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Expressing My Inner Hidden Mickey



By Dave Shute

NEW LOGO; UPDATED 2014 STUFF; NEW PRICES; FREE DINING RUMORS

The top-secret “Lipstick on a Pig” team has been busy the past week or so developing the new logo at the top of the page.  Hope you like it!  The good bits came from a crack designer I’ve been working with and the weak parts from me.

Test NieceletsAlso over the weekend the final data set for 2014 school calendars at 180 US public school districts came in from my crack research staff—the older Test Niecelet (on the left). I’ve converted these into databases, and will be analyzing and reporting on the forecasted crowd results over the next week or so.  Based on this analysis, I’ll make any needed adjustments to the 2014 Disney World Crowd calendar.

Meanwhile, it’s widely expected that 2014 prices will come out mid-week from the crack Disney World revenue management team.  Based on these I’ll revise and finalize the 2014 Disney World price seasons, and will use both the revised price seasons and revised crowd calendars to finalize the 2014 Disney World week rankings.

Disney World Free DiningFinally a number of crack observers have been predicting that Disney World will release free dining for October through December this week.  I still quite doubt it, but it is of course possible.  Major macro-economic indicators (especially bond markets, developing country currency markets, and the Lone Ranger) do suggest slight headwinds against overseas visits to the US and a slight increase in Disney’s need to more strongly drive later 2013 earnings…

And let me know what you think about the logo!!!!

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7 comments

1 Jennifer Hardy - Your Magical Vacation { 07.08.13 at 8:53 am }

Love the new LOGO

2 Dave { 07.09.13 at 7:01 am }

Thanks, both Jennifers!

3 Jennifer { 07.08.13 at 11:00 am }

Your crack designer did a fabulous job with that logo!!! 🙂

4 Steve { 07.09.13 at 8:08 am }

Man I love the new logo Dave!!!!

Awesome.

5 Dave { 07.10.13 at 8:19 am }

Thanks, Steve!!!

6 Stevens { 07.09.13 at 12:17 pm }

Hi Dave,

I went on Disney’s web site to verify if anynew special offer was available (still hoping for December free dining!) and I noticed that the September free dining offer can now be booked until September 15th instead of July 31st. Do you think that it could have an influence (positive or negative?) on a possible December offer?

Great logo by the way!

Stevens

7 Dave { 07.10.13 at 8:40 am }

Hi Stevens, and thanks for liking the logo!!

I’ve gone to the special offers page a couple of times ( https://disneyworld.disney.go.com/special-offers/free-dine-offer/ ) and all I’ve seen is still the book by July 31 date… If you are seeing something different, can you take a screen shot and email it to me? davidhobartyfv@gmail.com

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