Golden Oak

Golden Oak  will be "an incomparable community" of million+ dollar homes, located adjacent to the Fort Wilderness area.

The "come-on" states: "Golden Oak offers the opportunity to create new Disney traditions entwined with treasured ones, and invest in your family legacy".

The cheapest (so to speak) home will be $1.5 million, ranging up to $8 million. That will be some family legacy.

Who can possibly afford this beside an oil-rich Saudi sheik or perhaps Bob Iger? Certainly not any of the 'regular' Disney fan-atics like those folks who save for two years so they can spend a week at The World.

I would much rather have seen the increasingly-popular Fort Wilderness area expanded.

No doubt Walt would be rolling at about Warp 6.


GOLDEN OAK

WWWD?

The Disney Company just spent about $4 Billion to acquire 5,000 Marvel characters.

Some of them (Spider-Man, The Hulk, Dr. Doom) can already be seen as rides / attractions up the road at Marvel Super Hero Island, Islands of Adventure, Universal Orlando.
I have two problems with this.

#1 That $4 billion could have been spent upgrading ALL of WDW's parks, building a new moderate resort and upgrading the others, re-opening River Country and Discovery Island (both of which are just moldering away), creating a new land at DAK (how about Australia!), adding a new country to Epcot's World Showcase, keeping the parks cleaner, or how about this: extending the monorail to run all over WDW and get rid of the buses.


#2 Marvel characters are NOT Disney characters. I admit to being somewhat of a 'traditionalist'; I just can't see Captain America (for example) and Mickey together.

So, What Would Walt Do?
Well, I'm pretty sure he'd be spinning at about Warp 6.