This would be a nightmare for pass holders who travel. Imagine planning for a trip, reserving a resort room, getting ADRs, etc., only to have your annual pass revoked for a period of time when a new attraction opens. I hope this rumor dies a quick death.

APholder family for 10+ years. Disney already seems out of touch; I guess we don't really need to go back.

My question is: if they're considering this plan of action, why not make the "grand opening" a hard ticket event? Don't block the whole park, just the new land, to all guests unless they have a hard ticket they bought specifically for that. No ticket? Can't come in. To me its no different than the media events. Then you wouldn't be isolating annual passholders but instead have a valid reason. Then after a couple weeks have the "full opening".

I'd be interested to know if the number of APs sold has dropped at all. Does anyone happen to know that?

So if they blackout days to get onto a new attraction for annual passholders, will they allow passholder days to allow only passholders to try those new attractions as compensation?

I think that a lot of the problem is people want the crowd size reduced but they don't want to the part of the group that is restricted.

I'm not sure how well this would work if they tried it at Disneyland since a large portion of their visitors are AP holders and they would be banning them from the entire park

I know most people buy multi day passes but let's take $100 as the cost of a days admission to Disney world. On top of the we could estimate that each person spends $50 on merch and food.

So each guest is worth $150 to Disney.

Would you pay double that $250 (plus your same $50 food) for a park that isn't half as busy.

They will most likely do it. I think it is a bad idea. Disney needs to keep things simple and all these ideas are doing is causing confusion and alienating some of their most loyal patrons, their passholders.

Blackout dates have been around for A LONG time. It's nothing new since they first split up the passes between annual passes and seasonal passes. They did not start "offering" black out dates last year. The only thing that has changed is the black out dates for Christmas in all but the most expensive pass.

If they implement this I really think that would be the last straw for a lot of Disney AP members. I miss the days where Disney did not make tiers of guests but more and more they are implementing a sort of caste system with their guests. It started with dessert parties and other upcharge events which is all fine and good if people are willing to pay $60 for dessert but if they actually start taking away attractions from AP holders I think they will alienate a LOT of loyal fans. It's the most ridiculous thing I've even heard Disney think about implementing.