This is one of my worries with a growing wealth disparity in the world.
The average person is starting to get priced out of any luxury entertainment because there are wealthy people with unreasonable amounts of money to throw at whatever they feel like.
There will always be rich people who can pay whatever price a company asks for.
Its a luxury service in a declining economy, when everything is getting shittier and shittier and people will pay through the nose for relief. Why wouldn’t they charge more?
I’d also point out that Disney’s parks are on the pricey side. Like, they do provide a lot of nice stuff, but it’s not like they’re the only amusement park operator out there.
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A few years back, but I imagine the ratios probably roughly hold.
On this list of 45 amusement parks in the US ranked by cost, Disney World is #2, Disney Adventure Park is #3, Disneyland is #4, and Disney’s Animal Kingdom is #5.
If someone wants to go to an amusement park and isn’t specifically set on what Disney has on offer, there are a number of other options that are more-affordable.
And to be honest, I can’t blame them when people keep buying it and they’re still keeping the parks full.
I mean, for the parks, I’d increase the price to what the market could bear at the capacity the parks have, but also build more park, if there’s that much demand.
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Apparently they actually do have a 14 acre expansion happening at Disney World at the moment.
But park visitors can one day expect to see much more beyond that wilderness at the iconic park in Central Florida – something more ambitious than just a ride overhaul or a retheming.
“It’s probably the largest expansion ever at Magic Kingdom,” Michael Hundgen, Walt Disney World site portfolio executive, said Tuesday during a rare media event previewing new Disney attraction designs and technology at its Walt Disney Imagineering facility in California.
He said the expansion will be about the size of Star Wars Galaxy’s Edge, which occupies about 14 acres. A Disney team is currently on research trips and going through concept design for this expansion area.
I don’t know if that’s enough to substantially increase supply, though.
We’ll have to wait and see if they get away with it. I may be OK paying more if I already had my mind set on going and didn’t know about the price hike but if the experience is not worth it I won’t visit again.
Went to Epcot in November 2022 and it was the time when I paid the most and the park looked like a husk of its former self. Now I will actively avoid the parks for the foreseeable future.
What a first world take on this, it’s not a requirement at all. Parent your fucking children. My kids watch D+ maybe once or twice a month, my wife and I honestly watch it more frequently than they do because they have shows we like. We could drop it tomorrow if our budget needed to be trimmed.
A fairly aggressive comment. I’m not the person you replied to, but as a parent with young ones, there are times where TV is literally an enormous rescuer. For example, just a couple of months ago, the entire family got hit with an extremely nasty stomach bug. I could barely walk without needing to either throw up or shit my pants. Being able to setup a little triage center in our living room for us and the kids, where we napped and watched movies all day, made that experience at least mostly bearable.
There are numerous other cases where modern technology makes parenting far easier. Back in the day, communities were much closer knit and extended family lived within the neighborhood, so parents had a lot more backup to help in those situations. Nowadays, that kind of support network is increasingly rare for parents to have. So yes, it’s a luxury, but it should be an accessible luxury. Private companies are free to do what they want, doesn’t mean we can’t complain about it while begrudgingly continuing to pay for it.
I thought Disney was “nearly a requirement” . . . sounds to like those precious few who can manage without might have some useful information.
Typically this is what happens in a free competitive market, when a price goes up people look for substitutes.
And if they face constraints in moving to the substitute, they will benefit from help in loosening those constraints.
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This is the problem. People keep buying it.
This is one of my worries with a growing wealth disparity in the world.
The average person is starting to get priced out of any luxury entertainment because there are wealthy people with unreasonable amounts of money to throw at whatever they feel like.
There will always be rich people who can pay whatever price a company asks for.
I also suspect there’s a dark pattern where the subscriber just forgets it is on autopay.
I want to hope that the person that posted this screenshot disabled auto renewal.
Its a luxury service in a declining economy, when everything is getting shittier and shittier and people will pay through the nose for relief. Why wouldn’t they charge more?
I’d also point out that Disney’s parks are on the pricey side. Like, they do provide a lot of nice stuff, but it’s not like they’re the only amusement park operator out there.
googles
A few years back, but I imagine the ratios probably roughly hold.
https://www.businessinsider.com/cost-us-theme-parks-ranked-disney-six-flags-2018-5?op=1
On this list of 45 amusement parks in the US ranked by cost, Disney World is #2, Disney Adventure Park is #3, Disneyland is #4, and Disney’s Animal Kingdom is #5.
If someone wants to go to an amusement park and isn’t specifically set on what Disney has on offer, there are a number of other options that are more-affordable.
I mean, for the parks, I’d increase the price to what the market could bear at the capacity the parks have, but also build more park, if there’s that much demand.
googles
Apparently they actually do have a 14 acre expansion happening at Disney World at the moment.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/04/travel/disney-expansion-magic-kingdom-10-year-investment/index.html
I don’t know if that’s enough to substantially increase supply, though.
We’ll have to wait and see if they get away with it. I may be OK paying more if I already had my mind set on going and didn’t know about the price hike but if the experience is not worth it I won’t visit again.
Went to Epcot in November 2022 and it was the time when I paid the most and the park looked like a husk of its former self. Now I will actively avoid the parks for the foreseeable future.
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It’s hard to have pity for people who do this, especially if enough people stopped, the service would get cheaper.
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What a first world take on this, it’s not a requirement at all. Parent your fucking children. My kids watch D+ maybe once or twice a month, my wife and I honestly watch it more frequently than they do because they have shows we like. We could drop it tomorrow if our budget needed to be trimmed.
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Your comment makes it sound like you can’t give it up because your kids use it too much. I didn’t validate anything.
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A fairly aggressive comment. I’m not the person you replied to, but as a parent with young ones, there are times where TV is literally an enormous rescuer. For example, just a couple of months ago, the entire family got hit with an extremely nasty stomach bug. I could barely walk without needing to either throw up or shit my pants. Being able to setup a little triage center in our living room for us and the kids, where we napped and watched movies all day, made that experience at least mostly bearable.
There are numerous other cases where modern technology makes parenting far easier. Back in the day, communities were much closer knit and extended family lived within the neighborhood, so parents had a lot more backup to help in those situations. Nowadays, that kind of support network is increasingly rare for parents to have. So yes, it’s a luxury, but it should be an accessible luxury. Private companies are free to do what they want, doesn’t mean we can’t complain about it while begrudgingly continuing to pay for it.
4 kids. Never paid for cable or Disney or any streaming service… there are other paths
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I thought Disney was “nearly a requirement” . . . sounds to like those precious few who can manage without might have some useful information.
Typically this is what happens in a free competitive market, when a price goes up people look for substitutes.
And if they face constraints in moving to the substitute, they will benefit from help in loosening those constraints.
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Naw. Im a coughsailor.I have all the media… my kids have seen it all commercial free.
main cost was storage, even that wasnt near these subscription fees
You got libraries where you are?
Mine does online rentals for digital products (movies, TV, audiobooks, ebooks).
some of them might even have these papery things with brothers grimm or hans christian andersen stories in them.
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Imagine being so poor you can’t buy the physical media, rip it to your media server, and stream at anytime.
Lol, enjoy your shitty subpar streaming service that serves media at less than 4K while paying increasing monthly costs.
Sorry you went through this. Feel free to report any agressive comment, hopefully the mods will act upon them.