they were breaking their damn necks to pay $6,000 to go into a windowless Star Wars hotel…
It’s a simple as this: Potentially millions of people came home from a WDW vacation the last few years and told their families and coworkers: “Don’t go to Disney. It’s more expensive than ever and there’s less value than ever.”
Now would be a good time to remind you all that sometimes Disney intentionally leaks project information to measure audience reaction. And sometimes they leak information to ferret out employees/contractors who are too eager to talk to bloggers/YouTubers.
interesting times…
Ok. We need to talk about how businesses going cashless because of COVID is inherently detrimental to poor, underprivileged people. I just had to pay for someone groceries on my credit card because the grocery store wouldn’t take cash from her. She was almost in tears.
The Disney parks you fell in love with as a kid are dead. The spirit, the attention to detail, the treating every customer as a unique special guest is all gone. As long as the turnstiles keep moving, and merch keeps flying off shelves, those special parks are never coming back
How the FUCK does the same company who made the new Epcot fountain, Runaway Railway, Galaxy’s Edge, Cars Land, Mystic Manor, and MORE just screw around and approve this uncentered monstrosity? Anyone with their name on this should be ashamed.
I’m still just FLOORED that Disney didn’t have AT LEAST 2 new e-ticket attractions ready to debut for their 50th.
Universal is out here debuting e-tickets all over the world and Disney clearly had a strategy (even before covid) of doing as little as possible.
@raymondsramirez
If you’re going to draw big money in this economy, you have to have good character, good story, and be able to take some creative visual risks.
And we *should* be the target audience Disney is hitting a home run with. Two high-income earning gay dads with a preschool aged daughter.
But we value our money way too much to waste it on a subpar, low quality vacation experience like the kind Disney now provides. 🤷🏽♂️
The thing the pixie dusters, wannabe influencers, and travel agents don’t get is: We WANT to go to WDW, but we know the squeeze isn’t worth the juice. It’s not about just hating on Disney to be edgy or something. If it wasn’t such a hassle and so much work and stress, we’d go.
Last night we finished planning our 8-day vacation next month in Orlando. Not a single day at a Disney park. Not one. It’s too expensive, too complicated, Genie is causing longer lines, and the quality of their theme park product has fallen way too much to justify the prices.
Reminder: The parks aren’t seeing record-breaking crowds. There’s just fewer things to do in the parks. Year after year, more entertainment gets cut, more rides are breaking down due to lack of maintenance. And relief (new rides) isn’t in sight for AT LEAST 5-6 more years.
In the last few years we’ve been told:
• Sight lines don’t matter.
• Immersive themeing doesn’t matter.
• And now good customer service doesn’t master.
So now what makes Disney, Disney? This is what happens when the parks are treated as nothing more than Instagram spots.
All this work, and they still didn’t fix one of the fundamental problems of Epcot. Not enough rides. Over the last, what, 15 years, Epcot has only a net of +1 ride (Rat) because GotG and Frozen were replacements to the park and not additions.
The tape is still gone but they’re back to forcing multiple groups to cram in and ride Mickey and Minnie’s Runaway Railway together at Disneyland. Any ride that throws you around violently (Daisy’s conga) shouldn’t be forcing guests to slam into each other in a limited space.
FUN FACT: Disney used to use Tom to ferret out leaks in Imagineering. They would feed Imagineers and contractors bs stories and wait for them to leak to Tom. Because they knew Tom would run with ANY story from ANY source. Ppl got fired. Dude never checks for a second source.
The parks do not have “way more than ever.” They don’t even have streetmosphere anymore, no parades in most parks, there’s MUCH less live entertainment, and most people can’t even ride new e-tickets when they open because they don’t win the 7am lottery.
@wakefieldreport
@imemegination
Well even then. The park have way more than they ever have. And they have been expanding more than ever. Some of Disneys practices have been questionable in terms of benefits for consumers, but what they are doing is necessary for the company is what many people don’t understand