Shockingly low wait times at Walt Disney World theme parks on July 4

JackCH12 minutes ago

I think Disney could really use a Chief Creative Officer of the whole company, someone to provide a unified creative vision for the studios, parks, etc. Someone empowered to make the creative decisions with the budgets that are set, rather than having the "bean counters" as everyone says make those decisions.

celluloid31 minutes ago

Hyperbole aside, it will survive, but as stated The gap has closed. Even with family entertainment in general, the Gap to other companies has diminished.

Jrb197958 minutes ago

Not many years left. Lol. I don't think they are going to go out of business or close but running the parks like they are isn't sustainable. What will happen is they no longer will be the number 1 theme park. Attendance wise they will always be ahead of most other parks due to being open 365 days a year. Other parks are catching up now. Look at different polls out there, parks like Dollywood and Silver Dollar City are ranked right up there with WDW.

DarkMetroid56759 minutes ago

I give it five years, tops.

Chi841 hour ago

How many more years do you think WDW can survive?

Sirwalterraleigh1 hour ago

Break the links and see what happens… It already is

celluloid2 hours ago

Yes. That is also true. But for it to be nostalgia, you must have been there for it the first time. As for all the Burbank and why they can't. That ended somewhat a ruptly when Eisner left. Guy at the end was rough, but he was a fan with personal brand connections to the past. Iger typically had what I used to call the Little Mermaid rule. Not much was majorly installed or referenced if it was source material older than Little Mermaid.

networkpro2 hours ago

It's perspective. Your nostalgia is just one period during someone else's life.

celluloid2 hours ago

Subjectively I am with you. Particularly as an owner of all those Walt Disney Treasure sets with Leonard Maltin. However Nostalgia is an experience where objectively, you were there for it. What you describe awouod be afficionado and when Professional, historians. Like the terms retro and vintage. Walt had this love this way with The revolutionary war and American Frontier even though he was not there for it. He had Nostalgia for Main Street America. There is a difference. And Walt knew this well. There is a reason one of the main lands and first and last impression one since opening day are Main Street USA. We are saying the same thing. But for the sake of getting terms right, every generation has their own Nostalgia. Particularly odd to say you feel nostalgia while watching a film about WW II. As great and palpable as it is. That is not nostalgia. You were moved by a great retrospective biopic film. Maybe nostalgia for a family member who was there that you felt due to the film. Or pride and gratitude/patriotism. But not nostalgia for a war. For a other example: I have nostalgia of Mel's Diner at Uni as a place I was with my dad on my first visits to Universal. I know its a meh place food wise, but a thematic staple of a core memory. That is where my nostalgia for it is. Retrospective, I thi k it is cool that it is 1950s/60s themed diner. My dad was teen in the early 60s and had enjoyment of nostalgia for a place it reminded him of the same way the movie American Graffiti was made for those peeps even more so because the movie itself was a love letter of that nostalgia. Very evident in the film's tagline.

Sirwalterraleigh2 hours ago

Correct…which is why the attendance is falling and won’t recover Screw jobs out in the open usually get a stigma

Cliff3 hours ago

That "operational nightmare" is helping to drive app-purchases and generating strong revenue. That is why the operational nightmare was "created" and why it's being maintained.

Cliff3 hours ago

I disagree. I VERY much love seeing films on Walt Disney opening Disneyland in 1955. I very much love seeing everything he said and did...and the guy died years before I was born. I can appreciate the nostalgia of films and music that were made LONG before I was born. You don't even need to be alive at the times that things were happening to get a nostalgic "feeling" or endearment to enjoy them. I can watch a WW-II movie live Saving Private Ryan and I can get an enormous feeling of nostalgia and love for the people that lived through those times. Why can't Disney be the same? Why can't Burbank market it's historic products to today's modern audience? Are these "modern" people not able to appreciate 100 years of incredible pop culture? (Although it "does" make it hard when Burbank keeps placing "trigger warnings" on some of their incredible classic titles. I'm told that "modern" audiences have been conditioned to require "safe-spaces" now? Burbank doesn't want "Dumbo" to hurt any "modern" anxieties today?....I dunno)

Sirwalterraleigh1 day ago

Those parks had queue lines that moved almost continuously in packed summer crowds in the 95 degree heat for decades… There are reasons that they now have 55 minute waits in January 1 hour after opening… It’s a few reasons…but it’s also far from “out of their control” They’ve created an operational nightmare and it’s biting them

celluloid2 days ago

That is indeed dangerous as WDW in business courses was cited in having a 99 percent return rate.