DVCakaCarlF
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What’s shocking, is that WDW is not considered a luxury vacation by the wealthy.
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News Walt Disney World to resume sales of Annual Passes (New sales resume April 20, 2023)
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No doubt. Truly wealthy people aren’t going to slum it at WDW more than MAYBE once, then tell probably their friends it wasn’t worth the cost.
ImperfectPixie
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#Truth.
They won’t notice the cost, but it won’t feel like it was worth the hassle and to you and me it would feel like a level of hassle that was essentially 0.
ImperfectPixie
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If they go at all, it will be to check it off the list when their kids are small. Quick weekend trip, then never go back. My cousin's daughter is a perfect example. She took her 2-year-old to WDW for three days, didn't venture to the parks outside of MK and only spent a few hours there. Got the obligatory photo in front of the castle, and in her FB post said they're never going back. This is a woman who grew up traveling the world.
I said last week Chapek and him are good cop/bad cop. Chapek takes the blame while D’Amaro has a likable personality so he can fake caring about guests better. He’s just as bad as Chapek. Hopefully more and more people will start to see that.
TrainsOfDisney
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I think Josh is more damaging than Chapek at this point. He smiles and acts like he cares about the fans and the product. He has some people fooled.
Exactly. I’ve watched way too much pro wrestling and am into politics way too much to be fooled by this. I can spot bs like what he does a mile and a half away.
You're really claiming he's harmful based purely on the evidence that he seems nice?
I hope this was sarcasm.
Chip Chipperson
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So what you're saying is that the reason the Harmony Barber Shop remains closed is that D'Amaro is plotting to help that coward Chapek "escape" through its window? I think I might be okay with that as long as Iger doesn't dress like Brutus Beefcake when it all goes down.
threvester
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Just finished filling out the passholder survey they emailed me...I let them have it for all of us!
TrainsOfDisney
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That’s not what I said at all.
Do you have any evidence that he’s not harmful to the parks?
threvester
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of note...they asked numerous times if I was aware prior to the survey that passes would not always be for sale
There was no reason for them to start a streaming service or acquire Fox to fattened their catalog other than the fact that they’re obsessed with power. Netflix is the largest streaming company and has never made a profit and is billions of dollars in debt but nope they have to be on top of everything.
Universal has had some duds but they’ve opened a new ride or 2 every year for a decade. Meanwhile it’s taking Disney 73 years to open a new ride every other 3 years that is scaled back from its plans. I bet they have plenty of merch too. To think they became such a force was because Disney turned down Harry Potter lol.
Chip Chipperson
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The company has had cash flow issues, but has turned a profit.
Netflix One Question: Is It Losing Money Or Making Money?
Netflix stock has emerged a star performer through the coronavirus pandemic, rising by ~25% year-to-date, as people consume more content while being confined to their homes. The company added close to 16 million subscribers over the first quarter, handily beating its guidance of about 7 million...
www.forbes.com
The company certainly has had cash flow issues, but as of January 2021 no longer needs to borrow money.
Netflix Will No Longer Borrow, Ending Its Run of Debt (Published 2021)
The streaming giant borrowed over $16 billion in less than a decade as it built out its content library. The strategy prompted criticism that the company was unsustainable.
So I can understand why Disney wanted to get into the streaming business. Why negotiate license fees with another company when you can get money directly from viewers and potentially make more money that way in the long run? I think it's too early to call the decision a bad one. One advantage Disney has over Netflix is that much of the content on Disney+ also generates box office revenues that cover the cost of production. Obviously there's a need for a healthy amount of original content, too, but anything Netflix has is either something they produced and has no box office revenue (or a small amount with outliers like "The Irishman") or they have to pay someone else for (again, no box office revenues). They have to get by on subscription revenue and product placement revenues like Coke in the most recent season of "Stranger Things."
Oddysey
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You know I do not think this is outside of the realm of possibility. When I received a survey from Disney asking why I choose not to renew my AP, there questions revolved mostly around 3 themes. The importance of overcrowding, the reservation system, and free parking at the parks. I’m not joking when I say free AP parking questions were a significant portion of a substantially large survey. Note that I marked free park parking as highly important when making a decision on a Florida resident AP.
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Do you have any evidence that he is? You're the one making an extraordinary claim. Where's your proof?
Sirwalterraleigh
Premium Member
I just got a report from two groups in the parks now…
“sold out” doesn’t appear to mean what it used to
…even more so than your expect
“sold out” doesn’t appear to mean what it used to
…even more so than your expect
DVCakaCarlF
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There’s obviously a metric they use to determine the highest profitability based on guest count and staffing.I just got a report from two groups in the parks now…
“sold out” doesn’t appear to mean what it used to
…even more so than your expect