Originally Posted By AutoPost This topic is for Discussion of <a href="http://www.LaughingPlace.com/Latest-ID-81771.asp" target="_blank"><b>Latest: Strawberry and Cozy Cone Ear Hats Released Next Week for Limited Time Magic</b></a> <p style="text-align: center;"><img height="150" width="400" src="http://laughingplace.com/files/latest/20130329-1.jpg" /><br />{big}</p> <p>The Official Disney Parks Blog has announced that starting next week, as a part of Limited Time Magic and The Year of the Ear, two new ear hats will become available, a Strawberry ear hat in Epcot and a Dozy Cone ear hat at Disney California Adventure. Both hats are available starting April 1.</p>
Originally Posted By HokieSkipper The Strawberry Ears have been around since the start of Flower and Garden. Love how much effort WDW is putting into Limited Time Magic.
Originally Posted By RoadTrip Well, the Cone Hat gives me another item for the "what souvenirs to you hate?" thread...
Originally Posted By FerretAfros What's funny is they could have simply run the DCA/World Showcase egg hunt for a couple weeks longer, and people would have seen that as less of a cop-out than this, and would have taken less effort. The Golden Horseshoe show ran for several weeks; why is everything else limited to only 1 week? We should also point out that several of the program's first weeks were highlighting merchandise (and specifically Mouse Ears). That was around the same time that LTM opened with a collective thud; coincidence?
Originally Posted By TP2000 The strawberry hats have been around for years. Nothing new. Walt Disney World management is doing a pathetic job at running the LTM campaign. And I'm willing to give them some slack because the LTM campaign is so weak to begin with. But WDW is truly phoning this one week after week, and just has a perky blogger in a cubicle typing meaningless words about some new Chinese-made souvenir for sale in a theme park. This is not a marketing campaign, it's just painfully bad Social Media gone very wrong.
Originally Posted By HokieSkipper I pray the complete failure of LTM means they'll wake up and realize there doesn't need to be a marketing campaign every single year.
Originally Posted By TP2000 Good point HokieSkipper. Especially if the campaign is going to be this lame type of thing that just "brands" any regular offering or old souvenir as something worth marketing. This campaign is getting embarrassing for them. It's just really lame.
