Disney CEO Bob Iger Addresses Disney Parks Crowding and Pricing Concerns
Disney CEO Bob Iger Addresses Disney Parks Crowding and Pricing Concerns
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News Disney CEO Bob Iger Addresses Disney Parks Crowding and Pricing Concerns
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Sirwalterraleigh
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So he went the “blatant lie” route then?
Thank god he’s saving us all, huh?
Thank god he’s saving us all, huh?
The price of that one, low DL ticket that hasn't been increased for a few years is doing a lot of heavy lifting.
TheMaxRebo
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Definitely - though the recent Disneyland ticket promotions are a pretty good deal if they work for you.
Obviously isn't enough but when the parks are crowded at the current pricing and they are working on expansion (again could do more) and offering some deals (if they work for you), just only so many levera they can pull .... At least I less/untill attendance goes way down
networkpro
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- In the Parks
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Im disappointed some 21 minutes after the story was posted... I was expecting a veritable plethora of comments along the lines of "Sweater man bad". I do see that he skipped any mention of how many boat anchor divisions are being drug around by Parks and Experiences.
Sirwalterraleigh
Premium Member
I, too, missed all the comments about the sweatered weasel throwing out enough BS that you could fertilize acres and acres of crops. Oh well. Maybe next meeting?
And thank goodness Bob told us that the park he visited (with all his handlers, no doubt) was busy. During Spring Break. That's the sort of hard-hitting, truth telling he came back to give us.
Cmdr_Crimson
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Returning Fast pass +
Returning Magical Express
Returning Extra Magic Hours as a unpaid event
Returning Magical Express
Returning Extra Magic Hours as a unpaid event
Drdcm
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At this point it won’t change out of principle. Otherwise they can’t use it to demonstrate affordability.
Disney Analyst
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At least when it comes to Disneyland, it's busy ALL the time these days. Barely any slow season. The fact they offer a cheaper ticket, and on more days than before, is a miracle. They could easily charge the higher prices, and it would probably still be swarmed.
The Colonel
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he's worth his weight in gold, but he gets an annual salary of ten times that.
And apparently that one low DL ticket is in charge of doing the lifting on both coasts. Poor ticket's back is gonna be thrown out if this keeps up!
In all seriousness, though - it's comical that they continually latch onto "but that one DL ticket is still pre-pandemic priced and we TRIPLED the number of days you can buy it for that price" when they talk about how they're concerned about affordability and the appearance of how much their product now costs.
I'm surprised he didn't mention that he eliminated parking fees on the east cost - that usually has the same back issues as the poor DL ticket.
"We TRIPLED the number of days the lowest price ticket is offered, from 2 to 6! Yeah, we may have increased prices on the other ticket tiers by a combined 1200%, but that lowest price ticket!! TRIPLED the number of days!!! Keep focusing on that!!"
LSLS
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Did you historically go? I'm fascinated by the attendance stuff, in no small part because the 2023 levels are almost 1 million less than they were 10 years ago. Has it always felt this busy, or is it something else? Speaking from a WDW perspective, It's definitely the latter from our visits.
Drdcm
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I think it’s busier because they condense everything into shorter days and it’s harder to find times that have lulls like early morning and late night. My best Disney experiences have all been late night or early morning because of lower crowds.
I’d be interested in hearing if there is a difference in overall ride capacity now compared to 20 years ago though. Would be interesting to see just how that has changed over time. I imagine it went up despite the general forum perception.
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BrianLo
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I have very narrow anecdotes, but I found WDW a bit slow in December. Disneyland was reasonably busy in March (but I think the 50$ child ticket offer was generous and being utilized).
I think we’ll see TEA reports show DL working towards historical norms.
BrianLo
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“We have more being designed, developed, and built today than at any other point in the 70 years since we’ve been in the theme park business.”
This quote stands out to me too and it’s somewhat difficult to fact check. There is a lot of development because so many of the projects are currently non-redundant. DCL is assuredly getting wrapped up into that and DCL is basically a new resort worth of development.
But even still, it’s a bit hard to wave that metric around when you don’t have a new resort being actively built. Perhaps one (new park) is starting design.
I’m equally dubious if that’s actually ‘true’. Without being privy to something else generous being on the go. Granted 1998-2005 is a 7 year stretch, but they opened 4 parks and also 1 new resort topping it off in 2005. I’d probably say the comment doesn’t hold up to 1997-2001.
*Mr Iger, how are you dealing with increased crowds in the parks?
*Iger : We built Pandora 8 years ago.
*Iger : We built Pandora 8 years ago.