Stupid Guest Tricks

Saw This earlier today so I asked one of our data maintnence people what we accually pay for our drinks. At least to the extent of her knowledge (this only being merch, not foods) Disney pays for its soda!. Right now disney pays on average $0.50 per bottle for coke, sprite, diet, and desani and sold for $2 after tax. Poweraid we get for $0.75 and sell for $2.50 and Vietamin water is now a rediculous $1.15 per bottle sells for 3.19. Hope that answers the question for now and I will try to find out about what foods gets on there coke.

Also, Monorail plans were drawn up with each of the parks, (MGM and AK) at least as a pliminary plan. The real reason the monorail line was never expanded was due to the fact that Eisner never saw the benifit. He saw the Monorail as a waist of money and saw busses as a cost effective option. When gas was under $3.00. I often have wondered what he would have done today. Most likely he would have done it all the same and simply would have screwed the cast.

Big Wallaby wrote:I would love to see it expanded. I think they should do what a friend told me Las Vegas did... I don't know if it's true, but he's from Vegas, and he's an honest person, so if he's lying to me, it's because he's mistaken.

As many of you know, the Vegas monorail is the old Mark IV's from WDW. That means they had to get the track for the old Mark IV's. What did they do? They started a factory and produced it themselves, thus eliminating much of that cost.

Even if the story isn't accurate, I do wish Disney would do that, as I believe they could build the track for much less than what they were quoted.

Again, if I am wrong, please don't hold back. There's a good chance I am, since I *am* going on hearsay.

The Vegas monorail WAS the old Mark IV monorails. They have since been replaced with M-IV trains.

ktulu wrote:Bombardier Transportation developed the Vegas monorail using the same technology from WDW, since it was well tested. Vegas uses nine Bombardier MVI fully automated monorails.

You can read the wiki, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Vegas_Monorail

Again, be careful with information from Wikipedia. I personally have been fighting to fix the information on the WDW monorail articles including the sub articles about the Mark IV and Mark VI trains.


As stated the current trains in Vegas are M-IV's not M-VI's the link on Wikipedia "Rolling stock 9 Bombardier MVI trains" leads to the WDW Mark IV article which we know is NOT the same trains.

My personal favorite for information on the monorails of the world is: http://www.monorails.org/

Very extensive site..

Moonliner wrote:The way I heard it was that Coke discounts the syrup based on the number of logo cups purchased, and Disney's order is so large the syrup is technically free. I do not know if this is true, so please do not repeat without a disclaimer, but it made sense to me.

But back to the OP, is it really that easy to confuse MGM with the TTC?

I don't know about Disneyland but at WDW only Aramark (who provides cast food services) use Coke logo cups, the cups guests get are Disney cups.

PapaMouse wrote:The Vegas monorail WAS the old Mark IV monorails. They have since been replaced with M-IV trains.




Again, be careful with information from Wikipedia. I personally have been fighting to fix the information on the WDW monorail articles including the sub articles about the Mark IV and Mark VI trains.


As stated the current trains in Vegas are M-IV's not M-VI's the link on Wikipedia "Rolling stock 9 Bombardier MVI trains" leads to the WDW Mark IV article which we know is NOT the same trains.

Can't you just get a login on the wiki site and edit it? I know many wiki's are setup so the public can correct errors. I saw the error about the WDW monorails, figured the LAV one was not 100% accurate as well, but was too lazy to google any other sites :) Trust, but verify. That is how I deal with the Internet.

I'm guessing the "fight" referred to is an edit war. Someone thinks they know better and keeps editing it back to the wrong information. It happens.

8^S

ktulu wrote:Can't you just get a login on the wiki site and edit it? I know many wiki's are setup so the public can correct errors. I saw the error about the WDW monorails, figured the LAV one was not 100% accurate as well, but was too lazy to google any other sites :) Trust, but verify. That is how I deal with the Internet.

You can edit the article, but then if another person comes and puts the wrong information again and you edit the same information more then 3 times you get banned for an "edit war".

As I said before. A direct quote from Wikipedia staff "Wikipedia is verifiability, not truth." So it really don't matter if you said Mickey Mouse is the icon of Disney, unless you can find a resource saying the same thing, they will delete it. no matter how much it is common knowledge.

Like you said Trust, but verify. :)

Mayonnaise wrote:I'm guessing the "fight" referred to is an edit war. Someone thinks they know better and keeps editing it back to the wrong information. It happens.

8^S

Exactly.

Ah wikipedia and the misinformed editor. I know thee well.

When I was in Academic Decathlon and our subject was China, wikipedia didn't help at all because the Chinese government repeatedly changed information about silly little things like Tienamen Square....

...which never happened. Apparently.

smart1hermione wrote:Ah wikipedia and the misinformed editor. I know thee well.

When I was in Academic Decathlon and our subject was China, wikipedia didn't help at all because the Chinese government repeatedly changed information about silly little things like Tienamen Square....

...which never happened. Apparently.

I just think it's funny that most, if not all, schools, colleges, ect won't allow Wikipedia as a resource for student projects.

PapaMouse wrote:I just think it's funny that most, if not all, schools, colleges, ect won't allow Wikipedia as a resource for student projects.

It's true for my school. And for my old high school. We aren't allowed to reference Wikipedia in our bibliographies. That said, my professors recommend Wikipedia for a research starter. If you know how to use Wiki, then you're fine. :D