Posted on 10/07/2023 4:46:01 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
And water is wet.
The true reality this doesn’t touch on is the people running Disney are like most hardcore liberals: they mostly are empty people who actually hate themselves and try to spread their pain or cover it up by dominating others.
Nope, unless you support ESPN and ABC. I believe there are additional channels and companies under the Disney umbrella. (Marvel, etc)
Very good analysis. Disney is lazy both with tickets to parks and with items for sale online. They just don’t care. Yes, Knotts is ten miles away and better. But Disney still has the magic that will soon vanish when enough Disney customers feel confused and ripped off.
Before I left SoCal in 2015, for a few years I had an annual premium pass with free parking and without blackout dates. I’d go there for a few hours every so often to pin trade. Naturally that pass was eliminated right after I left. After that, the closest one like it was over a thousand dollars.
Back home in Texas, I have the big bunch of pins - and no regrets about leaving Disney!
I try not to, but for the last two years my husband has insisted on giving out candy.
The decline of Disney began under Michael Eisner, who was determined to extract maximum profit no matter the injury done in the long term to the customer experience and loyalty. Eisner's lack of artistic sense and his liberal cultural values led to a gradual embrace of openly gay employees. Over the years, this hardened into the current in-you-face promotion of LGBTQ as part of Disney's hiring and story-telling.
Same here. It’s like he’s been waiting, waiting to say all these very important and extremely clever things about Disney, and he can’t decide what to say first. So, like a grinning Bumble Bee, he quickly pollinates all kinds of topics, as though lost in a field of wildflowers.
In short, he needed a hard hearted, heavy handed Editor to cut most of the fat away, and leave most of the meat.
No kidding. What a crappy writer. Get to the point already. I also gave up after the third or fourth paragraph.
They’re progressives; hate is what they do. It’s who they are.
Huh?!
Can't that be done outside of Disneyland? Does Disneyland have a venue on its premises dedicated to the "pin trade?"
What kind of "pins" are we talking about here? Bowling pins?
Regards,
It’s pins that you pin on yourself. And how it used to work (no idea if it still does) was that you could trade pins with cast members in the parks. You may ask the point of this, since yeah, couldn’t you just trade or buy/sell with regular people outside the parks. Well, the trick was that cast members had to trade whatever you wanted for whatever you gave. So that was a cheap way to obtain rare (valuable) pins in exchange for your 22nd copy of Donald Duck or whatever. The reason the person spent a few hours doing it was probably walking around the park to different cast members to see which ones had stuff worth anything.
Bottom line is that in addition being woke, Disney puts zero effort into pleasing the fans it has left. It’s a lazy, soulless company that Walt would be embarrassed by for so many reasons.
I have never heard of this practice, and I have difficulty believing that it works.
I have never noticed cast members wearing any pins - valuable or otherwise. I can't believe that cast members would want to wear "valuable" pins if this meant that they would be forced to trade them in for some worthless "22nd copy of Donald Duck." I can't imagine why the management would want to promote this kind of trading. I can't imagine why management would want their cast members engaging in this sort of trading when they are supposed to be signing autographs for 5-year-olds, posing for pictures with 5-year-olds, smiling and waving, etc.
If you want to better understand my confusion / disbelief: Substitute "extremely rare and valuable postage stamps" for "pins," and see how that works.
Regards,
It’s only at certain locations in the parks. It’s not like Cinderella or the popcorn man is wearing pins.
A simple internet search of “pin trading at disneyland” will prove how narrow your view of things is.
I'm sticking with my "extremely rare and valuable postage stamp"-analogy.
This practice can work - for Disney - only if they constantly play "bait-and-switch" - enticing private collectors to pay to enter the park and congregate at the specified trading locations, buying lattes for hours while they wait, hoping for a "steal," but usually ending up having wasted 3-4 hours and with nothing but a few, crummy "22nd DD" pins to show for it.
If this was a consistently, reliably good method to obtain valuable pins, it wouldn't work for Disney management. It works for them only if, ultimately, the private trader is commonly disappointed, spends more on milk shakes while waiting for a trading opportunity, etc.
It has got to be a scam!
Or?
Regards,
who was determined to extract maximum profit no matter the injury done in the long term to the customer experience and loyalty.
And apparently he was correct. Because years later customers wait for hours for a chance at a pass that doesn’t seem to guarantee much. Or to buy some made in China merch.
I have NO use for Disney. So disgusted at what the brand has become.
Copy That! I hate holloween, santa, and the easter bunny.
why celebrate death? why acknowledge a lie? why honor a bunny and not the most important moment in all history, the resurrection of the Son of God and victory over Satan, death, and sin?
I see a pattern. What were the temptations of Christ?
With these now embedded in Disney's culture, workforce, and ongoing hiring practices, I do not see much effort or success in that. My guess is that when Disney has fallen low enough in five or ten years, it will be taken private by an investment group that will clean house and try to restore the old Disney model of safe family entertainment and child centric theme park experience.
You, me, and millions of other conservatives.
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