But, how did the rest of your date with the Black Keys go?

And it had one of the most hauntingly beautiful piano themes ever written - “Jessica’s Theme (Breaking The Colt)”, by Bruce Rowland, one of the most perfectly-suited pieces of music for a film scene.

Nazi Punks Fuck Off: A Knives Out Mystery

Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town: A Knives Out Mystery.

I would have preferred Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me: A Knives Out Mystery

It’s like the writer didn’t even watch the trailer.

Wake Up Dead Man: A Glass Onion Mystery: Presented by Knives Out

It’s not the ones who go 20x a year that make them money. They have season passes, don’t buy 3 meals at the park, and already come in wearing merch, so they don’t need to buy more.

Disney makes it’s money on the families that show up once every couple of years and spend the same amount as it would cost to go to Europe…

Don’t forget trying to cut out season pass holders because they don’t spend enough money in the park.

I genuinely love Disney, took my kids there for the first time last year and we all had a great time... but the nickel and diming is really tough to stomach.  It’s very class-based.  Just look at the idea of Genie+. …

I’m sure I didn’t come across well in the thread and I started commenting before I watched the relevant portions of her video, where she clearly had major issues not of her own making. I reacted negatively to earlier parts of her video where she made some points I still don’t agree with, even with that context.

That’s fair.

This, by all accounts, was originally what was envisioned, with the main elements being parts of the park, not the hotel, but then it seems like some corporate folks got involved and really went hard on monetizing the hotel experience.

Secret Disney prison facility for cast members who break the rules. I mean they have 100 rooms in this facility with basically one exit and no actual windows. 

Well, I appreciate the clarification!  Cheers.  :)

Nah girl, you're right, my tone here was meant to be more teasing and less shitty and I think I lost track on that almost instantly, sorry.

Okay, what about six thousand dollars to go to Rome? What about thousands upon thousands of dollars to go to the Super Bowl? Or a thousand bucks a ticket to watch the Rolling Stones? Stop being a judgy prick. I guarantee you’ve indulged in things I wouldn’t spend one red cent on. Who cares? Let people do things that…

By that metric, how dare you ever do anything remotely nice that poor people can’t afford. How dare you spend a couple hundred dollars on a meal at a restaurant when that’s the entire grocery budget for a working family for the entire month? How dare you buy a car that costs the equivalent of a year’s salary for…

We went to the parks a lot, knew the tips and tricks to a degree, but tried not to be those people. I think we did well to avoid the rut of “we keep doing this, because it’s what we’ve always done, this is what we do” that helps to keep the faithful returning no matter how downgraded the experience becomes.

It obviously cost too damn much — and I’ve heard tell that it was still profitable running at 50% capacity, which (if true) means the prices were literally twice as high as they needed to be — but I’ve always thought it was such a telling flaw that they didn’t offer any sort of accomodations for single guests.

So, to what use did they put this building now that the hotel concept died?  Staff breakroom?  Storage facility? Office space?