Honestly, a Disney HOA sounds nice on paper, but hearing a lot of stories about HOA being a bunch of douche bags to other people makes me think how much worse it would become if Disney was thrown into the mix. Guess we’ll find out when it happens.🤷🏻♀️
16:05 "This makes Disney look like a cult." Yeah, about that. Disney IS a cult, Walt's successors were just a little more subtle about it than L. Ron and his flock. Well, not by much, but enough to stay off everyone's radar for decades. A buddy of mine married into a "Disney family," I went and visited his place once. There was Disney stuff everywhere and the entire family (well, the blended part, this was a second marriage for both of them) had daily Disney movie viewings and the little kids and the mom recited lines as if they were repeating scripture. Plus, they treated their yearly visits to Disney World like a pilgrimage to Mecca, which to them it probably was. I made the unfortunate choice of making a innocuous remark about how Disney missed the point of the original story of the movie they were viewing (Mulan), and the mom looked at me as if I had cursed their ancestors and started vehemently defending Disney's various choices for their "interpretation." I later discovered that my buddy was no longer permitted to invite me over (not that I minded, that place was damn creepy, and so were the wife and hellspawn he married into).
I have a coworker that is very much into Disney. He goes to Disney Land once a month. I remember him raving about the Star Wars part of the park and loved it the first time he went. Interestingly enough he does not talk about the Star Wars part anymore the next month. I asked if the went into that part of the park and he just commented, "No, the ride was down". It is interesting that this guy has been completely silent about the Star Wars hotel, and this guy loves Disney and Star Wars. I know his job grade, so I know the range of what he gets paid and it would seriously hurt his fancies to stay in that Star Wars Hotel.
“Hey look! There's the Uyghur concentration camp in the background of that shot!” “Please show a little consideration. You're ruining the Magic™ for the rest of us!”
Being a Disney fanatic now is just crazy. Their content is f’n terrible. These modern fanatics are delusional if they can’t see how horrible the new films are. The 90’s was the peak for Disney. Being a fanatic back then would be more reasonable because they made great films. Those were the days.
Oh wow - this comment reminds me of actual “company towns” that existed around certain industries in the early 20th century. (Will Disney eventually require the residents to pay in Disney Dollars at their community stores?)
Ugh… I lived in a gated golf-course community in North Carolina for 5 years. The property developer tried to do the same thing with a community center, yoga classes, wine mixers, etc. Turns out the community events were a front to recruit couples for the neighborhood swingers club. People are bastard-covered bastards with bastard filling, no matter where they live.
I totally agree with the last sentence. If you can recognise that, and recognise that you too are also a bastard covered bastard with bastard filling (by dint of being a person) then you can begin to negotiate life properly.
So who will be to blame when people start saying there isn't enough "diversity" amongst the residents? As we all know, nothing makes a community better than forced diversity!
Who raises two problems, the minor is income inequality, the second is who would want to live an place like this. And second effect of that is probably that will doom it, it will be an black mark both social and professional for most. If you can afford to live there you don't want to have the address. On the other hand its nice that Karrens make an Karren list for people you want to avoid at all cost.
@@magnemoe1 Nah, corporate secure zones are the most desirable places to live for second tier new money the world over and Disney is about as good a choice as any other.
@@josephyu1527 And you have to watch them through security cams to make sure they don't come into your office and try to kill y... wait, no, that's that other thing.
That commercial of the black family in the Disney neighborhood reminded me of Chris Rock's bit about his neighborhood: “I will give you an example of how race affects my life. I live in a place called Alpine, New Jersey. Live in Alpine, New Jersey, right? My house costs millions of dollars. … In my neighborhood, there are four Black people. Hundreds of houses, four Black people.Who are these Black people? Well, there’s me, Mary J. Blige, Jay Z and Eddie Murphy. Only Black people in the whole neighborhood. So let’s break it down … Mary J. Blige, one of the greatest R&B singers to ever walk the earth. Jay Z, one of the greatest rappers to ever live. Eddie Murphy, one of the funniest actors to ever, ever do it. Do you know what the white man who lives next door to me does for a living? He’s a f***ing dentist. He ain’t the best dentist in the world. He ain’t going to the dental hall of fame. He don’t get plaques for getting rid of plaque. He’s just a yank-your-tooth-out dentist." The Rock Family will always be welcome in the Disney gated community.
They could have all the clean water and clean energy they wanted if they just built breeder reactors to desalinate the water. Then again, they would probably just build them on the fault because California.
What's really amazing to me, is that there is a demographic overlap between individuals with the capacity to shell out for a 4 mil house and individuals dumb enough to let Disney be their HoA.
"You can tell the disdain with which God considers great wealth by the quality of the individuals he bestows it upon" (Can't remember who said that, but it's still very true)
Cody it's home owners association. It basically gives an elected person or persons the right to tell the homeowners what their property can and can't look like. A total nightmare.
I've never understood why rich people seem to love buying really nice and expensive houses that are right on top of each other. Maybe it's because I grew up in a rural area but if I had millions of dollars the last thing I'd want to see when I look out of my window is my neighbor looking at me. 😄
Yep. You can do a Google Streetview tour of Disney's Celebration planned community. The houses are all chock-a-block on the street. I supposed that's what happens when you try to create a walkable community with single-family houses.
This has the potential to be the inspiration for a good horror movie or game at least. Can you imagine how many secret cameras and mics they're going to install in each house? 😬
I like your thinking! I can see it now. Your player character gets a phone call: We noticed you weren't at Rise and Shine Yoga class this morning. We will still charge you for the class, but in the future we'd like for you to show up promptly and devote yourself to daily exercise because we would like to keep the community BMI at...
@@zombiesqueaks5350 yeah! Im thinking something along the lines of "1984" meets "Terminator 2" meets "Zombieland." Also a dash of "Pleasantville" to give it that creepy too cheery feel.
This is going to be FAN-freaking-TASTIC, especially during a time when inflation is at its worst & people are fleeing California like rats from a sinking ship. Add to this absolute "paradise on Earth" the types of individuals who could afford & would buy a house in a Disney master planned community & top it off with a Disney HOA & I cannot think of anywhere else I'd rather be nowhere near...
That said, they're almost certainly going to be building walls to keep most folks out. I don't think they'll have trouble getting people into the place and the folks inside will pretty much not interact with outside communities.
@@CtrlAltRetreat California hasn't had any songs dedicated to a part of them since Katy Perry and Snoop Dog collaborated on the song California Gurls back in 2010 and highly doubt Disney being bonkers enough to think a new special housing community is changing California to anything better
@@CtrlAltRetreat Yeah..tha'ts exactly what's happening, late stage capitalism....global warming is already starting to hit, cyberpunk 2077dystopian society here we come
I never believed the Walt Disney company like people. When it was first starting out in the early 1900s, it might have liked people, but it being too big to fail these days means that it doesn't have to care about people to be a success anymore.
They did under walt. But its been getting worse as time goes on. This makes me not even want to buy classics used. At this point i feel like I'll puke if i see anything disney. Im putting all my money into video games. Manga, and anime.
Walt DEFINITELY liked the fans/customers. Eisner liked the fans/customers. Iger's the one who gave the fans/customers the middle finger because he only cared about money.
Two words: "Delta City" (Robocop Reference) One Word: "Whitoptia" (By the very explicit nature and implicit intent of the design) Two Words: "Bring Money" (in jest to Mike Eisner)
This is urinating on Walt's dream of EPCOT. Fun game: Watch the announcement video again, and count the number of times you see residents holding wineglasses in the concept art and images.
@@richardjosephnovak cheap wine is associated with HOA Karens. You know, the kind that do all of the inane bitching at your meetings and turn in the most complaints about their neighbors, Everyone is pointing out that this is very clearly catering to that type of person. Though, really, we should love the idea of that type of person all being clustered in one easily avoidable place, and try to encourage this sort of thing, now that I think about it.
I know can you imagine? Disney HOA calling and sending letters saying your house does not have enough pixie dust covering it? Or giving you a fine because your halloween/Christmas/Easter/ect decorations are not disney? The horror (shivers) and I though the stepford wives community would be a nightmare. Disney sounds much worse.
be honest, it would be pretty predatory of Disney to focus their marketing and promotions on poor people who can’t afford spending on luxuries like amusement parks.
Dsney is over estimating it's appeal. I did some work for "Disney's Celebration" community a while back. They were having all sorts of problems in the community with build quality almost every where you looked. I saw rotting balconies on the very pricey apartment units. siding and stucco peeling off walls and lots of mold. It was not a showplace by any means. All the corporate costs with none of the charm. The schools out there are notoriously bad as well.
CELEBRATION!!! They're trying to recreate Disney's Celebration. Celebration was a failure. HOA was a nightmare. The whole town which was really a glorified overprized subdivision felt so fake, like living in an oversized backlot of a Hollywood studio. If they can't make a proper immersive hotel stay Galaxy Cruise ship....
I did a little Google Streetview tour, and Celebration does have an uncanny movie-set quality to it, like the town in Edward Scissorhands. I think living there would drive me insane. For all the good words Disney corporate heads have about "diversity", they seem blind to the richness that actual aesthetic diversity gives to a neighborhood.
Year after year, all I hear outta California is how they're constantly facing water shortages. I'm glad to see them put what little they have to good use in a lagoon... in the middle of the desert... in a gated community... for rich wine moms & hipsters...
I totally agree.We should stop ALL legal and illegal imagination into the US. There is a very large number of lakes in Southern California. They are part of the water storage system. They are all used for recreation. This will be one more.
Anyone get Rapture flashes when they where describing the cast members living behind the glamour of these “Magic Communities”? A Mouse chooses, a slave obeys!
@@mmecharlotte Oh wow, your absolutely right, I missed that part cause I was listing instead of watching. The entire thing is packaged like those places: escapes from the dull and drab to a place where they can relax with “similar” people, and yet ignore the problems they’ve brought with them. I mean, it won’t end exactly the same, but it’s definitely a “art mirrors reality” moment.
Do you think HOA's are bad? Just wait until a "friendly neighbor" (code for compliance officer) sees you watching non-Disney owned shows on your TV through your window.
"Το κακό δεν μπορεί να δημιουργήσει τίποτα καινούργιο, μπορεί μόνο να διαφθείρει και να καταστρέψει αυτά που οι καλές δυνάμεις έχουν εφεύρει ή κατασκευάσει." -JRR Tolkien
I mean, from what I gather, they're already affordable. But yeah, why not do some of that, Disney? Is it because it's easier to cater to rich people who don't break everything?
Wasn’t this idea already pitched by the executive guy in the second Gremlins movie? Did Disney not understand that was supposed to be satire and not a business plan?
The Disney that it is now needs to leave Walt Disney the F out of this! He has nothing to do with how terrible, money hunger and sick-minded they are now!
My wife wants to take my son to Disney World for Mickey's anniversary in about 8 years but I'm trying to warn her, I have no idea how we'll be able to afford it at this rate.
I highly suggest Universal as well. As ppl pointed out there is tons of nintendo characters and the wizarding world of harry potter. It's already way better than the princesses and star wars sequel crap
Save your tax returns, thats what were doing. Were going just the once for our daughters 5 or 6th bday, having a big blow out for about 6 days. If we do go back it wont be for another 10 years. Thats how our fam has always done disney, once or twice a lifetime.
List of places to live that have greater levels of personal freedom than Disney communities: Snake Mountain The Technodrome Asteroid M The Hall of Doom Planet Apokolips
I know a couple of rich friends that are definitely gonna buy into this so that means I get to hangout there for a week for free and point out the hipsters and laugh
No one below the upper class, and no one in the upper class who are not modern self-centered hipsters? This highly goes against what Walt originally wanted.
@@mikecampos1193 Digital currency instead of real physical cash or plastic? They need to stop thinking that the internet is solely where to go to find customers.
Also, do none of these people remember the song "Company Store?" This economy they're building in these communities is doomed to fail because they're your HOA, your food services, 90% of your entertainment. They will literally hold people hostage. Let these idiots figure it out.
@@maggiem6209 They are too obsessed with monopolizing, thanks to Iger, that it is now backfiring. Covid made it worse, of course. They are soon to fall, just like Babylon. Sooner than they expect.
There is nothing to "bail out". The homes are sold to individuals and the company only owns the retail and hotel. A company that is worth hundreds of billions.
More like a good thing in my eyes.......Any venture that costs Disney a crapload of money and/or proves to be a complete waste of their time and resources is a-okay in my book!
@@19TheFallen Theyre an arm of the government. They literally cant lose money. They either get bailed out at the taxpayers expense or the government prints more (which in the end just results in the taxpayer paying the bill).
California has ZERO water resources, how is this going to be possible, where is the power for all this and water going to come from? Palm Springs has over 100 degree weather…….are they serious?
Oh yeah, a town for disney employees! Where you can shop at the disney store! And go to the company doctor! And feel protected by the company security! Surely an idea of a corporate town has never been done before! Oh wait...
I just imagine the planning for this is like that scene in the first Jurassic Park when Hammond is discussing his park with everyone but instead the blood sucking lawyer is in charge and Hammond is trying to argue for making it accessible to everyone.
That is just what I was thinking: Bob Chapek: And we can charge anything we want, 2,000 a day, 10,000 a day, and people will pay it. And then there's the merchandise... Walt Disney: Bob, Bob... This park was not built to cater only for the super-rich. Everyone in the world has the right to enjoy these animals. Bob Chapek : Sure, they will. Well, we'll have a, a coupon day or something.
Hey Disney execs watching. There is this really nice place in Buffalo called “Love’s Canal” and it would be great for a Disney to build a site. Totally no issues and its unused
Yes. The west is in a historic drought, but let’s go ahead and build a planned community in a desert and turn it into an ‘oasis’. That sounds like a great idea.
Maybe I'm unusual, but if I were wealthy enough to be one of those targeted by Disney, when I took a vacation it wouldn't be a theme park; much less a US based theme park. I'd travel the world. The last place I'd go would be to Disney World or Disneyland.
@@richardjosephnovak Thanks, but I did watch the video. The planned unit development is all part of Disney's broader shift towards wealthy consumers for its targeted demographic.
To be fair, this had been a dream of Walt Disney himself so it’s been part of the company since it’s creation. That was the original purpose of Epcot/The City of Tomorrow to create a community owned and run by Disney like a dictatorship so it’s nothing new
This type of thinking was not out of sorts for Walt's contemporaries. It's basically Le Corbusier's "machines for living" with a little pixie dust sprinkled over it.
First off you wouldn't catch me dead living in a Disney owned community. I could just imagine what the HOA is going to be like screw that. Shoot knowing my luck I would wind up decorating my house Universal base for all the Halloween and Christmas decorations just to piss everybody off
I know. I think if you tried that they would give you a fine for your decorations not being Disney. (Not that I would mind, lol I would pay to get a front row seat to see the Disney HOA reactions to seeing that)
It would not really even be an HOA. I doubt seriously that you would be able to vote on representation much less anything else. It would be strictly Disney cooperate appointments and rules. I would assume it would also be much like the Hotel California, though possible inverted to you can leave anytime you please but you can never check out. Like a timeshare from hell.
I died laughing when I heard the news. Dude, I had to make two videos about it on TikTok and I couldn’t stop laughing my ass off. It’s so ridiculous. And this is coming from a fan of Disney (when they aren’t being abysmal and make quality.)
Home Owner's Association: We removed your mailbox. It violates community rules. Disney Owner's Association: You're evicted. Theres a transgender couple who likes your house. Bye.
I dont have problem with this, im not going to pay to live there. I hope it goes well for them, and if it fails spectacularly ill get a giggle out of it.
When humanoid robots become an everyday staple, in say 20 years, and WestWorld type experiences are possible, these kind of themed communities are going to be a hit.
Maybe Disney finally knows how to build quality houses. There have been cases of people who trusted Disney being stuck with shoddily-built houses… but I don’t recall any recent ones.
Disney will not be building them. They will input appearance ideas but large tract home builders will be doing the construction. The will be good quality.
Note that the largest growing demographics are the 55+ retirees (there are more people retiring that new people joining the work market). It looks like Disney is taking advantage of this.
Google informs me a "lagoon" is "a body of water separated from larger bodies of water by a natural barrier"... ...I suppose several miles of desert constitutes "a natural barrier"?
Anyone that needs Disney's help to engage in philanthropic endeavors is doing it for clout, not to actually help someone who needs it. It's not hard to find causes that need help, call or email them, then sign up to volunteer.
I know Disney is all into making worthless reboots and remakes but maybe remaking Fyre Festival is a bad idea, and Cryptoland was just from last year - and they already want their own sequel to it? Christ, they're insane. At least Walter was just obsessed with trains. Now his company is obsessed with becoming BioShock's Rapture.
Hey at least Bioshock was better than the garbage Disney is making. (I am talking game wise, I am a huge Bioshock fan) But well if it comes to that I will be happy to get a front row seat and watch everything burn from afar.
Walt was also obsessed with the National Socialist party too. Look up walt and anti seymatism (sp) He had a few anti Joowish (sp) encounters. RUclips this is factual information, hope you don't take this comment as anything other than historical evidence.
@@wbass243 you mean he was anti communist by the way that was just a ploy because he didn't want to give the the artist Union not because they were Jewish it's cuz they were commies.
@@mikecampos1193 he also had the big bad wolf drawn as a Jewish stereotype before the artists redrew him in the 3 little pig cartoon. You can defend him all you want with copium, but he also invited a Nazi into his studios. I think the implications are there.
It worked with Hersey PA, but something about this feels like it will fail horribly, also, if you're going to do this, why not give your CAST members or employees either free or discounted housing? maybe it'd help make staying in Kayfabe for your princess cast members more bearable if they actually got to live somewhat like a Disney Princess.
Give free housing, how cute...and ridiculous. This is a high-end exclusive gated community 2 hours away from Disneyland. No Disneyland employees will be living here, or could afford to.
@@richardjosephnovak which is why it will fail. Disney is trying to be something they are not, trying to appeal to those who have a vapid interest in them. There is a reason why most microtransactions end at the $100 range because even the whales know they can't drop thousands of dollars at a time constantly heck it's already showing with the galactic starcruiser. Speaking of which they've not learned a thing after that fiasco as this seems like "Galactic Starcruiser 2.0
@@risingofthethorn1197 Wrong. This is not for the population you mentioned. Coachella Valley has been a getaway for the rich and famous for almost a 100 years. For the people buying in this community money is no object. This is not an amusement park, it is a second or 3rd home. A vacation retreat. It is no different than the many upscale gated communities that already exist in the area except for the innovations they are adding. Most of the communities in the area have golf courses and that pass time is on the decline. The new wealthy people want something different. And with shopping and entertainment inside of the gated community it becomes very attractive. It will not only be a success it will copied.
@@risingofthethorn1197 First you made nonsensical and irrelevant comments about free amusement park employee housing then made ridiculous statements about the target market for this development. The only hate here I might assume is the fact that you hate that you have no idea what the Coachella Valley or this project is all about.
Edit: FYI, Disney doesn't have teams of "Imagineers" for hardly anything. They have routinely hired existing outside companies to design and engineer something (like multiple rides), have the entire company sign NDAs, and then claim that Disney's Imagineers did everything. I worked for one such company, for 5 years, about 25 years ago. --- Literally received an email today, from Disney, about this. My first thought was, "What type of Stepford Wives hell is this??" And you just know that you'll have hours of interviews to be allowed in, with pages upon pages of rules and restrictions to live there. No thanks.
This sounds terrifying! Sounds a little like Hotel California: "You can buy in anytime you like, but you can never sell or leave!" And isn't Disney famous for ... er ...monitoring people? Peeping Tom's paradise, anyone?!
And I don't hate rich, I simply immensely despise the ones who have so much money and little imagination they squander it into worthless garbage like the captain Karen hotel. Sky's the limit when you're wealthy, if you flaunt it to show your social status, you are nothing but a pigeon.
This is really interesting. There has be rumors for years that disney was buying land in Texas. I have always laughed when people brought up they hear Disney bought land. The past few weeks I have been hearing about Disney buying land in Austin. I have even seeing TikToks and a few RUclips videos recently about. Makes sense with all the Californian tech moving to Austin
There is no way this will be successful. It will become a ghost town before it even is even finished being built. This sounds worse than Hudson Yards, in NYC.
Abandoned, dystopian resorts are not a new concept. There are multiple "country club/golf course" developments in my part of the midwest that had all the most expensive houses when being built, then the courses and clubs get sold off and the neighborhoods slide into mediocrity. Just say no.
Why would anyone live next to a theme park? Don’t get me wrong, on paper it’s sounds and feels like a DREAM come true! But this will cause more traffic.
Didn't they try this already? Pretty sure I watched an urbex video exploring an abandoned Disney neighborhood. Edit: yes there's a ton of videos showing the $200,00,000 'castle community' that was never finished.
While this establishment undergoes a slight change in management, my brother and I want to assure you that it remains the pinnacle of Las Pegasus entertainment! Which is why we invite each and every one of you to experience the wonder of the Pone Fantastique Theater - at half the normal cost of admission! And while you're appreciating this historic venue, totally devoid of any performers of any kind, we invite you to use the wonder of your own imaginations to fill the space at no additional charge!
Yeah this went really well when disney did country walk in dade county Long story short . Disney built a community in dade county in the late 70s and 80s These houses were nice when opened but were equivalent to matchsticks and corners were massively cut . Hurricane Andrew passed by and flattened the entire area
Especially now that they’re cutting serious corners. This is going to turn out like Fyre Festival. “I know we showed those houses but our people found that FEMA tents were way cheaper!” They’ll sell it as a glamping experience we’re you can sleep under the stars ✨ and get stung by scorpions. just pure Disney magic 😂
@@georgeascunce3142 And let's hope Cheapek will meet the same fate McFarland met, getting prison time and a ruined career/image for committing wire fraud.
Imagine the horrors of a Disney HOA
That is a level of nightmare fuel that would make you wake up screaming with night sweats.
Honestly, a Disney HOA sounds nice on paper, but hearing a lot of stories about HOA being a bunch of douche bags to other people makes me think how much worse it would become if Disney was thrown into the mix. Guess we’ll find out when it happens.🤷🏻♀️
Oh great, now I'm going to have nightmares tonight...
Karens, Karens everywhere
@@USMC49er and not enough cheap wine to drink.
"When you wish upon a star,
'makes no diff'rence who you are..."
Disney Corpos: "Unless you're a filthy peasant. In which case, screw you."
I can’t imagine a worse hell than living in a “planned” Disney “community”
Make Doublethink and Newspeak Fiction Again!
The 1984 book wasn't a F ING MANUAL, DISNEY.
ANIMAL FARM WASN'T A MANUAL EITHER
amen hahaha
I think I would feel like the Prisoner if I were to wake in the magic kingdom
HOA hell times a million.
16:05 "This makes Disney look like a cult."
Yeah, about that. Disney IS a cult, Walt's successors were just a little more subtle about it than L. Ron and his flock. Well, not by much, but enough to stay off everyone's radar for decades.
A buddy of mine married into a "Disney family," I went and visited his place once. There was Disney stuff everywhere and the entire family (well, the blended part, this was a second marriage for both of them) had daily Disney movie viewings and the little kids and the mom recited lines as if they were repeating scripture. Plus, they treated their yearly visits to Disney World like a pilgrimage to Mecca, which to them it probably was.
I made the unfortunate choice of making a innocuous remark about how Disney missed the point of the original story of the movie they were viewing (Mulan), and the mom looked at me as if I had cursed their ancestors and started vehemently defending Disney's various choices for their "interpretation."
I later discovered that my buddy was no longer permitted to invite me over (not that I minded, that place was damn creepy, and so were the wife and hellspawn he married into).
I have a coworker that is very much into Disney. He goes to Disney Land once a month. I remember him raving about the Star Wars part of the park and loved it the first time he went. Interestingly enough he does not talk about the Star Wars part anymore the next month. I asked if the went into that part of the park and he just commented, "No, the ride was down". It is interesting that this guy has been completely silent about the Star Wars hotel, and this guy loves Disney and Star Wars. I know his job grade, so I know the range of what he gets paid and it would seriously hurt his fancies to stay in that Star Wars Hotel.
“Hey look! There's the Uyghur concentration camp in the background of that shot!”
“Please show a little consideration. You're ruining the Magic™ for the rest of us!”
😆😆😆😂😂😂😂Thank you for sharing this story.
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Being a Disney fanatic now is just crazy. Their content is f’n terrible. These modern fanatics are delusional if they can’t see how horrible the new films are.
The 90’s was the peak for Disney. Being a fanatic back then would be more reasonable because they made great films. Those were the days.
Dismal Designer Disney. On the one hand it isolates the weirdos from the rest of us. On the other, it creates company communities.
No one's forcing anyone to overpay to live there, knowing Disney will their hoa.
Oh wow - this comment reminds me of actual “company towns” that existed around certain industries in the early 20th century. (Will Disney eventually require the residents to pay in Disney Dollars at their community stores?)
@@LadyHawke78 lol Yep.
@@LadyHawke78 “I owe my soul to the company store”
I see no downsides.
Ugh… I lived in a gated golf-course community in North Carolina for 5 years. The property developer tried to do the same thing with a community center, yoga classes, wine mixers, etc. Turns out the community events were a front to recruit couples for the neighborhood swingers club. People are bastard-covered bastards with bastard filling, no matter where they live.
I totally agree with the last sentence. If you can recognise that, and recognise that you too are also a bastard covered bastard with bastard filling (by dint of being a person) then you can begin to negotiate life properly.
@@sergiocampanale3882 I tend to go with. "Yes, I am a bad guy, but you're even worse than me. And that's saying something."
*jingles his car keys
Wait, "swingers club” you say?
Damm. If thid is not a fake post. Looks like the plot of a very twisted erotic novel.
So who will be to blame when people start saying there isn't enough "diversity" amongst the residents? As we all know, nothing makes a community better than forced diversity!
rich people dont want that for their own though. they want everyone else to do it.
Who raises two problems, the minor is income inequality, the second is who would want to live an place like this.
And second effect of that is probably that will doom it, it will be an black mark both social and professional for most.
If you can afford to live there you don't want to have the address.
On the other hand its nice that Karrens make an Karren list for people you want to avoid at all cost.
Itll be themed for Song of the south of course! Free housing and food/drink for any people of color who want to "play along" 😉
Luckily diversity is only skin color and sexuality, you don't need any poor people.
@@magnemoe1
Nah, corporate secure zones are the most desirable places to live for second tier new money the world over and Disney is about as good a choice as any other.
Ah yes. Nothing screams "Diversity and inclusion!" more than a Disney-build neighbourhood!
Question: do we also get a Stepford Wife?
I am not sure I trust Disney to build a working animatronics sooo...
That’s what comes next. Instead of cast members that you have to pay, there’ll just be animatronics that you have to maintain at night.
Nah, but your children might share kinship with corn fields
Zzz
@@josephyu1527 And you have to watch them through security cams to make sure they don't come into your office and try to kill y... wait, no, that's that other thing.
Why stop there? Why not build hospitals, schools, kindergartens, etc. Build entire upscale cities
If they went with the original concept for Epcot, I might consider it.
The 1984 book wasn't a F ING MANUAL, DISNEY.
THE FARM WASN'T A MANUAL EITHER
@@CinnamonGrrlErin1 That would mean respecting Walt Disney.
So...
Sounds more like they're going to try to build their own country in fact.
Building hospitals would be better.
That commercial of the black family in the Disney neighborhood reminded me of Chris Rock's bit about his neighborhood:
“I will give you an example of how race affects my life. I live in a place called Alpine, New Jersey. Live in Alpine, New Jersey, right? My house costs millions of dollars. … In my neighborhood, there are four Black people. Hundreds of houses, four Black people.Who are these Black people? Well, there’s me, Mary J. Blige, Jay Z and Eddie Murphy. Only Black people in the whole neighborhood. So let’s break it down … Mary J. Blige, one of the greatest R&B singers to ever walk the earth. Jay Z, one of the greatest rappers to ever live. Eddie Murphy, one of the funniest actors to ever, ever do it. Do you know what the white man who lives next door to me does for a living? He’s a f***ing dentist. He ain’t the best dentist in the world. He ain’t going to the dental hall of fame. He don’t get plaques for getting rid of plaque. He’s just a yank-your-tooth-out dentist."
The Rock Family will always be welcome in the Disney gated community.
This sounds like a future episode of Defunctland.
Or Black Mirror
Or a GTA Expansion pack
I can’t wait for the defunct land episode tbh
Also Bright Films too.
Agreed
California is in the middle of a drought and they want to build a lagoon in the middle of a Desert. The levels of cluelessness is amazing.
They'd have to divert enough of a few rivers to be able to get that lagoon, which also takes time and effort (and money).
@@RiptoGakt to late they already have. 20 million people thought it was a good idea to live in a desert.
@@NickRedstar Eh, might as well block 'em from trying to divert rivers there.
They could have all the clean water and clean energy they wanted if they just built breeder reactors to desalinate the water.
Then again, they would probably just build them on the fault because California.
What's really amazing to me, is that there is a demographic overlap between individuals with the capacity to shell out for a 4 mil house and individuals dumb enough to let Disney be their HoA.
"You can tell the disdain with which God considers great wealth by the quality of the individuals he bestows it upon" (Can't remember who said that, but it's still very true)
What is HOA?
It's not the generation that created the money, it's their children and grandchildren. This is quite literally hipster haven.
@@codyj.braunva5406 Home Owners Association. They give petty people the power to enforce their will on their fellow residents.
Cody it's home owners association. It basically gives an elected person or persons the right to tell the homeowners what their property can and can't look like. A total nightmare.
I've never understood why rich people seem to love buying really nice and expensive houses that are right on top of each other. Maybe it's because I grew up in a rural area but if I had millions of dollars the last thing I'd want to see when I look out of my window is my neighbor looking at me. 😄
Yep. You can do a Google Streetview tour of Disney's Celebration planned community. The houses are all chock-a-block on the street. I supposed that's what happens when you try to create a walkable community with single-family houses.
This has the potential to be the inspiration for a good horror movie or game at least. Can you imagine how many secret cameras and mics they're going to install in each house? 😬
That’s the bloody definition of authoritarianism.
You know that reminds me of a horror movie based on and made in Disney that was shown a couple of years back.
It’s called escape from tomorrow land.
I like your thinking! I can see it now. Your player character gets a phone call: We noticed you weren't at Rise and Shine Yoga class this morning. We will still charge you for the class, but in the future we'd like for you to show up promptly and devote yourself to daily exercise because we would like to keep the community BMI at...
@@zombiesqueaks5350 yeah! Im thinking something along the lines of "1984" meets "Terminator 2" meets "Zombieland." Also a dash of "Pleasantville" to give it that creepy too cheery feel.
It was done already, five nights at Freddy's, just live action now.
This is going to be FAN-freaking-TASTIC, especially during a time when inflation is at its worst & people are fleeing California like rats from a sinking ship. Add to this absolute "paradise on Earth" the types of individuals who could afford & would buy a house in a Disney master planned community & top it off with a Disney HOA & I cannot think of anywhere else I'd rather be nowhere near...
That said, they're almost certainly going to be building walls to keep most folks out. I don't think they'll have trouble getting people into the place and the folks inside will pretty much not interact with outside communities.
@@CtrlAltRetreat Good. Let them stay segregated from the sane population.
I'm getting a serious District 1 vibe from this. Can't wait to meet the new President Snow. 👋😍
👎👎👎👎
@@CtrlAltRetreat California hasn't had any songs dedicated to a part of them since Katy Perry and Snoop Dog collaborated on the song California Gurls back in 2010 and highly doubt Disney being bonkers enough to think a new special housing community is changing California to anything better
@@CtrlAltRetreat Yeah..tha'ts exactly what's happening, late stage capitalism....global warming is already starting to hit, cyberpunk 2077dystopian society here we come
I never believed the Walt Disney company like people. When it was first starting out in the early 1900s, it might have liked people, but it being too big to fail these days means that it doesn't have to care about people to be a success anymore.
They did under walt. But its been getting worse as time goes on. This makes me not even want to buy classics used. At this point i feel like I'll puke if i see anything disney. Im putting all my money into video games. Manga, and anime.
The company has become much of what Walt Disney despised.
It's gonna reach too big to succeed eventually. And the current Disney is the antithesis of what Walt Disney had envisioned.
It all went downhill after Walt and Roy died.
Walt DEFINITELY liked the fans/customers. Eisner liked the fans/customers. Iger's the one who gave the fans/customers the middle finger because he only cared about money.
Two words: "Delta City" (Robocop Reference)
One Word: "Whitoptia" (By the very explicit nature and implicit intent of the design)
Two Words: "Bring Money" (in jest to Mike Eisner)
Social Engineering at its worst. Hard, hard pass.
I can see a horror story building up in that neighborhood already.
Imagine the Disney HOA knocking on your door.
"Hello, we'd like to talk to you about your last twitter post"
Disney has become like a creeper in a panel van, driving around to parks and offering kids candy to get in.
rotten, off-brand candy that is made to look like your favorite candy.
Somewhere above us, Peter Cushing is looking down on your avatar and laughing heartily.
And overcharging them for the candy, and 'entry fee' for the van.
Now if only Disney would self implode like a creeper in Minecraft.
@@vladimirlestrad3120 Or fly away on a Gwythaint.
This is urinating on Walt's dream of EPCOT. Fun game: Watch the announcement video again, and count the number of times you see residents holding wineglasses in the concept art and images.
I don't get it what about the wine glasses?
@@richardjosephnovak cheap wine is associated with HOA Karens. You know, the kind that do all of the inane bitching at your meetings and turn in the most complaints about their neighbors, Everyone is pointing out that this is very clearly catering to that type of person.
Though, really, we should love the idea of that type of person all being clustered in one easily avoidable place, and try to encourage this sort of thing, now that I think about it.
What's worse than an over bearing HOA? One run by Disney.
I know can you imagine?
Disney HOA calling and sending letters saying your house does not have enough pixie dust covering it? Or giving you a fine because your halloween/Christmas/Easter/ect decorations are not disney?
The horror (shivers) and I though the stepford wives community would be a nightmare. Disney sounds much worse.
Uh oh, you didn't smile on your way to work this morning, were going to have to fine you and if it happens again you'll be asked to leave.
You don't understand the area. They want strict HOAs.
be honest, it would be pretty predatory of Disney to focus their marketing and promotions on poor people who can’t afford spending on luxuries like amusement parks.
This won’t end well… But any future fails on Disney’s side will be a win for us.
I know right you can see the train wreck from miles away. Some people though need captain obvious to hit them upside the head I guess.
I really hope they all fail.
Yeah Disney deserves to go down for good!
wanna bet they try to spin it as a Tatooine or Mos Eisley rip off of some kind?
Hope the gullible people all go live there and leave the rest of us alone.
Dsney is over estimating it's appeal. I did some work for "Disney's Celebration" community a while back. They were having all sorts of problems in the community with build quality almost every where you looked. I saw rotting balconies on the very pricey apartment units. siding and stucco peeling off walls and lots of mold. It was not a showplace by any means. All the corporate costs with none of the charm. The schools out there are notoriously bad as well.
So Disney's planning to make a live-action Truman Show. Neat.
That was the original intention of Epcot that walt wanted. A community that he could control.
@@vianjelos it was ment for employees of disney to have affordable living, not this.....
I had a VERY similar thought.
CELEBRATION!!! They're trying to recreate Disney's Celebration. Celebration was a failure. HOA was a nightmare. The whole town which was really a glorified overprized subdivision felt so fake, like living in an oversized backlot of a Hollywood studio. If they can't make a proper immersive hotel stay Galaxy Cruise ship....
I did a little Google Streetview tour, and Celebration does have an uncanny movie-set quality to it, like the town in Edward Scissorhands. I think living there would drive me insane. For all the good words Disney corporate heads have about "diversity", they seem blind to the richness that actual aesthetic diversity gives to a neighborhood.
@@DeflatingAtheism They filmed the Truman show there.
@@killerbee2562 That makes perfect sense!
And then they dare talk about "equality"
"Equality" to Disney is "white people are all dead" That's whay they want and I hope this plan falls and fails so hard
@input latency Both are lies.
Year after year, all I hear outta California is how they're constantly facing water shortages. I'm glad to see them put what little they have to good use in a lagoon... in the middle of the desert... in a gated community... for rich wine moms & hipsters...
I totally agree.We should stop ALL legal and illegal imagination into the US.
There is a very large number of lakes in Southern California. They are part of the water storage system. They are all used for recreation. This will be one more.
Walt Disney Epcot was originally suppose to be a Disney planned Community. They have come full circle.
With crazy rules.
I can see people writing a crazy sci-fi about saying do not go to that round Tower only death follows.
Operation warp speed
Yeah, but it was supposed to be affordable housing for Disney employees, not a managed community for rich fscks.
Great idea for a horror story in the Black Mirror episode. Planned community by a "happy go lucky" megacorp.
"Working _CASTE_ need not apply"
At this point I'm sure they think "class" means "caste"
There is a reason the staff is not called employees but “cast members”
Disney is in need of a hard fall. This is Scientology level psychotic.
Anyone get Rapture flashes when they where describing the cast members living behind the glamour of these “Magic Communities”?
A Mouse chooses, a slave obeys!
@@mmecharlotte Oh wow, your absolutely right, I missed that part cause I was listing instead of watching. The entire thing is packaged like those places: escapes from the dull and drab to a place where they can relax with “similar” people, and yet ignore the problems they’ve brought with them. I mean, it won’t end exactly the same, but it’s definitely a “art mirrors reality” moment.
Do you think HOA's are bad? Just wait until a "friendly neighbor" (code for compliance officer) sees you watching non-Disney owned shows on your TV through your window.
Or until Disney's "security staff" sees you watching them on the security cameras installed in your home.........for........your safety, of course!
I'm sure they'll be fine with the business end of my shotgun in their face then
This is what blackout curtains are for
"Το κακό δεν μπορεί να δημιουργήσει τίποτα καινούργιο, μπορεί μόνο να διαφθείρει και να καταστρέψει αυτά που οι καλές δυνάμεις έχουν εφεύρει ή κατασκευάσει." -JRR Tolkien
I want disney to go into crime infested neighborhoods and make them safe, wholesome, and afforfable.
Exactly. Sprinkle a little pixie dust over San Bernadino.
@@DeflatingAtheism I want Mickey, Donald, and Goofy to thump some drug dealer gangbanger heads.
This will definitely be safe and wholesome for sure.
Yeah with section 8 housing right?
I mean, from what I gather, they're already affordable. But yeah, why not do some of that, Disney? Is it because it's easier to cater to rich people who don't break everything?
Remember that's what WALT himself did to get the land for Disney World. He bought up swamp land in Florida that "Nobody Wanted" and developed it.
It's like he had it planned from the beginning that old communist hating bastard that is a capitalist thing to do.
Think ahead
@@mikecampos1193 Nothing better to hate than a communist.
Wasn’t this idea already pitched by the executive guy in the second Gremlins movie? Did Disney not understand that was supposed to be satire and not a business plan?
Lol Warner Bros was trying to warn us about Disney
Ah yes. Clamp Corners, where life slows to a crawl.
The Disney that it is now needs to leave Walt Disney the F out of this! He has nothing to do with how terrible, money hunger and sick-minded they are now!
Wow, why are they sick minded? Do tell....
No, no, no.. a former Disney employee told me there were stories of Walt being a pussy hound, especially when Ambassadors were still a thing
My wife wants to take my son to Disney World for Mickey's anniversary in about 8 years but I'm trying to warn her, I have no idea how we'll be able to afford it at this rate.
Start saving now
@@Martynde too late, he should have started saving 5 years ago
Go to universal if your son loves nintendo epic universe would be open by 2024
I highly suggest Universal as well. As ppl pointed out there is tons of nintendo characters and the wizarding world of harry potter. It's already way better than the princesses and star wars sequel crap
Save your tax returns, thats what were doing. Were going just the once for our daughters 5 or 6th bday, having a big blow out for about 6 days. If we do go back it wont be for another 10 years. Thats how our fam has always done disney, once or twice a lifetime.
Regardless of who's building it, a hipster neighborhood sounds like a nightmare. Like a douchebag version of the community in Stepford Wives.
Well at least they're away from everyone else.
List of places to live that have greater levels of personal freedom than Disney communities:
Snake Mountain
The Technodrome
Asteroid M
The Hall of Doom
Planet Apokolips
I know a couple of rich friends that are definitely gonna buy into this so that means I get to hangout there for a week for free and point out the hipsters and laugh
I'd bet the HOA regulations are insane in these neighborhoods.
All households MUST reflect the world we live in!
But not ours, of course.
That is what they want in Coachella Valley.
No one below the upper class, and no one in the upper class who are not modern self-centered hipsters? This highly goes against what Walt originally wanted.
There chasing the Bitcoin millionaires at this point.
@@mikecampos1193 Digital currency instead of real physical cash or plastic? They need to stop thinking that the internet is solely where to go to find customers.
Also, do none of these people remember the song "Company Store?"
This economy they're building in these communities is doomed to fail because they're your HOA, your food services, 90% of your entertainment. They will literally hold people hostage.
Let these idiots figure it out.
You know, when you say it like that I wonder how long it's going to be before they get overrun with drugs and whores.
@@maggiem6209 They are too obsessed with monopolizing, thanks to Iger, that it is now backfiring. Covid made it worse, of course. They are soon to fall, just like Babylon. Sooner than they expect.
I had foreseen Disney coming to the government for a bail out in ten years. With this, that is going to be in five or less.
Seriously, does anyone seeing the real estate market going up six years from now? Six months from now? Six weeks from now?
There is nothing to "bail out". The homes are sold to individuals and the company only owns the retail and hotel. A company that is worth hundreds of billions.
Huh… Walt wanted to do this before and his advisors at the time told him what an awful idea it was.
Shame those guys aren’t around anymore
More like a good thing in my eyes.......Any venture that costs Disney a crapload of money and/or proves to be a complete waste of their time and resources is a-okay in my book!
@@19TheFallen Theyre an arm of the government.
They literally cant lose money. They either get bailed out at the taxpayers expense or the government prints more (which in the end just results in the taxpayer paying the bill).
@@dorugoramon0518 Really, when did Disney get a government bailout. I don't remember that.
His advisors. Never heard this story.
California has ZERO water resources, how is this going to be possible, where is the power for all this and water going to come from?
Palm Springs has over 100 degree weather…….are they serious?
This all looks like a town you'd make in The Sims 3. It's the plot of literally every environmental movie and TV episode from the early 90s.
Life is a stage.
Oh yeah, a town for disney employees! Where you can shop at the disney store! And go to the company doctor! And feel protected by the company security! Surely an idea of a corporate town has never been done before! Oh wait...
Scottsdale, AZ
I just imagine the planning for this is like that scene in the first Jurassic Park when Hammond is discussing his park with everyone but instead the blood sucking lawyer is in charge and Hammond is trying to argue for making it accessible to everyone.
That is just what I was thinking:
Bob Chapek: And we can charge anything we want, 2,000 a day, 10,000 a day, and people will pay it. And then there's the merchandise...
Walt Disney: Bob, Bob... This park was not built to cater only for the super-rich. Everyone in the world has the right to enjoy these animals.
Bob Chapek : Sure, they will. Well, we'll have a, a coupon day or something.
Hey Disney execs watching. There is this really nice place in Buffalo called “Love’s Canal” and it would be great for a Disney to build a site. Totally no issues and its unused
And it’s got a friendly name to boot. Centralia is also available too
Yes. The west is in a historic drought, but let’s go ahead and build a planned community in a desert and turn it into an ‘oasis’. That sounds like a great idea.
At the top of a real estate bubble, no less!
I totally agree. We should stop ALL legal and illegal imagination into the US.
The houses will probably just be a stack of shipping containers and you're forced to leave the community in the back of a U-Haul truck.
Maybe I'm unusual, but if I were wealthy enough to be one of those targeted by Disney, when I took a vacation it wouldn't be a theme park; much less a US based theme park. I'd travel the world. The last place I'd go would be to Disney World or Disneyland.
That is because you are not a kid. That is what the theme parks are for. This is not a theme park. It is an upscale housing development. A PUD.
@@richardjosephnovak Thanks, but I did watch the video. The planned unit development is all part of Disney's broader shift towards wealthy consumers for its targeted demographic.
@@HaroldCrews That is funny. There is no shift. That is how it has always been.
To be fair, this had been a dream of Walt Disney himself so it’s been part of the company since it’s creation. That was the original purpose of Epcot/The City of Tomorrow to create a community owned and run by Disney like a dictatorship so it’s nothing new
This type of thinking was not out of sorts for Walt's contemporaries. It's basically Le Corbusier's "machines for living" with a little pixie dust sprinkled over it.
First off you wouldn't catch me dead living in a Disney owned community. I could just imagine what the HOA is going to be like screw that. Shoot knowing my luck I would wind up decorating my house Universal base for all the Halloween and Christmas decorations just to piss everybody off
I know.
I think if you tried that they would give you a fine for your decorations not being Disney. (Not that I would mind, lol I would pay to get a front row seat to see the Disney HOA reactions to seeing that)
It would not really even be an HOA. I doubt seriously that you would be able to vote on representation much less anything else. It would be strictly Disney cooperate appointments and rules. I would assume it would also be much like the Hotel California, though possible inverted to you can leave anytime you please but you can never check out. Like a timeshare from hell.
I died laughing when I heard the news. Dude, I had to make two videos about it on TikTok and I couldn’t stop laughing my ass off.
It’s so ridiculous.
And this is coming from a fan of Disney (when they aren’t being abysmal and make quality.)
Disney is like Thanos but incompetent and less sympathetic
And Thanos once piloted a tiny helicopter with his name on.
Environmentally unsound. Create a lake in the middle of a desert? California has Draughts. This is just flat out Stupid!
Home Owner's Association: We removed your mailbox. It violates community rules.
Disney Owner's Association: You're evicted. Theres a transgender couple who likes your house. Bye.
Wait, it’s a good thing then. New asylums.
@@zerotodona1495 I never looked at it that way!
Where are they going to get the water to do this? One thing California is really lacking.
Don't buy houses in HOA, tip from someone who owns a house.
I dont have problem with this, im not going to pay to live there. I hope it goes well for them, and if it fails spectacularly ill get a giggle out of it.
If they can afford this, why was their Star Wars stuff, the park and hotel, stripped to such a degree from what was originally promised?
What are you talking about?
Will Disney repossess your home if you don't get the 50th booster, if you vote a certain way, if you like Japanese anime instead of Disney cartoons?
Yes. 100% yes.
When humanoid robots become an everyday staple, in say 20 years, and WestWorld type experiences are possible, these kind of themed communities are going to be a hit.
Maybe Disney finally knows how to build quality houses. There have been cases of people who trusted Disney being stuck with shoddily-built houses… but I don’t recall any recent ones.
McMansion planned communities are notorious for shabby construction and materials.
Disney will not be building them. They will input appearance ideas but large tract home builders will be doing the construction. The will be good quality.
@@DeflatingAtheism These will be high-end tract homes built by large builders. They will be high quality.
Note that the largest growing demographics are the 55+ retirees (there are more people retiring that new people joining the work market).
It looks like Disney is taking advantage of this.
Google informs me a "lagoon" is "a body of water separated from larger bodies of water by a natural barrier"...
...I suppose several miles of desert constitutes "a natural barrier"?
I live in a smaller city myself. I under stand feels like corporations hate us. Maybe why me and every one shops small.
I've been telling people that they would do this for over a decade and people said I was crazy...
People often confuse genius for madness
You two are both on point and I freaking love it..its even better when honesty hurts the big dragon
The demographics that could remotely afford these questionably planned communities will clash greatly with the marketing images
Community of snobs. Nature of the beast -- they'll never form a meaningful community.
I disagree. As a second or third home these will sell out fast.
Remember when Newsom closed them for over 400 days? Disney donated 40k to stop his recall. Never feel bad for this crap company.
Anyone that needs Disney's help to engage in philanthropic endeavors is doing it for clout, not to actually help someone who needs it. It's not hard to find causes that need help, call or email them, then sign up to volunteer.
That's cute. You do not know who lives in Coachella Valley.
I know Disney is all into making worthless reboots and remakes but maybe remaking Fyre Festival is a bad idea, and Cryptoland was just from last year - and they already want their own sequel to it? Christ, they're insane. At least Walter was just obsessed with trains. Now his company is obsessed with becoming BioShock's Rapture.
Hey at least Bioshock was better than the garbage Disney is making. (I am talking game wise, I am a huge Bioshock fan)
But well if it comes to that I will be happy to get a front row seat and watch everything burn from afar.
Walt was also obsessed with the National Socialist party too. Look up walt and anti seymatism (sp) He had a few anti Joowish (sp) encounters. RUclips this is factual information, hope you don't take this comment as anything other than historical evidence.
@@wbass243 you mean he was anti communist by the way that was just a ploy because he didn't want to give the the artist Union not because they were Jewish it's cuz they were commies.
@@mikecampos1193 he also had the big bad wolf drawn as a Jewish stereotype before the artists redrew him in the 3 little pig cartoon. You can defend him all you want with copium, but he also invited a Nazi into his studios. I think the implications are there.
Reminds me of the sub-plot of HBO's West World, where the park collected the data from the guests.
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This is like the neighborhood I worked security for. I can't look at palm tree landscaping without getting sick anymore...
It worked with Hersey PA, but something about this feels like it will fail horribly, also, if you're going to do this, why not give your CAST members or employees either free or discounted housing? maybe it'd help make staying in Kayfabe for your princess cast members more bearable if they actually got to live somewhat like a Disney Princess.
Give free housing, how cute...and ridiculous. This is a high-end exclusive gated community 2 hours away from Disneyland. No Disneyland employees will be living here, or could afford to.
@@richardjosephnovak which is why it will fail. Disney is trying to be something they are not, trying to appeal to those who have a vapid interest in them. There is a reason why most microtransactions end at the $100 range because even the whales know they can't drop thousands of dollars at a time constantly heck it's already showing with the galactic starcruiser. Speaking of which they've not learned a thing after that fiasco as this seems like "Galactic Starcruiser 2.0
@@risingofthethorn1197 Wrong. This is not for the population you mentioned. Coachella Valley has been a getaway for the rich and famous for almost a 100 years. For the people buying in this community money is no object. This is not an amusement park, it is a second or 3rd home. A vacation retreat. It is no different than the many upscale gated communities that already exist in the area except for the innovations they are adding. Most of the communities in the area have golf courses and that pass time is on the decline. The new wealthy people want something different. And with shopping and entertainment inside of the gated community it becomes very attractive. It will not only be a success it will copied.
@@richardjosephnovak and let me guess, we're all just haters, right?
@@risingofthethorn1197 First you made nonsensical and irrelevant comments about free amusement park employee housing then made ridiculous statements about the target market for this development. The only hate here I might assume is the fact that you hate that you have no idea what the Coachella Valley or this project is all about.
Edit: FYI, Disney doesn't have teams of "Imagineers" for hardly anything. They have routinely hired existing outside companies to design and engineer something (like multiple rides), have the entire company sign NDAs, and then claim that Disney's Imagineers did everything. I worked for one such company, for 5 years, about 25 years ago.
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Literally received an email today, from Disney, about this. My first thought was, "What type of Stepford Wives hell is this??"
And you just know that you'll have hours of interviews to be allowed in, with pages upon pages of rules and restrictions to live there. No thanks.
This sounds terrifying! Sounds a little like Hotel California: "You can buy in anytime you like, but you can never sell or leave!" And isn't Disney famous for ... er ...monitoring people? Peeping Tom's paradise, anyone?!
More than just peeping Toms. Check out Fiona Barnett- Disney parks have been used for mind control programming for child SCHMEX trafficking
And I don't hate rich, I simply immensely despise the ones who have so much money and little imagination they squander it into worthless garbage like the captain Karen hotel. Sky's the limit when you're wealthy, if you flaunt it to show your social status, you are nothing but a pigeon.
This is really interesting. There has be rumors for years that disney was buying land in Texas. I have always laughed when people brought up they hear Disney bought land. The past few weeks I have been hearing about Disney buying land in Austin. I have even seeing TikToks and a few RUclips videos recently about. Makes sense with all the Californian tech moving to Austin
There NEEDS to be a Disney to care about the middle class & the poor. What ‘s the deal with unecessary corporate greed??!!!
Walt Disney didn’t come from a wealthy background.
He would hate everything his company has become.
The Disney magic is how completely they can separate you from your money.
There is no way this will be successful. It will become a ghost town before it even is even finished being built. This sounds worse than Hudson Yards, in NYC.
Abandoned, dystopian resorts are not a new concept. There are multiple "country club/golf course" developments in my part of the midwest that had all the most expensive houses when being built, then the courses and clubs get sold off and the neighborhoods slide into mediocrity. Just say no.
Not in Coachella Valley. This will sell out fast and remain. Seriously, nobody wants to live in the Midwest.
@@richardjosephnovak oooh look a Disney shill!
@@artnull13 Really, so where exactly in the Midwest are people paying these prices on vacation homes?
@@richardjosephnovak oooh look a Disney shill!
@@artnull13 Oh, I think I get it. You have no idea. Ok.
Ah the hunger games. No no this is the squid game.
It’s just truly Dystopian, or more like “Disney-topian.”
Well for whoever goes there.
Disney's theme song should be The O'Jays' "For the Love of Money." It fits them to a T!
Why would anyone live next to a theme park? Don’t get me wrong, on paper it’s sounds and feels like a DREAM come true! But this will cause more traffic.
Didn't they try this already? Pretty sure I watched an urbex video exploring an abandoned Disney neighborhood.
Edit: yes there's a ton of videos showing the $200,00,000 'castle community' that was never finished.
While this establishment undergoes a slight change in management, my brother and I want to assure you that it remains the pinnacle of Las Pegasus entertainment! Which is why we invite each and every one of you to experience the wonder of the Pone Fantastique Theater - at half the normal cost of admission!
And while you're appreciating this historic venue, totally devoid of any performers of any kind, we invite you to use the wonder of your own imaginations to fill the space at no additional charge!
Yeah this went really well when disney did country walk in dade county
Long story short . Disney built a community in dade county in the late 70s and 80s
These houses were nice when opened but were equivalent to matchsticks and corners were massively cut . Hurricane Andrew passed by and flattened the entire area
Especially now that they’re cutting serious corners. This is going to turn out like Fyre Festival. “I know we showed those houses but our people found that FEMA tents were way cheaper!” They’ll sell it as a glamping experience we’re you can sleep under the stars ✨ and get stung by scorpions. just pure Disney magic 😂
@@wil.d_sage with Bob Cheapek it’ll be a repeat of that disaster
@@wil.d_sage Not just any old scorpions, Disney Scorpions (tm)! Feel that sting? That's the Disney difference!
@@georgeascunce3142 And let's hope Cheapek will meet the same fate McFarland met, getting prison time and a ruined career/image for committing wire fraud.
@@thegrimharvest you aren’t dying, silly! You’ve won an all-expenses paid trip to Neverland!
Disney lifestylers are insufferable in the parks….why would I want to live with them every day!