It’s a combination of woke and greed.
Went 50 years ago with our 3 children...thought it was a waste of time and money.
Who doesn’t want a princess with a beard welcoming your child to Disney World? As my kid saws “Ewww”.
Evil perverted scum.
Knoebels costs 1/10 as much and is ten times as enjoyable. Same goes for a lot of smaller parks around our great land. People are maybe starting to figure this out.
Keep it going folks. Knock’em out. Don’t need Disney or any of its affiliates as long as it wants to propagandize our kids with garbage.
The average working family can’t afford it anymore. It’s now for singles, couples, very well-off families, or poor families who get in subsidized or gifted free.
Unlike Vegas, Disney has a copyrighted product that others simply cannot match (and believe me, they try) - so an effective monopoly. On top of that, they have a customer base that does not care about the cost (young children). So, rather than opening more parks, Disney seems to be taking their fixed capacity and adjusting their prices to throttle demand to acceptable levels.
Now their woke crap is costing them, big time, as it eliminates self-respecting parents from associating with them, but there are still many, many, others (as we see by turnout at Drag Queen Story Hours around the country, even in Texas!).
It’s not just the woke BS that is causing people to stay away from Disney, talking with a friend earlier this week, he’s taking his wife to Disney for her birthday, we live in Florida and are used to Florida Resident pricing at certain times of the year.
I can’t remember the exact amount but a 1-day pass for all the parks is over $200 per person, for a couple it’s $400 just to get in the door, much less eat or drink anything, he’s staying off property, a Disney hotel is off the charts expensive.
I can’t imagine what a family of 4 from around the country would have to pay for a 3-4 day Disney vacation.
We lived 3 hours away from Disney World and went 3 or 4 times a year. After my wife and I came back from our Jamaican honeymoon, we drove up and did a couple of days at Disney World. A few years later our first child was conceived at a Disney Resort (Caribbean Beach). Our house was decorated with Disney collectables. I owned some stock in Disney. Yeah, we were fanatics. Note the past tense.
At one point I looked forward to the day I would bring my grandchildren to the parks. Now I wouldn’t even consider it.
Iger has ruined Disney. His embrace of leftist policies and rejection of traditional values has created a revulsion in me that I don’t think they could ever fix.
This is what is going to hurt Disney the most...they have lost the generational magic. Young children are not very interested in the current Disney IPs. They squandered their purchases of Pixar, Marvel, and Lucasfilm. They catered to the tastes of less than 10% of the population and told the rest to screw off.
F ‘em.
I’m surprised that the fall is that small. It should be much higher.
Right now the Disney Parks and Vegas are both taking hits due to their sheer amount of over pricing. And then nickel and diming you for what little you have left.
Even though, the people are not attending like they used to, they refuse to correct and just raise prices more.
UTTER GENIOUS!!!
And how much higher did their prices go in the last five years?
too many fag days! any time you show up it might be a bunch of mentally ill homos parading around. Why risk exposing your kids to that?
On a map it looks like we are convenient to Disney. With traffic, navigating parking, then more lines to ride transport to parks, lines to get in, not to mention $$$ involved we just don’t want to go.
Gays getting older, fewer kids and fewer care with phones...