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Originally Posted by Richpetty42
When I was a kid my uncle & cousins would come down from the panhandle every Christmas to my parents house outside Orlando, it was a tradition. And the 8 of us could get into the MK would be able to get in for what would now be 3 person 1 day tickets. In the 90s when I was in High School I was a cast member at DW. Even in the early 90s prices did change but still was affordable, but I did notice that more big groups of foreign tourists were coming, much more than I remembered in the past. And the start of what is now “woke” special weeks where groups of another kind would come & you wouldn’t want to bring your children during those times in. But since Michael Eisner was replaced as CEO it seems like Disney decided to take advantage of their core base to become a greedy money monster, raising prices on everything each year even when they were still making good movies and getting surpluses on park admission and resorts people could afford, not to mention parking fees everywhere.
Seems to me that D only cares about making money and not being the place Walt envisioned where families could come to his parks to escape the real world for a day while still being able to afford it. But I guess that those massive amounts of foreign money coming from those BIG tour groups mean more to them than common people or even Florida residents, greed will bring D down and it will be of their own doing.
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One important factor left out of that analysis is that of HEAT. Florida, the US, Europe, and much of the world are experiencing record HEAT due to climate change - due to cars, trucks, and golf carts with gas engines. Disney World customers are down because they are NOT stupid enough to pay high prices to stand in lines for long periods in the Florida sun. Florida is closer to the equator so 100 degrees in Florida is worse than 100 degrees in Chicago. People think that how hot you feel is governed by 2 factors ........temperature and humidity. But, there is a 3rd factor, which is how strong are the rays of the sun. To test this simply put your hand on any black car in the afternoon in Fl., Az., or Tx.