robbalvey

That's most certainly one of the reasons, yes!

Oh, we most certainly have! And they are honestly disruptive for everyone. So thankfully, we try to weed out as many of them as possible on the forum or socials level so they don't even get to the point where they attend events.

Yes, actually. All the time. In fact, in 100% of the cases where we have banned someone from our forums or socials and they have written us a nice "Hey look, sorry about all that stupid crap I said, let's wipe the slate clean and start over" email. I have always unbanned them. Always. But the reality is that most of the time we get the "F**k you guys are a bunch of c*nts I hope you die and rot in hell" emails and when I do get those, then I know my gut feeling on banning them was probably correct in the first place. All I'm asking for is that people take responsibility for the things they say. And most people don't want to admit that they were at fault or in the wrong, so they just come after us like this shirt burning psycho. And that's fine. The more of those people who weed themselves out of our community, the better!

Even if they replaced it with a crappy quick service restaurant that would still be better than Stitch! I mean, I can get a Coke Zero at a crappy quick service restaurant!

Not many at all. You have to remember that Food & Wine, especially that opening weekend is a VERY popular event for DVC members, out of town locals (like 3-4 hours away) and annual passholders to come out. Almost everyone we talked to when we attended the media event was from out of town somewhere. Extra comps given to cast members over the summer is not going to see that huge of an uptick on their attendance overall, especially when you're talking about theme park numbers that range upwards of 50 million annually. When you only have about 70,000 cast members in Orlando, that's a lot, and I mean a *LOT* of comp tickets that would need to be given out to make a dent in that number! Just to put it into perspective, EVERY SINGLE ONE of those 70,000 employees would need to be given 15 additional comp tickets from what they already get each year, AND every one of those comps would need to be used to even break an additional 1 million people coming through the gates. I highly doubt that's anywhere near the reality of the amount of comps being given to and used by cast members over a period of a few months. So you can see just how unrealistic your thought would be...

And while things have been slow, it's not like it's been terrible either. I'm going to assume attendance may have been "flat" for this summer. We've had days where the parks were totally empty when they usually would be busy, but then again, Epcot looked like this the other day:

No, it's not gone. Please try READING the thread next time before you post. Thanks.

*ANYTHING* would be an improvement. If they turned it into a quick service restaurant, that would still be a location I would probably frequent more than I do Stitch's Great Escape!

It takes ZERO EFFORT to upload a video at 1080p versus 480. Why would any company want to put their first impression out to anyone at such low quality?

I was trying to figure out why a new company debuting a new ride would have uploaded a video in a resolution from like 2006, but whatever, the ride at least looks "interesting" I guess? It least it's a ride that you can see on a parks "skyline" that actually lends itself to the name of their company!

You know, I tried to look him up and I couldn't get a match on his account. I tried to match his name to members on the forum and we actually had a couple of them that came up with similar names, and none that I could find that were banned. I also have no record of ever sending a guy with his name a TPR Shirt! So I'm assuming the name on his YouTube channel is not his real name or at least not the name he used to register with anything TPR related that would then later be blocked. I'm sort of confused by the whole thing, but I also honestly don't really care either...

Not surprised. If you're dumb enough to get banned from TPR, you're dumb enough to almost blow up a gas can while failing to make a point.

Oh, 2 years is NOTHING! Some of those people have been at it now for 15+ years! That's the definition of insane! And it makes me laugh because I can't tell you how many times they threaten to shut the site down, report us to parks to get our "media credentials revoked" and all that happens is our site and socials keep getting bigger and bigger. But that's probably also what fuels some of the hate. Which is fine, IMO. Getting additional exposure, even from people like this is not something I'm going to pass up! Love us or hate us. I don't really care. As long as you're still taking about us!

I think what has always been hilarious and entertaining to me is that all the years that people think I'm "triggered" by any of the hate is that I have been trolling them in the most amusing fashion to me. I openly admit that it is a guilty pleasure of mine to troll these people. If someone is going to go well out of their way to post stuff like this, damn right in going to respond to it! lol At the moment we are at Epcot having a great time and casually laughing over lunch about all the idiots on the internet that feel so compelled throw hate our way. Keep the entertainment flowing we say! The only thing I'm "triggered" by is the pork slider & hummus fries we are having for lunch!

And this is exactly why this guy got a one week ban for his comment he posted here: You come in here and try to back seat moderate a post that is not even remotely serious? smh. One week ban for not paying attention.

You're welcome!

^ How do you know that I'm not?

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Here is our update from the media event at Walt Disney World Epcot Food & Wine Festival! First up, a video! Please watch! You'll get everything you need to know about Food & Wine in two minutes! Volume UP! [fbvideonew] [/fbvideonew] This morning we are at Walt Disney World for the Epcot Food & Wine Festival media event! The Festival Center is where you can do all your Epcot Food & Wine Festival shopping! Do we have any Dooney & Bourke fans? There's some exclusive Epcot Food & Wine Festival merch for you! The Festival Center is also the place for food demonstrations & wine tasting seminars! The media event has begun! Lots of food to try! Having some African butter chicken, Brazilian Pork Belly & an IPA! Delicious! Cheers! Enjoying the Festival Chardonnay & Pumpkin/Caramel Milkshake! Yum! Liquid nitrogen chocolate ice cream w/ warm whisky caramel? Yes please!!! Wow! This new smoked beef brisket from Hops & Barley is FANTASTIC!!! Iron Chef Morimoto from Morimoto Asia at Disney Springs arrived to talk about his sushi class! [twitter] [/twitter] Not only is the food at Epcot Food & Wine Festival wonderful but the staff that put it all together are amazing! If you're into craft beer, this is the place you want to be! Making our way around the world now! First stop... Mexico!!! We are VERY happy to report the correct potsticker sauce is BACK! Turns out, it was just an honest mistake on opening day! See our openig day report if you don't know what we are talking about. Kudos to Disney for fixing it!!! Here's a look at some of the exclusive Annual Passholder merch! All the food from the Poland booth looks sooooo good! Love the Coke Freestyle and sense of humor at the Chase Lounge Japan is my favorite place on Earth and the food is FANTASTIC!!! Best new for 2016 food item of Epcot Food & Wine Festival has to go to the Moroccan Hummus Fries! YUM!!! Another lap of France means more Onion Soup and Strawberry Daiquiri Push Pop! Hands down my favorite item overall at Epcot Food & Wine Festival is still the Hawaiian Pork Slider!!! Up next! We Built This City!!! Yes!!! Starship! These guys ROCK Epcot Food & Wine Festival! [twitter] [/twitter][twitter] [/twitter] Heading home after another amazing @WDWToday Epcot Food & Wine Festival visit! We will be back (probably this week!)

Do we have anyone who would be interested in covering the Fright Fest media event on the 25th? If so, email robbalvey@themeparkreview.com and tell me a little bit about who you are!

^ That's right! I just remembered we DID wait in lines after Starship! We were in the "Chew" area and there were no lines for any of the food items we bought.

Yeah, it was actually just fine on Saturday from about 11am - 4pm. We noticed it started getting REALLY packed when we went to go see Starship. As always, our best advice is to get there early! I don't think we waited more than 5 or 10 minutes for any food lines before 4pm.

I'm pretty sure there are a couple of new smaller coasters that have opened up within an hour drive of Orlando. We haven't bothered with them and have no plans to.

Now THAT is a coaster worth going out of the way for! Wacky Worms or Go-Gators, not so much...