lockedoutlogic
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Apr 26, 2007
Sorry but no, you didn't see that and are misrepresenting my earlier post (rumors board...attendance/performance.)
MSEP is a brilliant move to increase local AP visits at DL. And they'll market to them when the river attractions reopen. And again when F! goes live. That'll be a really big deal, DL'ers looooove their F!. I wouldn't be surprised if they did AP showings.
I could have gone on in that post about other ways DL will market to AP's (the 100's of thousands that live in SoCal), but I didn't since it didn't seem neccessary to draw the point out further. The point of the post being about DL's inherent flexibility to market smaller stuff to get the AP's in more frequently, in order to weather attendance declines until new stuff opens. Such as AP days going on this month, there will be more, count on it. Blah, blah, blah....the point is that DL can capture loads of visits with relatively minimal efforts. It's a drive over after work, not a vacation. Money is still spent in the parks, everyone's happy.
And no, MSEP isn't enough to get us Califonians into DL at $450 a room, $125 a day, $1050 a year. It would take a lot more than that. That's cause most of us don't stay in the hotel most of our visits, certainly not for a week. Most of us still don't have the $1,000+ passes, even though those numbers have climbed. And while plenty of locals do visit DL as day guests, that's not what was being discussed. MSEP though IS enough to get lots of us excited to drive in more frequently. As is F!. And for true locals (which I'm not), even the river.
As to the topic of this thread though, I'm not worried at all about this happening at DL. I mean, who would be in the parks if they added 2 months to the blackouts? If this doesn't happen at either park though, please be sure to thank California
Sorry to paraphrase you and lose the "spirit" of it...
But recently planning a Disneyland trip...it becomes quickly apparent that everyone is on the price bandwagon pretty much hook line and sinker.
And I hold Disneylanders in much higher esteemed than swampers...so that pains me. I usually write the decenting opinion for the east coast segment...the one that counters "it's worth it to ME...because it's so magical"
...Yeah...that...