Flametamr said:
I could have purchased them if they were for sale.
See Ebay
http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?from=R40&_trksid=m37&satitle=disney+dream+ears&category0=. And, while "the" Year of a Million Dreams Ears aren't for sale in the parks,
A version of ears honoring this year's celebration, is.
lucincia said:
Yes, most places have promotions. McDonald has its annual Monopoly thing and people can buy lottery tickets. But, the Monopoly game runs over for a few weeks (not 2 years) and it's not like you walk into a restaurant and people are walking around with freebies all around you. And a lottery ticket is only $1, not tons of money a lot of people have save for years. There are no comparisons here.
1) But McDonald's runs the SAME Monopoly game year after year after year after year after... well, you get the point. And you think THAT'S not lazy? But Disney is? Whatever.
2) Oh. You know this because? The winners' food prizes look different? It comes wrapped in different paper? There's a special seating area for winners? You have to figure, winning a food prize in McDonald's Monopoly sweepstakes is like winning Dream Ears or A Dream FastPass (in value) at Disney.
2.1) While it may
appear that prize winners - I can only think that's who you mean when you say freebies - are "all around you", again, given the number of prizes awarded per capita per day, it's likely you're seeing the same people.
3) That the cost of a lottery ticket is flexible notwithstanding, WINNING A PRIZE IS NOT A
RIGHT!
There are actually 1,250,000 prizes.
They're being awarded in eight venues (
Disneyland, California Adventure, Magic Kingdom, Epcot, MGM, Animal Kingdom, Downtown Disney, and by postcard entry).
The current promotion is 457 days long.
That's - please excuse the calculation error above - an average of 342 prizes per location per day.
A slow day in the Magic Kingdom is 25,000 Guests.
That works out to one prize for every 73 Guests.
And, specific to the Dream FastPasses, there are 125 per day in Epcot, and 210 per day in each of the other three parks:
95,970/457 = 210
57,125/457 = 125
457 days = Year of a Million Dreams start date October 1, 2006 through December 31, 2007.
lucincia said:
Now, I am not saying I am envious - I am staying at GF next trip and it's paid for completely by casino winnings - so I don't care about dream fastpasses or whatever - I am going to WDW for free! But the original intent of this thread is - why have it when 1) people who likes it will still go no matter what and 2) it ticks off some people - so where is the advantage in it?
Oh? Are you
sure about that? Are you
sure you hadn't first given the casino(s) more money than you ultimately won, over all the times you visited casinos?
Anyway: Because it has and will ENTICE people who feel lucky; who were on the fence about Disney and need/ed an extra push; who've never been and think maybe, just maybe, one of their Dreams can come true...
lucincia said:
Give every ticket holder a free random pin out of a batch of just normal, average Disney pins (how much does it cost Disney to make one - less than a buck I am willing to bet). Or to limit the campaign can just say free pin for kids.
I don't want a "random" pin, and I don't have kids. THIS promotion isn't fair to ME, and look at all the money I'VE spent at Walt Disney World over the years and dagnabbit, all that matters is ME.
WDWMANIAC said:
The idea also translates into getting CM's into the "magic" more so. They are given the ability to make a child smile with a free cookie or an extra ice cream with Disney's blessing.
Child? Heck, they're given the ability to do that for ANY Guest (said the anonymous Guest who insisted she didn't want 'anything', she just wanted Guests Relations to be aware of a situation - where the CM insisted equally firmly and pleasantly that there must be
something the Guest - by now addicted to Mocha Frosts - might enjoy...)