Disney has lost its collective mind

[shalom]

This new “one size fits all” bundling of the entrance fee and the ride tickets is terrible! If kids can ride anything they want, with no limits, then the most popular rides are going to be SLAMMED. Lines are going to escalate like crazy! What was Disney thinking?

And talk about sticking it to the customers! Used to be, we could take grandma along pretty easily. She didn’t care about most of the rides and was happy to see her grandkids having fun, so a nominal entrance fee and a few tickets that would have gone to waste and we'd get a great family day. Now we have to pay FULL PRICE to take grandma along, even though she isn’t going to be riding. This is so much harder on large families; no more spreading tickets around the family to stretch your money. Everyone has to pay as if they were going to ride everything. So unfair to those who just like to "feel the magic." What a cheat!

I am furious, FURIOUS about this change. Who’s with me?

Disney, for the love of humanity, bring back the E-Ticket!

 

[Mousemommy1]

This new “one size fits all” bundling of the entrance fee and the ride tickets is terrible! If kids can ride anything they want, with no limits, then the most popular rides are going to be SLAMMED. Lines are going to escalate like crazy! What was Disney thinking?

And talk about sticking it to the customers! Used to be, we could take grandma along pretty easily. She didn’t care about most of the rides and was happy to see her grandkids having fun, so a nominal entrance fee and a few tickets that would have gone to waste and we'd get a great family day. Now we have to pay FULL PRICE to take grandma along, even though she isn’t going to be riding. This is so much harder on large families; no more spreading tickets around the family to stretch your money. Everyone has to pay as if they were going to ride everything. So unfair to those who just like to "feel the magic." What a cheat!

I am furious, FURIOUS about this change. Who’s with me?

Disney, for the love of humanity, bring back the E-Ticket!

I see what you did there.

 

[schrammalot]

This made me chuckle.

 

[Suellen]

This new “one size fits all” bundling of the entrance fee and the ride tickets is terrible! If kids can ride anything they want, with no limits, then the most popular rides are going to be SLAMMED. Lines are going to escalate like crazy! What was Disney thinking?

And talk about sticking it to the customers! Used to be, we could take grandma along pretty easily. She didn’t care about most of the rides and was happy to see her grandkids having fun, so a nominal entrance fee and a few tickets that would have gone to waste and we'd get a great family day. Now we have to pay FULL PRICE to take grandma along, even though she isn’t going to be riding. This is so much harder on large families; no more spreading tickets around the family to stretch your money. Everyone has to pay as if they were going to ride everything. So unfair to those who just like to "feel the magic." What a cheat!

I am furious, FURIOUS about this change. Who’s with me?

Disney, for the love of humanity, bring back the E-Ticket!

Oh I get it... you thought that was funny.
A. New? 32 years?

B. No thank you.

 

[schrammalot]

A. New? 32 years?

B. No thank you.

Someone can't sense sarcasm.

 

[Suellen]

Someone can't sense sarcasm.

Well since sarcasm isn't supposed to be allowed here it isn't always my first instinct.

 

[sethschroeder]

Well since sarcasm isn't supposed to be allowed here it isn't always my first instinct.

People are complaining about some crazy things these days so its hard for people to tell anymore....

 

[monkistan]

There are those of us who only like thrill rides and we were being forced to buy A, B and C tickets that end up not getting used. Why were they forcing us to ride Dumbo and Peter Pan. Bleh. A grown man riding Dumbo. I like the new tickets because I don't feel like i have to ride those kiddie rides. Keep the On-Size-Fits all ticket.

Welcome to the future!

 

[mom2rtk]

But it sure worked out nicely in the end for them. They got their "all-inclusive" pricing structure and can now close the circle by moving the benefits under that system back closer to the ones they had with the ticket books. Sort of the best of both worlds. For the bottom line anyway.

 

[TheRustyScupper]

. . . kids can ride anything they want, with no limits. . . Used to be, we could take grandma along pretty easily. She didn’t care about most of the rides and was happy to see her grandkids having fun, so a nominal entrance fee and a few tickets that would have gone to waste and we'd get a great family day . . . bring back the E-Ticket!

1) I fully understand your feelings.
2) But, you fail to see-visualize-appreciate the benefits.
. . . kids can ride all day without your supervision
. . . grandma can roam all day with the grandkids
3) In both cases,
. . . you can lose the kids
. . . you can lose grandma
. . . you can leave them and they wouldn't know
. . . you can run away, since they don't know your hotel without any hard room keys
4) This is even better than Child-Swap when you want to swap the kids (or grandma) for new ones.

 

[crostorfer]

But it sure worked out nicely in the end for them. They got their "all-inclusive" pricing structure and can now close the circle by moving the benefits under that system back closer to the ones they had with the ticket books. Sort of the best of both worlds. For the bottom line anyway.

This

 

[shalom]

Someone can't sense sarcasm.

It really wasn't sarcasm so much as that I remember when they switched out from the ticket system so with the FP+ kerfuffle I feel like I've been reliving the past. And I hoped it'd give someone a chuckle.

The other thing I keep thinking about is Richard Schickel's The Disney Version. I bet there are a lot of people here who haven't read that but who would still totally relate to his rage. And he wrote that in the sixties -- the more things change...

 

[momofmaz]

I'm fully lost on this thread...

 

[DisneyDiana]

This new “one size fits all” bundling of the entrance fee and the ride tickets is terrible! If kids can ride anything they want, with no limits, then the most popular rides are going to be SLAMMED. Lines are going to escalate like crazy! What was Disney thinking?

And talk about sticking it to the customers! Used to be, we could take grandma along pretty easily. She didn’t care about most of the rides and was happy to see her grandkids having fun, so a nominal entrance fee and a few tickets that would have gone to waste and we'd get a great family day. Now we have to pay FULL PRICE to take grandma along, even though she isn’t going to be riding. This is so much harder on large families; no more spreading tickets around the family to stretch your money. Everyone has to pay as if they were going to ride everything. So unfair to those who just like to "feel the magic." What a cheat!

I am furious, FURIOUS about this change. Who’s with me?

Disney, for the love of humanity, bring back the E-Ticket!

Your post made me laugh. Very creative... I am looking forward to reading some of the replies that will inevitably follow.

 

[themommy]

1) I fully understand your feelings.
2) But, you fail to see-visualize-appreciate the benefits.
. . . kids can ride all day without your supervision
. . . grandma can roam all day with the grandkids
3) In both cases,
. . . you can lose the kids
. . . you can lose grandma
. . . you can leave them and they wouldn't know
. . . you can run away, since they don't know your hotel without any hard room keys
4) This is even better than Child-Swap when you want to swap the kids (or grandma) for new ones.

Awesome!

 

[Jennasis]

I guess this is one of those times a "sarcasm" font would be helpful.

 

[mom2rtk]

I guess this is one of those times a "sarcasm" font would be helpful.

Is it my imagination or does that need seem to come up more and more these days?

 

[NYDisneyKid]

And talk about sticking it to the customers! Used to be, we could take grandma along pretty easily. She didn’t care about most of the rides and was happy to see her grandkids having fun, so a nominal entrance fee and a few tickets that would have gone to waste and we'd get a great family day. Now we have to pay FULL PRICE to take grandma along, even though she isn’t going to be riding. ]!

Take her to Disney Hong Kong. Senior's are $13 They should have senior prices at all Disney parks.

 

[kmb584]

Before I caught onto the sarcasm all I could think was, "this person has over 2,000 posts and they're just now realizing that e tickets no longer exist?"

 

[PanamaMike]

I enjoyed the OP and the premise of what complaints on this board would have been like (had it existed) in 1982.

Well done.