Maistre Gracey, since you say you usually dont post here, let me welcome you!!!
I too, as you can see by my handle, own a DVC interest. And I LOVE it!!! Recently, I spent three week in Old Key West and
still didnt get enough of it!! It was truly splendid!!!
It seems to me that most here (at least lately) are car 3 or 4(if I understand the car thing correctly).
Yeah!! It confuses me too and I was here when it all came about!!
It seems they keep rewriting the definitions. But no matter how they define them I always seem to be driving car #3!!
Now, you may find that surprising, given the glowing thumbnail sketch I gave about Old Key West. I mean, how can a person have a splendid time, for three weeks no less, and still claim ownership of car #3??
Well, the answer is pretty simple. I strive to be as educated as possible and as informed as possible, about all things Disney. Most of us have followed this company for a good many years. Personally my love affair with Walt Disneys way of doing business started in 1968!! All through the seventies and eighties I FAITHFULLY visited as often as time and resources allowed. And in the late nineties I (and I would guess most of us) found the Internet and this site in particular. I stuck with this site over others because the posters here, by and large, do not flame alternate viewpoints. They are VERY, VERY intelligent! And the amount of Disney business knowledge bantered about here, in a very casual and offhand way, quite simply blows me away!!!!
But at the same time I discovered this site, this wealth of knowledge and free exchange of intellectual concepts, I noticed a lot of little things (and a couple major ones) at Disney that bothered me quite a bit. At first it was just a feeling. A feeling that something had changed. Something fundamental. Something basic. And that something wasnt good! It felt BAD!!
After spending some time defending this feeling I started to become more articulate in my writing and more cognizant of the problem I now recognized as a fundamental change in philosophy. Quite simply their way of doing business was no longer what I had fallen in love with way back in 1968!! And that saddened me a great deal.
PLEASE DON'T GET ME WRONG, I am a firm believer that we need a variety of opinions (including both extremes) to make a solid, informed decision.
On this board we do have a great many pessimists (I like to call the realists
) and a great many optimists! But lately, even the optimists have some basic philosophical issues with Disneys current management. And it is because of the great wealth of knowledge, and the flame free atmosphere on this site that we can all learn from each other and can begin to see through the official spin and a fresh coat of paint and realize that the core of this Disney concept weve ALL come to know and love is not what it once was or what it potentially can be.
Quite frankly, I have never heard such pessimism and negativity.
Well, I hope the above paragraph pretty much answered this. It is NOT pessimism and negativity, but a stark and blunt dose of reality. What the newspapers and analysts are now saying within the past few
days is exactly what many of us have been saying the past few
years! (And as an aside I gotta tell ya:
IT FEELS GREAT!!!!)
I think I can say for all of us Cars #1 through #3, that when we are in Dinsey we buy into the Magic and Pixie dust as much (and maybe more so) than any other person on the fae of the planet. But when we discuss the philosophy of bringing that magic to life, we can ALL see that this administration does not have what it takes.
Does this make a little more sense now?