I'm not joking at all. I'm not trying to suck up to Disney or be inconsiderate of people who can't pay. I'm talking about supply and demand. I won't be paying that kind of money myself, I assure you. I can afford it, but I still won't be paying. For me and my family, I'm planning to never go on RotR and just pretend that it doesn't exist. We've never been on it, and what my kids have never experienced will never hurt them. I'm just saying that all the RotR passes should go to people who are willing to pay the most for it, like anything else. Have you heard of the new Star Wars hotel? Disney wants $3000 per night for it. Most families will never get there because they can't pay.
With RotR, there is another way. Disney can distribute the passes in a more equitable manner. For example, people who purchased 3 days or longer tickets can be guaranteed 1 pass each, for a modest fee. People who has been on RotR in the last week (or the last month) cannot get another pass unless there's extra availability. People with APs should not be allowed more than 10 passes a year, and none during holidays or other extra high crowd times, unless there's extra availability.
But you know that Disney will never bother. Instead, they had their ridiculous boarding group where people get ahead not with money but with fast fingers. With the old boarding group system, I've heard of people when went on several WDW trips without being able to book RotR once. I also know this guy who went on RotR every single day for several months since it opening, until he finally tired of it. He lived close and had a fast cell phone with extra data connection. Basically, the Boarding Group was free, it's just that you can't get it unless you are a single guy without a steady job. Despite the disastrous BG experience with RotR, Disney is using it again on the Remy ride.
But Disney hasn't always been this way. Back in the day when BOG restaurant first opened, Disney emailed me with a single pass to go eat lunch there once for my 10 day ticket. So I did and didn't have to wait at all. I never went again, but it seemed like everybody got the chance to experience it once, which was nice. Disney doesn't know how to be equitable anymore.
But nowadays, the only options are money or the guy who can work the fingers the fastest at 7 am. Between the two, I choose money. If nothing else, it provides the family who really need to get on RotR just once in their lifetime the opportunity to do so. Not to mention providing Disney some extra cash.
For me and my family, we are never going on RotR, that's all.
