In this special report, Brayden goes through his week at the 2022 IAAPA Expo at the Orange County Convention Center, including attending a Walt Disney Imagineering panel and talking to many of the manufacturers, vendors, contractors, and creatives who help bring magic to Walt Disney World and Universal Orlando. This is Mickey Views News, your source for Disney News!
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Notes and corrections:
1) I will do another video about the Bob's when we get some more details and interviews. It's still clearly a very fluid situation.
2) Garner Holt is not the only manufacturer for Disney's animatronics (they do a lot of them but some are still done in house and elsewhere)
3) Gateway Ticketing does Disneyland's system, not Walt Disney World's
Enjoy the video! ~Brayden
Is it true Apple will be buying Disney? 🥵
I totally agree with you about lack of covered seating is what made kite tales unpopular! I really liked the show but only was able to sit out in the sun if I had a dole whip with me.
I wonder who she’s talking about when she says “bad culture fit”?
That attitude sums up one of the major reasons why we are turning away from Disney,
Another honorless corporate mercenary. I keep hearing how Chapek was given an impossible task with the pandemic, but people forget that leadership's responsibility is to their people (which execs themselves will trumpet during corpo all-hands meetings). This key role has been lost in the greed in an end game capitalism era. Keeping morale high and protecting workers should have been his highest priority over nickel and diming customers and creating false scarcity. Chapek should have been the first to fall on his sword and take a pay cut since it was his leadership hurting workers. What a crazy time.
Really loved this video, thank you!
We were always a huge Disney Family, and are Disney Vacation Club members. This year was finally the last straw. I loved how you talked about the earlier imagineers serving ice cream and starting at the bottom. The management today is so out of touch and completely IGNORANT with all their fancy degrees. We are planning on surprising our kids with a Universal Trip. We were never there! Disney lost our love, our dedication, and our business. What a shame.
I like your videos, the way you break things down and make them easier to understand is cool. 👍
You and Poseiden Entertainment do the best Disney/Universal videos. Good work…again. And thanks.
I got to go to one of these YEARS ago and Would love to do it again .. I was part of a film crew who went in to do a few interviews.. And they let us roam afterwards 🙂
sometimes you can not win with facts, lolol, you do great work thanks
You’re so on point. I admire you and how you know how things work, You know the game. What you are doing is right up your alley. Youre perfect to do what you’re doing. Best of luck to you
Excellent video. I also like TEA events, like one they recently had during U's HHN for only $35 including parking where the Horror Nights' leaders spoke then they took us through some mazes on a Wednesday (or another weekday when HHN wasn't open) night in 2022.
You're getting better and better at these videos, I love that you speak quickly — slow talkers bore me. Maybe try not to say, "Needless to say…"
Very interesting 👍😯😃 Thanks for sharing 😊❤️
Disney needs to hire you ASAP!!
I enjoy watching your reporting. I have to check out that expo next year. Thank you. Have a good and safe Thanksgiving Bradon.
You are the people's critic, and I LOVE it! You have absolutely hit the nail on the head and your honesty is refreshing. I genuinely hope Disney is listening to you, and their fans.
Also, the smile on your breaking video was so wholesome and yet one so many of collectively shared in thr moment.
I think they don’t talk about the Epcot overhaul because they know about as much as us
As a Brit we did 2 weeks in July at WDW. It's the first time I had done just a Disney holiday (my family were more in to Universal parks), and also the first time we had stayed on property. As an adult with it being just my wife and I we could do what we wanted, which was great. But to be honest, there was not enough to do in the parks for 2 weeks. We managed to get on Guardians 4 times over the holiday which was great, but the last time it was all we went in to Epcot for.
Personally if we were planning the holiday again we would have likely done a week at WDW and a week at Universal. I feel like there is a lot of nostalgia for certain parts of WDW that really is just accepting dated rides that are in need of a redo but WDC/WDW don't look like they want to make the investment.
I don't know if it was just me as an adult that has worked in the entertainment industry noticing things, but there were lots of little things that I don't think in the past would have been a thing. For example the main sign as you entered property had the W lights out for the entire stay, multiple parts of It's a Small World had issues with the children and in the last scene there were a noticable number of lights out.
Did we enjoy the holiday, yes. Could it have been better, yes. I know to an extent this was coming out of COVID (hence why I didnt mention we saw around 0 charecters in the parks) but Disney is meant to be magical. WDW especially used to take pride in providing the same high quality experiences everyday as you never knew who's first visit that day was.
We absolutely loved Kitetails and tried to catch their shows every time we were in AK. The show was doomed from the start though as there was little to no emphasis on the schedule of performances and the seats were unbearably hot in the Florida sun no matter what time of year.
You know those stories Chapek used to tell about a family from Colorado or a family from Seattle who shows up at Disneyland and can't get in because the park is full? As far as anybody knows, that never happened – if Disneyland ever closed, it was no earlier than 2 PM, and the families from Seattle and Colorado would already be in the parks at that time. Chapek told those apparently false stories to justify the reservation system. Well, there are actual stories of a family from Wisconsin who showed up to WDW and couldn't get in because they didn't know they needed a reservation, and a family from Canada who couldn't get into Disneyland for the same reason. Why do I bring this up? The families rejected at the gates because of reservations seem to change plans and go to Universal Studios in Orland or Universal Studios in Hollywood. Yes, it seems that Chapek's reservation system at Disney parks is the reason attendance went up at the Universal Studios parks. So, if true, of course Universal invested money in new attractions.
You got so many things right! wow. Good job.
Thanks for the Kiteman comments. Keep up the great work.