News Round Up 2018

[Tigger's ally]

Why? Low sellers still make more money than free...

Depends on whether they are bought bulk or purchased in small lots. Sometimes having a big amount sitting around for long periods leads to waste. That too costs money.

 

[sachilles]

They ought to have a "mystery" band. Toss all the low sellers in a lot. You get one at random.

 

[jknezek]

Depends on whether they are bought bulk or purchased in small lots. Sometimes having a big amount sitting around for long periods leads to waste. That too costs money.

Yes. But given the amount of inventory WDW pushes around, storage on 5000 magic bands would be less than rounding error.

 

[rteetz]

 

[dlavender]

News

Disney After Hours Events Expand to Disney’s Hollywood Studios & Disney’s Animal Kingdom

The MK one, even though I am against the upsells, is the only one I see the most "value" in. Tons of rides.

At AK, I envision everyone at FOP all night........

HS, same problem, but everyone is grouped together at SDD.....

 

[SG131]

The MK one, even though I am against the upsells, is the only one I see the most "value" in. Tons of rides.

At AK, I envision everyone at FOP all night........

HS, same problem, but everyone is grouped together at SDD.....

I agree. And with AK there’s so much walking between rides that it would eat up so much of your time unless of course you camped at FOP all night.

 

[soniam]

I saw the trailers and was so confused and that's with knowing the original nutcracker story and having seen the ballet. The trailers seemed like they had a lot going on but nothing to tie it together, definitely wasn't something I'm jumping out of my chair to see. Now Bohemian Rhapsody that I will see soon.

We saw it and loved it. My mom was texting right after she got out of and couldn't rave enough. I think it made her feel young again, because she has seen them in concert and been back stage when Freddy was still alive.

FWIW, I saw it on the weekend and it was good. Not great, but good. Amazing music, as expected, but the story lacked. Rami Malek was amazing though.

The music was amazing. I really liked the Live Aid scenes. Made me reminisce for my childhood. I have read complaints that the story is not completely factual. However, I get the impression that Freddy Mercury wouldn't mind embellishments to enhance the story. I thought I was going to get out of there without them playing "Show Must Go On", but nope. I cried like a little baby I always think of the video when I hear that, and it just makes me so sad that he had to suffer.

The MK one, even though I am against the upsells, is the only one I see the most "value" in. Tons of rides.

At AK, I envision everyone at FOP all night........

HS, same problem, but everyone is grouped together at SDD.....

I think that's the point. Even at MK EMM, people pretty much only do 7DMT. I think getting to ride FOP over and over would be amazing. I don't think we could match our number of 7DMT when we first did EMM at MK. I rode it 11 times in a row, until I thought I was going to pop or follow over from dizziness. My husband and son did it 13 times. I suspect you could easily get 5 or 6 FOP for just an EMM, unless they oversell it.

 

[PolyRob]

The MK one, even though I am against the upsells, is the only one I see the most "value" in. Tons of rides.

At AK, I envision everyone at FOP all night........

HS, same problem, but everyone is grouped together at SDD.....

I agree. And with AK there’s so much walking between rides that it would eat up so much of your time unless of course you camped at FOP all night.

Agreed! The MK was honestly really fun. I love DHS, but IDK that I could justify the same price tag for a few select rides to be swamped the whole time.

 

[tlmadden73]

Black was first made available to purchase in December 2017. Millennial pink in January 2018 yet neither has transitioned to the resort stay options. Please correct me if I'm wrong but I believe the only new colour they've ever introduced into the 'free' option is purple in the 5+ years that MBs have been around. As much as I'd like to see them enhance their free offerings I'm not holding my breath.

Once again, it's a matter of why offer something for free when people are quite willing to pay for it? Sadly this is the way Disney seems to be going these days.

I've said it before .. I think Disney could increase sales of "limited edition" magic bands if they just gave resort guests some credit if you opt out of the free ones. They save on shipping .. and get people to think more about buying the special ones in the park.

 

[Firebird060]

Agreed! The MK was honestly really fun. I love DHS, but IDK that I could justify the same price tag for a few select rides to be swamped the whole time.

I would love to do the MK one but only if it was open till 1 am like it is in december or 2 am like it was a couple of years ago

 

[tlmadden73]

News

Disney After Hours Events Expand to Disney’s Hollywood Studios & Disney’s Animal Kingdom

I don't see how this is worth it for AK and DHS yet (just too few "ride" attractions at both parks, (as you assume the live-action shows would not be open this late (since you'd have to pay all those actors)),

Again .. this is the continued end of EMH. While they are only doing this a few times a month (as I am sure the demand isn't that high to have it many times a week -- yet), like someone said above .. why give away for free what people are willing to pay for.

Between this and the EMM (eventually) at every park -- they are just going to run out of days to have EMH for resort guests. They already only have one EMH offering per week at DHS and AK.

 

[PolyRob]

I would love to do the MK one but only if it was open till 1 am like it is in december or 2 am like it was a couple of years ago

I did MK to 1am with my friend who had never been to WDW. We had 1.5 days in MK and she was throwing around the idea of adding another day to her ticket on our departure day. I suggested this instead for the price and she loved it! I did too. I've never seen the park so empty. It was so easy to move around.

 

[The Pho]

The MK one, even though I am against the upsells, is the only one I see the most "value" in. Tons of rides.

At AK, I envision everyone at FOP all night........

HS, same problem, but everyone is grouped together at SDD.....

Magic's is well worth the money. You can pretty much get every ride in the park done in about 90 minutes.

I think Studios is better suited for it currently than Animal is. Studio has enough rides that generally have lines to fill up rerides for a couple hours easily. I'd do it mostly for Tower and Rockin. Then once Star Wars opens, it'll be well worth it.

Animal would definitely draw most crowds over to Pandora, and it'd be too dark for the safari to be worth doing more than once. However I wouldn't hesitate to do it just to ride Dinosaur all night with an Everest or two tossed in.

 

[Firebird060]

I did MK to 1am with my friend who had never been to WDW. We had 1.5 days in MK and she was throwing around the idea of adding another day to her ticket on our departure day. I suggested this instead for the price and she loved it! I did too. I've never seen the park so empty. It was so easy to move around.

The 1 am ones are nice because normally even the most hardcore parents give in by midnight, the parks are pretty much familys with teens and adults after 1 am.. When it was 2 a.m it was spooky empty. I watched one of my favorite nighttime parades at 2 am at WDW 4 years or so ago. It was literally me and the wife and maybe a dozen people within 20 feet of right where Frontier land turns into Liberty Square. I got some of the greatest pictures of a empty park at that time.

It felt like there were as many cast members as there were patrons in the park at that hour

 

[PolyRob]

The 1 am ones are nice because normally even the most hardcore parents give in by midnight, the parks are pretty much familys with teens and adults after 1 am.. When it was 2 a.m it was spooky empty. I watched one of my favorite nighttime parades at 2 am at WDW 4 years or so ago. It was literally me and the wife and maybe a dozen people within 20 feet of right where Frontier land turns into Liberty Square. I got some of the greatest pictures of a empty park at that time.

It felt like there were as many cast members as there were patrons in the park at that hour

Wow! I would love to see it at 2am like that. I am definitely a night owl and appreciate the late hours with lower crowds and temps. I force myself to wake up for rope drop since the night hours keep decreasing

 

[Disneymom1126]

I think that is a good point - especially when it comes to opening weekend. I think my oldest daughter (who is 9) might like the Nutcracker but I wanted to wait until more people had seen it to get feedback on if it would be appropriate for her.

Also, for things that we might be on the fence about, easier to watch at home and turn off if need be or pause and explain things, etc. We did watch A Wrinkle In Time - but we did it at home, and also after she had already read the book so she was more prepared

We went (me and DD 10) with another mom and two girls (8 and 10). We all enjoyed it. I thought it was a creative take on the story. Mind you I’m pretty easily entertained and willl admit that, but it’s something we would add to our holiday movie collection and pull out at Christmas each year.

 

[skier_pete]

Once again, it's a matter of why offer something for free when people are quite willing to pay for it? Sadly this is the way Disney seems to be going these days.

News
Disney After Hours Events Expand to Disney’s Hollywood Studios & Disney’s Animal Kingdom

The timing of these two (consecutive) posts was absolutely brilliant!!!

 

[BorderTenny]

I've said it before .. I think Disney could increase sales of "limited edition" magic bands if they just gave resort guests some credit if you opt out of the free ones. They save on shipping .. and get people to think more about buying the special ones in the park.

Or how about letting you select one to upgrade to for a fee? And maybe introduce some resort-specific bands that you can only get by staying there.

 

[Sweettears]

FWIW, I saw it on the weekend and it was good. Not great, but good. Amazing music, as expected, but the story lacked. Rami Malek was amazing though.

I heard that the music is basically Queen altered a bit so as not to sound exactly like the originals.

 

[soniam]

I heard that the music is basically Queen altered a bit so as not to sound exactly like the originals.

No, it sounds like the originals. Bryan May and Roger Taylor from Queen were heavily involved. I don't think there was an issue in getting rights to the music. I don't know how much the actor sang, but I think they dubbed Freddy Mercury's original vocals over most of the songs. There might have been some alterations to fit particular scenes. However, when they were performing on stage, I think it was pretty much from their live recordings.