Change Moonlight to during active park hours and increase frequency

[sethschroeder]

My thought is that DVC should move Moonlight to active park hours. I have been to the event but with so few of them you will find that many will likely never even be there during the event.

Instead my suggestion would be the "perk" would rotate weekly to a different park on Wednesday or Thursday. It wouldn't be private but would be the end of the day (last 2-3 hours) and include Dining Plan Snack Credits loaded on your account for the specific park and include possibly 2 or 3 lightning lane selections.

 

[eticketplease]

These never line up for when we go but from what I understand most of the appeal is the special characters. Would these still be a thing and if so is Disney turning away people from seeing them if not registered for the event by scanning magic bands like they do for early and evening hours?

 

[tjkraz]

Park capacity already dictates that not all DVC owners staying at WDW can attend each Moonlight Magic. Overlapping with regular park hours would either result in more members being blocked or overstuffing the parks. I don't really see the point in holding a "special event" in which you're vying for attractions with tens-of-thousands of non-members. And it's zero benefit to a DVC pass holder.

 

[Brian Noble]

The purpose of Moonlight Magic is not to provide members with free park time. The purpose of Moonlight Magic is to get prospective buyers to sign on the line which is dotted.

Also: Day guests are already grumpy enough about all the hard ticket events during Party seasons, but at least those are accessible if they want to pay up. This would be straight-up exclusionary, cutting into "normal" park time, and cost Disney real goodwill.

 

[VGCgroupie]

Id go with keep MM and if you cant go or are unsuccessful at getting tickets you can get 50% off of 1 after hours event of your choice that year.

 

[keishashadow]

from what I understand most of the appeal is the special characters

True, for us. We rarely bother with the standard ones in the parks unless extended family request.

 

[ParrotBill]

Moonlight Magic is special because it is exclusive, low crowd, and treats being given out. What you describe cannot be done during normal hours - it would just be like extra magic hours.

Now, how these things work: Disney Vacation Development is a subsidiary company. They must PAY for the park for those hours, and the staffing. And provide extra staffing for their own organizing and sales purposes (not for prospects really, as you must be a member, but for selling add-ons.) It would be cost-prohibitive to do it more than a few times a year.

 

[sethschroeder]

Moonlight Magic is special because it is exclusive, low crowd, and treats being given out. What you describe cannot be done during normal hours - it would just be like extra magic hours.

Its so extremely limited that it might as well not even be written about.

To Brian's point though its essentially something they tell someone so they buy knowing that its a great bet that the person will never go to one of the events.

 

[sethschroeder]

Park capacity already dictates that not all DVC owners staying at WDW can attend each Moonlight Magic. Overlapping with regular park hours would either result in more members being blocked or overstuffing the parks. I don't really see the point in holding a "special event" in which you're vying for attractions with tens-of-thousands of non-members. And it's zero benefit to a DVC pass holder.

Not sure there would be zero benefits to a pass holder when you specifically would get the benefits of:

• Some number of lightning lanes
• Free snacks (possible use at any location instead of just specific ones open during MM)
• More people would get access to this benefit of any capacity (reason MM is "at capacity" is because they don't want to pay for the headcount needed to staff the park)

So I am not sure how you arrive at "zero benefit".

Additionally if this option requires you to be staying on points and have active tickets I don't see how it would overcrowd a park outside of possibly the first couple weeks where they went to this new process.

 

[sethschroeder]

The purpose of Moonlight Magic is not to provide members with free park time. The purpose of Moonlight Magic is to get prospective buyers to sign on the line which is dotted.

Also: Day guests are already grumpy enough about all the hard ticket events during Party seasons, but at least those are accessible if they want to pay up. This would be straight-up exclusionary, cutting into "normal" park time, and cost Disney real goodwill.

The only place it would really impact is limit of ability to get Lightning Lanes at the end of the day.

Everyone is accurate though I don't see them going this route and the only reason for MM is to sell contracts to people who will then never go lol.