Is Mickey getting even?

Corbett | February 4, 2006 7:45 AM

This interesting NY Times story on HK Disneyland's poor ticketing practices could be made even more juicy with some more information. Did Disney actually overprint the tickets? It says the attendance "numbers were larger than anticipated." Did they set up any inside deals with tour companies? It says mainland tour agencies "bought large batches of discounted tickets." Then when people arrived in HK from a ticket in hand, they couldn't get in.

Sounds perfectly normal, for China. Isn't that what already happens for all the big concerts in China? Hey, don't they call that ticket pirating?

Throws kind of an interesting twist on the whole pirating issue you always hear about. I'm sure someone is chuckling in some Disney boardroom somewhere about this irony.

Category: Mr. Asia

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