Disney apparently can’t get enough money since the theme park and park guests are their now endless piggy bank. While attendance is down, spending per guest is up. Instead of making it more affordable Disney is reportedly going to do the opposite. A new rumor from WDWNT indicates that the Walt Disney World and Disneyland theme parks may implement the Flexible Ticket Pricing they use in Disneyland Paris.
What is Flexible Ticket Pricing?
Do you remember the rumor about Wendy’s changing their menu prices throughout the day based on “demand?” Yeah, it’s that, but for the theme parks. They called that “Surge Pricing” but it’s the same idea.
Basically, the ticket prices will fluctuate based on demand for that day, including and up to the actual day. So, the price may be $129 in the morning, but a few hours later, it could be $159.
Of course, this is all rumor, but if true, it is not going to go over well.
Disney has lost the plot.
The Walt Disney Company is so desperate to fleece guests that they are going to do everything they can to get even more money out of the people that dare to support them. They wonder why there is so much negative press and feelings about them.
This comes after Disney’s ridiculously expensive Lighting Lane Premier Pass sold out again at the theme parks. Until people refuse to pay, Disney will keep pushing prices up higher and higher.
Walt Disney wanted the parks to be affordable for families. Bob Iger wants the parks to be out of touch for anyone not wealthy enough to pay the upcharges.
Frankly, their new offerings haven’t been worth the upcharges.
The garden in EPCOT that looks like a vagina and has broken lights all the time.
EPCOT vagina park has finally opened with a thud. My first thought was that it looks like you’re walking into gynecological office complex.
😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/qbMqfth3im— Buzz Bradley 🌐 (@DisneyOnParade) December 5, 2023
The new CommuniCore Hall that is a glorified cafeteria.
Tiana’s Bayou Adventure, which looks like Hobby Lobby, threw up their fake plant department, and the animatronics keep breaking.
It’s a dark ride down this aisle at Hobby Lobby. pic.twitter.com/P6ef7WtTdQ
— CISO – Black Spire Outpost (@BelchSpeak) June 1, 2024
Moana’s Journey of Water is a walk-through attraction.
Disney is making park fans angry by removing the Rivers of America entirely to put a loud Cars-themed attraction in. Or removing the Muppet Courtyard for Monsters. Inc.
Make no mistake, each of these decisions, including removing the Virtual Queues from Tiana’s Bayou Adventure and Guardians of the Galaxy Cosmic Rewind, is to make more availability for the Lighting Lane Pass upsell. More E-ticket options mean more opportunities to raise prices and give them more availability for the upcharges.
I hope this rumor is not true. If so, Disney seemingly can not “see the forest for the trees” and is going to Icarus themselves by flying too close to the proverbial sun.
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