Disney's Parks Nearly Ghost-Towns on the Fourth of July

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But I'm looking for something to post that isn't about Biden dropping out or not dropping out. Just as a bit of ginger between the courses of sushi.

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Walt Disney World Deserted For Fourth Of July Celebrations

July 8, 2024

For decades, Walt Disney World has been a premiere location for Americans from all 50 states to celebrate the nation's founding on the Fourth of July. It's known to Disney veterans as one of the busiest days of the year, with shoulder to shoulder traffic crowding the entirety of Main Street USA.

But "the times they-are-a-changin,'" as the saying goes.

In years past, the Magic Kingdom and Epcot were hotspots of patriotic celebration, with both parks often hitting maximum occupancy and wait times for even mid-tier attractions hitting three, sometimes even four hours. The parks would be decked out in red, white, and blue, a true picture of American patriotism that would have made company founder Walt Disney swell with pride. The 360 degree fireworks spectacular was an attraction in and of itself, filling the sky with celebratory explosions in excess of 13 minutes.

But Fourth of July 2024 was a far different experience. The parks were downright empty, seeing less of a surge and more of a sprinkle of humanity meandering down a sparsely decorated Main Street for a fireworks show that was just a little over seven minutes in length.

Same day park reservations were available for all four parks, something utterly unheard of in recent years, and wait time for attractions all across Walt Disney World were actually lower than a typical summer non-holiday from years past.

At 3 p.m. on July 4th several big ticket rides throughout Walt Disney World had no wait at all. This includes Kilimanjaro Safaris in Disney's Animal Kingdom and Star Tours -- The Adventures Continue in Disney's Hollywood Studios. Expedition Everest only had a 15-minute wait time and Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance (arguably Disney's most popular standby queue attraction) only had a 45-minute wait. Its close neighbor Slinky Dog Dash clocked in at just 50 minutes.

by La Reina Creole
YouTube Disney expert and critic

Disney's stock price is down to $97 and change. It had been at a high of $197 and change in February 2021.

So... halved in value.

The Disney experts of WDW_Pro reported that Disney had barely bothered to decorate for our nation's birthday. Usually, they said, the whole park is decorated with red, white, and blue festoons and coquettes. This year, though, they didn't even bother dressing up all of the Main Street section of the park -- just a single courtyard.

Remember, the founder of Disney was very pro-American. Not so the communists who infiltrated themselves into the company until they dominated it from top to bottom.

Speaking of ghost towns, there are rumors -- and all rumors about Disney turn out to be true, eventually -- that they're going to change the beloved Haunted Mansion exhibition for "sensitivity" reasons.

The rumor is that Disney will replace the ghost who welcomes people to the mansion -- the "Ghost Host" -- with some... bats.

Because, you see -- that ghost has a noose round his neck. And this triggers the maniacs.

Fans are abuzz on Reddit that Disney is currently in the process of removing the hanging corpse seen in the stretching room before guests board the ride. Haunted Mansion's disembodied "Ghost Host" points out that as the room has no doors or windows, it has no way out. "Of course," he adds, "there's always my way," with lightning then illuminating a hanging corpse hanging from the ceiling.

There have been rumors that Disney will remove this effect from the attraction in order to be more sensitive and not trivialize suicide. Some guests have complained that this scene feels particularly triggering, with petitions even set up in the past.

Disney is well aware of these complaints. Back in 2021, Michele Hobbs -- who works as a producer for Walt Disney Imagineering and previously managed a refurbishment of the attraction -- told Los Angeles Times that the scene's removal has "been discussed for sure" and that "it's definitely something that we're thinking about."

On Haunted Mansion Holiday, the ceiling of the stretching room is covered with a tarp. The idea is that this tarp will remain in place all year round, and something else will be projected during this section of the ride.

Nooses have been removed from other versions of Haunted Mansion in the past. Nearly all the nooses were removed from Phantom Manor at Disneyland Paris in 2023, except for the one that appears during the stretching room scene.

Disney defamed Gina Carano as an anti-semite when she warned that the Nazis had come to power first by getting neighbors to turn on neighbors. She likened that tothe modern leftwing attempt to purge noncompliant workers from the office space and noncompliant family members from the family. Disney claimed that this observation constituted denigrating people's religion and culture -- in other words, she was attacking Jews.

That was always a lie. Disney decided to fire her because a group of always-online, always-furious trans extremists demanded that she post her pronouns. She refused. Even worse, she tweaked them by annoucing her pronouns and "Beep, Boop, Bop."

But Disney couldn't admit it was purging people because nasty, unreasonable trans extremists were angry that they could not attack and defame one lone woman into not going along with their pronoun agenda. So they slandered her by claiming that she had attacked Jews.

Last week, Disney actor in good standing -- because he's an idiot leftwing extremist -- Mark Ruffalo compared the current political situation to Germany under the Nazis.

Wait, I thought that such comparisons denigrated the religion and culture of Jews...?

Apparently they don't, not when leftwing actors Mark Ruffalo and, prior to him, Pedro Pascal make the comparison.

Carano blasted Disney for their double-standards and defamations.

The leftwing NPC and dolt Ruffalo claimed that the Supreme Court ruling recognizing presidential immunity for exercise of his core constitutional powers was Just Like Nazi Germany, Again:

Carano responded to Ruffalo writing on X, "Double standards on full display. It's a constant and obvious elephant in the room in Hollywood. There is example after example, such as Mark Ruffalos below that prove this. Whom btw, I believe should have the right to express himself without getting fired, although I cringe at most all of his political posts. He is an actor, but he is a human being passionately engaging in something that he feels strongly about. It must be a nice feeling to express yourself so freely."

She added, "Not everyone in this country has that privilege without having everything that they love taken from them. Do we wonder why he has that privilege and I did not? The answers are in my case."

Carano continued, "I know people would prefer basketball players to just dribble or actors to just act, but when you're in a world where lives are being destroyed and lost, all around you, how does any human being become forced to stay silent when death by injustice surrounds them."

"Disney [and] Lucasfilm maliciously twisted the narrative of a meme I posted which was encouraging neighbors NOT to demonize their neighbors or history could repeat itself. They twisted that meme into saying that I was denigrating people off of their cultural and religious beliefs. It was suggested that I was comparing Republicans to the Jewish people in the holocaust, something that I never said or posted," she asserted.

Carano then declared, " I called no one a Nazi, I did not deny the holocaust. Read that last sentence again, I NEVER did this, yet I was smeared as an antisemite. That doesn't seem to happen to a certain group of people that choose to use these comparisons as well, why is that? The rules for thee and not for me group. So what are the rules exactly?"

"This lie was fed to you by the corrupt media based off a statement from Disney/Lucasfilm who have since doubled down on their slander towards me. Their narrative took on a life of its own while my own life and career were tossed aside," she wrote.

The media repeated and repeated this lie until it became an untruthful 'fact' to many, who aren't the best at doing their own research, who instead listen to fake news and what we've seen 'journalism' digress into, spare a very few brilliant journalists," Carano noted.

Thank you, I appreciate that. I think you're cute too.

Next, she stated, "A demoralized society becomes hungry for propaganda, willing to give up their rights and the rights of others, it causes division and drives societies into a mob mentality, picking on a group of people, turning neighbor against neighbor. It is one of the largest reasons the gates were opened for the Nazis to come into power in the first place. This way of doing things cannot be what we base condemning and destroying peoples livelihoods and careers off of."

"The media manipulates the masses so easily based on their affiliations with large corporations and powerful people who signal and encourage them who to destroy," she noted.

...

"We can have conversations where we don't agree, in fact we just might learn something from each other through more conversations. Conversation over cancellation, like I've said from the beginning," Carano concluded.

She noted that her case against Disney was continuing, though she's waiting for an Obama-appointed judge to decide if her case can go forward. The judge appeared skeptical of Disney's position that they can fire anyone based on their First Amendment rights to present a unified corporation-wide political front, despite California law specifically saying that you cannot fire people for their political activity.

But we'll see. Disney might deliver a few suitcases full of money.

posted by Disinformation Expert Ace at 04:25 PM

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