There’s no evidence for any of this. The parks are supposedly empty but only manageable at the end of the night; Disney arbitrarily sets capacity to create FOMO; the nefarious giving out of candy that people don’t know they’re paying for to keep them out of lines, etc.
The nonsense is people calling it arbitrary. Every business that sells thinks sets limits. They do so based upon internal projections and sales goals. There is nothing by arbitrary about itYeah, this constant nonsense that Disney isn't setting an arbitrary "sell out" number is hilarious. That is LITERALLY what they are doing.And that number varies from night to night (higher priced nights sell more tickets, of course) and year to year.
The goal is to show sell outs for every party night. While it is likely a very defined process, to the guest it appears completely arbitrary. For nights that may not be performing as well, the cutoff number might be adjusted dynamically to accommodate this, which has the added effect of driving guests to other open nights that have not yet sold out. They are driving demand to meet their supply.
Not to this guest.
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Each year the schedule is virtually identical to the previous but the sellouts typically take different pattern.Not to this guest.
I can’t say I track the sales that closely. I’m sure there are multiple factors at play to explain any significant shifts you may have spotted from year to year. Unless people are reporting wildly different crowd levels on various sold-out nights, I have no reason to believe that anything underhanded is going on.
No one said anything dishonest was happening. Maybe at worst someone could say that they're driving people to more expensive party nights, but it's not like these things sell out as soon as they go on sale. If anything it seems like they are taking longer to sell out. The most plausible conspiracy is that they are driving FOMO to push sales for other parties quicker.
I was responding to your claim that it all seems “completely arbitrary”, which doesn’t seem to be what you’re saying in your latest post.
Disney’s trying to indoctrinate people to enjoy and participate in parties.
Of course the goal is to sell out every party. The goal of every business is to make as much money as possible. I would think that earlier parties might have a lesser cap, because demand might be lower for Halloween in the summer (and southern schools are back in session already) and later parties closer to Halloween might be a higher cap. There’s nothing arbitrary about that though.
There are a lot of people willing to spend what Disney is asking, so simply lowering the price on non-busy party days (or raising it for the more popular dates) doesn’t have the effect of evening out the crowds.
The company that had a 6-hour line for a popcorn bucket and instantly sold out its new lounge is actually like superrrrrrrrrrrrr empty and just lying about their ticket sales to drive more ticket sales but they also are way overcrowded and everything is a long wait but also Epic stole all of Disney's guests because IASW is at a 30 minute wait and Disney is also lying about their hotel rooms in the deluxe resorts because no one stays there!
But you can get restaurant reservations now instead of having to plan months out and the standby lanes are not nearly as crowded as they were! Oh wait, those are good things.
An ad hominem attack?!
The feel this year was much busier overall than the years after the covid restart.