Does the D23 magazine have advertisements for anything other than TWDC properties? That's why subscriptions are cheaper. The more subscribers, the more ad revenue they can generate. If there are no ads like in a traditional magazine, face value really isn't misleading.
I gotta say, I think it's kinda cool :shrug:
It's interesting, because the more you post the more it comes across that you are upset you or the site you visit weren't included in the launch. You know what that tells me? That the fan base that thinks it is so important and so influential...isn't really.We should be their biggest customers, and yet a big chunk of us passed on it once we found out what it was. Even those who have joined have an attitude of "I'll do it for a year and see what it's like I guess". That's not a ringing endorsement of this new business plan from Disney.
My hunch is that if we see Disney start courting the online amateur fan base, even inviting their Miceage arch-enemies like Al Lutz and Kevin Yee for interviews and schmoozy sit-downs in Burbank, let alone the more fawning fan sites like LP and MP, then we'll know Disney is panicking over this one.
They tried to launch D23 on their own without a single attempt to include the huge online fans they already have on independent sites. They got Iger and Lasseter doing a puff piece on The View, but didn't do a thing to have the fan sites help launch this, where the biggest collection of potential D23 customers are hanging out every day?!? If they start going to those types of fan websites for publicity and exposure, we'll know this shaky launch of D23 didn't go well for them.
I say that with a growing hunch the launch wasn't what they expected.
They are doing the Expo for the next four years in Anaheim? Wow, I would have thought it would go to Orlando at least every other year.
Personally, the Expo is the only part of D23 that interests me. But wait, you don't have to be a D23 member to get in to the Expo! You just get a six dollar discount on an Expo day ticket if you are a D23 member. :lol:
For East Coasters, the Anaheim Convention Center is the largest on the West Coast, newly remodeled, and is literally across the street from Disneyland. You can walk across Katella Avenue from the Convention Center and either walk 10 minutes to the Disneyland entrance, or catch a free parking lot tram from the Timon Lot to the Disneyland/DCA Main Entrance Esplanade. It's ridiculously convenient to Disneyland and several major convention hotels surrounding it. http://www.anaheimconventioncenter.com
The outline and itinerary for the multi-day Expo thing sounds very cool, especially the exhibits and pavilions dedicated to all of the different divisions of the Walt Disney Company. And the executive presentations given in the Anaheim Convention Center Arena sound promising. I can't wait to hear John Lasseter gush off the cuff about how cool he thinks Disneyland is, and watch Jay Rasulo read his PowerPoint talking points like an animatronic! :lol:
I'll probably be at the Expo for a day this September, since the Anaheim Convention Center is only a 20 minute drive from my house. And I'll just have to bite the bullet and pay the extra six bucks for a ticket instead of getting the D23 discount rate.
But how odd that they have already dedicated the D23 Expo to Anaheim through 2012. Maybe John Lasseter had something to do with that?
Maybe the people who congregate to these boards don't matter enought to be mentioned.
No, you are responsible for the way you react. There were no details given ahead of time. Everything was speculation. When that speculation turned out to be something you (plural) didn't expect you got mad. That's not the companies fault.MousDad said:
That doesn't prove anything other than they know this site exist.
