Sorry, but this looks like a rip-off to me!
Seventy Five bucks for a year's worth of 4 magazines, then exclusive member events where you can buy exclusive (expensive) merchandise. I was looking at the registration page and they have exclusive merchandise, which appear to be over-priced items with the D23 logo.
Kudos to Disney though, for finding a new way to make money in this economy!
:funny:HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!! !!!!!!:funny:
After months of whispers about this silly thing......
....it's a "club" where you pay $75 bucks so they can peddle merchandise to you....
It's QVC for a fee.....
:funny: seriously....i can't stop laughing......
you just can't make this stuff up.....the farrelly brothers couldn't :funny:
I think this thing is going to fall flatter than a pancake on a syrupy alley in a Florida July.
I loved Disney Insider and Magic Kingdom Club. Of course, this was all before Internet communities got really popular and information wasn't so easy to share.
Never been interested in "exclusive merchandise" or that people could resell it on e-bay for even more.
Are folks in D23 supposed to swear over the head of Mickey Mouse that they will never reveal information from their club? Doubtful.
If they are not giving way awesome WDW or DL discounts, I'm not spending the $75 - that's a day in the park afterall!
That's still to be seen... I can see this going the way of the old Disney Magazine after a couple of years. The initial lead up to this will spark some interest and cash, but upon renewal (especially since it's opt-in, not opt-out, I doubt you'll see much. Unless they do manage to keep people engaged, but I doubt it.Quote:
Originally Posted by GrumpyFan
Am I the only one who expectations were met (as in this doesn't excite me at all!).
Expectations were met... I kind of told you all what this would be... Honestly, I was looking forward to this.. But now, I am not so sure...Quote:
Originally Posted by magicofdisney
I think this will go the way of the Disney Yearbook... One year and gone...Quote:
Originally Posted by DizneyRox
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Originally Posted by DizneyFreak2002
The yearbook was the first thing to come to my mind also.
The smart thing Disney should have done was kept the Disney Magazine in circulation.Is this new mag going to be at bookstores or is it just the club?
I've heard it's out at Barnes and Noble (I think it's posted above) so they smartly distribute it elsewhere. It's another revenue stream for them to get into.
Let me preface this by saying that I'm one of the suckers who shelled out the $75 just to see what it's like for a year.
But really this entire thing is ... well ... really lame.
I mean the program is bad enough ... asking people to pay $75 a year in this economy for four magazines and a chance to have Disney pimp merchandise at you for 12 months is near criminal ... but the execution is also really, really bad.
I mean the D23 website is amateurish to an embarrassing degree! I don't know who does Disney's creative, but they should be fired. The whole site is so underwhelming it's astounding.
Disney really needs to re-examine the relationship they have with their online agency, because their web presence is a disaster. This site just adds to the pointless clutter they already have out there.
I thought Disney ran their own websites. I remember a few years back seeing all sorts of job all over the country to web developer types. It is bad, I agree, and it's tied into the Disney Shopping site for purchases, how much effort could they exert!
I almost feel sorry for them... Anyone spend any time on other Disney "fan" sites? Is this the general concensus?
The viral buildup for this was tremendous. I was prepared to be underwhelmed, so the details just made me laugh. They had to know they were playing with fire when this started taking off the way it did. You've really got to knock it out of the park to successfully follow up that kind of hype. To unconnected people out there who are Disney fans, but somehow aren't involved with the community (forums, podcasts, etc), this may seem brilliant and innovative?
Did anyone notice that some of the comments about what it might be in the other thread landed on the D23 site as well???:mickey: Go intercot!!:thumbsup:
I am gonna go shell out the bucks for the mag tomorrow- that's the most interesting thing to me- but if they're gonna give out some deep discounts for WDW, maybe we will see....
If you join the club, you get a subscription to the magazine, 4 times a year.... Otherwise, you can buy them at Barnes & Noble, Disneyshopping.com, and other stores that sell magazines.... So, tell me, is $75.00 worth it??? Not in my opinion... That is why I am not joining... I am going to wait and see if they add anything to make this worth while... you know Disney.. They open things before they are even ready to go.. So, maybe in the next few weeks and months, we'll be given more of a reason to join...Quote:
Originally Posted by GBBT
:laugh: I still can't stop laughing...i think i might have developed asthma or emphysema.....
Seriously though....you know the stupid thing about this that sticks in my crow?
That they've laid claim to 1923 as somekind of milestone time reference....
They do this all the time....picking completely random run of the mill times and dates and then trying to run billion dollar ad campaigns around it.
The founding of a non-descript cartoon workshop in California? Really?....someting that didn't get any recognition for years....Really?
That's a date they circled on the calender?
Hey...i'm not saying don't use dates.....just don't try to use EVERY day, month, year, parsec, nanosecond, and planetary lifespan as somekind of promotion
I'll make it simple....1928 (MM creation)....1955 (Disneyland)......1971 (WDW)......and any other anniversary of a park that is in a 25,50, or 100 year benchmark.
My favorite was the 1999 (year of a million dreams) kickoff of a "celebration" to commemorate the 100 anniversary of a birth....two years before the birth occurred.....
How lame...seriously....not everything is an anniversary, birthday, or "magical wish"
I wouldn't pay $75 to belong to any club, especially now with the economy the way it is. I can't justify it. I would rather spend that money on our trip to WDW. And I certainly wouldn't pay $15 for ANY magazine. I can get all the :mickey: information I want right here. Worth a lot more than a magazine 4 times a year. And it's FREE! Fun and fellowship, priceless! :) I figured the D23 would be something like this. I think it will die a quick death. They have the nerve launching something this expensive at this time.
That was the 100 Years of Magic celebration, not the Year of a Million Dreams.Quote:
Originally Posted by lockedoutlogic
And it didn't start in 1999. That was the Millennium Celebration (which started 10-1-99, about 3 months before the official start of the new millennium). The 100 Years of Magic started 10-1-2001 ... a little over two months before Walt's actual 100th birthday (12-5-1901).
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Originally Posted by Ian
yeah...i was thinking about that and realized i had them all tied into a knot about 10 seconds after i posted that.....
the year of a million dreams was silly because it was an "annivesary" of a man's life.....one that ended 35 years earlier.....
that really isn't appropriate...if you think about it....a celebrabtion of Walt Disney - the company...is appropriate
One of Walt Disney - the man really isn't...because it implies that if the "magic" started at his birth.....then it died at the moment of his death....which is an insult to all those that grew it and have upheld it (more or less) since 1966
Disney would be the first to tell anyone that what "his people" did together was someting that extended beyond his own person....
To me.....that whole bad marketing campaign was in poor taste.
My timeline complaint was another argument entirely...my bad:blush:
I think that I am the only one who is not disappointed/annoyed the D23 thing. I live in Indiana and with the sales tax the magazine came to $17.07. Multiply that times 4 magazines a year and you come up with $68.28 just for the magazines alone, which I would have bought regardless. So why not just spend the extra few dollars and get the "benefits" of being in the club? I definitely think they have more planned down the road for this. I'll wait and see. At any rate, I'll get the collectable gift, something that is sure to at least make up the cost difference between a year of the magazines and the cost of the membership.
On a side note: The magazine is very nice and I enjoyed reading it. I think they have done a very nice job with it.