Budget Cutz: Disney Edition

[Nick]

So seems like Move it, Shake it is just being rethemed, not cut:

 

[Skipper Justin]

MousekeDance it? Did they write that line sober?

 

[Nick]

MousekeDance it? Did they write that line sober?

This is the third iteration of the parade and the name keeps getting worse and worse.

 

[GadgetGuru]

So seems like Move it, Shake it is just being rethemed, not cut:

Has Disney not done yearly marketing themes recently (like Year of a Million Dreams or that Birthday thing)? Seems like they release them around this time and that blog post didn’t have a marketing tag line

 

[Viator]

An update on Rafiki's, cast members have been apparently informed that the closure will be permanent.

BREAKING: Rafiki's Planet Watch to Close Permanently Next Month - Blog Mickey

 

[Scott W.]

An update on Rafiki's, cast members have been apparently informed that the closure will be permanent.

BREAKING: Rafiki's Planet Watch to Close Permanently Next Month - Blog Mickey

This boggles my mind. AK doesn’t really have a lot to do outside of Avatar and they’re making cuts?

I wonder what they’ll cut from DHS when Star Wars opens.

Having said that, I was just in the Disney outlet store and they just put out a ton of RnRC merchandise.

 

[OrlLover]

An update on Rafiki's, cast members have been apparently informed that the closure will be permanent.

BREAKING: Rafiki's Planet Watch to Close Permanently Next Month - Blog Mickey

Oh gosh Magic is about to go crazy :afraid::creep:

 

[GadgetGuru]

An update on Rafiki's, cast members have been apparently informed that the closure will be permanent.

BREAKING: Rafiki's Planet Watch to Close Permanently Next Month - Blog Mickey

What are the odds that they're prepping a future expansion?

 

[n i c k]

An update on Rafiki's, cast members have been apparently informed that the closure will be permanent.

BREAKING: Rafiki's Planet Watch to Close Permanently Next Month - Blog Mickey

Any rumors on a replacement? I am very disappointed.

 

[Doug A.]

I thought somebody hinted at a possible Zootopia land taking over but I don’t know how much credence that rumor has.

 

[JoeCamel]

I thought somebody hinted at a possible Zootopia land taking over but I don’t know how much credence that rumor has.

Only the two posters that post zootopia is a lock for AK no matter where.

 

[Viator]

 

[paintervision]

Another entertainment role bites the dust

 

[JungleSkip]

(Maybe it’s time to talk about how Avatar hasn’t been all that successful)

 

[Mad Dog]

sure looking like the 'rumors' of WDW falling far from Sept. attendance projections, have a real basis in fact.

 

[Parkscope Joe]

(Maybe it’s time to talk about how Avatar hasn’t been all that successful)

I don't know what you're talking about, the emperor's robes are fantastic and expensive! Easily the best robes in Orlando.

 

[Teebin]

Jeepers!

 

[Nick]

An update on Rafiki's, cast members have been apparently informed that the closure will be permanent.

BREAKING: Rafiki's Planet Watch to Close Permanently Next Month - Blog Mickey

I want to be excited about this closing and the prospect of a new and better land back there, but it’s hard to be excited for or to even legitimately expect anything when so many damn cuts are happening.

 

[JoeCamel]

I don't know what you're talking about, the emperor's robes are fantastic and expensive! Easily the best robes in Orlando.

They glow in the dark too..

 

[ChristopherSE]

Disney cutting entertainers is maddening, because in the grand scheme of things, the salary of those employees is a drop in the bucket. I’m sure there are much bigger fish when it comes to budgeting, but entertainment bears the brunt of it because it’s easier to give a few performers 2 weeks notice than to solve systemic issues of gargantuan project budgets and inflated head corporate salaries.

EDIT: also just made a new thread for the closing of Rafiki’s Planet Watch as that news breaks and for the ultimate speculation of what’s to come