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↩ replying to wdwmagicI remember, quite well, hiding out in the camera center (as it was known back then) during a torrential thunderstorm. Kids were babies at the time and I carried the two youngest while my wife carried the then 4-yr old. The rented stroller was parked outside and the wind flipped it over and sent it flying through that breezeway. At one point, we made a mad-dash for the mono-rail. Never saw so many kids crying at the same time as then. FUN TIMES :D
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↩ replying to wdwmagicHow are they managing Project Tomorrow's exit? Are the West facing doors blacked out? Walled off? Roped off?
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STILL. WAITING. FOR. PALM. TREES.
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↩ replying to DreamfinderGuyThey are still there. From the POV of the picture taken it routes just around the right side of the wall after the planter.
They have CM's stationed at that part to prevent folks from going up that way. I had to explain that we were waiting for someone to get off of Spaceship Earth. After a little bit of an exchange, they let us back to we could wait in the Project Tomorrow exit area.
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Starting to creep towards the bottom:
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I do think it's unwise to blame Zach. While he can be pretty aggressively corpo, that is his job. Not much you can do for that and if I was in his position I'd be trying to do as much creatively as possible while threading the needle of pleasing the execs.
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↩ replying to owlsandcoffeeMaybe not? But who is to blame? Is it just one person? Probably not.
What I don’t understand is solely blaming Chapek.
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I don't know who this Zack is but I don't see a Zack listed in the upper layer of management for The Disney Company. If he isn't at the top then he couldn't burp without permission from above and that is usually a committee so no individual can be blamed. Finger pointing directed at a specific individual is very difficult in the corporate world.
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↩ replying to GoofyernmostHe’s the new PR groomed Rohde. Trying to be a customer friendly mouthpiece on social media but with less experience. And no earnings.
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↩ replying to marni1971I'm curious about previous things he's worked on. Going over his LinkedIn shows he worked on the California Adventure overhaul and lots of portfolio/internal shuffling jobs?
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↩ replying to marni1971lol so their puppet?
I'm not blaming him personally, but I'll never forget watching a Tony Baxter interview a few years ago where he said "you know a lot of guys (imagineers) today will just say yes to anything, so when someone like me comes in and tries to change something or make a suggestion on a project... they (the executives) look around and ask "do we even need this guy" :(
Unfortunately Disney is full of a lot of Yes Men.