Tony the Tigger
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Still, the last 4 years are irrelevant, and you have no idea what is in the works. It could be decorated for one private party for all you know. It’s really none of your concern either way.
So what?
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Walt Disney World Holiday Season 2024
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peter11435
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I’m not sure I understand your desire to defend blatant and unnecessary cutbacks.
You’re right. It could be decorated for just one private party. And dozens of restaurants across property should be decorated too. They will serve thousands of paying guests every single night while their decor sits collecting dust in the warehouse.
That makes perfect sense. If you want the Disney Difference it will cost you extra.
You're right, all the guests are distracted with buying their premier passes to notice the cutbacks.
Bocabear
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Hard to notice anything with your head buried in your phone making reservations and checking ride appointments... They are counting on that....When you are in a race to get a lightning lane pass for Guardians of the Galaxy, who has time to notice the lights burned out on the Ladybits tm Planter?
castlecake2.0
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Yah I’m not sure the angle they’re going for here. No cast have been recalled for that location since Covid so we know it’s not miraculously going to become a restaurant anytime soon. And it sits roped off so people can’t even just use it as a seating area. But sure yah it’s none of my business lol
Disney sent out recipe cards and stencils to Annual Passholders in the mail as a holiday gift and Disney says there there will be one more recipe card and two silicone stencils available at EPCOT starting December 8:
Hey, Passholders! Receive anything sweet in the mail lately? Well keep those cookie trays out, because we’ve got one more piece of the pie to make all your dessert dreams come true.
As a thank you for spending the holiday season with us, we invite you to stop by Creations Shop December 8 through December 18, 2024 to pick up this Passholder-exclusive recipe card and two silicone baking stencils—available exclusively at EPCOT anytime from Park open to Park close.
Taking inspiration from the brilliant jewels and beloved Characters in Seven Dwarfs Mine Train, we whipped up an apple pie recipe as enticing as a cavern full of diamonds. (Poison apples not included.)
Add a dash of Disney magic to your creation with the accompanying diamond-shaped and Mickey-shaped stencils and you’ve got a pie so good it would make even Grumpy smile.
The icing on the cake? You can save this baking set to use all year long. Be it holiday gatherings or just-cause celebrations, delicious Disney-inspired desserts are always in season.
So, pastry chefs, what are you waiting for? Head on over to Creations Shop at EPCOT starting December 8 and let the holiday baking begin.
Hey, Passholders! Receive anything sweet in the mail lately? Well keep those cookie trays out, because we’ve got one more piece of the pie to make all your dessert dreams come true.
As a thank you for spending the holiday season with us, we invite you to stop by Creations Shop December 8 through December 18, 2024 to pick up this Passholder-exclusive recipe card and two silicone baking stencils—available exclusively at EPCOT anytime from Park open to Park close.
Taking inspiration from the brilliant jewels and beloved Characters in Seven Dwarfs Mine Train, we whipped up an apple pie recipe as enticing as a cavern full of diamonds. (Poison apples not included.)
Add a dash of Disney magic to your creation with the accompanying diamond-shaped and Mickey-shaped stencils and you’ve got a pie so good it would make even Grumpy smile.
The icing on the cake? You can save this baking set to use all year long. Be it holiday gatherings or just-cause celebrations, delicious Disney-inspired desserts are always in season.
So, pastry chefs, what are you waiting for? Head on over to Creations Shop at EPCOT starting December 8 and let the holiday baking begin.
ToTBellHop
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While I appreciate the novelty, I think I’d prefer a magnet. Our stencils have been just sitting on the table for days and will probably end up in the garbage. At least I can put a magnet on my car to gloat to strangers
JohnD
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Agree. I wasn't sure what I received when it arrived, though. I could figure out the wrapping paper I received last year (or maybe it was two years ago). I admit I haven't used it.
Squishy
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So this is why they increased passholder prices a few weeks ago.
ToTBellHop
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Maybe give pass holders a free cookie at Epcot or something? Negligible cost to get bodies in the park.
JohnD
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Unlike a magnet, I wouldn't be making a special trip into a park to pick up a cookie.
ToTBellHop
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Depends on the cookie…
The free ice cream I got as a DVC member (I think) last summer seemed like a popular offering.
Ayla
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God, that artwork is hideous.
And how useful is a thin paperboard stencil for making cookies? I think it says something about "reusable" on the envelope but I wonder how reusable they will end up being. At least the silicone stencils are washable.
Bocabear
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It's a freebie...how durable does it need to be? Make a batch of cookies, use it and you are done... I think the days of very nice giveaways are long gone... Magnets, recipe cards...these sort of paper goods will be the new normal...but they don't really have to give away anything...we obviously continue to pay for our passes...
One time use. It's how they get you to renew your AP every year to keep stencils in stock.
History and public sentiment disagrees with you on park based entertainment declining starting in the 1980s... If anything, up until that point non-third-party or atmospheric entertainment on both coasts was rather lacking - for 25+ years if you wanted to see any kind of Disney put on entertainment you were effectively limited to Kids of the Kingdom-style shows, all the way up until, really, MGM opened and things started to get experimented with in terms of stage shows (and even then it took until Dick Tracy in Diamond Double Cross to get anything close to the shows we see still being staged internationally). Things didn't start to decline until 2001 when Eisner shut down the "fiefdom" (his words not mine) that was Walt Disney Entertainment and brought all in park entertainment under operational control within each park instead of having an independent executive level part of the company dedicated to it and other live entertainment ventures.
As someone who has written about this academically and otherwise, some of the only in-depth material really available on the subject of the history of Disney's live entertainment within the parks, I know about this far too much... It's really quite sad because DLE was neutered specifically because folks in park ops were unhappy entertainment was getting a good amount of money out of Eisner and his successors, and it's spiraled from there. And that's about 90% of your issue. If entertainment had priority again, we would see some really good efforts.
DisneyDreamer08
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Interesting that tomorrow’s party still has availability. Has there been a Halloween or Christmas party that hasn’t sold out in recent years?