it is just too d***ed expensive
(I do realize it costs a lot to run a big theme park like Disneyland, but the ticket prices are still too expensive for most Americans except maybe on a VERY occasional or once-in-lifetime basis.....
If I were Disney, I’d also try to make it more affordable for youth to visit, since youth will be your repeat customers ....
similar problem now with many professional sports games, which we don’t attend anymore anyway ( at least the NFL) due to their horrible politics (something we go to entertainment events to get away from ...in the first place!)... but MLB, for example, used to let the kids in for a quarter ...AND the ballplayers would stay after and sign baseballs or cards for the kids (free0...and chat with them, too...nice, like...to encourage the kids...)...the kids grew up continuing to attend the games, at least until recent years when the prices went sky-high!)
If they make it less expensive can you imagine the caliber of people who will show up then?
No thanks.
That's the Six Flags model - meaning that the parks get overrun with urban 'youths' with annual passes. Case in point was their Astroworld park in Houston. Suburban whites had to give up on it, and it eventually went the way of big city malls.