I have a lot to learn and I guess I only have a few years to catch up. A couple of questions if you dont mind: Those iPod touches connect to the Internet? My cousin's kid has one. I thought it just played music and videos. So that thing is pretty much an IPhone that can't make phone calls? Do you need a data plan with that thing too? I assume these kids have e-mail addresses too. I just got myself an iPhone in 2011. Before that I was still rocking an old school Razr which just made phone calls and texts if you had some time on your hands. On the Disney wristband front if I sign up my kid in my magic+ but don't provide their e-mail address or cell phone number (if they do have them) Disney can't reach them right? Is there a direct connection between the Disney park App with the wait times and stuff and the bands? In order to get the Disney park app do you need to be over 12? Do you need to provide an e-mail address? Sorry for all the questions. Just trying to understand the technology.
That's absurd. Why would anyone let a preschool kid have a cell phone? My kids like to play with my phone if they can get their hands on it, but I've never seen any kids that age with their own phone.
Where do we fit in there that it isn't Disney's fault that the parents, if you can call them that, let there children have that kind of stuff at an earlier and earlier age. However, I do see a possible need if both parents work outside of the home, which seems to be the norm now. I cannot fault the parents for that part of it, but I can fault them for not controlling their phone usage and then trying to blame Disney if they get connected to a merchandising push. The phone does not know the age of the person holding it.
Absolutely they can even make calls if they download the app for it and have a mike thru the parks wifi
Only if their parents permit them to provide the required information to enable the push.
Kids connecting to the internet via park wifi, yes reasonable assumption... The ads? I don't know...
I have a lot to learn and I guess I only have a few years to catch up
Oh yeah, tell me about it. We've come back from trips twice with some sort of light up doohickey.Don't forget those light up things before a nighttime parade. The guy comes up and flashes them right in front of your kids. Talk about direct marketing
Last year I thought one of the trick or treaters was dressed as an avatar alien, the kid firmly corrected me and said he was a smurf.I think Mrs. Franklin got the best deal. At least short-term.
She got a President title at a swanky creative office in Santa Monica. And six weeks after she arrived she got Disney to buy off on a big theme park gig that is going nowhere and sinking into obscurity while the sequel movies slip further out by several years, meaning she doesn't have much work to do, but she gets the big Prez salary from the Cameron folks.
Score for Mrs. Franklin, she's no fool!
At least until the Avatarland thing gets formally canned by Disney and she's hawking blue alien lunchboxes at WalMart for Avatar 2 in 2017.
But I'm also a winner in this! For the past two Halloween's I've been reporting here on my unscientific results from the fact that absolutely no one shows up at my door trick-or-treating in an Avatar costume. I had bemoaned the fact that the brand-awareness of this movie with the trick-or-treat demographic was absolutely nil. Now I have someone to blame for this... Kathy Franklin, President of Franchise Development, Lightstorm Entertainment.
