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[Millionaire2K]

You really think so? I paid $38 for a ticket into Six Flags after their "discount". A one day ticket to the Magic Kingdom is what, $75? I would say that the cleanliness of the place, the entertainment, the theming and attractions are worth double what I paid to experience Six Flags.

1 day Disney Tix for $85 PLUS tax = $90.53 is JUST NUTS!!!!:hammer:

Not all parks are as bad as Six Flags. Hersheypark, Kings Dominion, BG Williamsburg, Cedar Point, Kings Island are ALL better than Six Flags. They ALL are less than $50 and are ALL well worth it. Visit Hersheypark and try to tell me the park is not up to par. Its WELL worth its $40 price.

For $100 I can get an AP to all those parks. And SF might not be all that great BUT I can get an AP for about $60.

So $90 for a 1 day ticket is retarted!

 

[Fractal514]

1 day Disney Tix for $85 PLUS tax = $90.53 is JUST NUTS!!!!:hammer:

Not all parks are as bad as Six Flags. Hersheypark, Kings Dominion, BG Williamsburg, Cedar Point, Kings Island are ALL better than Six Flags. They ALL are less than $50 and are ALL well worth it. Visit Hersheypark and try to tell me the park is not up to par. Its WELL worth its $40 price.

For $100 I can get an AP to all those parks. And SF might not be all that great BUT I can get an AP for about $60.

So $90 for a 1 day ticket is retarted!

I've been to Hershey Park. It's nice. It's not a theme park though, it's an amusement park. Disney blows it away. You're paying the premium for a premium experience. If you don't like it, don't go.

Only when consumers realize that their dollars speak louder than their voices will they affect any real change on the market.

 

[djkidkaz]

1 day Disney Tix for $85 PLUS tax = $90.53 is JUST NUTS!!!!:hammer:

Not all parks are as bad as Six Flags. Hersheypark, Kings Dominion, BG Williamsburg, Cedar Point, Kings Island are ALL better than Six Flags. They ALL are less than $50 and are ALL well worth it. Visit Hersheypark and try to tell me the park is not up to par. Its WELL worth its $40 price.

For $100 I can get an AP to all those parks. And SF might not be all that great BUT I can get an AP for about $60.

So $90 for a 1 day ticket is retarted!

Value is in the eye of the beholder, so I guess it will do us no good to even discuss it. I think its expensive to go to Disney parks for a week but I never walk away from my experience feeling I didn't get my moneys worth. Going to say Six Flags or to a movie theater is another story. I feel like parts of me were violated, violently.

 

[Millionaire2K]

Whatever you want to call it, theme park or not $90 is still a lot for a family of 4 for a quick 1 day visit to the MK!!


When FLE is 100 percent done it will probably be past $100. If they raise prices EVERY year with nothing new I’m sure the prices will fly up when that’s done!

Don't get me wrong I think MOST FL Theme Park tickets are WAY overpriced not just Disney.

All prices are after tax based on Single day tix bought from official park website:

SeaWorld (1 day 2nd free): $78.10
BG Tampa (1 day): $85.59
Universal (1 day 1 park): $90.95
Disney (1 day 1 park): $90.95

PS im a Disney and Universal AP holder. I just feel bad for the familys who get rapped at the gate.

 

[RSoxNo1]

I agree 100000%. In the whole WDW resort, there truly is an amazing amount of things to see and do. We all agree with that, that's why we are on this site. But lets face it. When it all boils down, people go to WDW for the 4 parks, and their rides, parades, and other attractions.
And adding new things in Communicore (Yeah, I'm old school) or replacing Audio Animatronics with HD tv's in Haunted Mansion don't really cut it as "new things." One legitimate "C" or "D" ticket per calendar year is a very achievable goal. I'll maybe give a break of one year AFTER they open up a true "E" ticket on the level of EE or ToT. But there's no reason to believe thay can't open a new TSMM type of ride annually. Gut out Buzz's Space Ranger Spin and throw something new in there every 5 years. Do something with the Rhine River ride in Germany. Heck I'll even settle for a new Soarin' movie. But the current schedule of new rides, and the pace of their opening is very disappointing.

2011 - Star Tours
2012 - Under the Sea: Journey of the Little Mermaid
2013 - Seven Dwarf's Mine Train

I agree that a substantial addition should be made every year (within reason), and the current pace is doing just that. There's still plenty of time before 2014-2015 for new attractions to be announced.

At the D23 Expo, I attended Radiator Springs Reality on the last day, a panel with John Lasseter and other key Imagineers working on Cars Land. One thing that I found surprising, but very pleasantly so, was when John flat out said at the beginning that California Adventure just lacked.. Now Disney said that people wanted more immersive environments and just more Disney, but John said something along the lines of.. "I don't know why we(Disney) made this park, with such a lack of theming, and it just didn't live up to what we do." It was great to hear from such a key character the truth about this park. And now DCA will be even more incredible than it is(Paradise Pier is AWESOME).

After Cars Land opens next Summer, I would not be surprised if the same type of TLC and attention goes to DHS and/or DAK when WDI goes down to Florida and really scopes out the place and realizes what needs to be done.

Just my 2 cents..

I'm uploading the full presentation, it will be available on our site shortly, and when it is - I'll post the direct link.

 

[AEfx]

-The hat from the studios will be placed on Spaceship Earth

All joking aside, I'd have preferred it there - as it wouldn't be blocking anything.

 

[Spike-in-Berlin]

Very good point!
I'd sooner see something pinnochio related come to the new circus part of the FLE. Even though it's kind of a dark part of the movie, it fits the theme much better.

I would still love to see something go into Germany other than the restaraunt...seems like a ton of wasted space. If they start putting cafe's for all of the pavillions on the lake from like Mexico (thought I heard that somewhere) then they would have room to do something like a "rhine river cruise" or a dark ride based on "romantiche strassa" or some tour of Germany dark ride. I just went to germany in May, and it's such a great place to visit. Things they could include would be:

Parts of the Saxony area
Berlin
Munich (including the biergartens, and the hops fields)
The Zugspitze (the top of germany...in the alps)
The rhine river and the grape fields of wine country.
The black forrest
Romantiche strassa

The list goes on....
Neuschwanstein

I had once posted an idea for an advanced Germany dark ride, because the original concept of the River Rhine Cruise was to tame and is outdated with its West German orientation after the reunification.

Here it is:

I believe a German ride could still work out, however not as a tame ride like Gran Fiesta or the planned River Rhine Cruise but more like maelstrom or even a downsized German Splash Mountain. Mountains and fairy tales/legends have a high value in German culture and folklore. Why not combine them in an adventurous and wild river ride? It could include several minor and one bigger plunge (although not as big as Splash Mountain) First it takes you down a minor plunge into a German mystic wood where you see AAs in scenes from German fairy tales (Snow White, Little Red Riding Hood, Rapunzel etc.) and the struggle of Siegfried and the dragon, this could be a first highlight with an AA firebreathing dragon. Then through and up a mountain (Blocksberg), watching the dwarves working in their mines, pass a sleeping Emperor Barbarossa and out again, onto the summit of the mountain and pass by a witch sabbath on Walpurgisnacht and see valkyries in the sky to the valkyries ride of Wagner (just like you hear Griegs Peer Gynt in Maelstrom). Then follows a big plunge down the mountain into the Rhine. You pass several castles standing high above on the surrounding mountains (and seem to see even some ghosts in the castles?) and see Siegfried on his Rheinfahrt again with the famous music from Wagners opera and pass the Lorelei. At the end it goes again down a plunge (Rheinfälle). Finally the ride becomes more tame and you pass through a collage of modern Germany, including famous German buildings like Cologne Cathedral, the Alps with Neuschwanstein Castle, you see an ICE-train passing on high speed (more than 200 miles per hour) and finally you are on the Spree River and passing the Reichstag in Berlin before the ride comes to an end.

 

[Spike-in-Berlin]

Animal Kingdom just makes me sad sometimes. The theming there is already amazing... it's the attraction list that is missing. A park with so much potential that closes at 5pm most days of the year!?! I love AK but find myself spending less and less time there. The theming is so immersive but the park lacks substance and that's why people don't stay and play. And I think our family probably enjoys it more than most other visitors. We don't have a local zoo anywhere near us so the animal exhibits are still kind of a novelty for us. If you're not impressed with the animal encounters there's not a lot on the map to occupy your time!

Exactly that's a problem, if you live in a city with your own zoos DAK is not that interesting indeed. I come from a city with two zoos and both are much larger than the animal exhibits in DAK, we have both the largest zoo in Europe considerung area (Tierpark) and the zoo with the largest number of species worldwide (Zoo Berlin), with roughly about 1500 species, DAK has 250. If there were not the rides, shows and highly sophisticated theming we wouldn't even consider coming back after one visit.