{"id":1967680,"date":"2023-07-08T20:09:01","date_gmt":"2023-07-09T00:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/disney-getting-desperate-as-house-of-mouse-heads-toward-cliff-we-dont-always-get-it-right\/"},"modified":"2023-07-08T20:10:52","modified_gmt":"2023-07-09T00:10:52","slug":"disney-getting-desperate-as-house-of-mouse-heads-toward-cliff-we-dont-always-get-it-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/disney-getting-desperate-as-house-of-mouse-heads-toward-cliff-we-dont-always-get-it-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Disney in Dire Straits as it Approaches the Edge: &#8216;We Make Mistakes Too&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdisney-getting-desperate-as-house-of-mouse-heads-toward-cliff-we-dont-always-get-it-right%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1967680&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>&#8220;I&#8217;m going to Disney!&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p>Well, not so much nowadays.<\/p>\n<p>The House of the Mouse used to be synonymous with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xHOgwub8apc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">place to go celebrate<\/a>. Going to the park and wearing some mouse ears, eating too much food, and grabbing a picture with Mickey and Minnie.<\/p>\n<p>You can almost hear this phrase in Mickey&#8217;s iconic voice: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iL53KPWh7I4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oh<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iL53KPWh7I4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> boy<\/a>, it sure was fun!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But the current ticket sales have painted a different picture.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Disney World&#8217;s Expensive Ticket Hike<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/suzannerowankelleher\/2022\/11\/16\/disney-world-expensive-ticket-hike\/?sh=4c3824dfd313\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Forbes<\/a> reported in November 2022, Disney World decided to raise its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/twitter-expands-clubhouse-like-audio-chat-feature\/\" title=\"Twitter Expands Clubhouse-Like Audio Chat Feature\">ticket price<\/a> for the theme park. The outlet did the math to see just how much it might be for an average family to visit the park.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Depending on their travel dates, a family of four \u2014 let&#8217;s say two parents and 10-year-old twins \u2014 could now pay as much as $756 per day for a Disney World vacation, even before hotel, meals, transportation or souvenirs,&#8221; the outlet noted.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Josh D&#8217;Amaro is the chairman of Walt Disney Parks and Resorts and gave a very illuminating interview with travel site <a href=\"https:\/\/thepointsguy.com\/news\/disney-josh-damaro\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Point Guys<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ll repeat the same thing I said before: We don&#8217;t always get it right,&#8221; D&#8217;Amaro stated.<\/p>\n<p>And no, Disney really hasn&#8217;t gotten it right \u2014 at all \u2014 to say the very least.<\/p>\n<p>Just look at the two-day &#8220;immersive experience&#8221; that was the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/disney-announces-closing-another-florida-property-fans-complain-high-prices\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Galactic Starcruiser<\/a> at Disney World. If a family of four wanted to take the voyage to a galaxy far, far away they would have had to shell out close to $6,000. Related: Disney announced in May the Starcruiser would be shutting down permanently.<\/p>\n<p>Disney World also experienced its slowest six-week stretch since 2021, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.disneytouristblog.com\/summer-crowd-stagnation-surprise-slowdown-at-disney-world\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Disney Tourist Blog<\/a>. They also noted spring break was less busy, as wait times were down from the past year.<\/p>\n<p>In May CFO Christine McCarthy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.disneytouristblog.com\/disney-parks-reports-higher-revenue-amidst-looming-slowdown\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">warned<\/a> the upcoming quarter&#8217;s numbers were not going to be good for the company.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Please keep in mind that in the back half of this fiscal year, there will be an unfavorable comparison against the prior year&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/disney-getting-desperate-as-house-of-mouse-heads-toward-cliff-we-dont-always-get-it-right\/\" title=\"Disney in Dire Straits as it Approaches the Edge: 'We Make Mistakes Too'\">incredibly successful 50th anniversary celebration<\/a> at Walt Disney World,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We typically see some moderation in demand as we lap these types of events, and third quarter-to-date performance has been in line with those historical trends.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s all perfunctory corporate-speak, but the numbers really do speak for themselves, particularly in the film industry that Walt Disney cut his teeth in all those years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Disney has abjectly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/disney-never-learns-another-expensive-woke-animated-film-studio-flops-hard\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">failed<\/a> to have much recent success at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/sound-freedom-dethrones-disney-beats-indy-5-opening-day\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/9-box-office-duds-that-became-cult-classics\/\" title=\"9 Box Office Duds That Became Cult Classics\">box office<\/a><\/a>, outside of &#8220;Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3.&#8221; The two animated films &#8220;Strange World&#8221; and &#8220;Lightyear&#8221; reportedly lost the company over a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/report-disney-lost-quarter-billion-dollars-two-woke-failures\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">quarter of a billion dollars<\/a>. Both films pushed woke ideology. &#8220;Stange World&#8221; had a character have a same-sex crush and &#8220;Lightyear&#8221; included a same-sex kiss.<\/p>\n<p>With the lower attendance in the parks and the gut-punch box office losses, Disney is going to have to figure out a solution.<\/p>\n<p>And probably a fast one.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/disney-getting-desperate-travel-expert-drops-major-clue-house-mouse-headed-toward-cliff\/\">Disney Getting Desperate as House of Mouse Heads Toward Cliff: &#8216;We Don&#8217;t Always Get It Right&#8217;<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m off to Disney!&#8221; Not as much these days. The Mouse&#8217;s abode was once the ultimate celebration spot. Visiting the park, donning mouse ears, indulging in food, and snapping a pic with Mickey and Minnie. You can almost hear Mickey&#8217;s iconic voice saying, &#8220;Oh boy!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2019,"featured_media":1967681,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1967680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2019"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1967680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1967681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1967680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1967680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1967680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}