Talking Mickey leaving Town Square theater

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rteetz

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Come May 2018 talking Mickey will be no more. He is leaving and being replaced by regular Mickey. This is a cost saving move.
 
How much money can they possibly be saving?! Iger can't squeeze that much more money out of the parks.

"Talking Mickey" is actually a huge expense compared to the amount of "return" per number of guests.
The venture takes a multitude of CMs with specialty training to operate each "Talker."

Whether they decide to continue TM or not, I always thought that it was kind of foolish to spend that kind of personnel budget on such a limited attraction.
 
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Are lines usually long to see him? Trying to decide if I should try to squeeze in a visit when we go in Feb.
 


"Talking Mickey" is actually a huge expense compared to the amount of "return" per number of guests.
The venture takes a multitude of CMs with specialty training to operate each "Talker."

Whether they decide to continue TM or not, I always though that it was kind of foolish to spend that kind of personnel budget on such a limited attraction.
The heads are also incredibly heavy for Cast to wear.

This is kind of a dumb cost cutting move though. He’s incredibly popular.
 
The heads are also incredibly heavy for Cast to wear.

This is kind of a dumb cost cutting move though. He’s incredibly popular.

What other attraction takes that many CMs and also accommodates so few guests per hour?

And, all of those CMs are still on the clock even when the Glitches pop up and Mickey goes mute.
 
What other attraction takes that many CMs and also accommodates so few guests per hour?

And, all of those CMs are still on the clock even when the Glitches pop up and Mickey goes mute.
Oh I know but Disney was once a company where that didn’t matter. It was about the guest experience not ROI. There are other areas they could have cut first. People go crazy for meet and greets.
 
And, let's not forget, (just using the posts on this board) for every "We LOVED him!" reaction, there were at least as many "He was CREEPY!" opinions.

Or "Sorry Mickey has a sore throat today" to which I say "He sure gets sick a lot " .................... :rolleyes:

My adult kids thought he was creepy and kinda ruined it for them.

I found the "canned" responses disappointing.

I'm fine with this.
 
FP is available but there is never a guarantee Mickey will be talking when you meet him.
I was wondering if this could be the cause. People using a FP or waiting in line to meet talking Mickey only to be disappointed or upset that he's not talking.
 
We met him once. We found him really creepy. We definitely prefer non talking Mickey.

What would be nice as well is to have a traditional Mickey available in the Magic Kingdom. He's Safari Mickey at AK, Sorcerer Mickey at DHS and you have to go to Epcot for traditional ... which seems kinda silly .... the park many with young ones don't go to. I get it's fun for them to have fancy clothes but some kids just want to meet them with outfits they know.

I was wondering if this could be the cause. People using a FP or waiting in line to meet talking Mickey only to be disappointed or upset that he's not talking.

ME. Used FP+ for whole family for their first visit with him. Sore throat. I complained outside, complained to a supervisor who was INCREDIBLY RUDE to me. No, nothing is ever guaranteed and I get that it doesn't say that outside .... but we are using a FP+ because he talks. After that we never used a FP+ again, hit it when it was shorter times as we headed in or out of park.

Yup. My personal rate of Mickey having lost his voice is 30%. Still, talking Mickey was special and will be missed. Was always our first stop in MK. I’m disappointed in Disney.

Lucky you, we are at about 50/50.
 
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