Upcoming Memory Maker Price Increase

[GymLeaderPhil]

If you want Memory Maker, get it while the price remains the same as it will be increasing soon for separate as well as bundled with resort packages (both advance purchase and the full version.)

 

[SosoDude]

Thanks for the heads-up. Any idea on how much of an increase or when it will take affect?

 

[GhostHost1000]

Again already?!!

 

[DisneyPrincess5]

Hah that's funny. I was JUST looking at the ticket prices for our upcoming trip and looked at the Memory Maker prices and thought "WOW that's steep" (we aren't getting it just because-price doesn't play a part in the choice). Oh well. Nice for you to give the heads up for those who will want to buy it.

 

[Cosmic Commando]

Funny... we are at the World now. We've been using MM/Photopass for a couple days, and I've thought what a great value it seemed to be! Disney must be reading my mind through the MagicBand.

 

[boufa]

Memory maker share is the only way to do it. Its silly to pay full price for it. Several families that are traveling at the same time split the cost. It takes very little to cut the cost down a lot.

I like the memory maker/PP product, its fun, the magic shots are great, but in the end, I don't do much with the photos. They are just sitting on my hard drive collecting digital dust.

 

[dreamfinder]

Helps to show "worth" to the increase of AP costs if the Memory Maker price goes up as well....

 

[hollymc3]

Ok ok it worked. I was on the fence about buying memory maker. Now I purchased it just in case it does go up

 

[prberk]

Please explain Memory Maker and how it differs from PhotoPass, which I have always seen as just an unnecessary expense. Do I really want to pay people exhorbitant prices to take my family picture, when I can usually stop people on the street to do the same thing with my own Canon camera on auto? Those pics usually turn out well also.

 

[NearTheEars]

Memory maker share is the only way to do it. Its silly to pay full price for it. Several families that are traveling at the same time split the cost. It takes very little to cut the cost down a lot.

I like the memory maker/PP product, its fun, the magic shots are great, but in the end, I don't do much with the photos. They are just sitting on my hard drive collecting digital dust.

I never looked into it, but assumed the package included prints, but to pay that much just for the digital files isn't worth it to me. Maybe for first timers.

 

[flynnibus]

Please explain Memory Maker and how it differs from PhotoPass, which I have always seen as just an unnecessary expense. Do I really want to pay people exhorbitant prices to take my family picture, when I can usually stop people on the street to do the same thing with my own Canon camera on auto? Those pics usually turn out well also.

memorymaker is a blanket digital purchase of all your photopass AND on-ride photos. You get digital downloads of all your photos. The add-on of the on-ride photos is the key difference from your classic photopass experience.

The old model was to pre-pay for the CD to get all your photos on photopass without having to buy one by one... now you get the equivalent plus on-ride photos

 

[dreamfinder]

Please explain Memory Maker and how it differs from PhotoPass, which I have always seen as just an unnecessary expense. Do I really want to pay people exhorbitant prices to take my family picture, when I can usually stop people on the street to do the same thing with my own Canon camera on auto? Those pics usually turn out well also.

Photopass has always been the name of the service that WDW (and DLR) offers to take your picture. They offered the Photopass CD (digital copies only on CD) and then Photopass+ (digital copies on CD, plus dining prints) which people commonly referred to both simply as Photopass. Memory Maker includes digital downloads of any eligible picture that Photopass takes, including ride photos, and also includes downloads of ride videos. The pictures that the Photographers take can have "magic" added to them, along with animation. Not everyone wants to schlep their camera with them to the parks, or wants to hand it off to a total strange for them to take a picture.

 

[prberk]

memorymaker is a blanket digital purchase of all your photopass AND on-ride photos. You get digital downloads of all your photos. The add-on of the on-ride photos is the key difference from your classic photopass experience.

The old model was to pre-pay for the CD to get all your photos on photopass without having to buy one by one... now you get the equivalent plus on-ride photos

Thanks. What exactly is the current price? Sounds like everyone thinks it is expensive.

I can see how a digital copy of the onride photos can be interesting to have, but I am not sure I would pay much for it. I guess it would depend on who is with me and how unique the experience -- but still might only be valuable to me for a specific ride or experience. I suppose you would have to have already purchased it before riding the ride (or at least by the time you got to the reviewing stand at the end of the ride). Or can you purchase MM at the end-of-ride photo places?

 

[prberk]

Photopass has always been the name of the service that WDW (and DLR) offers to take your picture. They offered the Photopass CD (digital copies only on CD) and then Photopass+ (digital copies on CD, plus dining prints) which people commonly referred to both simply as Photopass. Memory Maker includes digital downloads of any eligible picture that Photopass takes, including ride photos, and also includes downloads of ride videos. The pictures that the Photographers take can have "magic" added to them, along with animation. Not everyone wants to schlep their camera with them to the parks, or wants to hand it off to a total strange for them to take a picture.

Thanks. I guess I do understand. But I will have to say that that last part comes across to me as such a first-world problem, especially if the price is steep. It seems like a nice luxury, but clearly something that would have price point for me above which it is an expensive luxury, and one my parents and grandparents would never have imagined paying for when I was younger, especially at the cost of a meal or two since we have our own camera.

 

[righttrack]

They got us hooked, now they want us to pay more for it.

I can tell you one thing, photographers are working less on getting people to take a picture, but working more taking pictures because people want more pictures now.

 

[JourneysEnd]

Since I know the price won't go down and there's a good chance you're correct. I purchased.
Thanks for the warning.

 

[JourneysEnd]

Thanks. I guess I do understand. But I will have to say that that last part comes across to me as such a first-world problem, especially if the price is steep. It seems like a nice luxury, but clearly something that would have price point for me above which it is an expensive luxury, and one my parents and grandparents would never have imagined paying for when I was younger, especially at the cost of a meal or two since we have our own camera.

You can get a 1 day deal for $40 but you have to buy at the park.
Current price is $169 if you buy in advance $199 if not.

 

[dreamfinder]

You can get a 1 day deal for $40 but you have to buy at the park.
Current price is $169 if you buy in advance $199 if not.

I might be wrong, but I think the 1 day MM can only be purchased with a one day ticket. I know when they launched it MNSSHP tickets were counting, I'm not sure if they have changed it since.

 

[JourneysEnd]

I might be wrong, but I think the 1 day MM can only be purchased with a one day ticket. I know when they launched it MNSSHP tickets were counting, I'm not sure if they have changed it since.

You're probably correct. Person who told me that was on a MNSSHP ticket.

 

[GhostHost1000]

so what is this going up to $199 for everyone (no prepay discount?) or god forbid even more than that?