Magic Band Accessories

[ddrongowski]

I like them and I'm positive my children will love them. Agree that there's a lot of automatic hate out there. They could spew twenty-dollar bills randomly throughout the day and a bunch of people would complain that they aren't fifties.

I am glad your children will enjoy them. But for people like me, we purchase things for our children that have true value. Things like silver, gold, Disney stock, etc.. I hate to see people waste good money on things that have no ROI long term for their children. But hey make my kids stock increase, by purchasing this garbage.

 

[ddrongowski]

I will never buy as long as it does not say MADE IN USA!

Is that USA Japan?

 

[ddrongowski]

That is one of my issues with the whole thing as well. I am sure the charms will sell really well with kids and some women but I personally would not buy a charm for mine. I wonder how easily the charms will pop off if the kids are playing.

Extremely easy, after all they need you to repeatedly purchase the same item. They have to pay for this somehow.

 

[ddrongowski]

Crocs called, they want their accessories back.

Maybe a lawsuit for infringing?

 

[ddrongowski]

If I'm forced to get a band, it's going to live crammed into my pocket. I guess I'm not the target audience for these accessories!

So your not a "hipster", me neither....

 

[dadddio]

Where in my post did I mention the Magic Band? I don't really care about it either way. I think it is a relative waste of money, but there is stuff I have much bigger issues with than the dopey band. If I do get it, it'll probably go into my bag same as a card would be.

And yes, I would say it is making a mountain out of a molehill. There are plenty of ways to avoid it, but if you have to, it simply isn't that far.

Isn't this the magic band accessories thread?

 

[ddrongowski]

No. If you choose not to wear the bands, then you will not get the additional experience. It may seem like a glass half full statement, but the same was true for PAL Mickey. You didn't have to buy one, but if you did, you received additional experiences.

I purchased "PAL Mickey" and I am sorry it the Magic band is a comparison... IT'S GOING TO SUCK!!!!! Most of the time you could barely hear what he was saying, because the parks are so loud with people yacking on their cell phones.

 

[xdan0920]

Still, sometimes those responses are necessary. Often, people rail about changes that are made. Those changes are not going to be unmade just because that person wants it to happen. The only available response to such a topic is that the person could choose to not go if he is so dismayed by the decision.

A couple things...

1. Fans can instigate change, or reverse changes. Plenty of history to show it can be done.

2. Plenty of folks, myself included, are spending less time, and WAY less $$$ in WDW.

 

[dadddio]

So, when FP+ is in force and people don't show up to Space Mountain at 2:05p, are they gonna have an empty threat CC ding for that as well since they tied up valuable FP advanced reservation spaces? ADRs were in existance for years before Disney decided they needed to even feign a penalty due to abuse.

You are comparing apples to oranges. If someone doesn't show up for an ADR, they run the risk of having an empty table and losing money. If someone doesn't show up for a FP, then the next SB guest rides a bit faster. Also, they already have the no show penalty built into FP+ as that person won't be able to turn around and get another FP for that ride.

 

[xdan0920]

Disney already knows when and what we spend money on in the parks. We are paying it to them, after all.

You're making the assumption that Disney doesn't make mistakes. Bad assumption.

 

[dadddio]

Since you asked... http://www.lotuspc.net/us/

Assembled and supported in Orlando. It was a stipulation that I put on our outsourced IT guy we use in the office that there needs to be north american content or assembly at the least. While I realize it is in fact made up of foreign content this is the "sharing the wealth" that I referenced wanting at Disney. Not ALL american but at least some desire to help business on these shores as well as those overseas.

Great, you get to feel good about yourself because you bought a computer that is made from Chinese parts, but put together in Orlando. As a public company, however, Disney's goal is not to feel better about itself or to 'share the wealth' with other US companies. It's job is to maximize profits for it's shareholders. If a US product wins some bids, that's awesome, but is they can buy good quality stuff overseas for cheaper, than they need to do that.

 

[dadddio]

The issue with all this fastpass nonsense is there are TOO MANY FASTPASSES BEING DISTRIBUTED. The Stand-by Queue should have the priority, not the fastpass. The fastpass already get to skip half the line, so let the 50+ people in the stand-by go in front of those with fastpass!

I think that you are missing that the name of that line is 'Stand By'. On it's face, it is not the priority line.

 

[dadddio]

OH YEA!!! More garbage that I do not want. Why did Disney stop selling things that have value? WHY!?!? I miss the fine silver rounds, the 10K, 14K and 24K gold jewelry, the fine watches... Now all they sell is things I will not buy.

I'm thinking that Disney stopped selling that stuff because people weren't buying it.

 

[dadddio]

A couple things...

1. Fans can instigate change, or reverse changes. Plenty of history to show it can be done.

2. Plenty of folks, myself included, are spending less time, and WAY less $$$ in WDW.

And yet their attendance and profits keep increasing.

 

[dadddio]

You're making the assumption that Disney doesn't make mistakes. Bad assumption.

It is not a bad assumption to state that Disney knows how much they sell.

 

[ddrongowski]

I'm thinking that Disney stopped selling that stuff because people weren't buying it.

Are you saying I'm not "people"???!?!?!? Just kidding, but I did buy that stuff, and a lot of it.

 

[xdan0920]

I'm thinking that Disney stopped selling that stuff because people weren't buying it.

You're thinking is wrong. People were buying it. Just not "enough" of it. It has been pretty much established as fact that Disney changed the way it does merchandising based on the faulty premise that each store needed to meet certain sales levels in order to be worth operating. This led to generic Disney Parks crap, popping up in essentially every store on property. It is a failing premise though, merchandise sales are down across the board, and fans are fed up with the crap being hoisted on us.

 

[lazyboy97o]

I'm thinking that Disney stopped selling that stuff because people weren't buying it.

Disney knew some stuff wouldn't sell as well. It was a deliberate, knowing choice as part of the atmosphere of the greater place. That all changed with mall-based business model introduced in the 1990s.

Passport 2 Dreams recently published a wonderful article from the 1970s about the Walt Disney World business model of looking at the whole versus each individual component as a stand alone entity in competition with everything around it.

 

[xdan0920]

It is not a bad assumption to state that Disney knows how much they sell.

I basically responded to this post in my last post above, but just a little add on...

Of course the number one sellers are princesses, cars crap, and plushes, but that does not mean they should be forced into every single store on property. Disney is about offering a unique experience, and land/theme specific shops are part of that experience. Over the last decade they have completely forgotten that, and are making an attempt to World of Disney the entire resort. Head into any of the non main shops and tell me how long the lines are at the registers, it's because there is no reason to buy things in, say, AdventureLand, because there is nothing unique to purchase.

 

[disneygirl1]

We stayed at AKL last week and they have a huge section of accessories for the magic bands. My 11 DS was so annoyed that we weren't picked to test the magic bands b/c he really wanted one. I have to say I'm earger to hopefully get a magic band next trip so I can dress mine up! LOL! Prices wise the accessories seemed reasonable too in my opinion