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A very magical birthday to you rooneymouse!!! Hoping you are healthy and happy!   

Chatted with a friend recently about Disney stock prices, they were down a little at the time.  We kinda wondered if Disney is finally hitting plateau.  Maybe the fees, in addition to making DIS more money, are being used to attempt to control attendance.  I can't help but notice that, even though the prices keep going up, they still have large crowds all the time.  Folks are still willing to pay the high price.  Is it still worth it?  Disney still does a good job, I think, at delivering a quality product but each price hike, in theory, should, deter some portion of folks who no longer see it as "worth it".  Economics price versus demand kind of thing.  But, large crowds make folks unhappy, I should think, and detracts from the "magic" so it makes some sense, to me anyway, that Disney would want to keep things more under control.  Of course, that's me thinking Disney really does want to deliver a quality product and not just gouge folks. Regarding parking fees, I think, maybe, with the large crowds, this could be an effort to push folks towards shared transportation.  This could, not only ease traffic and parking demands but also foster a captive audience.  Once folks are on Disney property using Disney transportation, I would think, they would be less likely to leave.  Just some odd ideas I have kicking around my head!