Zootopia characters confirmed

Cmdr_Crimson

Cmdr_Crimson

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brb1006

brb1006

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asianway said:
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I noticed sometime around Disneyland Paris's 25th Anniversary that all of a sudden various Disney characters started showing up (Mainly the obscure and not well-known type) that you hardly see any where else or rarely come out at other Disney parks. Mainly since I been fascinated with Tokyo Disneyland since 2005 and I remember during the early days of Youtube I seen a few parades or shows from Tokyo Disneyland that featured Marie and Clarice who were both only exclusive to Tokyo until both suddenly showed up at WDW (Marie sometime in 2007/2008 and Clarice at WDW during an Easter event at the Grand Floridan Resort and at Disneyland during the "Dancing With Disney" event at DCA and during an opening ceremony for Disneyland's 57 or 58th opening ceremony). Even other Disney characters such as Kronk,Tarzan's Parents, and Yzma are found at Paris but this all might have to due with them only showing up during the character palooza and when "The Prince" arrives at the park. Keep in mind, this was way before I got more in-depth with the Disney Parks and this was back during my Middle School years when I noticed this.
 
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Ignohippo

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I've said it a million times, the entertainment budget for meet & greets is one of the most screwed up things about the Disney Parks business model.

There is absolutely NO reason, with the relatively low cost of M & Gs, that there shouldn't be meet and greet characters for almost every Disney franchise (at least the new ones for sure). They can spend hundreds of millions on an attraction for one character, but can't add a couple million to the budget to have another 20-30 characters in the parks (looking at $60,000 a year for the performers and $20,000 for their handlers ($1.6 million/yr for 20 characters and 20 handlers) - which I would have no idea if that's in the ballpark)? Even if it adds $10 million to the budget, it's a tiny amount compared to adding a new attraction, and I would argue it's just as important to the average family to be able to see the characters they want to see. Plus, it helps to disperse crowds.

It makes absolutely no sense.
 
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wdrive

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Ignohippo said:
I've said it a million times, the entertainment budget for meet & greets is one of the most screwed up things about the Disney Parks business model.

There is absolutely NO reason, with the relatively low cost of M & Gs, that there shouldn't be meet and greet characters for almost every Disney franchise (at least the new ones for sure). They can spend hundreds of millions on an attraction for one character, but can't add a couple million to the budget to have another 20-30 characters in the parks (looking at $60,000 a year for the performers and $20,000 for their handlers ($1.6 million/yr for 20 characters and 20 handlers) - which I would have no idea if that's in the ballpark)? Even if it adds $10 million to the budget, it's a tiny amount compared to adding a new attraction, and I would argue it's just as important to the average family to be able to see the characters they want to see. Plus, it helps to disperse crowds.

It makes absolutely no sense.
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Character Performers make nowhere near $60,000 a year
 
asianway

asianway

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Ignohippo said:
I've said it a million times, the entertainment budget for meet & greets is one of the most screwed up things about the Disney Parks business model.

There is absolutely NO reason, with the relatively low cost of M & Gs, that there shouldn't be meet and greet characters for almost every Disney franchise (at least the new ones for sure). They can spend hundreds of millions on an attraction for one character, but can't add a couple million to the budget to have another 20-30 characters in the parks (looking at $60,000 a year for the performers and $20,000 for their handlers ($1.6 million/yr for 20 characters and 20 handlers) - which I would have no idea if that's in the ballpark)? Even if it adds $10 million to the budget, it's a tiny amount compared to adding a new attraction, and I would argue it's just as important to the average family to be able to see the characters they want to see. Plus, it helps to disperse crowds.

It makes absolutely no sense.
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And you're wrong. Meet & greets have a HIGH cost per experience which is what they care about. Furthermore as I've said before WDW already has the most meet & greets of any of the 5 resorts. You're not considering all the multi room locations and practically exclusive use of back to back sets.

Be angry but for the right reason-they overuse VIPs, Star Wars, Pixar, and princesses at the expense of a more varied assortment of classic storybook characters.
 
HRHPrincessAriel

HRHPrincessAriel

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Ignohippo said:
I've said it a million times, the entertainment budget for meet & greets is one of the most screwed up things about the Disney Parks business model.

There is absolutely NO reason, with the relatively low cost of M & Gs, that there shouldn't be meet and greet characters for almost every Disney franchise (at least the new ones for sure). They can spend hundreds of millions on an attraction for one character, but can't add a couple million to the budget to have another 20-30 characters in the parks (looking at $60,000 a year for the performers and $20,000 for their handlers ($1.6 million/yr for 20 characters and 20 handlers) - which I would have no idea if that's in the ballpark)? Even if it adds $10 million to the budget, it's a tiny amount compared to adding a new attraction, and I would argue it's just as important to the average family to be able to see the characters they want to see. Plus, it helps to disperse crowds.

It makes absolutely no sense.
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Your math doesn't add up. Those 20 characters would be a one person job by your math. Most characters have multiple "friends" correct @asianway. How many does say Elsa have?
 
Matt_Black

Matt_Black

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asianway said:
Be angry but for the right reason-they overuse VIPs, Star Wars, Pixar, and princesses at the expense of a more varied assortment of classic storybook characters.
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Those "overused" characters, as you call them, are a money draw. To use a pro wrestling term, they put as- ... er... hineys in the seats.
 
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doctornick

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asianway said:
Be angry but for the right reason-they overuse VIPs, Star Wars, Pixar, and princesses at the expense of a more varied assortment of classic storybook characters.
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Yes, there's no reason to have the same characters meet in different parks when other characters are never used. The number of M&Gs isn't IMHO an issue as much as who is offered -- add more variety to the program.

(That said, I think Star Wars is actually under-utilized for M&Gs. It's only Chewbacca and Kylo Ren that actually meet regularly, right?)
 
asianway

asianway

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doctornick said:
Yes, there's no reason to have the same characters meet in different parks when other characters are never used. The number of M&Gs isn't IMHO an issue as much as who is offered -- add more variety to the program.

(That said, I think Star Wars is actually under-utilized for M&Gs. It's only Chewbacca and Kylo Ren that actually meet regularly, right?)
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Yes but at any moment that uses up to 10 performers
 

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