Can you imagine Universal is coming out with a new park with thousands of people currently working right now on building it and Disney doesn’t even have a new ride to announce … universal must be stunned sitting there thinking wow this is a Disney dream come true.
Anything that hasn’t been announced now isn’t going to happen by Summer 2025. They’re going to be far behind. They’ve played all their cards since Wizarding World opened with marginal success. New Fantasyland, Frozen/New Soarin/Remy/Cosmic Rewind/more festivals, Toy Story Land/Galaxy’s Edge/Mickey & Minnie, Pandora, new nighttime shows at each park. I’m not sure what they could do at this point to keep up. They’ve chosen to do essentially nothing because people will keep going to WDW even if they reduce their investment in new attractions.
@@wt7553 they will keep comming until they don't. Disney captured people with nostalgia in the past, that is mostly what is feeding the endless popularity no matter what disney does at the moment. However, disney has barely been nesting itself in new peoples minds for comming up 25 years now. That is why "disney fans" are all almost exlusivly middle aged nowdays. That generation is going to fizzle out soon and there is hardly a new generation of dedicated fans to replace them. And even within the random younger public disney no longer holds that nostalgic attraction they had over previous generations. And these people will not be so accepting of their bs because they simply are no longer emotionally invested and will be far more open to concider alternative options to a disney vacation. In the past there have been a lot of people who never went anywhere else other then disney. That is not going to last. Disney is much more vulnrable then people think. Their main cash cows are now reaching their financial peaks, that is why disney is doing so well right now. But they never invested in what should replace them when the current crop ultimatly grows to old and eventually dies off. This cliff is comming, and they now it. That is why they no longer dare to expand to much, not being sure they can still fill the capacity a decade from now. Right about the time the currently hot ip's they are using will be over their peak and inevitably will become old and stale. Disney made some major strategic f ups that is making their future insecure and difficult.
Attendance dropped significantly at all 4 WDW parks when Universal opened WWOHP. You better bet Disney's attendance will drop significantly again when Epic Universe opens but Disney somehow doesnt seem to care this time.
Calling this years D23 lackluster is almost a compliment compared to how bad this really was. These are dark days for the parks, theirs no hiding it anymore.
@@samhart51 I sure try to keep my hopes up that someday a new dawn will rise over the American Disney parks. However, days like today forces me to think that Pandora and Radiator Springs may be the last of the immersive jaw dropping imagineering we may see for a long time.
@@sideeswipe It is, but then again it isn't. Knowing so much more was planned for galaxy edge hurts the mindset going in. For example, Rise of the resistance is a remarkable ride, however guests are FORCE fed characters from Disney's less than popular star wars IP trilogy. When in hindsight, replacing those characters with the original trilogy characters, and suddenly you have a timeless ride that appeals to everyone. And as for smugglers run, I'm sorry but it's very narrow-minded to create another motion based simulator ride based on the same IP on the other side of a wall of another timeless attraction; star tours.
12:07 - Disney is a multinational corporation that doesn’t care about you. 😬 While I do enjoy a variety of other Disney influencers and their content, I can’t imaging many of them being that blunt and honest (probably because they are afraid of getting on Disney’s bad side). Your honesty is appreciated!
Just want to point out, Tiana's Bayou Adventure will gut dark ride scenes and replace them with fog and DJ lights. They literally showed us a high school dance DJ set up. I'm beyond shocked. Did they think we would be excited by (temporary) walk-around characters in the US while teasing all the new attractions in asia? All those billions in revenue and we get kids birthday party entertainment.
I give TDR a pass because they’re funded entirely by OLC and Disney doesn’t invest a dime, just their name and IP. Thank Walt that OLC pushed back against the Splash retheme and demanded 3 boat rides and a dark ride for Fantasy Springs.
i genuinely laughed out loud when i read kid’s birthday party entertainment because it’s so sad yet true disney is becoming an overpriced birthday party
Splash mountain should just stay period end of Story People on that ride today are clueless as to the issue surrounding it with it's so called racist connections. How in the hell does a log flume ride become racist? It has one of the largest followings. If princess and the frog is the popular where it needs its own ride do just that. Make a new one. Don't steel an exciting one and make it look like a tyco glue together model Horrible decision and Disney is going to see a huge backlash from it .
I hate to get on the "Disney sucks and is overpriced and seems to not care much about its guests"..but yea, all those things seem to be pretty true. Reinvesting more and more park money into endless starwars and marvel Disney+ content is about as infuriating as it gets. I had to stop staying at value resorts because for 3 trips in a row I had rooms that smelled of mold and had almost zero theme. The leadership is truly terrible.
My Uber said she worked at one of the hotels and talked how sometimes they would need mattresses from other hotels and that cast members would know not to get mattresses from the value resorts due to the amount of bed bugs.
The news about Tiana's bayou ride has me dreading the final results. I fear it's going to be another Mickey's Crazy ride or whatever the hell it is they replaced the Great Movie ride with and it is essentially, screen projections and cheap theme park style backdrops. Every time I think about saving money to come back, I run into news like this and I despair. I will not pay $300+ a night for moderate resort hotel rooms when I'll get six flags style birthday entertainment in return with Disney's intellectual IPs slapped onto it. (I will not stay at a value resort - I saw the new rooms and I got claustrophobic just looking at them). And to think it was $300+ a night to stay at a Deluxe Resort at *least* a decade ago.
@@Photo0021 Pop. I've stayed at pop around 15 times, but the last 3 the rooms were musty and actually the most recent triggered an asthma attack for my wife and eldest daughter. We left pop and stayed half at Carribean Beach and half at the Poly. I won't return to pop, unfortunately.
THANK YOU Braden, once again, for reporting the truth. So many vloggers and bloggers took the blue sky stuff and posted them as “confirmed” all over their social media platforms. People have been throwing comments all over the place. Honestly, I think it’s all just to distract guests attention away from Epic Universe.
For real it’s so embarrassing and then the brain dead Disney sympathizer are like “everyone’s being so negative thank you *cough cough DSNY Newscast* for spewing out utter bullshit”
Exactly!!!! This was straight up gaslighting. “What if we do this? What if we do that?”. And then you realize they’re just spitballing! None of this is real! They have zero to announce except for the groundbreaking mist coming to the Tiana attraction, but Josh presented it as if he was announcing lots of new things. Just an embarrassing panel. He should have just announced churros are back again.
@@chanilerner6410 Glad I wasn’t the only one that picked up on that. And do they honestly need yet another cruise ship? I realize it’s all the same creative department under Imagineering but it feels completely separate from the parks. I’m sure there’s a small amount of people at D23 that go specifically to hear that but I think most fans who attend are there for the parks.
Disney seems to have lost its vision of what each park should be and that is causing some extremely disappointing decisions to take place.. This is not being negative it is just the simple facts.. I am even more excited for Universal’s Epic Universe.. it’s the only exciting thing happening in Orlando right now…
Disney has become just another run of the mill corperation as people who originally worked with walt and other members of the disney family disapear from living memory.. Nothing of what set disney apart in the entertainment industry in the past still exists within the company anymore. There no longer is a difference between disney or any other multinationals. This is the future, old disney is never comming back again, no matter how much people keep hoping for a miracle.
Same. If I do head to Florida for another family vacation it'll be in 2025 when Epic Universe opens back up. Disney just doesn't seem to be worth it for us right now. I'm hopeful Disney steps up its game by then, but at this point Disney seems to be happy just coasting on decades of built up nostalgia. Any veneer they had to cover up the fact that they're just a multinational corporation out to get your money seems to be stripping off faster than one of their blue sky ideas gets budget cut into oblivion.
It's just embarrassing that Tron has been taking so long to build and open when Universal built Velocicoaster and Hagrids in less time. I mean they even built the entire land of Diagon Alley in two and a half years. What is Disney doing?
They'd rather have something that is forever "coming soon!" to make guests want to come back, instead of having to build more new rides. The entire construction site is over a half decade of kinetic clickbait.
Absolutely. And dont forget iron gwazi at busch tampa and while not at that level seaworld opened icebreaker and will prob have another new coaster next year.
I had low expectations for this panel, but boy did they really underwhelm! 1. How is it going to take another year for them to finish the Moana section and Commuicore Hall at Epcot? 2. How is it going to take them a year to bring Figment back? 3. How is it going to take another 7 months to finish Tron? (this was my biggest shock moment, as I seriously thought it was gonna open by Dec) 4. Hat Box Ghost.... Cool... I guess. 5. No mention of the Spaceship Earth Refurb (was hoping this was back on but in a scaled back version) 6. The Blue Sky concepts look cool, but by the time those actually come to fruition I'll probably be in my mid 60's (I'm in my late 40's right now). Also, we all know that any sort of building/castle whatever is going to be some of kind of forced perspective thing like Beast's Castle in Fantasyland, and nothing cool like Beast's Castle in Tokyo Disneyland. It's crazy to think that by the time Moana opens at Epcot, Epic Universe will be around 80% complete... I really hope that if there is a destination D next summer at WDW they actually announce some stuff. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I agree with 3. They have the ride done and working on pavement now which doesn’t take long to do. It should be done in November not in the spring of 2023. I am going to Disneyworld in January and I can’t ride Tron yet a few months later
Yea the date for Tron really shocked me. Was really thinking it would be open for this holiday season. They’ve been doing testing with actual riders for awhile now. How is it still 6 months away. Moana also shouldn’t take a year.
The next few days are gonna really be telling of what Disney “influencers” don’t want to lose their media privileges watching them try to spin this D23 in a positive only light 🤷🏼♂️
@@buster5661 WDW News announced the fake “what if” plans as breaking news definitely coming to Animal Kingdom and Magic Kingdom 🤦♀️ I wonder if they’ll walk it back.
My man Brayden is spitting facts here. This conference was a great execution of misinformation. Disney knows news outlets and vloggers will run with these blue sky ideas to present the company as actually expanding and investing in the parks. Meanwhile in reality disney is doing nothing and we will be lucky to have these projects by the end of the decade. Another great video - keep it up!!!
Yep! While I was watching the event live I kept thinking to myself I can’t wait to hear what Brayden has to say because surely he sees what I am seeing which is lackluster at best. I mean the awkward amount of times cheering didn’t happen was almost funny. I feel Brayden is honest and fair while still loving the parks.
Hey Brayden! Thanks for a real update! Not surprised about TRON, period, and please don’t blame yourself, this business is tough to nail down, everything is changing increasingly fast, keep us all posted and thank you always for everything! 😉👍🏻
Its amazing, Universal will complete an entire, state of the art, park in the time it takes Disney to complete one ride that isn't even an original concept, since its exactly the same ride as in the Shanghai park. As for the lock downs, thats a joke, because Orlando had buildings going up at record speed from fall of 2020 til today.
Honestly, apart from supply shortages, construction is less subject to such issues than most other areas of work. Even without a pandemic, there's a lot of areas of a project where you're not allowed by regulation to have people working to close together anyways.
I think you are spot on about the panel. I didn’t understand any of the blue sky stuff. I felt like they were using smoke and mirrors so we did t notice they didn’t announce anything.
This year's panel was a disaster on every front. First of all, I strongly believe that the so-called "concept art" from the final segment was just created for the expo to give the guests something to latch onto, with zero connection to actual plans whatsoever. I found the Marvel stuff particularly entertaining. The combination of the hilariously horrific Hulk costume and the complete silence during the breaks for applause was just too perfect. It's also worth noting that Tron opening in 2023 means that it will have taken Disney as long to build a single ride as it will for Universal to build an entire theme park along with three hotels.
My friend works high up. The woke cult has virtually destroyed the company. The new hires know nothing and are only there to fulfill an inclusivity quota. no one actually works on anything other than meetings about their feelings and how awful republicans are.
Frankly, I think Disney at this point and time needs to focus more on their Cast Members than anything else. Went in August and I am concerned and surprised at how some of the Cast Members looked in the Magic Kingdom at WDW. Sloppy looking costumes and grooming and some bad attitudes. I worked there for 18 years and several things I witnessed would not have been tolerated back then. Don’t know if they are just desperate for help or what, but something needs to change. The Cast makes or breaks the experience, so casting the right people should always be a top priority.
I agree. I was a cast member many years ago and still live near the parks and go frequently and just cannot believe the change in cast behavior and attitude in general. I understand it’s not all of them and we still encounter fabulous cast members all the time. But the overall impression is too often unenthusiastic, bothered, and sometimes lazy and sloppy.
The “Fifth Key” enables cast members to act however they want and show up to work looking like however they want. Disney will 100% back a nasty CM with an attitude over a guest with a legitimate concern these days.
The BlueSky stuff seems like "Well we don't have any plans to actually do anything, what kind of garbage do we have laying around that we can present to everyone?"
My favorite thing about Mickey Views news updates is it’s limited “could’ve should’ve would’ve” but it is what’s going on. Happening now and planned to happen. I appreciate the fact talk. Thanks Brayden.
Disney is so boring. Literally nothing exciting happening, and what about the night time parades at MK?? Nothing. Even Tron is basically just so boring at this point, a ride for a franchise that Disney has no interest in, from a movie that came out 12 years ago, copied from another park and at 5 years it's taken to build is already out of date. Screw them, I'm all in on Universal now.
They absolutely were nervous up there on stage! The only thing I was excited about today (besides HEA) was realizing that they have finally acknowledged that we are unhappy and that our opinions actually need to be taken into consideration because we are the support through thick and thin.
Universal will have built an entire new theme park in the same time frame it will take Disney to finally complete one single roller coaster build, which is nothing more than an exact replica of the one that was already completed in Shanghai years ago! What a joke.........
Thanks for putting this together Brayden! This whole panel has my head spinning! If not for the artistic renderings, I would swear they “winged” it; just throwing something together before going onstage to blow smoke…kind of disappointing but I guess not unexpected! Kinda thought they would hold Tron until the 50th celebration is over…what’s another few months when it’s already been 5 years…whatever I suppose. Just feeling a bit disrespected by Disney to be honest …. I’d love to be a fly on the wall and hear what the folks at Universal are saying right now! Again thank you for keeping it real! Appreciate what you do!
My friend works high up. The woke cult has virtually destroyed the company. The new hires know nothing and are only there to fulfill an inclusivity quota. no one actually works on anything other than meetings about their feelings and how awful republicans are.
i appreciate you mentioning the fact that disney absolutely does not care about us. i did the dcp last fall after my program was canceled during covid and it was truly some of the worst months of my life.
My favorite part is when the imagineer is trying to get us hyped about Tiana’s ride - the ride that’s replacing one of Disney’s most iconic rides - and the example she chooses in order to do it is “there will be mist with lighting effects”. Wow. My mind is blown.
It's simply more important to be woke and virtue signal. That's what disney is known for these days. As is said in a different thread, it's complete disrespect for James Baskett, considering he was the first black actor to win an Oscar for this "racist" film
I do think those are appropriate elements of a ride that is meant to feel like a swamp, If they were pitching a new Star Wars ride through Dagobah , that would be a far more appropriate set up. Now that I say that, that could be an awesome ride. I'd definitely go ride the crap out of that.
@@jeffkearney3932 I wish people would watch the film before coming to their own conclusions, it's far less clear cut than most people would have folks believe. People forget how important Blaxploitation films were for the advancement of black actors, and those were far more racist than SotS was.
The worst D23 I can recall. I'm literally looking forward to nothing coming from Disney. If anything, I'm trying to find new ways to stop giving them any money. What a massive letdown this company has become.
Same for me. I used to spend thousands of dollars every year to go to the parks, buy merchandise, watch movies, etc. I did that for 40 years. Now they are getting virtually nothing from me. Universal has gotten my money lately.
The "what if" possible lands segment was very frustrating. What do you mean, "what if?" This is coming from the mouths of the people in charge. You have the power to do these things, why are you asking "what if?" Are your plans really that lackluster you have to tease projects that will actually never see the light of day? Tell us you're worried about Epic Universe without saying it. Not to mention, over half of the projects announced at the 2019 D23 have been CANCELLED. If you can't even deliver a spaceship earth update, don't even toy with the possibility of land expansion. It's taken 4 years to build Tron and the Splash Mountain reskin won't be complete until 2024. We're really talking about the possibility of adding themed lands? When we see them? 2054?
That’s what I don’t understand. If they are worried about Epic Universe why are their no big shovel ready projects under construction? It seems like they are dragging Tron out so it can be closer to Epic Universe opening. LOL
I wish Disney would take a note from Apple and maintain confidentiality in not announcing anything (ie. the blue sky ideas) until there is some significant level of certainty around them.
This is a big time letdown especially when you factor in that their rival across the street is building a state-of-the-art park, and they haven't had a D23 in what, 2 years? All of that pressure on them and this is what they come out with? Speculating about what they *might* do? Have they abandoned Mary Poppins? Spaceship Earth? Terrible all around. The return of HEA is their best news of the day. I hope they realize Walt was obsessed with constantly reinvesting revenue into the parks to ensure guests were getting cutting edge attractions. Instead, they're focusing on creating the 100th Marvel show no one cares about.
Forget walt. He is out of living memory within the company. He has become a marketing mascotte for disney now because they know he hits fans in the feelers. But that is what he is now, just another mickey mouse or princess. Just another character completely seperated from his vision and values. They no longer hold any value within the company, people need to accept that.
@@baronvonlimbourgh1716 Exactly. Some people got really excited when they added that Walt intro to Enchantment, but I saw it as nothing more than an easy nostalgia grab. This is not Walt’s company. It’s Disney in name only.
I've watched you since you started this channel... OMG, how you have evolved to be the premier Disney News Guy! What I did not expect was your 100% honesty & candid commentary compared to any other TH-camr. A true Journalist! YOU you awesome, Brandon!
It hurts that I've had to give up on Disney all together. I've been going since the late 70s and since 2021 I've stopped because the magic is gone. Disney only cares about their money. Prices rising without giving anything in return.
All the "blue sky ideas" are so scary and random, I hope none of them happen. I want Dinoland still. I don't think Big Hero Six is popular enough to warrant it's own land. Coco and Encanto both feel unfitting for frontierland, thought together I can see them kinda changing the overall theme of frontierland to more of a Central America theme, which almost seems cool, except then all the other rides in the area wouldn't fit the new theme. So nothing really makes sense. It's not just the overuse of IP, but also the haphazard way they're trying to fit them in to places they don't really belong.
Even busch? We had a great time there! Once epic opens, and if when the high speed rail connects orlanda and tampa w a station down the road from epic and seaworld, the theme park scene in fl will look very different.
I didn’t expect much, which is why I wasn’t disappointed. That’s my new attitude as it’s all screens and IP from here on in. The glory days are over so I just now have no expectations. That feeling ended in 2020, but I was very optimistic before then because they were mostly delivering (pandora, rise, new cruise ships, etc.). I would be shocked if they ditch the barges after spending so much money on them. I hope I’m wrong though. Social media and surveys seem to do something. Or perhaps they are secretly listening to guest complaints during Harmonius and enchantment.
I hope everyone loves what exists at WDW because the folks running the show these days seem to have no clue. It’s really staggering how even their crazy ideas were garbage. The entire company has lost its direction - it’s about time everyone just except it.
I have a feeling that not as many people will travel in 2023 as in 2022. It seems like WDW is wanting to decrease its attendance in its parks instead of increasing attractions to accommodate more people. It doesn’t appear that they want to expand the parks which is disappointing because in order to validate spending an exorbitant amount of money, it would be helpful to have some new attractions for those of us who have gone numerous times over the years. Maybe they believe that making Disney Plus a priority will help with building brand recognition and popularity with the youth of today and therefore keep their brand sought after in the future. I believe they could do so much more in the parks if they wanted too. I mean look how amazing animal kingdom is. If they believe focusing on Disney Plus and IP in the parks is vital for their future, then they need to pay attention to what the youth responds. In reverse order 1) An Encanto attraction is a no brainer but i think its more suited for Epcot. 2) Frozen was so undeniably popular they really should have representation in the Magic Kingdom. 3) me and my 22 year old daughter would love to see Repunzel represented in MK. 4) A villains or marvel based fifth park would be amazing and would have a multigenerational appeal.
The one thing about you and other Vloggers I applaud Brayden is your honesty. Very True that Disney doesn't care about their guest. It is a machine, A vacuum sucking in all the cash it can get its hands-on. So many people don't have the means to attend the parks these days. You and others express your joys and disappointments with great honesty. Carry on my man! I'm a person that has visited the parks in Florida since i was a kid back in 72-73 when Disney World opened. So I've seen a lot of things change over the decades. I'd like them to slow down some on changes and cost for people with not as much money.
Great job Brayden! As always very factual and well thought out. Disney leadership should be seriously ashamed of themselves. Tron’s original opening date was scheduled for 2019... As a passholder for over 30 years I keep holding out hope things will turn around. But Universal is smart and positioning themselves to scoop up everyone Disney is pricing out and everyone Disney is disappointing. My Universal annual passes are going to be getting a lot more use.
They had nothing... so they started throwing out anything and everything. I am guessing the Imagineers were asked last week to draw up some ideas. Universal is building a new Epic Park and Disney has a Figment puppet and some cosplays 'meet and greets'. I don't think the Hulk was ready but they had to show something at D23. It was a sad D23 panel. I guess Disney has given up on Tommorow Land, the Tree House, and the parks.
You're completely right, I like that you didn't sugarcoat anything. The company needs to be held accountable now. They're not going to learn until Universal milly-whops them in the face in 2025
That bizarre part at the end was Gaslighting - The Panel. They acted like they were announcing amazing new things, but they actually announced absolutely nothing new for WDW. Good for you Braydon for calling them out on it, while other Disney news bloggers reported it as BREAKING NEWS…either buying into the fake hype or towing the company lie. That’s why you’re the best!!
Thank you Brayden, as always I appreciate the informative updates. I also like your honest views on what is going on with The Disney Parks. Take care & God bless.
BEST Disney news channel. This dude is the Walter Cronkite of Disney Journalists. (and probably one of the only ones worthy of the title "Journalist" )
Love your honesty and speaking truth to power! Please never lose that! Journalists like you are rare in todays world, don’t sell yourself out like all others have done!
Who NEEDS a Villain's park, when we're having THESE kind of people on this D23 conference, running the parks, now..?! Really a catastrophe this year- Regarding most of announcements, this year, but "especially Themepark-wise"..Heading for Universal!
Ya I have a week booked at the hard rock at Universal where normally I'd stay at Disney and then do a couple days at Universal parks. This time I'm ignoring disney completely. While the price increases haven't priced me out... yet I can't support this nonsense. Especially fucking up splash mountain for fog and screens. And the way they are completely ignoring the memory of James Baskett (uncle Remus) just to score woke points. Oh and free fast passes from Universal aren't to bad either!
...that's why we're going to be staying at Surfside and doing Halloween Horror Nights, although this latest D23 Expo was a horror show of its own! 😵💫😬
Nailed it six ways to Sunday. Lackluster is one thing, but it was also incredibly awkward. Their parks-related CapEx is running on fumes and deep down they know they’re not fooling anybody.
It's so sad to see they completely don't value the IP that is the parks themselves - they were each unique, beloved by fans, and creatively held their own. They're absolutely devalued by theming whole lands and attractions to old Disney owned movies. It compartmentalises the guest experience instead of that more inspiring sense of vision and imagination, which gave the stronger emotional response for repeat visits for decades.
Disney Villains Park opening Fall 2038 UPDATE: Disney Villains Park is now becoming a new land in EPCOT between the mens restrooms and womens restrooms near Norway. Opening 2044. UPDATE: Disney Villains Restroom Land Expansion is now going to be an immersive VR experience where you can digitally buy souvenirs of your favorite Disney villains.
So they remove the scary forest scene in Snow White which wasn’t that scary and now they are going to make a park based off the villains. I don’t dislike the idea. I dislike the fact that Disney doesn’t really know what it wants. Some of the best and most reliable rides in the park are the old school track rides in the park with beautiful painted art and old school black light effects. Instead of making one 50 or 100 million dollar ride, how about twenty $5 million track rides that blend mostly old fashioned art with a few modern effects. I rather wait 20-30 minutes for some pleasing 3 minute rides than 4 hours to ride a single supposedly epic ride. Disney is thinking way too far out of the box and failing 9 out of 10 times. Go back to your roots before it’s too late. Universal is way out-Disneying Disney these days.
They aren't building anything. They are just pandering to what they read on social media and forums because they don't have anything better to talk about. It will create some buzz for a couple of days and then will never be spoken about again.
That's an excellent observation. The Snow White's Scary Adventure was one of my favorite "C-class" rides! Now it's just a photo-op with two princesses. Pitiful. What would a Disney Villains park be: The Happy Not-So-Scary Villains Village?! Would the end of every ride be the villain now redeemed and blowing kisses to the guests? We can't frighten the 3-year-olds!
BUT WHAT ABOUT FANTASMIC?! Is no one else upset that they announced Fantasmic at the LAST Parks Panel, it's still not back, AND they haven't given a date?!
I’ve been beating the “Disney sucks now” drum for the past 3 years, but a lot of people don’t want to hear it. This is yet more proof. I was a huge fan for 40 years but I can’t call myself that anymore.
Disney World felt like the forgotten step child to me. It was also weird they acted like stuff shouldn’t be shown but they had it ready to go. It was sad that projects put on hold at Disney world weren’t announced, fantasmic wasn’t, and a lot of stuff was a possible option to come but no promises.
The love for D'Amaro seems to be waning. I've always misunderstood why he has gotten a pass when all the recent cuts from the parks have happened under his watch.
I have a theory: Disney knows nothing exciting is coming to WDW until at least 2026 - 2028 ish, so they are deliberately delaying Tron into 2023 so the gap seems smaller.
I feel like they are a car salesman and they have always sold us a Ferrari. Now they are selling us a Toyota Corolla while trying to convince us it’s a Ferrari.
"Beyond Big Thunder" just means the area past Frontierland is Magic Kingdom's future expansion plot. I think they would put an entirely new land back there like they did with Galaxy's Edge at DLR, not make it part of Frontierland. Unlike some of the other WDW parks, MK actually has dedicated expansion plots. Whenever they get around to building the Disneyland Forward expansion in Anaheim, they'll probably built a clone at MK in that Frontierland expansion space, a la Galaxy's Edge. Coco, Encanto, and Luca could be grouped together into their own land -- that's a better mix than Moana with Zootopia!! So they tore down the AK Dinoland carnival stuff and STILL don't have a concrete plan for what they're going to put there?? This whole presentation made Disney look woefully unprepared. This year's D23 was very underwhelming.
Brayden this was so well articulated. Meanwhile universal is quietly BUILDING a whole new park without resorting to “blue sky” announcements. It’s sad. But boy did I enjoyed your take on this panel. I just fucking love this channel.
This news really broke my heart. Like it made me deeply sad to see where they are taking Tiana's and DAK and Epcot. I hope they don't take away Dinosaur the ride. It is such a good ride. It's really sad they keep making excuses. Like this makes me not want to go even though I love the parks bc it's clear that Disney doesn't care about the parks and creativity and uniqueness. They only care about intellectual property.
I've heard a lot of Disney's problems stem from the fact that many of the executives don't treat this as their last job but only a stepping stone to their next job… therefore anything that takes more than a couple years to complete will not be their problem but will be their replacements problem
I couldn't possibly be more disappointed by Tiana's Bayou Adventure. The more we find out about it, the worse it sounds. The whole idea was problematic from the beginning, since the bayou doesn't have a mountain of any kind. They should have simply gone full wild west on the attraction.
Was eagerly awaiting your video on this! 😅 You did not disappoint as per usual. Thank you for calling it like it is! This whole thing felt like such a tease (more than usual). Maybe they don't want us to cxl our APs ("MKs", whatever) so they try to keep us interested with "what ifs". Personally for me this was going to help me decide to renew my Dland AP, but I wasn't convinced. I only wish our Universal in CA was bigger so it would fill the void of not having the D AP 😅... decisions, decisions!
Um, so anything positive for WDW was better than the "nothing-burger" I was expecting, but to be CLEAR, the USA parks need just as much time and investment, if not more, than the international counterparts, and they shouldn't keep funneling parks' budget money into the digital black hole of Disney Plus. We get it, digital goods don't require as much physical development and maintenance as physical attractions, but make it is own arm of the company with its own budget and let it do it on its own, without being propped up by the parks. The parks need constant attention. Even if there's nothing "new," things have to be refurbed, fixed, and replaced all the time, otherwise we get more breakdowns and lackluster performances when features are just ignored when they stop working. My pass expires soon, and I'm seriously considering letting it go, and picking up a Universal pass when they get the new stuff opened.
This was all the best Epic Universe advertising that Universal could have hoped for
they should’ve set up a pop up stand with epic merch in the parking lot
I was so disappointed after watching that entire parks panel live I went and watched some EPIC building updates on TH-cam to cheer myself up.
Disney's just lucky they didn't decide to be cheeky and release Epic Universe details this weekend. They have to start talking about it at some point.
It's ironic, isn't it? Every new announcement by Disney just gets me that much more excited for Epic Universe.
Fire Chapek!
Preferably out of a cannon.
Also, the awkward silence during announcements and him trying to hype the crowd afterwards was real telling on the vibe in the room
I noticed that sadly when my boy Kevin Fiege was talking with Josh about the marvel stuff
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@@btafbm I mean that was so bad they just shitty concept art of Thanos dressed like aquaman
Can you imagine Universal is coming out with a new park with thousands of people currently working right now on building it and Disney doesn’t even have a new ride to announce … universal must be stunned sitting there thinking wow this is a Disney dream come true.
The Universal executives couldn’t imagine this reality in their wildest dreams. Disney has nothing up their sleeves. Zero. It’s baffling.
Anything that hasn’t been announced now isn’t going to happen by Summer 2025. They’re going to be far behind.
They’ve played all their cards since Wizarding World opened with marginal success. New Fantasyland, Frozen/New Soarin/Remy/Cosmic Rewind/more festivals, Toy Story Land/Galaxy’s Edge/Mickey & Minnie, Pandora, new nighttime shows at each park.
I’m not sure what they could do at this point to keep up. They’ve chosen to do essentially nothing because people will keep going to WDW even if they reduce their investment in new attractions.
@@wt7553 they will keep comming until they don't. Disney captured people with nostalgia in the past, that is mostly what is feeding the endless popularity no matter what disney does at the moment.
However, disney has barely been nesting itself in new peoples minds for comming up 25 years now. That is why "disney fans" are all almost exlusivly middle aged nowdays. That generation is going to fizzle out soon and there is hardly a new generation of dedicated fans to replace them. And even within the random younger public disney no longer holds that nostalgic attraction they had over previous generations. And these people will not be so accepting of their bs because they simply are no longer emotionally invested and will be far more open to concider alternative options to a disney vacation.
In the past there have been a lot of people who never went anywhere else other then disney. That is not going to last.
Disney is much more vulnrable then people think. Their main cash cows are now reaching their financial peaks, that is why disney is doing so well right now. But they never invested in what should replace them when the current crop ultimatly grows to old and eventually dies off.
This cliff is comming, and they now it. That is why they no longer dare to expand to much, not being sure they can still fill the capacity a decade from now.
Right about the time the currently hot ip's they are using will be over their peak and inevitably will become old and stale.
Disney made some major strategic f ups that is making their future insecure and difficult.
@@baronvonlimbourgh1716 Well said and I feel the same .
Attendance dropped significantly at all 4 WDW parks when Universal opened WWOHP. You better bet Disney's attendance will drop significantly again when Epic Universe opens but Disney somehow doesnt seem to care this time.
Calling this years D23 lackluster is almost a compliment compared to how bad this really was. These are dark days for the parks, theirs no hiding it anymore.
Is there a single light day at Disney ever amidst of all this dystopia era of the Disney theme parks?
@@samhart51 I sure try to keep my hopes up that someday a new dawn will rise over the American Disney parks. However, days like today forces me to think that Pandora and Radiator Springs may be the last of the immersive jaw dropping imagineering we may see for a long time.
@@NeonGhostin I don’t even like Star Wars that much but galaxy’s edge is pretty amazing but that was iger, anything Cheapek made on his own is awful
@@sideeswipe It is, but then again it isn't. Knowing so much more was planned for galaxy edge hurts the mindset going in. For example, Rise of the resistance is a remarkable ride, however guests are FORCE fed characters from Disney's less than popular star wars IP trilogy. When in hindsight, replacing those characters with the original trilogy characters, and suddenly you have a timeless ride that appeals to everyone. And as for smugglers run, I'm sorry but it's very narrow-minded to create another motion based simulator ride based on the same IP on the other side of a wall of another timeless attraction; star tours.
i cried tbh lol
12:07 - Disney is a multinational corporation that doesn’t care about you. 😬
While I do enjoy a variety of other Disney influencers and their content, I can’t imaging many of them being that blunt and honest (probably because they are afraid of getting on Disney’s bad side). Your honesty is appreciated!
@@buster5661 - That is a very good reminder.
Luckily i am not one of them MIDDLE FINGER TO DISNEY from yours truly 🖕 Only cowards with no soul get bought off!
@@buster5661 yes so true. I think he is talking about the people at the helm.
Love watching his descent to the dark (enlightened) side of the unfortunate Disney machine.
Just want to point out, Tiana's Bayou Adventure will gut dark ride scenes and replace them with fog and DJ lights. They literally showed us a high school dance DJ set up. I'm beyond shocked. Did they think we would be excited by (temporary) walk-around characters in the US while teasing all the new attractions in asia? All those billions in revenue and we get kids birthday party entertainment.
Fog and lights were embarrassing
I give TDR a pass because they’re funded entirely by OLC and Disney doesn’t invest a dime, just their name and IP. Thank Walt that OLC pushed back against the Splash retheme and demanded 3 boat rides and a dark ride for Fantasy Springs.
i genuinely laughed out loud when i read kid’s birthday party entertainment because it’s so sad yet true disney is becoming an overpriced birthday party
And on top of that it's going to take 2 years to create. C'mon it's not even a complete new ride. Universal can build a whole new park in 4 years.
Splash mountain should just stay period end of Story
People on that ride today are clueless as to the issue surrounding it with it's so called racist connections.
How in the hell does a log flume ride become racist?
It has one of the largest followings.
If princess and the frog is the popular where it needs its own ride do just that. Make a new one.
Don't steel an exciting one and make it look like a tyco glue together model
Horrible decision and Disney is going to see a huge backlash from it .
This was possibly the weirdest D23 Parks Panel in a long time
And that’s saying something cause last time they had that weird target segment
I agree
This panel is the epitome of “we didn’t plane farther than the last time we did this”
I guess it's tough to plan too far into the future when your only focus is the next earnings call.
D23 is veering into straight up gaslighting territory.
I hate to get on the "Disney sucks and is overpriced and seems to not care much about its guests"..but yea, all those things seem to be pretty true. Reinvesting more and more park money into endless starwars and marvel Disney+ content is about as infuriating as it gets. I had to stop staying at value resorts because for 3 trips in a row I had rooms that smelled of mold and had almost zero theme. The leadership is truly terrible.
My room seemed to be covered in black mold.
Where'd you stay? I stayed at Pop Century the other week and the room was pristine.
My Uber said she worked at one of the hotels and talked how sometimes they would need mattresses from other hotels and that cast members would know not to get mattresses from the value resorts due to the amount of bed bugs.
The news about Tiana's bayou ride has me dreading the final results. I fear it's going to be another Mickey's Crazy ride or whatever the hell it is they replaced the Great Movie ride with and it is essentially, screen projections and cheap theme park style backdrops. Every time I think about saving money to come back, I run into news like this and I despair. I will not pay $300+ a night for moderate resort hotel rooms when I'll get six flags style birthday entertainment in return with Disney's intellectual IPs slapped onto it. (I will not stay at a value resort - I saw the new rooms and I got claustrophobic just looking at them).
And to think it was $300+ a night to stay at a Deluxe Resort at *least* a decade ago.
@@Photo0021 Pop. I've stayed at pop around 15 times, but the last 3 the rooms were musty and actually the most recent triggered an asthma attack for my wife and eldest daughter. We left pop and stayed half at Carribean Beach and half at the Poly. I won't return to pop, unfortunately.
The ONLY channel worth watching! Brayden cuts through the crap!!!
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THANK YOU Braden, once again, for reporting the truth.
So many vloggers and bloggers took the blue sky stuff and posted them as “confirmed” all over their social media platforms. People have been throwing comments all over the place. Honestly, I think it’s all just to distract guests attention away from Epic Universe.
Your last sentence is it. Disney is scared and they should be
I think they plan to do it. And they have to, in order to compete. Hopefully it’ll open before 2050
For real it’s so embarrassing and then the brain dead Disney sympathizer are like “everyone’s being so negative thank you *cough cough DSNY Newscast* for spewing out utter bullshit”
Exactly!!!! This was straight up gaslighting. “What if we do this? What if we do that?”. And then you realize they’re just spitballing! None of this is real! They have zero to announce except for the groundbreaking mist coming to the Tiana attraction, but Josh presented it as if he was announcing lots of new things. Just an embarrassing panel. He should have just announced churros are back again.
@@chanilerner6410 Glad I wasn’t the only one that picked up on that. And do they honestly need yet another cruise ship? I realize it’s all the same creative department under Imagineering but it feels completely separate from the parks. I’m sure there’s a small amount of people at D23 that go specifically to hear that but I think most fans who attend are there for the parks.
Disney seems to have lost its vision of what each park should be and that is causing some extremely disappointing decisions to take place.. This is not being negative it is just the simple facts.. I am even more excited for Universal’s Epic Universe.. it’s the only exciting thing happening in Orlando right now…
Kennedy Space Center is stepping up. In terms of food and experience are definitely worth the price.
Disney has become just another run of the mill corperation as people who originally worked with walt and other members of the disney family disapear from living memory..
Nothing of what set disney apart in the entertainment industry in the past still exists within the company anymore. There no longer is a difference between disney or any other multinationals.
This is the future, old disney is never comming back again, no matter how much people keep hoping for a miracle.
Same. If I do head to Florida for another family vacation it'll be in 2025 when Epic Universe opens back up. Disney just doesn't seem to be worth it for us right now.
I'm hopeful Disney steps up its game by then, but at this point Disney seems to be happy just coasting on decades of built up nostalgia. Any veneer they had to cover up the fact that they're just a multinational corporation out to get your money seems to be stripping off faster than one of their blue sky ideas gets budget cut into oblivion.
I envision a huge redo like DCA went thru in the future to clean up this hodge podge mess they have made
@@Gregon001 Couldn't agree more 👍
It's just embarrassing that Tron has been taking so long to build and open when Universal built Velocicoaster and Hagrids in less time. I mean they even built the entire land of Diagon Alley in two and a half years. What is Disney doing?
They'd rather have something that is forever "coming soon!" to make guests want to come back, instead of having to build more new rides. The entire construction site is over a half decade of kinetic clickbait.
Absolutely. And dont forget iron gwazi at busch tampa and while not at that level seaworld opened icebreaker and will prob have another new coaster next year.
@@tomm2213 seaWorld is actually building a new stand up coaster it’s gonna be themed to penguins
@@MoiveGuy24 you are talking about the surf coaster from B&M right? I don't think it has been confirmed yet to be a stand up type model.
@@FanThemePark you can verify it’s a new type of standup in one of their newer teaser videos.
I had low expectations for this panel, but boy did they really underwhelm!
1. How is it going to take another year for them to finish the Moana section and Commuicore Hall at Epcot?
2. How is it going to take them a year to bring Figment back?
3. How is it going to take another 7 months to finish Tron? (this was my biggest shock moment, as I seriously thought it was gonna open by Dec)
4. Hat Box Ghost.... Cool... I guess.
5. No mention of the Spaceship Earth Refurb (was hoping this was back on but in a scaled back version)
6. The Blue Sky concepts look cool, but by the time those actually come to fruition I'll probably be in my mid 60's (I'm in my late 40's right now). Also, we all know that any sort of building/castle whatever is going to be some of kind of forced perspective thing like Beast's Castle in Fantasyland, and nothing cool like Beast's Castle in Tokyo Disneyland.
It's crazy to think that by the time Moana opens at Epcot, Epic Universe will be around 80% complete...
I really hope that if there is a destination D next summer at WDW they actually announce some stuff. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The speed of construction on Universal projects sure does put the speed of construction on Disney projects to shame.
I agree with 3. They have the ride done and working on pavement now which doesn’t take long to do. It should be done in November not in the spring of 2023. I am going to Disneyworld in January and I can’t ride Tron yet a few months later
I really wanted them to build a really cool festival pavilion for Epcot instead of them rebuilding innoventions west
Yea the date for Tron really shocked me. Was really thinking it would be open for this holiday season. They’ve been doing testing with actual riders for awhile now. How is it still 6 months away. Moana also shouldn’t take a year.
My guess is that they are waiting for some announcement of Tron 3 before heavily advertising the coaster
The next few days are gonna really be telling of what Disney “influencers” don’t want to lose their media privileges watching them try to spin this D23 in a positive only light 🤷🏼♂️
I’ve already seen videos proclaiming Zootopia is coming to AK and Villains to MK.
@@buster5661 WDW News announced the fake “what if” plans as breaking news definitely coming to Animal Kingdom and Magic Kingdom 🤦♀️ I wonder if they’ll walk it back.
@@buster5661 Yes.. but I was disappointed that Tom from WDW News Today said positive things about D23 and couldn’t believe the negative posts
My man Brayden is spitting facts here. This conference was a great execution of misinformation. Disney knows news outlets and vloggers will run with these blue sky ideas to present the company as actually expanding and investing in the parks. Meanwhile in reality disney is doing nothing and we will be lucky to have these projects by the end of the decade.
Another great video - keep it up!!!
Been waiting for your take all day, and as usual never disappointed
Yep! While I was watching the event live I kept thinking to myself I can’t wait to hear what Brayden has to say because surely he sees what I am seeing which is lackluster at best. I mean the awkward amount of times cheering didn’t happen was almost funny. I feel Brayden is honest and fair while still loving the parks.
Hey Brayden! Thanks for a real update! Not surprised about TRON, period, and please don’t blame yourself, this business is tough to nail down, everything is changing increasingly fast, keep us all posted and thank you always for everything! 😉👍🏻
We got a release window and some footage
They have got to have something new to get people to come back in 2023. 50th will be over, maybe they can suck a few visitors from Universal.
Its amazing, Universal will complete an entire, state of the art, park in the time it takes Disney to complete one ride that isn't even an original concept, since its exactly the same ride as in the Shanghai park. As for the lock downs, thats a joke, because Orlando had buildings going up at record speed from fall of 2020 til today.
The Tron coaster looks suspiciously like a knockoff of Hagrid's....
Honestly, apart from supply shortages, construction is less subject to such issues than most other areas of work. Even without a pandemic, there's a lot of areas of a project where you're not allowed by regulation to have people working to close together anyways.
I think you are spot on about the panel. I didn’t understand any of the blue sky stuff. I felt like they were using smoke and mirrors so we did t notice they didn’t announce anything.
This year's panel was a disaster on every front.
First of all, I strongly believe that the so-called "concept art" from the final segment was just created for the expo to give the guests something to latch onto, with zero connection to actual plans whatsoever. I found the Marvel stuff particularly entertaining. The combination of the hilariously horrific Hulk costume and the complete silence during the breaks for applause was just too perfect. It's also worth noting that Tron opening in 2023 means that it will have taken Disney as long to build a single ride as it will for Universal to build an entire theme park along with three hotels.
My friend works high up. The woke cult has virtually destroyed the company. The new hires know nothing and are only there to fulfill an inclusivity quota. no one actually works on anything other than meetings about their feelings and how awful republicans are.
I am not 100% positive, but it think Universal may have them beat on the timeline. Even so, that tells you something right there.
Yes, and that ride is a clone and doesn’t have any theming.
Frankly, I think Disney at this point and time needs to focus more on their Cast Members than anything else. Went in August and I am concerned and surprised at how some of the Cast Members looked in the Magic Kingdom at WDW. Sloppy looking costumes and grooming and some bad attitudes. I worked there for 18 years and several things I witnessed would not have been tolerated back then. Don’t know if they are just desperate for help or what, but something needs to change. The Cast makes or breaks the experience, so casting the right people should always be a top priority.
I agree. I was a cast member many years ago and still live near the parks and go frequently and just cannot believe the change in cast behavior and attitude in general. I understand it’s not all of them and we still encounter fabulous cast members all the time. But the overall impression is too often unenthusiastic, bothered, and sometimes lazy and sloppy.
The “Fifth Key” enables cast members to act however they want and show up to work looking like however they want. Disney will 100% back a nasty CM with an attitude over a guest with a legitimate concern these days.
Infested is the perfect word to describe all the IP overhauls on the classics
6:30 I’ve been a live DJ for decades and the current effects available on stage would SMOKE & blow away “true bayou magic” -LOL
The BlueSky stuff seems like "Well we don't have any plans to actually do anything, what kind of garbage do we have laying around that we can present to everyone?"
My favorite thing about Mickey Views news updates is it’s limited “could’ve should’ve would’ve” but it is what’s going on. Happening now and planned to happen. I appreciate the fact talk. Thanks Brayden.
Disney is so boring. Literally nothing exciting happening, and what about the night time parades at MK?? Nothing. Even Tron is basically just so boring at this point, a ride for a franchise that Disney has no interest in, from a movie that came out 12 years ago, copied from another park and at 5 years it's taken to build is already out of date. Screw them, I'm all in on Universal now.
They absolutely were nervous up there on stage! The only thing I was excited about today (besides HEA) was realizing that they have finally acknowledged that we are unhappy and that our opinions actually need to be taken into consideration because we are the support through thick and thin.
Universal will have built an entire new theme park in the same time frame it will take Disney to finally complete one single roller coaster build, which is nothing more than an exact replica of the one that was already completed in Shanghai years ago!
What a joke.........
Thanks for putting this together Brayden! This whole panel has my head spinning! If not for the artistic renderings, I would swear they “winged” it; just throwing something together before going onstage to blow smoke…kind of disappointing but I guess not unexpected! Kinda thought they would hold Tron until the 50th celebration is over…what’s another few months when it’s already been 5 years…whatever I suppose. Just feeling a bit disrespected by Disney to be honest …. I’d love to be a fly on the wall and hear what the folks at Universal are saying right now! Again thank you for keeping it real! Appreciate what you do!
My friend works high up. The woke cult has virtually destroyed the company. The new hires know nothing and are only there to fulfill an inclusivity quota. no one actually works on anything other than meetings about their feelings and how awful republicans are.
Still delivering the best Disney journalism, thank you for keeping it real.
i appreciate you mentioning the fact that disney absolutely does not care about us. i did the dcp last fall after my program was canceled during covid and it was truly some of the worst months of my life.
My favorite part is when the imagineer is trying to get us hyped about Tiana’s ride - the ride that’s replacing one of Disney’s most iconic rides - and the example she chooses in order to do it is “there will be mist with lighting effects”. Wow. My mind is blown.
It will be Tiana's Garbage dump
It's simply more important to be woke and virtue signal. That's what disney is known for these days. As is said in a different thread, it's complete disrespect for James Baskett, considering he was the first black actor to win an Oscar for this "racist" film
I do think those are appropriate elements of a ride that is meant to feel like a swamp, If they were pitching a new Star Wars ride through Dagobah , that would be a far more appropriate set up. Now that I say that, that could be an awesome ride. I'd definitely go ride the crap out of that.
@@jeffkearney3932 I wish people would watch the film before coming to their own conclusions, it's far less clear cut than most people would have folks believe. People forget how important Blaxploitation films were for the advancement of black actors, and those were far more racist than SotS was.
The worst D23 I can recall. I'm literally looking forward to nothing coming from Disney. If anything, I'm trying to find new ways to stop giving them any money. What a massive letdown this company has become.
I am looking forward to most cancelling disney plus once our current subscription is up this fall.
Universal's decade to win!
Same for me. I used to spend thousands of dollars every year to go to the parks, buy merchandise, watch movies, etc. I did that for 40 years. Now they are getting virtually nothing from me. Universal has gotten my money lately.
The best thing to come out of D23 was this video of Brayden becoming unhinged at Disney's chaos and I LOVE IT!
I felt sick after watching this panel. Thanks for keeping it real Brayden.
Same here. It was so disrespectful and disingenuous.
The "what if" possible lands segment was very frustrating. What do you mean, "what if?" This is coming from the mouths of the people in charge. You have the power to do these things, why are you asking "what if?" Are your plans really that lackluster you have to tease projects that will actually never see the light of day? Tell us you're worried about Epic Universe without saying it. Not to mention, over half of the projects announced at the 2019 D23 have been CANCELLED. If you can't even deliver a spaceship earth update, don't even toy with the possibility of land expansion. It's taken 4 years to build Tron and the Splash Mountain reskin won't be complete until 2024. We're really talking about the possibility of adding themed lands? When we see them? 2054?
That’s what I don’t understand. If they are worried about Epic Universe why are their no big shovel ready projects under construction? It seems like they are dragging Tron out so it can be closer to Epic Universe opening. LOL
I wish Disney would take a note from Apple and maintain confidentiality in not announcing anything (ie. the blue sky ideas) until there is some significant level of certainty around them.
Universal is building an entire new park but has barely announced anything. Interesting to see the difference.
@@SarahSmith-ff6yy Universal didn’t even acknowledge Velocicoaster (it’s a churro stand!) until construction was virtually finished.
@@universaldorks7478 Exactly! That was so great! Best churro stand ever. 😂
I appreciate your videos so much. You tell us the reality of things rather than what Disney wants us to think. This was a great analysis.
I so appreciate how honest and direct you are! Thank you
This is a big time letdown especially when you factor in that their rival across the street is building a state-of-the-art park, and they haven't had a D23 in what, 2 years?
All of that pressure on them and this is what they come out with? Speculating about what they *might* do? Have they abandoned Mary Poppins? Spaceship Earth?
Terrible all around. The return of HEA is their best news of the day.
I hope they realize Walt was obsessed with constantly reinvesting revenue into the parks to ensure guests were getting cutting edge attractions. Instead, they're focusing on creating the 100th Marvel show no one cares about.
Forget walt. He is out of living memory within the company. He has become a marketing mascotte for disney now because they know he hits fans in the feelers.
But that is what he is now, just another mickey mouse or princess. Just another character completely seperated from his vision and values. They no longer hold any value within the company, people need to accept that.
@@baronvonlimbourgh1716 Exactly. Some people got really excited when they added that Walt intro to Enchantment, but I saw it as nothing more than an easy nostalgia grab. This is not Walt’s company. It’s Disney in name only.
I've watched you since you started this channel... OMG, how you have evolved to be the premier Disney News Guy! What I did not expect was your 100% honesty & candid commentary compared to any other TH-camr. A true Journalist! YOU you awesome, Brandon!
It hurts that I've had to give up on Disney all together. I've been going since the late 70s and since 2021 I've stopped because the magic is gone. Disney only cares about their money. Prices rising without giving anything in return.
The contrast between my 1st visit to Disneyland in 1976 and now is heart breaking.
All the "blue sky ideas" are so scary and random, I hope none of them happen. I want Dinoland still. I don't think Big Hero Six is popular enough to warrant it's own land. Coco and Encanto both feel unfitting for frontierland, thought together I can see them kinda changing the overall theme of frontierland to more of a Central America theme, which almost seems cool, except then all the other rides in the area wouldn't fit the new theme. So nothing really makes sense. It's not just the overuse of IP, but also the haphazard way they're trying to fit them in to places they don't really belong.
I just think that the whole blue sky moment was evidence of just how nervous Epic Universe is making them…
Hopefully some leadership will lose their jobs
This guy needs more subs!!! Thanks for keeping us updated!
All Disney did with their parks panel was increase my current love for universal 😂
Universal, Sea World & even Busch up the "street".
Even busch? We had a great time there! Once epic opens, and if when the high speed rail connects orlanda and tampa w a station down the road from epic and seaworld, the theme park scene in fl will look very different.
100% the only reason they talked about the blue sky stuff was bc of epic universe
It makes sense for Disney to target the Hispanic demographic for their parks.
As usual, spot-on commentary.
DUDE! I love your honesty! I love that you’re not a pixie duster and blowing pixie dust up our rump as Chapek/Damaro do. Keep up the great work!
I didn’t expect much, which is why I wasn’t disappointed. That’s my new attitude as it’s all screens and IP from here on in. The glory days are over so I just now have no expectations. That feeling ended in 2020, but I was very optimistic before then because they were mostly delivering (pandora, rise, new cruise ships, etc.). I would be shocked if they ditch the barges after spending so much money on them. I hope I’m wrong though. Social media and surveys seem to do something. Or perhaps they are secretly listening to guest complaints during Harmonius and enchantment.
I hope everyone loves what exists at WDW because the folks running the show these days seem to have no clue. It’s really staggering how even their crazy ideas were garbage. The entire company has lost its direction - it’s about time everyone just except it.
Well this is altogether depressing. The Universal storm is coming for them and they can’t even tell that the clouds are turning dark over Bay Lake.
Vivid imagery.
Also, you’re not wrong!
I have a feeling that not as many people will travel in 2023 as in 2022. It seems like WDW is wanting to decrease its attendance in its parks instead of increasing attractions to accommodate more people. It doesn’t appear that they want to expand the parks which is disappointing because in order to validate spending an exorbitant amount of money, it would be helpful to have some new attractions for those of us who have gone numerous times over the years. Maybe they believe that making Disney Plus a priority will help with building brand recognition and popularity with the youth of today and therefore keep their brand sought after in the future. I believe they could do so much more in the parks if they wanted too. I mean look how amazing animal kingdom is. If they believe focusing on Disney Plus and IP in the parks is vital for their future, then they need to pay attention to what the youth responds. In reverse order 1) An Encanto attraction is a no brainer but i think its more suited for Epcot. 2) Frozen was so undeniably popular they really should have representation in the Magic Kingdom. 3) me and my 22 year old daughter would love to see Repunzel represented in MK. 4) A villains or marvel based fifth park would be amazing and would have a multigenerational appeal.
The one thing about you and other Vloggers I applaud Brayden is your honesty. Very True that Disney doesn't care about their guest. It is a machine, A vacuum sucking in all the cash it can get its hands-on. So many people don't have the means to attend the parks these days. You and others express your joys and disappointments with great honesty. Carry on my man! I'm a person that has visited the parks in Florida since i was a kid back in 72-73 when Disney World opened. So I've seen a lot of things change over the decades. I'd like them to slow down some on changes and cost for people with not as much money.
It is so refreshing to watch a channel that doesn’t have their head so far up Disney’s ass that they can actually be real! I love your videos
Brayden, This is the best summary of the Parks Panel that I've found on TH-cam! Thank you 🎉
Much better than Adam the Woo's coverage of the parks panel.
Great job Brayden! As always very factual and well thought out. Disney leadership should be seriously ashamed of themselves. Tron’s original opening date was scheduled for 2019... As a passholder for over 30 years I keep holding out hope things will turn around. But Universal is smart and positioning themselves to scoop up everyone Disney is pricing out and everyone Disney is disappointing. My Universal annual passes are going to be getting a lot more use.
This panel was literal all you fears realized from the last one you posted. All blue sky concepts that are gonna be inevitably rolled back
They announced 5 new rides for WDW not sure why you’re so upset? You’re just assuming they’re gonna cancel them?
@@btafbm What rides were announced?
@@btafbm yeah its a letdown. Just new areas for ideas. Its all bluesky
@@btafbm what rides???? you counting Tron as a new announcement???
@@btafbm excuse!? But did you watch the same presentation we did!? They didn’t announce any new rides 😂
They had nothing... so they started throwing out anything and everything. I am guessing the Imagineers were asked last week to draw up some ideas.
Universal is building a new Epic Park and Disney has a Figment puppet and some cosplays 'meet and greets'. I don't think the Hulk was ready but they had to show something at D23. It was a sad D23 panel. I guess Disney has given up on Tommorow Land, the Tree House, and the parks.
You're completely right, I like that you didn't sugarcoat anything. The company needs to be held accountable now. They're not going to learn until Universal milly-whops them in the face in 2025
That bizarre part at the end was Gaslighting - The Panel. They acted like they were announcing amazing new things, but they actually announced absolutely nothing new for WDW. Good for you Braydon for calling them out on it, while other Disney news bloggers reported it as BREAKING NEWS…either buying into the fake hype or towing the company lie. That’s why you’re the best!!
Thank you Brayden, as always I appreciate the informative updates. I also like your honest views on what is going on with The Disney Parks. Take care & God bless.
BEST Disney news channel. This dude is the Walter Cronkite of Disney Journalists. (and probably one of the only ones worthy of the title "Journalist" )
Lol the Universal team is smiling rn
Love your honesty and speaking truth to power! Please never lose that! Journalists like you are rare in todays world, don’t sell yourself out like all others have done!
Who NEEDS a Villain's park, when we're having THESE kind of people on this D23 conference, running the parks, now..?! Really a catastrophe this year- Regarding most of announcements, this year, but "especially Themepark-wise"..Heading for Universal!
AND YES : HIDEOUS barges, indeed..!! Please DO NOT KEEP THEM! 😞
This panel just reaffirmed our plan to go to universal next year and wait for Disney to care about the parks again
Ya I have a week booked at the hard rock at Universal where normally I'd stay at Disney and then do a couple days at Universal parks. This time I'm ignoring disney completely. While the price increases haven't priced me out... yet I can't support this nonsense. Especially fucking up splash mountain for fog and screens. And the way they are completely ignoring the memory of James Baskett (uncle Remus) just to score woke points. Oh and free fast passes from Universal aren't to bad either!
...that's why we're going to be staying at Surfside and doing Halloween Horror Nights, although this latest D23 Expo was a horror show of its own! 😵💫😬
Nailed it six ways to Sunday. Lackluster is one thing, but it was also incredibly awkward. Their parks-related CapEx is running on fumes and deep down they know they’re not fooling anybody.
It's so sad to see they completely don't value the IP that is the parks themselves - they were each unique, beloved by fans, and creatively held their own. They're absolutely devalued by theming whole lands and attractions to old Disney owned movies. It compartmentalises the guest experience instead of that more inspiring sense of vision and imagination, which gave the stronger emotional response for repeat visits for decades.
Disney Villains Park opening Fall 2038
UPDATE: Disney Villains Park is now becoming a new land in EPCOT between the mens restrooms and womens restrooms near Norway. Opening 2044.
UPDATE: Disney Villains Restroom Land Expansion is now going to be an immersive VR experience where you can digitally buy souvenirs of your favorite Disney villains.
Universal builds a theme park in 3 years and Disney takes 5 years to build one roller coaster 😂😂
Thanks!
Some people treat disney like a religion. The Disney gods don’t care about you lol
So they remove the scary forest scene in Snow White which wasn’t that scary and now they are going to make a park based off the villains. I don’t dislike the idea. I dislike the fact that Disney doesn’t really know what it wants. Some of the best and most reliable rides in the park are the old school track rides in the park with beautiful painted art and old school black light effects. Instead of making one 50 or 100 million dollar ride, how about twenty $5 million track rides that blend mostly old fashioned art with a few modern effects. I rather wait 20-30 minutes for some pleasing 3 minute rides than 4 hours to ride a single supposedly epic ride. Disney is thinking way too far out of the box and failing 9 out of 10 times. Go back to your roots before it’s too late. Universal is way out-Disneying Disney these days.
They aren't building anything. They are just pandering to what they read on social media and forums because they don't have anything better to talk about.
It will create some buzz for a couple of days and then will never be spoken about again.
That's an excellent observation. The Snow White's Scary Adventure was one of my favorite "C-class" rides! Now it's just a photo-op with two princesses. Pitiful. What would a Disney Villains park be: The Happy Not-So-Scary Villains Village?! Would the end of every ride be the villain now redeemed and blowing kisses to the guests? We can't frighten the 3-year-olds!
BUT WHAT ABOUT FANTASMIC?! Is no one else upset that they announced Fantasmic at the LAST Parks Panel, it's still not back, AND they haven't given a date?!
Thanks again Brayden! You're my favorite Disney news source!!!!!
“What the heck was that” my exact thoughts
I’ve been beating the “Disney sucks now” drum for the past 3 years, but a lot of people don’t want to hear it. This is yet more proof. I was a huge fan for 40 years but I can’t call myself that anymore.
Disney World felt like the forgotten step child to me. It was also weird they acted like stuff shouldn’t be shown but they had it ready to go. It was sad that projects put on hold at Disney world weren’t announced, fantasmic wasn’t, and a lot of stuff was a possible option to come but no promises.
The love for D'Amaro seems to be waning. I've always misunderstood why he has gotten a pass when all the recent cuts from the parks have happened under his watch.
I have a theory: Disney knows nothing exciting is coming to WDW until at least 2026 - 2028 ish, so they are deliberately delaying Tron into 2023 so the gap seems smaller.
I feel like they are a car salesman and they have always sold us a Ferrari. Now they are selling us a Toyota Corolla while trying to convince us it’s a Ferrari.
"Beyond Big Thunder" just means the area past Frontierland is Magic Kingdom's future expansion plot. I think they would put an entirely new land back there like they did with Galaxy's Edge at DLR, not make it part of Frontierland. Unlike some of the other WDW parks, MK actually has dedicated expansion plots. Whenever they get around to building the Disneyland Forward expansion in Anaheim, they'll probably built a clone at MK in that Frontierland expansion space, a la Galaxy's Edge. Coco, Encanto, and Luca could be grouped together into their own land -- that's a better mix than Moana with Zootopia!! So they tore down the AK Dinoland carnival stuff and STILL don't have a concrete plan for what they're going to put there?? This whole presentation made Disney look woefully unprepared. This year's D23 was very underwhelming.
I wished they'd build the Tiana ride there, and refurbish Splash and leave it in place.
When you expect bad and get worse
This is the reign of Bob chapeck
To be fair, let’s not forget this was all started by Iger and dumped in Chapek’s lap.
They are really announcing that they’re gonna use projections on fog like it’s the next step in evolution… even Six Flags did it
Brayden this was so well articulated. Meanwhile universal is quietly BUILDING a whole new park without resorting to “blue sky” announcements. It’s sad. But boy did I enjoyed your take on this panel. I just fucking love this channel.
This news really broke my heart. Like it made me deeply sad to see where they are taking Tiana's and DAK and Epcot. I hope they don't take away Dinosaur the ride. It is such a good ride. It's really sad they keep making excuses. Like this makes me not want to go even though I love the parks bc it's clear that Disney doesn't care about the parks and creativity and uniqueness. They only care about intellectual property.
Very articulate and excellent video. Thank you for your honesty on Disney corp.
Signed, fan from L.A.
It will have taken Universal less time to build Epic Universe than it took Disney to build Tron Lightcycle run.
Man i love this channel, keep ‘em coming!
"We're also sort of thinking of building a fifth park... someday....in the future.... maybe. Aren't you excited yet????"
I've heard a lot of Disney's problems stem from the fact that many of the executives don't treat this as their last job but only a stepping stone to their next job… therefore anything that takes more than a couple years to complete will not be their problem but will be their replacements problem
I couldn't possibly be more disappointed by Tiana's Bayou Adventure. The more we find out about it, the worse it sounds. The whole idea was problematic from the beginning, since the bayou doesn't have a mountain of any kind. They should have simply gone full wild west on the attraction.
Honestly if they want to include coco in the parks, doing coco instead would make sense with the influence of Mexican culture on the wild west.
No Bayou, just a water tower!
Another excellent report. I love that you keep it real. Thank you.
What you’re really getting- at best… drummer roll please…….a Villains dance party ! Please enjoy.
Was eagerly awaiting your video on this! 😅
You did not disappoint as per usual. Thank you for calling it like it is!
This whole thing felt like such a tease (more than usual). Maybe they don't want us to cxl our APs ("MKs", whatever) so they try to keep us interested with "what ifs". Personally for me this was going to help me decide to renew my Dland AP, but I wasn't convinced. I only wish our Universal in CA was bigger so it would fill the void of not having the D AP 😅... decisions, decisions!
Once Brayden weighs in on an important subject, there really isn’t much else to be said. 😎
I was "patiently" waiting for you to do a recap. Thanks for the video.
Super disappointed in D23 😞
Um, so anything positive for WDW was better than the "nothing-burger" I was expecting, but to be CLEAR, the USA parks need just as much time and investment, if not more, than the international counterparts, and they shouldn't keep funneling parks' budget money into the digital black hole of Disney Plus.
We get it, digital goods don't require as much physical development and maintenance as physical attractions, but make it is own arm of the company with its own budget and let it do it on its own, without being propped up by the parks.
The parks need constant attention. Even if there's nothing "new," things have to be refurbed, fixed, and replaced all the time, otherwise we get more breakdowns and lackluster performances when features are just ignored when they stop working.
My pass expires soon, and I'm seriously considering letting it go, and picking up a Universal pass when they get the new stuff opened.
Brayden, I love your intelligent insights and fantastic honesty. Seriously spot on assessment!