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MK Magic Kingdom closing early on May 13, 2026
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GhostHost1000
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I don’t know but they had to pay the band too and an insane amount of busses. I have never see so much food and alcohol all throughout the magic kingdom lands. Pretty unique atmosphere and a fun night. The bourbon lemonade was my go to (several times)
GhostHost1000
Premium Member
Last 3 years have been at Disney parks. The new epic hotels were on the convention hotel list this year with transportation for the event however
Horizons '83
Well-Known Member
- In the Parks
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Very cool, glad you got to experience that. I've seen a few videos already and that backdrop is a pretty unique way to take in a a concert.
I heard this from my bedroom (about 2.5 miles away) it was so loud! Was kinda crazy to hear, if I'm honest. Very good concert.
Biff215
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No clue but it has to be a pretty penny with the way MK prints money. I’m not a big fan of after hours stuff overall but this kind of thing really annoys me when day guests are chased out 4+ hours early. Disney should at least convert one day tickets into park hoppers for the night.
Figments Friend
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One of the best days crowd wise in a long time for me was yesterday at MK during the day.
Place was empty..it was terrific!
Glad I decided to visit.
Assumed the short day would keep a lot of folks away.
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Place was empty..it was terrific!
Glad I decided to visit.
Assumed the short day would keep a lot of folks away.
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Figments Friend
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Approximately $180,000 for a four hour event, but costs can increase significantly based on several factors.
Primarily length of event, services, time of year, overall demand, etc.
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Registrants paid $1,600. So, get two hundred attending and you have $320,000 to play with.
I assume that's everything included, not just for the park night... Which inevitably begs the question of how much the night is worth, concert and food and fireworks and everything else, versus the conference itself, and depending on if you actually agree with how much Disney prices a ticket versus how much you think it should be to just get in during the day, you would be leaning very heavily on the extras in order to make that portion of your total fee worth it.
I think this could be considered a marketing expense, since it was an event associated with a customer-attended conference. SAP only made $2 billion in after-tax profit in their most recent quarter, I doubt this made more than a small ripple in their ocean of cash.
danlb_2000
Premium Member
That is a drop in the bucket for SAP. I am sure a lot of thier customers pay more then that in a year in software licensing costs.
That's a barely a drop in the bucket. $4.4 billion in gross cloud profits alone last quarter.
Br0ckford
Premium Member
Would this include DMB, or would that be on top of the 180k?
Piebald
Well-Known Member
More than that. Some passes to Sapphire cost up to $3k. But there are tiers and stuff like buy 4 get 1 type deals depending on if you're a partner, customer, attendee etc. That's for the entire convention which includes food , snacks and all sorts of stuff. The keynote speaker was Roger Federer which isn't cheap either I'm sure.
danlb_2000
Premium Member
One of my co-workers went. You bascially pay $1600 to have them shout AI at you for three days.
I’ll do that for $1000.One of my co-workers went. You bascially pay $1600 to have them shout AI at you for three days.
(But can I have an AI chatbot do it for me?)