Attendance Tracker

[Galaxy Defender]

I am hoping that the new attractions helped Universal gain attendance this quarter. It might not be the gain they were hoping for with these rides opening but in this Orlando environment any gain is a good thing. It will look especially good against another WDW decline.

I wonder how the media will cover three quarters of WDW declines, not to mention the online Disney fan community.

 

[Disneyhead]

I am hoping that the new attractions helped Universal gain attendance this quarter. It might not be the gain they were hoping for with these rides opening but in this Orlando environment any gain is a good thing. It will look especially good against another WDW decline.

I wonder how the media will cover three quarters of WDW declines, not to mention the online Disney fan community.

No one in the "legitimate" media has put together that WDW is flailing.

 

[Mad Dog]

No one in the "legitimate" media has put together that WDW is flailing.

Yeah. All the news stories we've seen are months behind those attendance issues we've been discussing. They'd do better to just follow OU forum threads. ....People should remember that Disneyhead was discussing this attendance shortfall on OU & Magic long before the mainstream media. :thumbsup:

 

[Galaxy Defender]

No one in the "legitimate" media has put together that WDW is flailing.

The first quarterly decline was chalked up to the Iger revenue plan. Second decline was attributed largely to a shifting of Easter and everything that happened over the early summer. I think the third quarterly decline is when people see the pattern.

 

[Disneyhead]

Just so you know, some at TDO thought that spiking prices was a really bad way to deal with capacity issues.

It worked...really well.

If WDW was kicking on all cylinders, they might have gotten away with it. People notice that it's held together by duct tape and about to blow apart at the seams.

OK, not so much recently,

Yea, WDW struggling trims Universal's numbers, but I have to believe that Universal is OK with that. Universal is going to gain major market share.

 

[GAcoaster]

No one in the "legitimate" media has put together that WDW is flailing.

It will be a story now. Like so many things bloggers/fans do the research and it shows up in the Sentinel and other media a day or two later.

 

[Teebin]

I worry that politics will prevent any story ever being published. Disney is still a big cow in this pasture.

 

[JoeCamel]

I worry that politics will prevent any story ever being published. Disney is still a big cow in this pasture.

Yes they are and I don't want to see them fail. I like not paying state income tax. I would like to see them change their policies and not have the narrow view the customer is nothing but a walking wallet and the goal is to empty the wallet

 

[Galaxy Defender]

Ouch.

 

[Mad Dog]

I worry that politics will prevent any story ever being published. Disney is still a big cow in this pasture.

pasture? New way of looking at Orlando.

 

[GAcoaster]

The Mouse House is not the scared cow that it used to be for the media.

 

[Galaxy Defender]

I worry that politics will prevent any story ever being published. Disney is still a big cow in this pasture.

Financial analysts will pick up on it at some point. It will be all over the web then. They love the smell of blood in the water.

 

[shiekra38]

I don't want them to fail, but I do want them to learn

 

[Galaxy Defender]

I don't want them to fail, but I do want them to learn

They won't fail. All it takes is money to fix the problem. Disney has plenty of money.

I do think by the end of this they will be a bit humbled. My aybe even not take their guests so much for granted or treat them like walking wallets.

 

[Mad Dog]

Yeah, when their #2 Executive (CFO Russulo at the time)said to investors that My Magic was about getting into our customers wallets and take more money out of them, well, that wasn't too bright to say in public.

 

[Teebin]

pasture? New way of looking at Orlando.

I had been thinking that the first time I ever saw long horn cattle in real life was when I first moved down to Kissimmee. Thus the use of pasture... (choo choo train of thought teebin)

 

[Mad Dog]

I had been thinking that the first time I ever saw long horn cattle in real life was when I first moved down to Kissimmee. Thus the use of pasture... (choo choo train of thought teebin)

off track a bit. When we were skiing in Vermont, we took a side trip north to the Vermont/Canadian border. They had those heavily haired type Scottish breed cattle up there. Like a scene out of medieval times.

 

[Galaxy Defender]

Yeah, when their #2 Executive (CFO Russulo at the time)said to investors that My Magic was about getting into our customers wallets and take more money out of them, well, that wasn't too bright to say in public.

Honesty is always appreciated, even brutal honesty.

 

[Teebin]

You guys kill me...

 

[Galaxy Defender]

Someone emailed me this article. It came out before the latest quarterly report. It hit the problems WDW has both external and self inflicted. We will likely see many more WDW attendance decline articles in the coming months.

5 Reasons Disney World Attendance is Falling -- The Motley Fool