Posted on 07/11/2023 11:21:53 AM PDT by Red Badger
It takes real skill to drive this many customers away.
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Tweet See new Tweets Conversation Old Spook 👻 @maxheadroom470 Disney World in Orlando is suffering - here it is nearly mid-July, schools are out, families are on vacation, and the streets at Disney are just about empty!
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The July 4th weekend was a 10-year-low for the massive company's Disney World amusement park in Orlando, but all the parks have been suffering recently.
More from The Wall Street Journal:
Park visitors in recent weeks have had significantly lower wait times to get on rides, according to data from Touring Plans, a company that tracks wait times at major amusement parks, including Disney World and Disneyland in California. Industry analysts say shorter wait times generally correlate with smaller crowds.
The average posted wait time at the Magic Kingdom park in Florida — which has a special fireworks display on July 4 — was 27 minutes this year for the holiday, down from 31 minutes in 2022 and 47 minutes in 2019, the Touring Plans analysis shows.
"It's something that nobody would have predicted — just unfathomable," says Len Testa, a computer scientist who runs Touring Plans. Testa says wait times rose in the following days.
The Journal offers an assortment of potential reasons for the lull: Cruises and European vacations are back after the pandemic, Disney isn't offering much new, and Disney wants to slim down the crowds for richer guests anyway.
But unlike the journalist class, most of America understands the two primary reasons:
Your wallet is hurting
Disney went woke
Expect the 30-year-old single fanboys keeping Disney afloat to back out once student loan repayment starts back up in September!
Re-establish the brand? Pfff. Converted to Condos within 30 years.
I don’t suppose the guy in the princess outfit had anything to do with it.
“From everything I’ve heard among people in my circle of associates, immigrant families have no interest or no financial means to do silly vacations like a Disney trip.”
Mexican-American families around here are known for making the 1,100 mile trip to Disneyland annually — spring break, summer, or around Christmas. Most of them have plenty of money. Landscapers make $65,000 plus what the wife makes. In the case of a family I know, it is that $65k + $35k the wife makes as a McDonald’s team leader. New cars and a newer house, too, but plenty of debt.
Peter Principal at work at Dizzzy. Water always seeks its level. They are getting searchig for theirs which is down lowlowlow.
wait til the word really gets out its not out yet....
More climate change affects...
They can’t figure out “go woke, go broke”???
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