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Reddog1134 said:
I think ESPN is a recent turn of events.

Muppets has been floundering since....late 80's?

ETA: Although Disney hasn't owned them that whole time.
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Espn was an absolute economic dynamo from 1997-2014...it made the whole purchase of Capitol cities a winner and Eisner still paid WAY too much.

So that analogy doesn't equate. The problem is it hit the iceberg, they've built their stock around its profits, and it's going down FAST.
 
a4matte said:
It's not even those. Wall mounted larger bottles have apparently been popping up.
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Well even though it will be a bummer not to get the little bottles, at least these are the higher end line of the offerings. The ones at the Pop were always the combo shampoo/ conditioner (which I can't use), the moderates had the grapefruit (which is nice), and you had to stay at a deluxe or hit the cruise line to get the sea marine formula, which I love (and buy the big bottles of for home). But I like getting the travel size for, you know, traveling.
 




SaharanTea said:
Odd. Even with 15% of the sun uncovered, that's still a lot of light. I guess the lawyers spoke up.
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Here's a graphical representation of the eclipse at the maximum point. Only 13% of the sun will be uncovered. Personally, it seems like common sense to close trails that are always closed at night during an eclipse of this nature. No lawyers needed here.

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The site where I got that graphic also has an animation showing how the eclipse will happen. (You can enter your own city to see what will happen locally, too.)

For Disney's Animal Kingdom: https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/in/@6949554
 
skier_pete said:
See - I feel like there may be some good restaurants at DS - but it not worth the hassle to travel there versus at the resorts/parks where I'm already at. Everytime I go to DS it's minimum hour travel with the traffic, versus 30 minutes to a park where I can eat AND do other things. If DS doesn't try to attract me with something unique (the stores aren't cutting it), then I'm not even bothering to go. Blaze pizza sounds interesting, but again not 2 hours round trip travel interesting. Edison has the potential to be something unique. If they dumb it down to just another dining location - then I just won't care.
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The problem with good restaurants, as opposed to good adult venues, is that you can only eat dinner once per night in one place. It's about an hour experience--- show up hungry with no patience to walk through shops, hurry in to eat, spend the hour eating, leave full with a desire to go to sleep........With the adult venues, ..... show up thirsty and hungry, grab a drink, take a walk and grab a gyro at the stand, and another drink, walk through some shops and buy things you normally wouldn't buy (cause of the glow), enter another adult venue, rinse and repeat....... Not at all the same experience, or spending..... surprised disney doesn't know better....
 
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I think the challenge is they tried it with Pleasure Island to have these adult venues and then it turned into a lot of issues with people out of control and often gangs of people and just a very non-Disney vibe. I think they could have kept a few things like the Adventurers Club but I think they are hesistantbto have a bunch of place people can like "pub crawl" with

Maybe the Edison is their next attempt by having several types of venues under one roof
 
rteetz said:
I like it since they have unique Disney shirts there.
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Plus they're cheap!

Oddly I kind of like the Springs too. Probably because it doesn't feel as crowded as the parks and I like the loungey sounding house music and like strolling and people-watching. I do wish most the retail options were more inspiring though and less expensive. I'm totally willing to spend money, just not on over-inflated, boring things.
 
TheMaxRebo said:
I think the challenge is they tried it with Pleasure Island to have these adult venues and then it turned into a lot of issues with people out of control and often gangs of people and just a very non-Disney vibe. I think they could have kept a few things like the Adventurers Club but I think they are hesistantbto have a bunch of place people can like "pub crawl" with

Maybe the Edison is their next attempt by having several types of venues under one roof
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That is an absolute cover story...there was very little "gang" violence at PI...but that story was floated for years.

The reality is it wasnt busy enough for their tastes and they didn't want to pay for the operation...

...and on the flip side, when they were busy, the tips allowed the drones assigned there to clean up and that wasn't good for the Eisner mandated "everyone minimum" labor strategy...

Don't believe the hype.
 
MickeyMinnieMom said:
Really? A fan of Puck? Huh. I associate that with mall food now. Quite decent mall food, but mall food. All so subjective... :thumbsup2
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I can see that...it's not nearly as unique as it once was..

But here's the thing: the pricing has remained a good value as opposed to the double charged disney food.

Sometimes you have to call "bs" when you see it
 
beer dave said:
The problem with good restaurants, as opposed to good adult venues, is that you can only eat dinner once per night in one place. It's about an hour experience--- show up hungry with no patience to walk through shops, hurry in to eat, spend the hour eating, leave full with a desire to go to sleep........With the adult venues, ..... show up thirsty and hungry, grab a drink, take a walk and grab a gyro at the stand, and another drink, walk through some shops and buy things you normally wouldn't buy (cause of the glowa0, enter another adult venue, rinse and repeat....... Not at all the same experience, or spending..... surprised disney doesn't know better....
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They do, it's called Food and Wine. With how the crowds have changed from a summer peak to almost a fall peak, they have seen to it that F&W has become huge. With that being said, I do avoid the weekends there and I am a partner! I just prefer to be a laid back, out of the way partier that my wife can tolerate! pirate:
 
Tigger's ally said:
They do, it's called Food and Wine. With how the crowds have changed from a summer peak to almost a fall peak, they have seen to it that F&W has become huge. With that being said, I do avoid the weekends there and I am a partner! I just prefer to be a laid back, out of the way partier that my wife can tolerate! pirate:
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Food and wine is a stopgap...a compound that large with that many people at all times needs more the cheeky liquor carnival
 
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