Post #728825 by joshua_w on Wed, Oct 1, 2014 2:33 PM

I had a great time, but it was due to being there with friends (Chippy and his lovely wife). If not for that I would've been pretty upset about the whole thing.

They over-promised and under-delivered. Can't say I'm all that surprised, as they do it regularly to attendees of their special events in Florida. But they don't do these types of events here in California very often and I was really hoping they'd surprise me.
I really do love the mug they gave us during the event and I bought extras as well, but everything else was mostly disappointing.

The bag and hat couldn't have cost them more than a couple dollars. The canvas print is rather odd and the "Mahaloween" event name is even misspelled on it. The buttons aren't anything special, they really should have done a proper disney pin for the event at the price they charged for it.

It feels to me like we were taken advantage of with the mug prices as well. I can understand why the event mug was more expensive, but the standard mug that you can walk into Trader Sam's and buy today cost nearly twice what it should have, unless they recently raised the price significantly. For 4 mugs (2 event and 2 standard) it came to just over $80. I can't recall exactly but I believe the event mug was around $25 each and the standard was $14-15 or so, that's a lot when you've already essentially paid $125/person for the privilege of buying them in the first place. For comparison, when the new Krakatoa mug was released in August we bought 4 (without drinks) for a total of somewhere around $35. For the new mug they were charging almost what it would cost with a drink inside the bar.

And then the fact that the first official piece of merchandise that will be available (the t-shirt) is only for Florida, pretty much a "screw you" to everyone that has been wanting merchandise here and supported the place since it opened. Oh, but if it does well there then MAYBE they'll throw us a bone and do something for us here. It just felt rather insulting. How hard is it to screen-print the logo onto a shirt and sell it here?

[ Edited by: joshua_w 2014-10-01 14:39 ]