"Disney Strangled Themselves" - Park Attendance Hits ALL TIME LOW Due To Costs & DEI Agenda

What is discussed, and when

1. 0:00 – 3:00: Bud Light, California Adventure, Disneyland, Haunted Mansion
2. 3:00 – 6:00: Disneyland

Notable quotes from ""Disney Strangled Themselves" - Park Attendance Hits ALL TIME LOW Due To Costs & DEI Agenda"

• Okay, let me go to see here. Disney attendance. Walt Disney World logged its lowest 3-week stretch of the year in September, putting it on track to be the quietest month since 2021. Crowd Tracker data for mid August through midepptember.

  about Walt Disney World · at 0:34

• Wife, our family used to have season passes in Los Angeles. We love to go to Disneyland. The girls would go down there. we had season passes because if you go twice a year…

  about Disneyland · at 1:30

• Weird com to that attacking the traditional story for Snow White right she was in there has been long-term impact that they have had on the viewership and the preference of the customer.

  about Snow White · at 2:37

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

• Dylan Mulvaney — Person · 1 mention
• Rachel Zegler — Person · 1 mention

Companies & orgs

• Universal Studios — Company · 1 mention

Products & tech

• Space Mountain — Product · 1 mention · first at 1:17
  There's no wait time for anything. Space Mountain, walk on. Haunted Mansion, walk on. Pirates of the Caribbean, walk on.
• Haunted Mansion — Product · 1 mention · first at 1:18
  There's no wait time for anything. Space Mountain, walk on. Haunted Mansion, walk on. Pirates of the Caribbean, walk on.
• Pirates of the Caribbean — Product · 1 mention · first at 1:21
  There's no wait time for anything. Space Mountain, walk on. Haunted Mansion, walk on. Pirates of the Caribbean, walk on.
• Bud Light — Product · 1 mention · first at 2:51
  It's not just hey boycott Bud Light this weekend because you're pissed off about Dylan Mulaney in that can right? No, this is a long-term preference change that people are making.

Concepts & topics

• Snow White — Concept · 1 mention · first at 2:41

Places & events

• Disneyland — Place · 2 mentions · first at 1:34
• Walt Disney World — Place · 1 mention · first at 0:37
• Magic Kingdom — Place · 1 mention · first at 1:09
  Analyzed by Disney tourist blog on Tik Tok. Some visitors described the parks as ghost towns. I'm at Magic Kingdom right now and this place is a tomb. One user said there's literally nobody here.
• California Adventure — Place · 1 mention · first at 1:44
  Paying for everything all at once. And in Southern California, you got California Adventure and its rides right across from Disneyland. Park in the same parking lot. go down…
• Universal Studios Florida — Place · 1 mention
• Universal Studios Hollywood — Place · 1 mention

Full transcript with timestamps

0:00 Disney attendance says the 45year-old single man who's at the clubs every weekend doesn't own a car, doesn't own a house, and he's bragging about he's going to be at Bad Money. What a freaking comment you just made. God, this guy sounds you guys would be

0:15 Disney attendance. Disney accurate and very telling. Disney attendance plunges to an all-time low for 2025 as visitors report ghost towns at parks. Okay, let's go through this. This is Disney, by the way, we're talking about. All right, let's go to this here. So, Disney World. Okay, let me go to see here. Disney attendance. Walt Disney World logged its lowest 3-week stretch of the year in September, putting it on track to be the quietest month since 2021. Crowd Tracker data for mid August through midepptember shows average weights dropped to about 24 minutes per ride, even shorter than during the Fourth of July holiday.

0:57 According to posted times from Disney, my Disney experience app aggregated by thirdparty tracker thrill data and analyzed by Disney tourist blog on Tik Tok. Some visitors described the parks as ghost towns. I'm at Magic Kingdom right now and this place is a tomb. One user said there's literally nobody here. There's no wait time for anything. Space Mountain, walk on. Haunted Mansion, walk on. Pirates of the Caribbean, walk on. The longest I've been able to wait is 30 minutes. Tom, what do you know about what's going on here?

1:27 So, there's a couple things. Um, my wife, our family used to have season passes in Los Angeles. We love to go to Disneyland. The girls would go down there. I mean, we had season passes because if you go twice a year, it's worth it for the season pass versus paying for everything all at once. And in Southern California, you got California Adventure and its rides right across from Disneyland. Park in the same parking lot. You know, go down there for a whole day. Um, and so, uh, I know what I'm talking about here. What is happening is several angles. First they need to understand what they have done with pricing. The pricing and the parking has had a a a definite impact on people. So the first point is affordability is real. The second is longterm uh not boycott but preference has changed. Disney can't continue to kick its core customer in the face with the kind of content it puts out with the

2:30 kind of things that come out. Uh both my daughters thought that that actress weird member

2:36 Rachel Zgler weird weird com to that attacking the traditional story uh for Snow White right she was in um there has been long-term impact that they have had on the viewership and the preference of the customer.

2:51 It's not just hey boycott Bud Light this weekend because you're pissed off about Dylan Mulaney in that can right? No, this is a long-term preference change that people are making and the expense of it. And also, you know, middle class America right now has had a a long-term impact of inflation. It's tough to swing uh a holiday like that. And if you look at all of that coming together, it's over time Disney has strangled itself. And I now words talk no no no no no no. Everything's okay. But the numbers are screaming. Look at this. I mean, and it's a combination of those things, Pat.

3:30 And I speak from absolute experience speaking both as a consumer and my wife. Tom,

3:35 have they made the adjustment of lowering prices? I was just going to ask that, too. Are they adjusting?

3:39 Have they made the adjustment, Rob, of lowering prices in the state of Florida? They do offer Florida passes for Florida residents at a discounted price, but nothing for people out of state that I'm aware of.

3:49 Okay. So, what is the worst season? What is the worst season for Disney World every year? Like what month is the worst month for Disney?

3:59 Well, usually usually I would assume going back to school September. Well, back usually back to school, but also um my understanding is that it that when Florida gets blistering hot in August, it's really hard to do a whole day at Disneyland.

4:15 Yeah. And I've been up there in August. It's pretty it's it's not Disneyland, but it's pretty pretty embarrassing.

4:20 Impressive. Yeah. Okay. So, I just asked here, what is the worst? It says mid January to midFebruary after the holiday rush. Crowds drop sharply. Okay, I see that. Late August through midepptember, school is back in session. Hurricane season starts. Heat humidity is brutal. So

4:37 So just now. So just now, right? Exactly. So, what is what in the last in the last 10 years, what is the worst month Disney World has had outside of COVID season? Okay, let's see what it says.

4:56 And as we look at this, Pat, you and I like to look at um sales stats like year-over-year. So, even if it's a tough time of year, year-over-year they're having challenges.

5:05 Yeah. Is there is there is there By the way, can you can you uh I don't know how to run this poll. I guess what I'd want to know is people who used to go who no longer go. Like I don't go to Disney. Not because of any of the stuff with I'm not going to go there and having a bunch of transgender people walking around. We went to Universal.

5:21 I remember and I'm all about going to Universal. I love the Universal in LA when we go to it.

5:27 Believe it or not, as weird as it sounds, when we went to Universal LA, there was no transgender stuff. When we went to Universal in Florida, it was a bunch of transgender parts.

5:35 I was with you. And they, it wasn't just a random dude. So before everybody jumps in the comments, it was not a random guy doing it. They had park attendants and you just same way that when there's an attendant around Winnie the Pooh when he walks around cuz you're not supposed to touch them. You're not supposed to like, you know, you're not supposed to interact physically. Yeah.

5:55 Yeah. You're not supposed to do it. So they have park attendants that are with them. Excuse me. Please step out.

5:58 Yeah. Like a bodyguard. Yeah. And so Mickey Mouse leans down, takes a picture, puts a little arm around your kid. So there's things he can and can't do. This was a trans demonstration with park attendants. It was part of the experience.

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What is discussed in ""Disney Strangled Themselves" - Park Attendance Hits ALL TIME LOW Due To Costs & DEI Agenda"?

In order: 0:00 Bud Light, California Adventure, Disneyland, Haunted Mansion; 3:00 Disneyland.

What is mentioned in this Valuetainment episode?

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The episode runs 7 min; the transcript is about 1,368 words in 24 timestamped sections.

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