Frozen paid for FP+, it deserves a FP+!

[agavegirl1]

Parks and Resorts has an entirely different budgets and funds apart from Entertainment. They are accounted for separately. At first, the cost of the Anna and Elsa M&G was absorbed by the advertising budget for Frozen under the entertainment banner. From what I understand, it is now being charged to Parks and Resorts. So, the money earned on Frozen does not improve the Parks and Resorts bottom line which is not earning at expected levels. Price increases and cost cutting should help bring the desired margins. MM+ was expected to result in staffing efficiencies that could save money in the long run. In the short run, it has had had an opposite effect.

 

[MakiraMarlena]

Oh, I meant to ask earlier what you mean by this. They can set up to do FP+ at the Hub for MSEP every night, can't they do it here?

Totally different. In Norway there is one small line. There is one small room. There is only one set of princesses that can be greeting at any one time. There are two of them, so it likely takes twice as long as it would take to meet one character. If they set up a second line to enter that one small room, and said anyone who shows up in this line and scans a Fastpass Plus gets to go first, then if you are in the standby line, the only way you are getting in to meet the princesses is if there is nobody in the fastpass line. Give out enough fastpasses to make actually having fastpasses worthwhile, and that standby line is now permanently 6 or 7 hours long and you won't be able to tell guests who walk up and ask how long it will take them to get in. You'd have to tell them that if they don't have a fastpass, they may have no chance at all of getting in no matter how long they are willing to wait.

You need a setup like they have at Fairytale Hall or Mickey's new guaranteed spot to support FP+ for a meet and greet. (It's pretty cleverly set up to make guests think there is only one Mickey in the building.)

If they set up FP+ at the hub, it does not mean that only people with FP get to see the parade.

 

[surferdave]

Totally different. In Norway there is one small line. There is one small room. There is only one set of princesses that can be greeting at any one time. There are two of them, so it likely takes twice as long as it would take to meet one character. If they set up a second line to enter that one small room, and said anyone who shows up in this line and scans a Fastpass Plus gets to go first, then if you are in the standby line, the only way you are getting in to meet the princesses is if there is nobody in the fastpass line. Give out enough fastpasses to make actually having fastpasses worthwhile, and that standby line is now permanently 6 or 7 hours long and you won't be able to tell guests who walk up and ask how long it will take them to get in. You'd have to tell them that if they don't have a fastpass, they may have no chance at all of getting in no matter how long they are willing to wait.

You need a setup like they have at Fairytale Hall or Mickey's new guaranteed spot to support FP+ for a meet and greet.

If they set up FP+ at the hub, it does not mean that only people with FP get to see the parade.

I'll buy that; I wanted to be sure you didn't mean it was a hardware limitation. I think you're describing a general failing of FP+ that will just be much worse with the brutal Frozen M&G lines, but I agree with your reasoning.

 

[cmurray234]

I can't believe Transformers made the list. That is a HORRIBLE movie.

 

[jade1]

Finally.