Originally Posted By trekkeruss <<It is a real cheap thing for Disney to do by getting a family that is from out of town. How many trips will a family from CO. make?>> Disney isn't trying to prohibit the family from visiting by making sure they are far away. If anything, they would want the family to visit as often as possible... they are only getting free admission, not free rooms, food or souvenirs.
Originally Posted By Darkbeer ^ The decision is a MARKETING decision... They want a family from out-of-town as that is currently the group that Disney is marketing to that brings in the highest profits. Back in the late 1950's, the majority of Disneyland guests were local, so using a couple of local kids was a smart choice. Heck, Disneyland was designed to be placed in the center of the SoCal area, and the forcasters did a GREAT job of doing that, so much so, DIsneyland still gets the majority of their guests from the area, but they found out that an out-of-town guest creates a higher profit per day than a local. These Press Releases are designed to go into the local out-of-town paper, or radio/tv broadcasts. Disney did not allow local media to attend this event, or time it for a broadcast during the popular Live Morning News segments here in the LA/San Diego area (Did you know that the KTLA Channel 5 LA news is also shown in San Diego on Channel 69, with a couple of local edits...). Your only source was the official Disney Photos, and a special TV News feed made by Disney. Heck, the only two Media folks that showed up were DlandDug and myself, and they were a bit surprised to see us. We were not allowed into the roped off area. All my photos were from behind the ropes, or in the case of the Matterhorn photos, in a public area. This was a staged event designed to create publicity around the world, but mainly designed for North America, and not having a local SoCal focus.
Originally Posted By Darkbeer An afterthought... Remember when they built the Swimming Pool down Main Street. That was primarily a local event, timed for live local news reports, and the local media was invited in groves. Disney does a lot of different promos, some have different focuses than others.
Originally Posted By trekkeruss <<The decision is a MARKETING decision>> Oh, I am not questioning that it is a marketing decision at all. It's great PR, IMO.
