Richard Bastien

Navy Veteran & teacher. Former Director of MVMC (2016-2023) & MA State Representative for 2nd Worcester District (2011-2013)

[Richard Bastien @RichBastien]

@davepalex First Chloe, now Colin. Funny how for innocent people, a lot of people/things get disappeared.

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@WDWNT Better than Around the World, not as good as Over California. The 🗽 ehh, why not just do a flyby of the real one instead of CGI? That would have been chef’s kiss. Appreciated this has less jump cuts. Looking forward to seeing in a few weeks.

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@ScottGustin He was the East Coast version of Paul Pressler. I look forward to seeing who they bring in next.

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@ScottGustin Last scene but with a gold paint job

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@match15 @FrshBakedDisney Blame DL leadership for making them at DL do a fraction of what they are capable of at WDW, and selling them for the same price

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@ScottGustin Also, the real death knell for MB+ is the +. Charging is a pain for the small extra features. If DL had just gone for regular MB with park entry, hotel room doors, paying, LL all integrated, maybe more people would have bought them?

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@ScottGustin As a WDW annual pass holder and a once every 3 years Disneyland visitor, it was shocking how bad MB+ is at DL. Compared to how easy they make things at WDW, it makes you wonder why DL never went full in to make them worth it.

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@SirBrayden Instead of “Reflections: The Search for More Money”, we’re calling it “Reflections: The New One”. Just like the old one, but new! Credit to M. Brooks

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@CountTheCards @DealsFinderIO Are you kidding? I’ve saved like $300 in things posted by @DealsFinderIO. Only thing that canceled was a drill I wanted. Otherwise everything went through long as I was quick.

Now if they can only find me a reasonable set of 4 285/70 r17 tires, it would be awesome!

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@Blog_Mickey Did they miss painting the ladder in the middle of the photos, or is that a ladder FOR painting?

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@anthonymamore This reminds me of that scene in the movie Dave about a program to spend $47 million to make people feel good about the car they already bought vs using that money to help kids. Do we need $10 mil on watch parties for WC vs spending that money for kids to play sports?

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@DisneyScoopGuy As bad as all this is, and it’s horrible, it’s still better than WDW under Jeff Vahle. He’s not even willing to spend the money to fix the Home Depot led lights in Epcot’s pavement. Duct tape is good enough for people spending $200 a day for him.

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@TheWrap @DrewTailored They should just call the new land Mediocre Kingdom. Par for the course with Disney introducing concept art that excites fans, and then pivots to mid to downscale and save money.

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@WDWNT So, 24 hours later………

We appreciate you and other insiders, but If I kept betting on Disney disappointing me and downscaling plans, I’d have way more DVC points by now.

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@WDWNT True, but can’t they adjust what’s in the planned footprint and plus it? I can’t imagine them wanting to repeat Galaxy Edge mistakes w/Villains. Josh is going to want high LLs and ADRs to show ROI to investors.

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@BoardwalkTimes That’s per person?

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@MLB @MountainDew If Fanatics was making these bottles, the plastic would be thinner, the size smaller, the label off center, and it would be $59.99 for a bottle. #EndFanatics

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What I can’t understand for this entire game, why they haven’t moved Maye out of the pocket so he’s stops getting crushed. Has made zero sense all game.

[GhettoGronk @ghetto_gronk]

Seahawks fans watching Kenneth Walker fumble on the 1-yard line to lose the Super Bowl when they could've just thrown a slant over the middle to JSN instead