Resort Logo Merchandise

[Colleen27]

I think behind all of this is the fact that first timers and very occasional visitors are the bulk of Disney guests. Somewhere along the line, some muckety-muck decided they don't really need the souviner dollars from the realtively small number of dedicated Disney fans, or that they'll get those dollars in different ways (like D23). I think they also realize that no matter how disappointed we are with the changes made, most of us will still feel that a bad day at a blandified Disney is better than a good day at another destination, so what incentive is there to cater to us as a guest demographic?

 

[snyderla]

I stay at a lot of different resorts and I buy new resort specific items for each resort I stay at. This will same me lots of money! I don't like bland sameness.

Also, I never buy year specific items. I don't want to wear 2009 stuff in 2010.

 

[KYMickey]

I think behind all of this is the fact that first timers and very occasional visitors are the bulk of Disney guests.

Do you think this is really true? Based on the number of timeshare units available within and outside of Disney alone I think the number of frequent visitors is quite large. In addition many people visit quite often and stay at the resort hotels. I obviously do not have an exact number by any means but I would guess the number of visitors who visit on a regular basis is > 25%, which is quite a large number and I wouldn't be surprised if it was even larger.

 

[CindyKansas]

This is very interesting. I know that we have plenty of Poly logo merchandise at the Poly. Tomorrow night I am being deployed to one of the All Stars, I'll have to ask a few questions.

 

[Maelstrom_]

I just got back last night from a reat 7 night stay at Bay Lake Tower. We always buy a magnet with our resort name/logo on it...but they didn't have any at the Contemporary gift shops. They had some new Bay Lake Tower merchandise (no magnets), but that was it.

 

[Luv2Roam]

I am not surprised if this is the case as look what they have done to merchandise in the stores in general.
It use to be if you saw something you liked, you better buy it as you might not see it again.
Now it's the same merchandise all over. Gets to be pretty ho hum after awhile.
We ate lunch at Olivia's yesterday and of course were in the gift shop. There were quite a few OKW items. I thought maybe that was due the resort being DVC and a deluxe. Could be there was not as many OKW items as usual. However I did not notice that.

 

[TK Brown]

This is sad. We always would try and buy a Christmas Ornament of each place we staryed. Now, ill have to buy them all ahead of time (if they are still there) and open them after we go to that hotel.....bummer....

But if Disney had a spare 4 BILLION laying around to buy Marvel....they cant be hurting that bad.....JMO.