Ride Photo Concept

[Chef Mickey]

Who else thinks ride photos are a silly concept?

It's pretty amazing to think they still exist and are even on more ride than ever. Does anyone know the actual sales on this stuff? It has to be profitable because they keep doing it, but who wants a photo that many times has other strangers in it?

Pirates, Dinosaur, 7DMT, etc all have other people in the photo. Why would anyone buy this?

 

[TalkToEthan]

Who else thinks ride photos are a silly concept?

I do

 

[AndyS2992]

Me UK tickets come with Memory Maker included for free and I certainly make the most of it. But no, I wouldn't pay for them if it wasn't. We know where the cameras are and like to do silly poses.

 

[Cmdr_Crimson]

 

[Smiley/OCD]

We have family photos of us on rides from when the girls were younger…they were part of the memory maker deal. I’d never buy them individually…the photos I think are dumb, (and I’m gonna catch hell for this), are the ones you hold your hand out and they CGI Tinkerbell or another character, in your palm, etc…Those I just don’t get…but that’s me…

 

[Br0ckford]

We have family photos of us on rides from when the girls were younger…they were part of the memory maker deal. I’d never buy them individually…the photos I think are dumb, (and I’m gonna catch hell for this), are the ones you hold your hand out and they CGI Tinkerbell or another character, in your palm, etc…Those I just don’t get…but that’s me…

Yes these are dumb.

 

[mergatroid]

Who else thinks ride photos are a silly concept?

It's pretty amazing to think they still exist and are even on more ride than ever. Does anyone know the actual sales on this stuff? It has to be profitable because they keep doing it, but who wants a photo that many times has other strangers in it?

Pirates, Dinosaur, 7DMT, etc all have other people in the photo. Why would anyone buy this?

I suppose those that buy them do so for a reason? They probably see themselves screaming as the Tower of Terror lift drops and get a reminder of that moment, the same way and reason you take a selfie whilst you stand before an iconic view. You could argue why take a picture of yourself in front of the castle as you know what you look like, you know what the castle looks like so why take a picture of both together? It's probably to 'capture that moment in time' to be looked back over again later and bring the memory back more vividly.

As for having strangers in the pictures that happens all the time in pictures at Disney World, I guess it's a case of just tolerating it. A good friend of mine had a terrible reaction to the Tower of Terror, she was nearly in tears at the end and will never ride it again. As we had memory maker as part of our package she still has the photo of herself at the drop looking as though she's giving birth. She's kept the picture as she laughs about it now and we always tease her about it. I've just asked her if having people in the picture she doesn't know bothers her and she replied "Not really no, I only look at myself and you next to me laughing whenever I look at it".

I suppose there's a possible answer.

 

[NelleBelle]

Before memory maker was a thing, we did buy a pic of us riding space mt to commemorate our DS riding his first real roller coaster. We bought a space mt frame and still have it on our wall. But that was the first and last. Now with memory maker we get it all.