When you consider the size of the park, the cleanliness, the attitude of the employees, the standards, and the sheer number of rides/attractions/characters/... and then consider they literally have something for every age that walks through the gate, it all boils down to getting what you pay for.
If you don't want to pay the admission, don't go. It's that simple.
Disney World Raises Prices, $100 Admissions Not Far Off: Outrageous or Understandable?
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2012/06/11 01:06:23
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On Friday, Disney World raised its single-day ticket prices from $85 to $89. And if this trend keeps up, the $100 ticket will arrive in about two to three years! We love Disneyland as much as the next person. But laying down a Benjamin for a single day in a theme park! That seems outrageous to us.
Unfortunately, just a quick look at the numbers makes it clear that that’s where we’re heading. According to Beth Kassab of the Orlando Sentinel, over the past decade Disney has raised prices by an average of 6%, or about $3.90, each year. At that rate, we’ll reach the $100 ticket in 2014 or 2015.
Even if moving to three digit admissions prices makes financial sense, there’s no denying that the $100 ticket (like $4-per-gallon gas) requires crossing a big psychological milestone.
"The moment you get to three digits, it has an emotional impact," says Eli Portnoy, CEO of CultureRanch. "It's a barrier no one wants to cross, and Disney is going to have to be careful about crossing it."
Disney does have to be careful. But the fact that theme park attendance continues to rise even during tough economic times (3% last year according to the LA Times) means that further prices hikes are inevitable.
So SodaHeads, what do you think about Disney admissions prices approaching $100? Outrageous or understandable?
Unfortunately, just a quick look at the numbers makes it clear that that’s where we’re heading. According to Beth Kassab of the Orlando Sentinel, over the past decade Disney has raised prices by an average of 6%, or about $3.90, each year. At that rate, we’ll reach the $100 ticket in 2014 or 2015.
Even if moving to three digit admissions prices makes financial sense, there’s no denying that the $100 ticket (like $4-per-gallon gas) requires crossing a big psychological milestone.
"The moment you get to three digits, it has an emotional impact," says Eli Portnoy, CEO of CultureRanch. "It's a barrier no one wants to cross, and Disney is going to have to be careful about crossing it."
Disney does have to be careful. But the fact that theme park attendance continues to rise even during tough economic times (3% last year according to the LA Times) means that further prices hikes are inevitable.
So SodaHeads, what do you think about Disney admissions prices approaching $100? Outrageous or understandable?
Read More: http://www.orlandosentinel.com/the-daily-disney/os...
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Couri 2012/06/11 02:32:36
And it is YOU who is producing the sick stuff. NOT DISNEY But you keep on posting dear. I like some one so sick they sink their own boat.
If you want to believe that Disney is still the bastion of wholesomeness that it was when you were a child, then go ahead. It's not really my problem anyway, it's your family you're letting them warp, not mine. I only speak out because it bothers me that people put their kids in front of that mind control garbage, but I can only give you the clue, you have to find the truth for yourself.
As for Lion Kind's 'SEX in the clouds. I'm sure it's supposed to say 'SFX' as in 'Special FX' that the artists threw in as a little wave to the guys behind the scenes. But to an untrained eye with the whisp floating down at the F, it can look like an E.
The same goes for the Tangled "SEX". I'm very sure it's supposed to be a hidden SFX. Disney hides a LOT of stuff in their cartoons. As far as I know it they hide a Mickey Mouse head profile in every movie in some form or another. Check out 'Dinosaur', for example. When they finally get to the Hatching grounds and stand on the hill overlooking it, the lake is in the shape of Mickey Mouse.
(and the first pic of Micky holding onto Minnie...her dress does look phallic. Zoomed in I can't miss it but looking at the whole picture my mind goes back to the original observation that it's just a dress.)
http://findingmickey.squaresp...
Found this. Enjoy the "Perv Club" (since it's actually not that and simply golden trivia for people to look for when they visit Disneyland and watch the movies)
All I PROVED was that you have very selective reading standards and continued to push the Perv point long after it had moved onto other things.
I said there is no porn in those toons and there is not. The only thing that ever happened was a mistake on some nude chick. THAT was not done on purpose.
Now you show up with a link of fun proving what I said. I am WELL aware of what prantsers they can be in print and in real life. BUT with porn in the toons no way!!
I do thank you for the link and was relieved it was not to some porn site LOL LOL
I also owe you an apology. I think you really enjoy the art of toons. And that you are not a PERV. I hope you forgive me on that.
I accept the apology and hope you can understand where I was coming from in that department. The link was also to iron out the little fact that Disney does hide a lot of stuff and it's all very true. Like Mrs Pots in Tarzan, Beast in Aladdin and Goofy, Donald and Micky in Little Mermaid.
Thank you for accepting my apology. I hope you continue to enjoy Disney toons and what they offer other then the cute hidden giggles they put in there.
Shows all the hidden Mickeys everywhere and little homages to other films within frames. Brilliant.
http://findingmickey.squaresp...
You of course are wrong
Yay to frakking logic -_-
Then there was the report on the original VHS of "The Rescuers". There was even a recall available, to return the film and Disney would be putting new copies of the film out after that. If you have an old VHS, go watch the scene (you have to slow it down to frame-by-frame) when Orville the albatross takes off the rooftop of a New York skyscraper with Bianca & Bernard on his back. There's a shot of a topless woman seen in one of the windows of the building they're r...
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Then there was the report on the original VHS of "The Rescuers". There was even a recall available, to return the film and Disney would be putting new copies of the film out after that. If you have an old VHS, go watch the scene (you have to slow it down to frame-by-frame) when Orville the albatross takes off the rooftop of a New York skyscraper with Bianca & Bernard on his back. There's a shot of a topless woman seen in one of the windows of the building they're racing past, as Orville plummets towards the ground before pulling up an flying away.
Animators have been doing this kind of stuff forever, they're usually meant as little in-jokes to animation-industry insiders, but every now & then, somebody in the public notices something and it gets out there into the public knowledge. Most likely, every animation studio does it. I remember back in the 80's, my family loved the Robotech anime series. We got a hold of a copy of the Japanese movie "Macross, Do You Remember Love?", which was based on the first series that was part of Robotech in the states. In a climactic scene towards the end of the movie, the hero unloads all his missiles from his Valkyrie (looks like an F-14, but it can transform into three different shapes) at the enemy, and one of the missiles shooting past the screen happened to be a can of Budweiser.
WE all can see different things when we look at clouds, this is how you guys are. Now there are three of you. First all three of you are off the subject, but I do understand the excitment you must feel infinding other pervs that see this too. Please REMEMBER these are things YOU SEE, not me. These are things YOU are making up, as for the topless lady, cut me a break. Mistakes do happen, I have to laugh, as per you..."you have to slow it up" LOL LOL I rest my case with that one.
I can only imagine what you read into this
Disney and their competitors will charge what the market will bear. That's just business and something that liberals with their entitlement mentality do not understand. When Disney's guest numbers start to go down, then they will realize they have gone too high.
Have you seen tvs going for $1999 and not a straight $2k? It's because the mind is more readily able to accept a price that starts with a lower number than the price they logically know it actually is.
As an assistant in a small leatherworking business, we regularly get international shipments of leather and pouches that we have to price according to how much it cost us to ship in and how much profit we want to gain and always cut off just before the borderline. It's basically us looking at the product, knowing the cost of it and seeing how much we would be willing to pay for it while still keeping it just below the price we WANT to sell it at.
So we sell a pouch for $28.95 instead of a straight 30 or 29. It's business psychology. Sure, our business is hellishly smaller than Disney, but even they should realise the impact it has on the psyche to swap out from decades of 2 digits to 3.
If a competitior comes along and makes the same thing and sells his for a little less than me, then I might lower my price and I'll keep lowering it until I get down to where I can no longer make a reasonable profit. That's called the free market and the free market is a wonderful thing. It keep prices down and it keeps quality up.
I don't give a damn abouyt $28.95 vs $30. I see that as just a psychlogical scam and I don't see what it has to do with Disney World's pricing structure. What would you say if I told you your leatherworking corporation was corrupt and greedy asking for 28.95 for your product?
So why are you calling Disney corrupt and greedy?
If you go to Disney World, the only way you can get your money's worth is to enter through the gate when they open at 8:00 AM. That way you get on the rides with no wait, and you get to ride them numerous times. By 11:00 AM the Magic Kingdom really begins to fill up, and the lines get uncomfortably long.
In my truly honest opinion, if you can't get through the gates by 9:30 AM, you wasted your money for sure. I can't see spending 500 bucks for a family of 4 (admission, parking, and meals) just to ride 5 rides for a total of 20 minutes (maybe), while spending several hours standing in long lines for hours in the hot Florida sun. WHAT A JIP!