Showing posts with label Jay Rasulo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jay Rasulo. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Words of wisdom from Jay Rasulo

This just in from Jay Rasulo, Chairman of Walt Disney Parks & Resorts (courtesy The New York Times)

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“Guests are pretty much no longer interested in being passive viewers,” Mr. Rasulo said.

First, a word of caution: Whoa, Jay-bird...that there's a pretty strongly worded phase! It has all the spine of overcooked linguini.

Second of all: WRONG! Many of your guests want nothing more than to be "passive viewers." Note to Jay: try visiting Pirates of the Caribbean at about 1pm on New Year's Eve. On my visit this year, the line was more than an hour long. BTW - when you're on that ride, all you do is sit on your butt.

Finally: If you really believe them words, how can you justify sinking millions and millions of dollars into a Nemo submarine ride (where you do nothing but sit on your butt and look out the window)? Or a Nemo show at DAK (where you do nothing but sit on your butt and watch some dancers get their exercise with a bunch of fish puppets)? Or ANOTHER Nemo ride at Epcot (where you sit on your butt in a fiberglass clam and watch a bunch of fish out a window)?

Someone please explain what J-Ro means by all this?