Podcast crew mug report please

[disprincessatheart]

I saw a report on the resorts board this morning that the new refillable mugs are out at pop century. Unfortunately I think the poster was using cell phone pics and they weren't that clear. I was hoping the podcast team might be able to give us the scoop in a new blog! Id love to know the handle color choices and would love too see the full designs. Thanks!

 

[safetymom]

The blog will be up in a couple of hours.

 

[doconeill]

I saw Kathy's pic on Facebook. They look nice, but "unthemed" - at least not tied to the Memories theme. It looks like a vacation pic, with what looks like Mickey, Minnie, Goofy and Pluto at a pool.

There are red (not maroon), yellow, and blue tops. They are the also the cylindrical style that replaced the narrow-bottom style with the last design.

 

[safetymom]

Colors are hot pink, aqua, yellow. The style of the mug is like the previous version.

 

[safetymom]

http://www.disunplugged.com/2011/02/26/new-resort-drink-mugs-debut-at-walt-disney-world/

The blog is up.

 

[k5jm]

http://www.disunplugged.com/2011/02/26/new-resort-drink-mugs-debut-at-walt-disney-world/

The blog is up.

 

[doconeill]

Yup, just saw the better pic in the blog...the colors are more obvious now. I can also see that it wasn't Goofy and Pluto but Donald and Daisy.

 

[Disney Dad Canada]

Hopefully this will make people buy new ones, and stop using the one's from last trip.

 

[doconeill]

Hopefully this will make people buy new ones, and stop using the one's from last trip.

The signs have always had some variation of those words - it won't change anything.

Of course, the endless valid debates about what "end of the stay" means in terms of split stays, etc. will continue on as well, thanks to the conflicting wording between mugs and stations...

 

[Disney Dad Canada]

The signs have always had some variation of those words - it won't change anything.

Of course, the endless valid debates about what "end of the stay" means in terms of split stays, etc. will continue on as well, thanks to the conflicting wording between mugs and stations...

IMO, it has nothing to do with ambiguity, and everything to do with certain people's need to want to screw with a system and put themselves above everyone else.

The sign seems perfectly clear to me. How can anyone argue NOT spending $14.90 on a trip that costs in the thousands? It's being cheap, and raising the prices for everyone else.

 

[doconeill]

IMO, it has nothing to do with ambiguity, and everything to do with certain people's need to want to screw with a system and put themselves above everyone else.

The sign seems perfectly clear to me. How can anyone argue NOT spending $14.90 on a trip that costs in the thousands? It's being cheap, and raising the prices for everyone else.

I am referring to the difference in wording between the mug and the sign and its implications on split stays, not at all about bringing old mugs back.

The wording on the mug implies you can ONLY refill that mug at the drink station where the mug was purchased, through the "end of your stay". The sign at the drink stations, however, don't say it is only for mugs purchased there, but for a mug purchased during the stay.

Now, with the question as to whether "end of your stay" in a split-stay is the end of the stay at that resort, or for the entire stay at WDW, still unanswered, take the following situation: I purchase a mug while I'm staying at POP for the weekend. Then I move to BCV for a week.

The mug's wording implies that I can still refill the mug while I stay at BCV, but I have to go back to POP to do it... the sign on the filling station doesn't limit me like that, as long as I purchased the mug during the current stay.

The split-stay issue has long been unanswered.

Frankly, if Disney wants to increase sales of mugs, they should make it more convenient to use them. To have one fill station in an entire resort, especially the more spread out ones, makes them less useful to those who who are far from them. On our last trip, we would have considered getting up to 6 of them...except we were at the extreme end of Grandstand area of SSR, and it was far too cold to be walking all the way to AP to fill them...

 

[disprincessatheart]

Thanks Kathy! I like them and will be getting a pink one at Blt in 34 days! I agree about them being less desirable at some resorts. We never bothered at SSR and BWV but it works out great for us at Blt. Dh loves to walk over and get drinks in the morning and I love to let him.

 

[BriarRosie]

IMO, it has nothing to do with ambiguity, and everything to do with certain people's need to want to screw with a system and put themselves above everyone else.

The sign seems perfectly clear to me. How can anyone argue NOT spending $14.90 on a trip that costs in the thousands? It's being cheap, and raising the prices for everyone else.

Disney isn't losing sleep over this issue. The guests who post to the DIS and other fan sites seem to be the most up in arms over this. I stopped buying mugs when they started becoming generic like this. My first mug was at Port Orleans, before it was French Quarter, and when it actually sold resort-specific merchandise. The cast members back then encouraged guests to bring back the mug for that resort for future stays. And I had done that in the early to mid-1990s. I stopped bringing my mugs when I saw these "for the length of your current stay" signs, somewhere around 1999-2000.

I would think that with the contracts Disney has with Nestle and Coca-Cola, they are getting their drinks for next to nothing. It doesn't bother me anymore when I see people filling up with mugs, but I do find it tacky when I see people using their own bottles and other non-Disney beverage containers to fill up with items that are not water.

 

[kaligal]

If we could put music to threads, I'd use "Save a Horse, Ride a Cowboy" for refillable mug fights.

Saddle up the horses and let's go! Dun-da-da-dum, da-da-dum, da-da-dum, da-da-DA-DA...

 

[Disney Dad Canada]

Personally I'm not losing any sleep worrying about Disney losing money over "free" Coke. It's more of a trend on the boards lately that some people think it's okay to screw a system in any way possible that's bothersome.

What ever happened to empathy, to having an ounce of responsibility in your life? Rules are set up for a reason, and it seems that some people think it's perfectly find into figuring out ways to save $10 here and there by thinking only of themselves.

Whether it's saving $14 in parking by parking your car at a resort, $14 on a mug by bringing the same ones over and over, saving $30 by buying scrapper ebay pins or taking extra pool towels for your room, you'r basically saying to everyone else "Thanks for paying your share, and my share too." Yes you may actually save a few dollars, but at what expense? It's not the values I would want to teach my children, and not worth the effort in the long run.

 

[WaltD4Me]

The sign seems perfectly clear to me. How can anyone argue NOT spending $14.90 on a trip that costs in the thousands? It's being cheap, and raising the prices for everyone else.

Or you can argue that exactly because the trip is costing in the thousands, you just don't feel all that bad about re-using a $15 plastic mug from last year.

Of all the known hot debate topics, ECV usage, pool hopping, ect...the mug thing to me is the absolute silliest. Like Pete said "It's SODA people!" How this is something that anyone even notices other people doing, let alone remembering to come and report about on the boards completely baffles me.

 

[livvylivvie]

YAY! I am soo Excited about the new Resort mugs!!! I can't wait to get them! That Pink Mug is Calling my Name!!!
I also will be bringing my old ones to use on the way down, (you know, to get us in the disney spirit !) We have a 24 hour drive. with a 5 year old and a 3 year old!! double yikes!! haha

I will also be letting my kids use our old resort mugs to drink out of, since they don't drink pop, or coffee and tea, from the station. I let them put their juice in it. .... or just water... sooo sometimes we can jump to conclusions about people "stealing soda" ... and they really arn't... Just something to think about.

Not trying to start an arguement... Love and pixie dust people !

 

[Spaceace5150]

What ever happened to empathy, to having an ounce of responsibility in your life? Rules are set up for a reason, and it seems that some people think it's perfectly find into figuring out ways to save $10 here and there by thinking only of themselves.

Disney Dad Canada,

I never thought I'd hear you say rules are set for a reason I've known you to question rules in society!

 

[Disney Dad Canada]

Disney Dad Canada,

I never thought I'd hear you say rules are set for a reason I've known you to question rules in society!

I'm more into questioning popular beliefs than rules, but to some degree that's true. I do however feel that if you don't think a rule is just, that doesn't mean you blatantly ignore it. You work within the rules to try and change it.

Cheaters can justify their actions to themselves all day long, and try to convince others that their actions aren't cheating, possibly so they can sleep at night.

Coke isn't the actual issue here, it's the message you're sending. Screw you, I'm all about me.

 

[WaltD4Me]

I'm more into questioning popular beliefs than rules, but to some degree that's true. I do however feel that if you don't think a rule is just, that doesn't mean you blatantly ignore it. You work within the rules to try and change it.

Cheaters can justify their actions to themselves all day long, and try to convince others that their actions aren't cheating, possibly so they can sleep at night.

Coke isn't the actual issue here, it's the message you're sending. Screw you, I'm all about me.

If you are refering to my comment, and I don't know that you are, I've never bought a refillable mug, so I wasn't trying to justify anything. I just don't understand why people get so worked up about it. I have every confidence that if Disney felt it was an that much of an issue they would fix it.