How crowded do you want the parks? If the ticket prices were $75 a day and annual pass starting at 200, they would attract 100 million a year in attendance and no one would be able to move. They need high prices to keep the attendance down to a reasonable level. Maybe the solution is to limit attendance to those staying onsite. Oh wait, that would would keep the middleclass out. If you don't like what Disney charges don't go and let those of us who don't mind paying more to have less people in the park enjoy it. If you want low prices go to Six Flags and Cedar Fair parks. They are enjoyable and not priced as an international park.
People should not go into debt to pay for vacation. Debt should only be used to pay for homes. Debt for depreciating assets like cars is wrong but at least cars have a real value and without a car getting to work is almost impossible.
Disney and Universal go after the top 20%. I don't remember who did the study but there was one about 18 months ago which said that person who go to themeparks, including regional parks was in the top 40%. That would mean even Six Flags and Cedar Fair don't go after the average person. If you listen to their quarterly conference calls you would realize that. Especially Six Flags that keeps talking about their Diamond and Diamond Elite Memberships.
I'm guessing there are lots of woman people paying for their trips as well... let's not lock people up in gender boxes, OK?? OK!!
As in we'll supply the tickets and demand more and more for them.
I assume that this would be a bad time to mention that while cleaning out the attic this weekend I found a 1982 WDW handout with a $15 ticket price for either MK or EPCOT.Remember when people were upset that tickets entered the triple digits?
Why is the blame for overcrowding not sticking to Disney? They have determined that this is ALL the park that we will support and we will cram in as many people as possible for as long as possible. Why no additional rides/shows/attractions? Why are things shut down at peak times? Why are there shorter hours than there used to be in the past? To my point of view it this is equivalent to Apple saying that they are only going to produce X number of iPhone's this year no matter how many more people are willing to buy them, and do that year after year. Disney is leaving money in the wallets of potential customers and that should make the shareholders angry. There is no law of the universe that says Disney must always be the prime family vacation destination for all time.I don’t think most people would ever want to admit “I can’t afford to go to Disney World” because doing so would mean they are too poor to partake in one of the biggest rites of passage in our culture. So as long as there are credit cards and a desire for Disney “magic” I don’t see crowds dying down anytime soon.
The only way they can fix the overcrowding issue is to lower park capacity. Only allow a certain number of people inside at any given time. But we know that won’t happen EVER.
I'll keep repeating this as many times as I need to.
Mistyped meant --many-- no gender implications ment
