coronamouseman
03-19-2002, 08:15 PM
Not sure if this fits under Disneyland Resort items but here goes anyway ............
Send an email to Mighty Ducks Hockey Team (Disney's "Festival of Fools" show replacement which airs every couple of days over at the Arrowhead Pond on Katella) complaining about how most everyone sitting around my two season hockey seats are there on discounted tickets (costing roughly half of what I paid 6 months in advance of the season last year) - response from a representative of the Mighty Ducks was that yes, indeed they had a multitude of discount programs in progress but that I should take this to mean that Disney was actually enhancing my hockey experience by having more people at the games thus making the game more exciting (yes - waiting in line at the rest rooms and concession stands and waiting in a long line of cars after the game is over sure makes my hockey experience a lot more fun .........) Even better was the Disney person's response to my reference to a heavily discounted ticket promotion to local youth hockey clubs of which my sons are members - he claimed it was a great promotion because it cost Disney very little marketing expense and effort to increase attendance with the discounted prices. So the heartfelt response of the organization to my feeling cheated by having most of the other fans around me paying half of what I payed to get into a hockey game was that I should be proud the team can get revenue so easily from certain sources .............
So I guess ME and his minions have managed to find enough yes-men and marketing interns who are willing to mindlessly follow them over the proverbial cliff in the gradual cheapening of the Disney brand - lucky for these guys that the competition at this point in time is so weak in the theme park business. On the hockey front, the MD's are getting killed at the gate and on the ice by the LA Kings who have at least committed the effort to having a winning team in recent acquisitions .........
It is no wonder that Disney can keep churning out mediocre theme parks, sports teams and movies with this kind of management ...........
Send an email to Mighty Ducks Hockey Team (Disney's "Festival of Fools" show replacement which airs every couple of days over at the Arrowhead Pond on Katella) complaining about how most everyone sitting around my two season hockey seats are there on discounted tickets (costing roughly half of what I paid 6 months in advance of the season last year) - response from a representative of the Mighty Ducks was that yes, indeed they had a multitude of discount programs in progress but that I should take this to mean that Disney was actually enhancing my hockey experience by having more people at the games thus making the game more exciting (yes - waiting in line at the rest rooms and concession stands and waiting in a long line of cars after the game is over sure makes my hockey experience a lot more fun .........) Even better was the Disney person's response to my reference to a heavily discounted ticket promotion to local youth hockey clubs of which my sons are members - he claimed it was a great promotion because it cost Disney very little marketing expense and effort to increase attendance with the discounted prices. So the heartfelt response of the organization to my feeling cheated by having most of the other fans around me paying half of what I payed to get into a hockey game was that I should be proud the team can get revenue so easily from certain sources .............
So I guess ME and his minions have managed to find enough yes-men and marketing interns who are willing to mindlessly follow them over the proverbial cliff in the gradual cheapening of the Disney brand - lucky for these guys that the competition at this point in time is so weak in the theme park business. On the hockey front, the MD's are getting killed at the gate and on the ice by the LA Kings who have at least committed the effort to having a winning team in recent acquisitions .........
It is no wonder that Disney can keep churning out mediocre theme parks, sports teams and movies with this kind of management ...........