How Disney Broke The Fan Convention
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How much is your dedication as a fan worth? Well, D23 knows, and it’s up to $2,600 apparently. The game has change and D23 has fully genie+ the experience for cash! #disney #expo #iger
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I completely respect Dan for saying, "NO", to all the price gouging and the ridiculousness that Disney has created in recent years.
But most of u just pay all the stuff - the parks, the merch, etc. - and Disney knows that u wont boycott them bc u need that Disney magic in your little lifes
@@lars7282Google “trust thermocline”. There might still be a lot of customers willing to put up with the ever-increasing prices, but the public sentiment has been turning against Disney parks for a while now even (or perhaps especially) among longtime die-hards. The fact that they haven’t collapsed yet is not evidence that things are going great for them and that they have nothing to change.
Disney has always been expensive.
But they used to make the disney difference. Their quality was SO good that the prices were fine They were genuinely pioneering theme parks.
Now they raise the price and lower the value.
Truly. I think the only exception is Disney Cruise Lines, I've heard the experience is still very good in peoples' eyes.
Once I get to work at Disney, not only will the value be high again, but the price will also be low. I'll make sure that it happens.
@@annien.1727wooohooo you go dude
@@quinnhouk5369 I'll do my very best!
@@quinnhouk5369 I'll do my best!
For less than the price of this convention, I was able to book a 7 day trip to Hong Kong. And I finally get to experience Mystic Manor! So that's what I'll be doing instead. :)
Groovy
Bless! 👏👏👏👏
For less than our families trip to Walt Disney World we were able to go to London for a week and stay in our own flat. This is for a family of four flights and everything and it was still $3000 less than it would be to go to Walt Disney World in the states. We are in the states.
@@AzKarma2010The irony. My family are in the UK, near London and we just want to go to Florida/WDW than our own overpriced capital city. 😂
Is sad to see someone like Dan who lives and breathes Disney be so disheartened by their corporate greed. Where will it end?
His hysterical exasperated laughter made me so sad
Here’s a little lesson for Disney,
“Money ain’t got no soul, Money ain’t got no heart.”
That's not a lesson that's a dumb quote
@@slowazzd2165it’s true tho
@@slowazzd2165 🙄It's ANYTHING but dumb.
Wish Bob Iger was replaced by someone who actually gives a damn about traditional animation and great story telling like Disney used to be.
He's been ceo since 2009 so you hate zootopia, frozen and big hero six?
@@maxscarrow4547 Yes
Especially Frozen
i actually love frozen but i agree about traditional animation. the live action remakes just make me sad :(
@@fusetunes You and me both
@@maxscarrow4547those ain’t the films you should mentioning when talking about great storytelling
Honestly, at this point, the best move might to bring back Michael Eisner. Never thought I’d say it, but at least the man respected creativity.
I don’t wanna slam Michael Eisner, but you realize that near the end of his tenure he was the one who decided that budget parks should be a thing and built Hong Kong, DCA and Paris Studios, but when Bob Iger took over, he actually invested in all of those parks to redo them and make them more fleshed out by adding new lands to Hong Kong and improving their castle, redoing DCA almost entirely to better fit with the Disney brand and now is overseeing an overhaul for Paris. There’s also the fact that in the late 90s early 2000s a lot of the animated movies were going downhill but Iger ushered in the second Renaissance with Princess and the Frog, Tangled, Frozen, Big Hero Six, Moana…not to mention repairing the relationship with Pixar that Eisner actually demolished. Eisner had a great run in the late 80s and early to mid 90’s completely revitalizing the company, but neither CEO is perfect.
Eisner was the best CEO of Disney, even better than Walt himself. He had a lot of flops, but also so many Highs - he experimented and decided on focus themes, he knew what the Disney magic was and he understood audiences
As someone who came into the fandom in 2018 and I didn't even know that D23 started as a fan con. I thought it was just their shareholder meeting.
It feels like Disney's new policy seems to be: take something pre-existing that worked fine, change it for the worse, and charge more so the CEOs who already have a ton of money can get richer. Happened with Fast Passes, Disney+, and D23. I'm so tired of Disney corporate man 😖
I strongly agree. They shut down Disney Quest in Orlando in 2017 and Radio Disney for three years before the pandemic began. This is so tragically 😢
Iger is Mickey's boss, NOT the other way around as many say.
@@bluegold1026exactly 😅
@@bluegold1026 uh yeah. 💯
It won't be that way for long. I may not be a CEO for a member of the board, but I'm willing to do everything in my power to change Disney for the better. D23, Fast Passes, and everything else will be greatly improved. I'll even create new Disney shows and movies that everyone can enjoy.
Angry Dan is a whole vibe
They are frantically removing your image from this year's slide show after seeing this.
He got Uncle Remused!
The budget creep of all things connected to Disney has made it difficult for new people to find a way in. When I was a kid, our public library hosted free Disney programming on film, and The Wonderful World of Disney and Mickey Mouse Club were on broadcast TV. The parks were once in a lifetime or summer vacation trips, but you could sort of realistically daydream towards them.
I feel really bad for fans paywalled off from the things they love. I knew we were in big trouble when new Sesame Street episodes were headed for premium cable and streaming. A flipping PBS (Public Broadcasting Service) staple.
I feel like HBO/Max is just a content vaccum that only exists to make content expensive to watch. Dr Who was Hbo exclusive for a little bit and it killed my interest in Who a little :(
Justice for James Dreyfus!
I was once really interested in Disney as a kid and wanted to go to the park eventually but now - I really don’t want to see another Disney thing for as long as I live.
In 2017 the animation panel let in the wrong section of the queue and shut out the people who had waited the longest, over 5 hours. I have never gone back. Someone in the ensuing angry mob shouted “kill the beast” though and that’s a memory I will never forget lmao
(we did eventually receive priority seating wristbands for our choice of parks panel or live action panel, that was after waiting around for the entire day on day one)
Signed up for D23 last summer thinking all of the claims of “free member events and more” would materialize. Instead, I get emails touting new events and every single time it’s been HUNDREDS of dollars to just get in the door. It makes my stomach hurt to know that we keep getting promised these grandiose gestures for being fans and instead we just keep forking over cash to people who only care about how much they can bank off of our loyalty.
Yep, just being used so they can waste it on something that sucks or for the third mercedes
I wish Bob Iger would get booed by the fans at D23 when he walks on stage. He's not a creative person, and he is a crooked businessman who ruined a beloved company by acquiring all of these franchises, like Marvel and Star Wars, and milking them to death. Not to mention that he's also responsible for jacking up the prices at their theme parks while throwing creativity out the window. He needs to be fired and replaced by someone with more creativity.
I’m with you 100% Ive been “dis-enchanted” for the past 2 years with Disney. And I was there I was a full blown Disney Adult I even worked at DLR when I was younger I drank the Kool-Aid I signed up for the cult and worshiped the mouse. BUT my family and I have not set foot in a Disney park since October 2019. It’s a lot about the cost and just the plain fact my daughters dont want to go. They are 18 and 11 grew up as Disney kids my oldest LOVES Hercules, but they don’t want us to spend that much and they wanted to go to Knotts, we even tried a cruise and went to San Francisco. They loved all of that. I’ve fallen out of love with Disney, we are not “too poor” for Disney. But Disney doesn’t care and they never will.😢 TBH it’s just not worth it. We are saving to go to Epic Universe.
I went to the D23 Expo to celebrate the 100th anniversary, found out only privileged enter the panels and the entire thing was a money milking machine and never wanted to go there again.
Worst memory was being trapped in the parking deck waiting HOURS to get into the Disney parks panel just to say I went to ONE stinking panel and wasn’t allowed in when they opened the doors. In the time I wasted, I could have gone to Universal Studios and rode their rides and had fun.
What really sold me on how greedy Disney is was their real estate booth, yes, Disney has planned homes you can buy. Realtor rep said: “would you like to live a Disney experience for $500K?”
If I wasn’t so tired from my legs being stiff waiting, I would have said that unless they used a bio-lab to grow me a Princess Aurora bride or a lifetime supply of Disneyland tickets, I would rather have my money invested in Toho stock than fork over half a million just to have my house look like it is from Tron on the outside with generic interiors on the inside.
Iger is really parasitic on the fan base. Sure, that will make a lot of people turn away from the fandom but Iger don't mind, the profits and marketshare will only really go down once he's gone and people will blame it on the next guy like a lot of people blame Chapek for Iger's actions.
I feel like the only Disney parks concept reveals at D23 that can be 100% trusted are the ones for the Asia parks. They feel like the only ones that pull through and look almost exactly like their concept arts. The Zootopia and Arendelle expansions in Shanghai and Hong Kong look nice. And Fantasy Springs in Tokyo looks really promising with the current videos they're releasing of the progress. Meanwhile there have been so many concepts for the US parks that just, never end up existing like the Villains park.
This is the dumbest thing they’ve ever done.
I always go to D23 Expo and the biggest memory I have when going are the presentations.
2022 was actually, I did not expect to pay extra for just to get a sit…
Exactly my feelings against all these conventions and expos. I used to like Anime Expo and comic con, now it's just paying to be in a crowded convention center with people in cosplay who don't own deodorant, watch trailers, and be sold overpriced stuff including crap fanart. I wanted to do d23 but inflation on top of the regular disflation is just a no.
Please let Iger watch this video. Along with all of upper leadership. They need to hear it.
Dan, I am having a hard time finding any flaws in your logic. Perfectly said
As sad as it is, and I appreciate your continued enthusiasm, Disney is dead to me and my family. Between the dumb one sided politics and the price gouging and not to mention the quality. It’s just not worth it. We went to Disneyland for the first time in five years this year and we’re shocked at the employees appearance and attitudes not to mention the park cleanliness and operations. It’s so so sad to see how far Disney has fallen.
Can't wait for that snoopy mascot history
Me too! Snoopy is my favorite peanut character of all time 😊
Since the panels are at the Honda Center which is off site from the main convention floor, are they not offering shuttles? That is just messed up especially for ADA attendees.
Shuttles will be offered within the 2 hour windows before and after the panels, but it’s going to be a total shitshow.
@@Emplordxiii yeah I can see that. I wonder how many they will have and if it will accommodate everyone since they have a head count.
And you can't bring bags to the Honda center, so you have to drop off your bags and then return to shuttle.
@@jackcohenourfilms6209 which means losing even more time on the convention floor depending on where you are staying, it could add an additional 45 mins to over an hour. And then back tracking back to the convention center to catch a shuttle.
I’ve kind of been thinking even prior to this whole D23 situation, what if we just had a Disney event that was made BY and FOR fans? Just small little meetups throughout the country (and even the world) for Disney fans who just wanna meet up. There could be little vendor halls and small panels. Basically the community aspect of D23, without the corporate-ness of the rest of the event.
There's definitely a few of these that do happen. Retro wdw does retromagic. Wdwnt does great events. I think there's a mouse house con.
@@jillianasyouwish8013yes! WDWNT is actually hosting an event (in person and streaming) to celebrate Hollywood studios’ upcoming anniversary. They’re having a full panel with imagineers and everything. The DIS has also hosted events like this in the past. I feel like it will be the norm if D23 continues to price fans out.
Search “Disneyana” and you will find something special.
If this became widespread, wouldn't Disney pull a Mattel move on it (think Barbie) and require any meetups of this kind to have to be officially Disney sanctioned to be allowed and advertised anywhere? The Mouse is insidious over using its name
I hate that Disney just keep going up with prices Walt Disney would never want this
I was number 668 on the Visa presale day and the only 3 day tickets available including the Honda Concert were the 2599.00 tickets. There were 2 other tickets, but one was handicapped and I couldn’t click on either fast enough. So the Visa people didn’t really get the tickets either.
The idea of Disney, a company known for crushing fan projects under its heel, trying to engage in fan culture through a convention is darkly ironic.
15:16 me as a Brit: someone get this man a cup of tea and a biscuit…..QUICK!!!
I wanted to go to D23 this year because it takes place the weekend of my 40th birthday, but I can't afford those prices
Let’s see, go to D23 or pay rent. Decisions, decisions…
Soon to come on Company Man's channel. D23 The Rise and Fall
I'm anticipating for a 99 store video the most
Yeah, charging for panel access is crazy. I went to the last D23 Expo and won the lottery for the Disney Television Panel so I got to sit close to the stage. It was super cool. But I don’t have the finances to go this year’s Expo.
the fact that the wheeze started 3 minutes in told me this would be good. Thank You Dan :)
That looks fun…but HOLY COW that is a lot of people!
Its very hard to get into now
As someone who was able to get tickets on the first day of them going on sale, it is pretty clear that going to D23 is going to be a once in a lifetime experience for me.
Exactly. This guy is just bitter. He didn’t get tickets.
I tried to get into the WDW D23 experience last year. But seats were so limited we didn't get in. We live on the East Coast so going to the past D23 Expos was a passing thought. We decided --especially with the expansion - that we wanted to go this year. It will be a once in a lifetime experience for us at this level. (We attended Disneyana shows in the 1990s but that is all just fan resales) Was it expensive? Yes. Is it worth it to us? Yes. We're excited to go back to Disneyland and finally get to go to an Expo!
Wow, in my confession, I’ve never been to D23 Expo, I’ve only been to Anime Central and Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo (C2E2, my current fan and comic convention to this day).
After years of being a gold member and FOMO, I decided to jump into the fray to finally take advantage of the first thing that until now thought was a perk of the paid D23 membership. Was totally blown away and disappointed by the virtual queue and only came away with a non Honda Sunday pass. I hope my park visit on Saturday beforehand will offset that disappointment but definitely will not be paying another year for this fan “exclusive” membership.
Crazy....love it but my wallet doesn't
Every blue sky presentation should be watched as if it were a comedy routine. 5 years to make sidewalks, flower boxes, benches, and glow sticks. They're still not done with the cake shop at Boardwalk... Good to dream, but it's not actually reality until it's done. Agree, removing "Fan" from the title should be a warning. Maybe next year it will be "D23 Elites Expo."
Disney is becoming more and more scummy every year and bob igers ego about his “legacy” is ridiculous. The only way things will change is to stop giving them money. I will not be renewing my annual pass for the first time in 5 years.
“I hope the art that you love continues to be made by the people that love to make it.” That hits hard lately.
I’ll admit that the ticket sales system this year was awful, but as someone who has attended every single expo, I see what Disney was going for. In 2009, you were basically guaranteed a spot in the big panels, it was more a matter of where you were going to be seated. This is when the big panels were held in the arena. The problem was that the expo was so cool that the next one in 2011 exploded in popularity and Disney wasn’t prepared. Each subsequent year it has gotten bigger and busier. Disney has tried to respond by moving the big panels from the arena to hall H to seat more people. They tried to do wristbands and pre-planning panel attendance. They are trying to make the experience more accessible to more people and yes, that ironically means a paywall. My biggest concern is that if during the day there aren’t the big panels, pulling people off the floor to fill a 7000 seat panel that just means more people in lines for the smaller panels and the merchandise, and other experiences which is already crazy enough. I get your rant and you did mention that you actually profit off Disney, but the real people who are most hurt by this aren’t the bloggers and resellers who aren’t primarily there as fans, but us actual Disney lovers who miss out because of the greed not just of Disney, but of the people who want to attend the convention then gouge those who can’t get tickets or merch any other way.
I cancelled my gold membership last year. So much that I couldn’t use, like 10% off some random stuff. I hope the memberships go down and they’ve gotta fix the perks and everything.
That’s so interesting… But oh my God, why would Disney make their price higher for fan event?. That was stupid smh 😒😒
Because Disney knows that there are thousands of gullible fans to squeeze more money out off. One word, GREED
I blame Bob Paycheck
He was a sitting duck for Bob Iger’s machinations.
With the way he's pulling the purse strings in the parks, Disneyland Paris especially, he's Bob Cheapasheck to me!
5:36 “put me on the top of a mysterious ROOF”
I went to Disneyland with my late mother during the first d23 expo. We had no interest in going to the panels. And I'm glad we focused on just enjoying the parks.
It feels like D23 is a Timeshare, they really want you to buy in and never be able to get out. Save your money and just go to parks, Epic Universe is coming and Disney is gonna keep breaking.
Not by a long shot, they're NOT! Disney is NOT going to continue to break once I step in to help! Once I get a job at Disney, everything is going to change for the better! It won't be long before Epic Universe will be biting Disney's dust!
@@annien.1727 Disney isn't building, they're buying and going more in debt. They aren't hiring, they're firing. Once Iger is gone again more will be fired to make a name for the new chief executive to carve their legacy upon the name of a very dead Disney empire.
“I hope what you love is not gobbled up by a mega corporation”
Not to worry Dan, Disney already tried to do tokusatsu superhero shows (Power Rangers) and spat them out once they got their hands on their shiny new Marvel IPs back in ‘09.
I live in comfort knowing things like Kamen Rider and Super Sentai will never be touched by Disney because they failed to understand the appeal.
Now if you’ll excuse me I am going to rewatch some multi-colored tire faced people beat up a toilet monster while waiting for the Japanese patent announcement of the next karate bugman season.
D23 2009 we were able to get super discounted tickets as CMs cuz they just weren't selling. I believe it was $5 a day! And in 2011 I think it went up to $15 a day. Still an amazing deal. We thoroughly enjoyed ourselves 2009, 2011, and 2013. But in 2015, by day 3, we were sitting around an empty hall because we had literally already done everything. We decided then that we wouldn't be going back. Especially not once the prices had increased and lines still just got longer.
Disney from what I have heard has always been pricey, especially D23. I honestly wish we could have had a Hanna Barbera fan convention or a Will Vinton Claymation fan convention, that would have been amazing! Will Vinton deserved so much better, and I still refuse to watch anything Laika after knowing what happened to him. Claydream is a fantastic documentary and I can't recommend it enough!
The Gay character in *ParaNorman* doesn’t make up for the (metaphorical) screwing of Will Vinton out of his studio. I loved watching his specials on TV when I was a kid. There were some really good animated holiday specials in the 80s. I thought those would be as popular as *Charlie Brown, Frosty, Rudolph,* and *The Grinch* but now networks barely want those anymore!
Shame on Bob Igor I mean Bob Iger. But the more I think on it shame on us. Yep were the ones who let Bob get away with treating us like Cinderella. We're the ones who partnered with Walt to make all things Disney Christmas every day of the year. But now Bob in his arrogance has destroyed the dream that we used to live with Walt and those who had a hand in making the magic really happen. Let's face it what was is gone and Bob has is feet up on a desk laughing at us.
Not for long. Iger is going to be very sorry he did Disney dirty! I'm not going to let Iger get away with the woke agenda! I'm going to abolish it completely and change Disney for the better! That's my vow!
This is your best video ever. I couldn't agree more. Bob, josh, and jeff ruin everything that they touch. Its disgusting to see what they've done to this once great company. Makes me sick.
Well, all of that's going to change. Disney will become great again once I get a job there. I may not be a CEO or a member of the board, but I'm determined to change Disney for the better!
And I don't care what Iger would think or say. I WON'T change my work to suit his stupid ideology! I'm staying true to my beliefs!
Honestly, after attending the 2022 expo, I too became cynical about the D23 institution. I too am saving my money for after-hour events and day tickets to the parks. I too gave up my magic-key pass because the nickel-and-diming was real and I was done feeding that beast.
Amen and amen. Enjoy your cruise during d23.
they also started charging 19 euro for a spot for parades and firework shows in Paris
I went. Once. It was almost one times too many. It was horribly, horribly orgsanized in terms of the line to get in, including just a couple of people checking tickets. Two. Limited sales floor area and about half were pin sellers. The exclusive store had another big line and forget about gettin in to see a panel. Rather than try and figure out where the end of the line was, I went to the nearby hotel for some beverages and waited. Total clusterf**k. Oh, and then the special Grand Wizard pass holders got in a half hour early and seemed to be scooping up tons of exclusives (I am guessing to sell on e-bay. D23 can just burn. Loves me some Wondercon, San Diego Comic-con, L.A. Comic-con, and the Renaissance Pleasure Faire, so it is not about the crowds, maybe a little about the cost, but just that it was an overall god-awful steaming huge pile of dinosaur poo experience.
If Disney just views its fan elite as a bunch of wallets, give them the closed wallet treatment. They want to make you help pay for the money they lost during COVID shutdown and various other recent income disasters. But they've still got plenty of money to play with, so this is a bad plan. They lose big time when they alienate the die-hard fans. So do the most grownup thing possible and refuse to shell out. If enough people do it, they'll notice. Hang tough like this guy.
Disney needs some good announcements at this convention or people just won't bother with the next one.
Disney Dan bringing the Amanda/Swell Entertainment energy we didn’t know we needed.
Things at Disney has gone too expensive lately. And it’s gone too far
It won't be that way for long. Once I get a job at Disney, I'm going to completely eliminate the wokeness and bring Disney back to its former glory! The prices will also be cheaper once that happens.
The panel hype rant was *chef's kiss*
So I recently went to a large comic convention near me, and I'd had some complaints about that in the last couple of years. Now it occurs to me that it probably isn't even the fault of the company that runs these conventions, but Disney as to why there's no longer comic content like there used to be. It feels like we're entering an era where I can refer to the "Disneyfication" of something and have that be a negative term in new and depressing ways.
I 100% agree with you on this topic Dan. It's a complete ripoff.
As someone who has been in love with Disney since I was baby small (some of my earliest memories were at that park) Thank you for calling this crap out! Price gouging aside (which is despicable) creating an inconvenient/unsafe con experience goes to show that you aren't even getting the "Disney Magic" by spending the inflated amounts of money anymore. Disney has been hemorrhaging magic for years now and it's a vaguely micky shaped void.
The policy was change for two reasons:
1. They can report that the Tick Sales were sold-out is such a short time (to fool the Shareholders).
2. Cash Grab.
Thanks so much for this clear timeline of what D23 has turned into. This was finally going to be the year that I went to D23, but that isn’t happening.
This will be our first time attending D23 and we were so FRUSTRATED trying to get tickets! We are also Gold members and ended up 25789 in line on Day one and never got a change to purchase. On day 2 we got lucky with a lower number and were able to get tickets (Disney Visa). This might be a one and done for us depending on our experience.
I met you and Offhand at the last d23, you cats were so nice and stopped for pics. If you do end up going Id love to meet up again.
There was a time when I could justify Disney prices because I would always get something of quality. I went last year and while I generally had a great time, I'm just not feeling this year's D23Expo. Just saving up and traveling instead.
The best part of any convention is the other fans imo. Fan costumes, fan art, hand crafted figures etc were always amazing at Comic Cons and the like. Now that companies are doing their best to price out the fans, there really isn't a reason to even go.
It would also help for the government to crack down on re-sellers...and corporate consolidations.
I’ve been going to D23 expo since 2013 as a general admission. Tried to do that this year. It was completely unavailable to me when I got to the end of the queue. It was sad and ridiculous
Finally!!! ❤ someone had to say it!! Thank you 🙏🏻 keep up the great job on videos like this.
Someone had to say it! I was really hoping to go this year and was shocked to see that it sold out in 48 hours.
This is inevitable with every company. The only reason why this one hurts so much is that the whole point of Disney was just to inspire wonder and fun in everyone. It was an adventure every time. Their movies made up all of our childhoods because they were inspired and bold and innovative, and able to capture our hearts and minds and imagination. They picked someone with none of those things to run the company. He’s just there to make shareholders money. So can anyone be surprised that these decisions are being made at the detriment of the company? You don’t have a suit run a creative effort lol….it was fun while it lasted.
Get to go to this thing for free. I am very blessed to have a family member with the company.
The magic is long gone.
I’m a charter D23 member and the Tron perk was worth it. That was the first event I was able to get into. It was an up charge plus a hotel for a night or two. I’d love to go to D23 but it’s way too big and resellers are the only people going. No thanks. I wish there were more perks in Disney world as part of D23.
With all the rules, regulations and restrictions at the Honda Center, they have a lot of nerve calling themselves "Your helpful Honda dealer".
I’ve been going to D23 since 2017 and this is the first year I consciously chose not to go because…
1) They’re holding it in August, as opposed to September, which is peak vacation time for a lot of families. Plane tickets are HIGH at this time of year.
2) They’re holding it in August, as opposed to September, which is A VERY HOT TIME TO BE IN LOS ANGELES. You think a convention center full of hot and sweaty cosplayers is bad in September? I don’t even want to THINK about it in August. They already have enough trouble keeping the AC high enough in September, do you really think it’ll be that much better in August?
3) They’re holding it in August, as opposed to September, which means high volumes in the park. Why the heck would I want to go to Disneyland during a high volume season in the parks? Wait in line all day for panels and stores only to do the same in the parks? Absolutely not. Also, with there being higher volumes, the cost of tickets to the park are ALSO higher. Higher park AND plane tickets? Yeah, ima pass.
4) They basically lost my interest when they announced some panels would be held at the Honda Center, which is on the OTHER SIDE OF TOWN.
5) I was really underwhelmed at the last expo in 2022, so honestly, this was all enough for me to go, “Yeah, not this year.”
I would treat the D23 expo like San Diego Comic Con which is something I would do at least once in my lifetime if I had the time and money. If somehow someway I win the Powerball jackpot , which is $1.23 billion at the time I’m commenting on this video, I’d probably wouldn’t mind using a small amount of it to go this August just to get it off my bucket list. Like I said, I would probably do at least once if it gets too crowded and overwhelming to consider going again. But at least it would be fun to meet some fellow Disney fans and maybe even meet some RUclipsrs like Offhand Disney or others. Who knows what’s gonna happen to the expo when someone steps in after Bob Iger when his contract ends. Time will tell if it’ll get worse or better by then.
Disney knows that the relevant thing is that the content from d23 floods the socials, the event itself is just the kick-off - and so they at least make the most money they can out of that
My first d23! Only got a ticket for Saturday because of the panel… but then once I said I had to dish out an extra 100 I changed my mind so quick. So I just bought a ticket and I’ll watch the livestream of the panel later in the day LMAOO. I’m mostly going to d23 because last d23 had a twisted wonderland booth and I hope they bring it back this time around 🤞
I think the worst thing about Disney gobbling franchises like an emaciated turkey is the quick hindsight after you realize they bought it.
I had to use my d23 membership card once which was to go to the Tron preview event to ride Tron 36 times in a row.
Lucky
Yeah, as much of a Disney fan I am, I'm defiantly glad I'm decided to skip out this time. I'm saving my Disney money for my next trip to the parks.
As an Alien fan, I'm worried for the future. In an ideal world, I would be excited to see the original Nostromo dark ride shooter idea for Alien Encounter actually come to fruition, but we're not in that timeline.
I went to 2017 and 2019 and i get putting the three major panels separate from the covention because the way you orginally saw them was first come first serve based which meant you had to camp out missing a bunch of the convention
Disney’s monopoly needs to be stopped
Disney's behavior as of late has made our family a Universal family.
This was unexpectedly my favorite video ever! Bring on more Dangry Dan!
This is the same basic thing that caused havoc with ticket sales for Oogie Boogie Bash 2023. Tons of resellers taking away from fans, then DCA was selling Bash merch to non-Bash attendees on event days. I gave my 2 cents to Disney as part of my feedback on the event, but I sorely doubt they are listening. Supply of event merch for this year's Star Wars Nite was also terrible. Surely they have the analytics to show what sizes of merch are most popular?? All the most popular sizes were gone in literal minutes, and this on the 2nd night of the event.
It honestly feels like WDE is just giving up on 2025 and letting Epic Universe take the win. Last year's Parks panel was a waste of time. Is this year's honestly going to be any better?
Yes, it will! WDE is NOT going to give up, because I'm going to help it get better! By 2025, with my help, WDE will be 10 times better than Epic Universe! Wait and see!
It comes to something when a die hard fan like Dan doesn’t believe in what they’re doing.
This isn’t going to end well if they carry on like this.
I love what you do
I started going in 2009 and the crowds got worst with Marvel acquisition and Star Wars made it really crazy. I stopped going.
Disney doesn't do all of this for no reason. They do it because the NEED the money right now.