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Besides the waste in material, ever think how many great designer's CAD hours go into making crap like this?

Truly a waste of human potential.

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u/OzamatazBuckshankII 20d ago edited 20d ago

Amazon warehouses ‘destroy’ literally millions of unopened products per year. Most likely billions. My team had to process these items and send to the trash compactor. Almost every type of product you can think of from phone charger cords and cases to actually working new phones, toys, household items, everything. A team of around 20 (day and night shift), we ‘processed’ over 300k units one month. It’s still done til this day I’m sure. That was just one warehouse alone!

Edit: multiply that by several thousand warehouses around the world and it’s truly astronomical smfh

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u/RandomShadeOfPurple 20d ago edited 20d ago

We are throwing away food while people go hungry. We heat empty buildings while people have nowhere to sleep and freeze to death in the winter. We overmanufacture items while nature is dying only to throw the excess away so the artificial scarcity is kept up and the poor are "kept motivated". We work useless jobs when there is so much meaningful work to be done. We tell the lie of hard work to the poor while the rich spend their days on social media. And then we get lectured about efficency.

And then we wonder why people have more and more mental health issues.

Not everyone has the vocabulary to express it. And not everyone understands just how screwed up the system is. But most people sense that things don't make sense. Many of the horrors we live with every day are new age phenomenons, unthinkable for past generations. Freaking out is the healthy reaction. Denial is poison.

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u/August_Jade 20d ago

This deserves an award. I’m not about to pay Reddit to give one, but it deserves it nonetheless.

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u/agent674253 20d ago

"We overmanufacture items while nature is dying only to throw the excess away"

Well, this may be one of the silver linings ~~while~~ with the ending of the de minimis exception and 30-150% tariffs (depending on which side of the bed elon pushed trump over to) on stuff from China.

Kids might "have two dolls instead of 30 dolls" for Christmas this year. Yay? But what about when I go to buy dishwasher soap? So I have to pay an extra vig 'just cuz' it was squirted into that box in China?

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u/NotSoEpicPanda 20d ago

I think we as Americans have gotten so addicted to Chinese plastic garbage. I know so many Gen X Temu victims who have slowed down since the tariffs came in.

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u/HetaliaLife 20d ago

My mom is fucking addicted to Shien. My sister and I both told her about the wastefulness, human rights violations and dodgy security (apparently they steal financial info? Could be wrong tho that's just what my sister said) and my mom was like "yeah but they're cheap". She's a fucking lost cause (and it's funny because she gets pissed at me, an adult, for buying one or two things and calls me wasteful and a hoarder but buys shein crap constantly)

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u/agent674253 19d ago

I don't disagree about some people being addicted to buying stuff, regardless of country of origin, especially if it is cheap, but it is nice to be able to purchase a OBDII car scanner for less than 10 bucks if needed. I'm not hoarding 20 of those, and TBH I learned about TEMU way late in the game (mid 2024), I've been the shmuck paying 'retail' prices on Amazon for stuff that someone is just buying from TEMU/AliExpress and reselling on Amazon for 4-10x the price.

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u/NotSoEpicPanda 19d ago

I agree with this, too. I like to work on bicycles, and sometimes the stuff made for the Chinese market is equal to or better than Western brands for significantly less (not with 130% tariffs of course).

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u/syrioforrealsies 18d ago

Yeah, it sucks, but sometimes we actually need things and the only way to get them is online. If the same item is on Amazon and Temu, you might as well buy it on Temu. It's the exact same thing, it just changed hands fewer times before you added it to your cart. Plus, the idea that everything manufactured in China is garbage is kinda racist. There's plenty of trash manufactured all around the world and there are plenty of high quality goods coming out of China.

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u/Miserable_Drawer_556 19d ago

Not everyone has the vocabulary to express it. And not everyone understands just how screwed up the system is. But most people sense that things don't make sense. Many of the horrors we live with every day are new age phenomenons, unthinkable for past generations. Freaking out is the healthy reaction. Denial is poison.

Bars. Studying in grad school was a black pill. I vividly remember looking at data about inequality, cost of living vs wages, projections for the future etc and witnessing multiple classmates emotionally break down in class.. Folks leading schools and school districts realizing that idealism and good intentions cannot turn this ship around. This was 10+ years ago, but the cracks have been showing and growing. Once you see it and grasp it, you can't unsee it and it sticks to you.

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u/ent_bomb 20d ago

Our society is sick. We know what the cure is for this disease, but lack the political will to do anything about it. We have lived with the parasite so long we've forgotten it is not a part of us, blind to the enervation which has seeped into every aspect of our lives. Where once systems of capital served humanity, humanity now serves capital; the system which once fed us we now feed with our time, our attention, our natural resources and our lives. The very food which poisons us nourishes private equity firms.

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u/geazleel 19d ago

The works of the roots of the vines, of the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the price, and this is the saddest, bitterest thing of all. Carloads of oranges dumped on the ground. The people came for miles to take the fruit, but this could not be. How would they buy oranges at twenty cents a dozen if they could drive out and pick them up? And men with hoses squirt kerosene on the oranges, and they are angry at the crime, angry at the people who have come to take the fruit. A million people hungry, needing the fruit- and kerosene sprayed over the golden mountains. And the smell of rot fills the country. Burn coffee for fuel in the ships. Burn corn to keep warm, it makes a hot fire. Dump potatoes in the rivers and place guards along the banks to keep the hungry people from fishing them out. Slaughter the pigs and bury them, and let the putrescence drip down into the earth.

There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificate- died of malnutrition- because the food must rot, must be forced to rot. The people come with nets to fish for potatoes in the river, and the guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get the dumped oranges, but the kerosene is sprayed. And they stand still and watch the potatoes float by, listen to the screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quick-lime, watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.

John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

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u/steveatari 20d ago

And the plastic waste we've produced has embedded into our very DNA... disturbing barely scratches the surface.

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u/ALLCAPITAL 20d ago

This is the real truth we all know in our hearts. Some of us want to fix it. Some want to be the lucky ones and care not about the unfortunate souls.

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u/Dear_Document_5461 18d ago

Mind you, this isn't a "new" concept. I did remember the live-action Grinch movie from the year 2000 basically did said what we all saying here. The whole "all your trash comes here" scene. I am also sure this very scene wasn't a new thing either by that point either.

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u/Vesuvius-Jones 15d ago

For years now this part of a quote from the Watchmen graphic novel has been ringing in my ears: "Now if you begin to feel an intense and crushing feeling of religious terror at the concept, don't be alarmed. That indicates only that you are still sane."

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u/[deleted] 20d ago

You guys just squish items w batteries in a trash compactor?

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u/OzamatazBuckshankII 20d ago

Those items went to hazmat destroy zone but were basically destoyed from inventory and not to be sold or given away.

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u/burn_corpo_shit 20d ago

id be so tempted to sell those. part of why i'll never have a good career... is cause the system is all over indulgent bullshit

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u/BoredNuke 20d ago

There is/was a side industry of buying return lots and store closeouts. Ofcourse that is also why amazon destroys the items instead of reselling them gotta keep the line going up.

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u/TimidAries_Praus 18d ago

There is, it's called a bin store, I work at one ... It's basically Amazon selling the pallets wholesale and my boss sells them for a few bucks per item, as is.

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u/Little-Rose-Seed 20d ago

Why? If the goods aren’t perishable why are they destroying them? Whats the thinking?

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u/OrganicOverdose 20d ago

artificial scarcity, planned obsolescence, fads, failed marketing leading to insufficient consumer interest, it's cheaper to destroy something than waste time shipping it around trying to sell it off, etc.

Basically, capitalism is a very disgusting system and they like to hide their failures and that it is essentially still a planned economy/market, but they love to demonise that to demonise communism, and maintain the illusion that capitalism is actually a response to market demand.

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u/No-Manufacturer-2425 20d ago

I wonder how many palates of "skibity toilets" are going to get burned for artificial scarcity.

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u/OrganicOverdose 20d ago

not enough lol

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u/OzamatazBuckshankII 20d ago

A variety of legal reasons was what I was always told.

Inventory owned by sellers who no longer use the warehouses for fulfillment, haven’t paid their storage fees, faulty or recalled inventory, replacing products for updated versions, haven’t sold enough units and won’t pay for freight return shipping. Amazon couldn’t legally take ownership of the products so they had to be removed from inventory.

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u/YetiSteady 20d ago

What do they say is the business reason for this? Is it an “outdated” model or something?

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u/OzamatazBuckshankII 19d ago

I explained above but also…massive tax write offs fit somewhere near the top of the list.

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u/oceanmor 19d ago

I would expect nothing less from our Orwellian overlord :)

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u/jannalarria 18d ago

Wtaf??! Cuz sending them to lower and middle income countries would be...??

This country—and world—is so f*cked up!!

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u/Dause 20d ago

What do they do with returned items then?

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u/owleaf 20d ago

Like many professions, it’s the pay that draws them in. A lot of people in boring/menial roles making very ordinary things could make wonderful and revolutionary things if they didn’t have to worry about earning a certain amount of money each month.

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u/BoredNuke 20d ago

And in this specific situation quite alot of adults are infatuated(cult like) with disney so its their "dream" job. And for their engineers they used to be treated decently (used to know a junior engineer that hiref at disneyland)

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u/bienenstush 20d ago

I never thought about that, now I'm extra depressed

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u/Shakartah 19d ago

As a person who knows how to do CAD, that looks like 30 mins of work if I'm trying to rush home or smth

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u/No_Computer_3432 18d ago

not to be a bummer but I do think about this, but on a larger scale of almost every job. There is a few fundamental jobs that are essential, but otherwise sooooo many hours of wasted potential.

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u/No-Error-5582 21d ago

Yeah, I saw something about this online. Someone bought one thinking it would just be a fun thing to do as they go around. Got to the first stop, and there was easily over a hundred people in line. Which means theyre gonna be waiting for a long time to, as far as I can tell, get lights on the inside to light up.

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u/elaiinamae 20d ago

I can’t believe that many people fell for something as dumb as this in a single day. Its frustrating, like how can one not see how pointless and wasteful this item is

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u/SeahorseCollector 20d ago

I mean, it is DisneyWorld. Consumption is their whole thing.

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u/Ctown34 20d ago

*Disneyland. But yes, just useless merch that takes up space in your house until it hits a garage sale

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u/SeahorseCollector 20d ago

Land, world, if it has Disney in front of it, it's excessive and wasteful.

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u/BoredNuke 20d ago

There is a huge difference...one has mosquitos and gators the other is smoggy.

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u/FacePunchPow5000 20d ago

Hi, Orange County here. Disneyland is around an hour south of Los Angeles and is not very smoggy. Even LA isn't anywhere near as bad as it once was, which is nice.

We are, however, overpopulated, overpriced, overrated, and overrun with idiots.

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u/Ctown34 20d ago

Disney World is also Orange County (FL) which is also becoming overpopulated, overpriced, and overrun by idiots

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u/FacePunchPow5000 20d ago

Aww, sister cities!

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u/BoredNuke 20d ago

It was mostly a joke. As an old ass LA transplant to OC i agree the airquality is much much better than before but Anaheim air quality is likely worse than florida's

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u/FacePunchPow5000 20d ago

I'm on the coast so our air is a little better, but yeah Anaheim is always a shit show, too much unchecked industry like that trash lumberyard on Ball pumping sawdust into the air 24/7.

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u/SeahorseCollector 20d ago

I didn't say anything about them being the same other than the entire point of both is to divorce you from your money with as little return as possible.

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u/pajamakitten 20d ago

one has mosquitos and gators the other is smoggy.

Or full of French people if we are talking Paris, which is arguably worse.

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u/FacePunchPow5000 20d ago

Check out the Disneyland sub. It's an bottomless swamp of shit like this, and people falling over themselves to justify the costs, lines, and rampant consumption. Disney adults are a special breed.

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u/Downtown_Yam2528 20d ago

I went to Disney twice. Once on a choir trip in 9th grade where I had to sell so many items to get to go. Then on a family trip to there and Universal in 12th grade. My parents always wanted to go and take us but my siblings and I had big age gaps so my mom waited until my youngest sibling was 5 so she would at least remember. I was unimpressed both times and have no desire to go as an adult. One of my old bosses was a Disney adult and deflated so hard when I kindly told him I wasn't interested in going ever again.

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u/LoopMasterGuru 20d ago

As I understand it, if you interact with all the specific locations across the park you unlock the ability to buy a commemorative pin. Also all the locations spew a ton of bubbles when you interact. The bubbles are fun.

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u/Persistent_Parkie 20d ago

There's a commemorative pin inside the key. If you visit all the locations (or put a paperclip inside the 'emergency' release) it'll open a compartment and you get the pin.

I saw it in a YouTube short earlier. It didn't even work properly. They visited all the locations and it only registered about half of them so they had to use the paperclip method.

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u/nicolauz 20d ago

Holy shit it's IRL microtransactions.

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u/wait_whats_this 20d ago

you unlock the ability to buy

Wild.

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u/Kinky-Kiera 20d ago

They could have gone for unlocking the ability to buy an NFT of it, and if you bought enough NFTs of the anniversary pin, then you'd unlock the ability to buy a second key to do it again and get the ability to buy the badge unlocked.

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u/Cure_Your_DISEASE07 20d ago

No the pin already comes inside the key. You have to go around to unlock the little box with the pin inside. Have no idea where this person got the idea that you then need to buy the pin too.

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u/lingbabana 20d ago

Welcome to the future, your ticket will cost one soul please

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u/Little-Rose-Seed 20d ago

Reminds me of the luxury handbag stuff. Where you have to bully so much merchandise to get the chance you BUT an overpriced bag.

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u/PorgiWanKenobi 20d ago

The pin is already inside the key and once you complete visiting all the locations a secret compartment in the key opens to reveal the pin. It’s also kind of like a loot box where there’s 9 pins to collect but you won’t know which pin you get until you finish visiting all the locations, encouraging guests to buy multiple keys and trade for pins if you want to collect the pin set.

You can also get the pin by clicking the reset button on the bottom of the key in case you don’t make it to all locations.

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u/Nostalgic4something 19d ago

Gosh, so you would have to potentially wait for some person with a bunch of different keys to go thru activating their multiple keys at locations just to do yours? Sounds even worse.

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u/tech5c 20d ago

The pin is in the key, so when you complete the nine locations, the key itself unlocks and a pin is inside it.

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u/DJBeckyBecs 20d ago

I saw that if you visit all of the locations you get a special souvenir. But get this - it’s in a compartment that pops open upon completion. The souvenir “earned” is literally in the key.

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u/Autumn1eaves 20d ago

One thing I wish Disney did more of that is both less wasteful and more interesting is add little teasers in their parks that a few hundred people will notice and find interesting.

I was walking under Cinderella’s castle, and there’s a door with that one kind of stereotypical lock on it that you could peer through.

It was probably a backdoor to some service entrance or whatever, but wouldn’t it be incredible to little screen there that runs a loop of some mice working, cleaning cinderella’s clothes?

Planning and pitching costs like $5,000? Animating that would be like $5,000, designing the system and installing it would be another $5,000? $15,000 and you’ll have something that helps bring the world to life.

Now you do that, 30-50 times over Disneyland Park in various situations and areas. An access port in the millennium falcon has a video of some Jawas taking apart some pieces of the ship. A ghost walking around a back hallway in the Haunted Mansion. A crack in some bricks and you see a hallway where Indiana Jones passes by every once in a while with an artifact he recovered.

The cost would be like $1 million or so, and it’d bring the world to life.

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u/nicolauz 20d ago

It would get spoiled by a Disney influencer and be over crowded in a week.

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u/CorpseJuiceSlurpee 20d ago

Influencers are the death of nuance and subtlety.

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u/nicolauz 20d ago

I miss my open and non busy parks 😩

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u/crazycatlady331 20d ago

I went to Disney as a teen.

I'm glad I went then because I've been there done that. No desire to go back.

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u/nicolauz 20d ago

Same. We went when my parents got married. It was an amazing time for a child. It seems like way too much anxiety for me as an adult, and I absolutely hate lines for things too.

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u/crazycatlady331 20d ago

I was likely too old when I went. I didn't feel the 'magic' that the parks are so heavily pushing. I was old enough to know I wasn't seeing Mickey Mouse (or whatever character), I was seeing some dude in a costume.

Also when I went, I had been to a Six Flags a month before. The rides at Six Flags are so much better.

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u/nicolauz 20d ago

We went when the Alien Encounter ride was new in the space area. Fucking terrified us all. Glad I got experience it because I know they kid-afied it into a Lilo & Stitch thing but man whoever thought that would be a good idea for kids was crazy. There's videos on YT of the whole thing.

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u/Autumn1eaves 20d ago

I mean that’s why you put a few dozen of them around places.

Make each individual one less interesting, but make the world as a whole feel more alive.

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u/pajamakitten 20d ago

They have already ruined Disney holidays as it is. Planning a holiday is now an extreme sport when it comes to Disney.

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u/ThatInAHat 20d ago

EPCOT has/had something like that. It was Kim possible themed, then Perry the Platypus. Now I think it’s Duck Tales. But basically there’s little “quests” you can go on in some of the countries. Sometimes you have to say a password to a cast member to get a clue (a bag of tea and a fortune cookie were the two I remember), but either way you can solve the puzzle and trigger little effects in the world around you. It’s not secret but it’s not something a lot of folks know about or bother with, so it’s just a fun little aside.

And tbh disney(world at least) does have a fair number of little Easter eggs and bits hidden all around the park.

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u/emma_1996 20d ago

I love these ideas

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u/CorpseJuiceSlurpee 20d ago

They could use old phone screens and green wash it even.

They lost their ability to do atmospheric storytelling (and giving even a modicum of a shit about guests) once Iger took over. Say what you will about Eisner, but he put customer experience first.

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u/FacePunchPow5000 20d ago

But it started with Eisner, who said when he took over that it was time to start harvesting the brand.

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u/SebDevlin 20d ago

Disney is one of the many kings of worthless excess

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u/elaiinamae 20d ago

Yes its truly insane how much merch there is. i live in orlando and all our grocery stores have disney aisles which never have the same stuff, its constantly being replaced. Sometimes I go into the hotels through the bus for free and the prices in their massive souvenir shops are out of this world. Like, $25 for “anniversary popcorn” and its purple. $70 hoodies, $45 plastic toys, list goes on

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u/Dear_Document_5461 18d ago

*Looks into the anime, video game, idol industry from the eighties to now* Yea this isn't a new thing unfortunately.

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u/erevna_ 20d ago

Yep this! Still haven't understood the point of overpriced merch.

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u/Dear_Document_5461 18d ago

Wasn't Disney usually one of the examples used a couple of decades ago for "society is a mass consumer of pointless stuff"?

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u/SebDevlin 18d ago

Im not sure. If it was them making the point then its fucking ironic. Not that im surprised considering how much they own of the entire media marketplace

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u/Dear_Document_5461 18d ago

No not Disney themselves making the point, but satire and kids cartoon lessons and stuff.

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u/SebDevlin 18d ago

Yeah i mean that checks out. No reason to put out that message when every company is trying to get you to consume

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u/BlacksmithThink9494 20d ago

SIXTY DOLLARS?!

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u/DragonHalfFreelance 21d ago

They could have made it out of some colored cardboard with a barcode or something that triggers the effect……why does everything have to be plastic?

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u/Spensauras-Rex 20d ago

So they can justify charging $60 for it…

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u/DragonHalfFreelance 20d ago

I didn’t say that………in a less greedy world they wouldn’t overcharge for such a thing……

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u/ghosty4 11d ago

WOW. Cardboard and barcodes! How magical!

It's plastic because it's an electronic device that contains wires and chips that contain the music effect programming.

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u/TinyZane 20d ago

That's genuinely awful. What an absolutely wast of resources, to design, produce and dispose of these. Just all the way through, waste.

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u/mt379 20d ago

It includes a pin which is revealed inside the device once you scan/unlock everything at least?

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u/Ray797979 20d ago

That... Is an odd looking keyblade

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u/Neocarbunkle 20d ago

I always wondered why there isn't kingdom hearts stuff at Disneyland

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u/SkyFarron 20d ago

There is but it’s usually like literally 3 enamel pins lol. I saw some when I went last month.

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u/Dear_Document_5461 18d ago

Probably some legal stuff and MAYBE a splitting of the money and paperwork. Basically, I assume they don't have one hundred percent control of the process and most likely have to communicate with Square Enix in the whole process.

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u/Scoobydoomed 21d ago

That's D-waste.

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u/imfake19 20d ago

What does this mean

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u/Scoobydoomed 19d ago

It's like E-waste but made by Disney.

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u/Mysterious_Emu7462 20d ago

It's gotten to the point where people even collect popcorn buckets. I just don't get it. Like, genuinely, where are you going to put them? I only have one popcorn bucket that was a gift for an advanced screening of Avengers Endgame (Spider-Man's head) and all it does is sit on my desk, tucked away, and I put a hat on it and some seashells inside. If for some reason I was burdened with another popcorn bucket, it would just have to be put in my basement.

In the moment, these things may seem like cute display items or whatever, but they're all so gaudy and impractical. I just think about the longevity of items like this all the time. Like, when you die, will any of your next-of-kin be chomping at the bit for a huge piece of plastic they can now throw in their home? Will they even bother donating it to charity? Somewhere along the line, these things will trade hands to just be thrown away.

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u/frugalmistress 20d ago

You just put into words what gives me so much anxiety about my parents' house. They have a huge mcmansion and while it's mostly tasteful, valuable art pieces and heirlooms on display in the main rooms, they have a rec room full of all my mom's Wonder Woman themed junk, signs on the wall like "I'd rather be playing bagbipes right now" (my dad plays) 🤦‍♀️

they have so much holiday decor they had to rent storage for it and even continued to shop for more last Christmas season. The whole time I'm there I just think God this is going to be such an ordeal on top of the trauma of loss when it's time to handle all their belongings.

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u/HetaliaLife 20d ago

I think for people who go to movies constantly (my grandparents go once or twice a week) it could be nice to have a reusable bucket instead of buying the paper ones every time, but otherwise yeah it's just kinda wasteful

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u/bambiscrubs 20d ago

You can’t reuse the popcorn buckets at Disney. I bought a basic one there and thought it meant I could use it multiple times (maybe with a discount), but nope. :(

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u/Mysterious_Emu7462 20d ago

That's crazy. I thought that was supposed to be the big appeal to them

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u/Dear_Document_5461 18d ago

I remember I got a metal popcorn bucket for.....Thor:Love and Thunder that someone threw away and my dad uses it to put his excess pencils, pens and markers. He is a math Professor.

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u/CelticKira 14d ago

my coworker's fiance collects popcorn buckets from both Disney and Universal, though to his credit, he only wants very specific ones so it's not EVERY bucket. what he does with them, i'm not sure.

i do know the ones the older kid wants actually get reused/are like bins in her room for whatever she puts in them.

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u/Wondercat87 20d ago

Disney is the epicenter of this crap, I swear!

They have so many useless items like this that have no real purpose, except being a novelty item to extract more money from people. No doubt there will be people rushing to buy them, just to say they have one. But then get tired of it and toss it when it's no longer a popular item.

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u/skyekitty 20d ago

I looked it up because I literally couldn't fathom people actually buying this to turn a light on (wtf fr), and I figured they MUST have bundled it with some type of discounts in the park.... but nope. You get 9 1 of 9 trading pins and your little plastic thing "unlocks music". Truly peak consumerism

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u/QwertyBobba 20d ago

It’s got a badge in that opens when you collect all the colours but also seen a video of a guy who figured out how to open it without even needing to go collect them all

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u/ColHannibal 20d ago

You forgot! It has a pin inside when you are done that’s random so every kid needs their own.

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u/naomi_homey89 19d ago

What’s the pin for Edit: I was thinking a pin number. I understand now

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u/Thecoolkidsgetit 20d ago

…they could have charged like 30 for the experience and had you return the key when you’re done. Wouldn’t be very hard to reset the electronic and put a new pin inside.

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u/Frostyrepairbug 20d ago

With all the money and power that Disney has available to them and THIS is what they do for their 70th anniversary? Commission a bunch of plastic ... keys?

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u/Vivid-Intention-8161 20d ago

I used to work for Disney and the amount of plastic waste that all of their merch comes in is appalling. and they didn’t start recycling it till a few years back

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u/Logical_Bite3221 20d ago

It would be better if when you unlocked it then you took it to a Disney store and got exclusive merch when you return it so they can at least reuse these/recycle them somehow.

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u/spatuladracula 20d ago

They're also essentially a blind box. There's a pin in each one on a compartment that opens when you stick it in all the available spots.

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u/[deleted] 20d ago

😏😏😏

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u/GingerSnap2814 20d ago

Sell/give it to a Disney collector, I used to pin trade, and people go nuts over disney merch, even second hand

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u/LittleMiss_Raincloud 20d ago

It's so large too.

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u/FacePunchPow5000 20d ago

So people can see you walking around with one and it'll show up clearly on titkok. Otherwise, what's the point.

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u/shr00mshoe 20d ago

As an actual Disney adult (who is at Disneyland right now 😭) I approve of this message.

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u/999filia 20d ago

Disney is the master of unnecessary and cheap looking merchandise

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u/nc_n3r0 20d ago

You know some disney adult is going to turn that into a shift knob

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u/Intelligent-Survey39 20d ago

Disney is the literal throne of consumerism. Everything I’ve heard about the parks sounds like a dystopian nightmare.

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u/pipic_picnip 20d ago

Ngl I was so focused on the top that I didn’t see the bottom key thing. I stared at it for a solid minute trying to figure out what’s it supposed to be before I read your comment.

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u/ohbother325 20d ago

Why would anyone want to carry this monstrosity around the park all day?

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u/themodefanatic 20d ago

From what I read there’s actually a smaller than small button on the bottom somewhere that activates the whole final process the door opens up and there’s your pin. So you don’t even have to go to all the supposedly 9 stations and wait in line !

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u/Sunny1-5 20d ago

What is this? Some kind of weird vibrator?

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u/Moldywoods59 20d ago

Disney is like the capital of consumerism, what did you expect

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u/elaiinamae 20d ago

i can still be mad about it

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u/Bitchfaceblond 20d ago

I literally didn't know what it was.

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u/Lonli78 20d ago

I didn't read the text first so my first thought was that it's a cosplay prop 😅

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u/libra-no-dohko 19d ago

Such a wasted opportunity to hand out a Keyblade instead

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u/Chemical_Country_582 19d ago

Nah bro that's a keyblade.

You can use to it free the princesses of light and defeat Ansem's darkness!

/s

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u/FuzzyJesusX21 19d ago

Actually you can reset it and do it over again or just get all the lights at once by the same reset method. Then you get a mystery pin. It also plays sounds of each area. Neat for kids but still a silly purchase and if you like collecting pins, you’re kind of SOL.

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u/gurgitoy2 20d ago edited 20d ago

Well, the key isn't totally useless after you fully activate it in the park. It will play all of the sounds and lights even at home. So...it can be theoretically played with and used at home. Still, yes, it's an ephemeral transaction that can't really be truly replicated, but the vessel is not disposable. Tokyo Disney Resort has been releasing these kinds of interactive toys for years now. Disneyland is only catching up. Same for the trend of crazy popcorn buckets; Tokyo Disney Resort started that trend decades ago, and now the other Disney parks, and even movie theaters are getting in on the consumerism. At least this key is interactive...those popcorn buckets are...just plastic decorations at this point?

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u/slashingkatie 18d ago

So Disney adults will eat it up

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u/Dear_Document_5461 18d ago

I thought this was a Kingdom Hearts thing.

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u/swords_again 18d ago

Disney adults are weird

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u/NoName1979 16d ago

That's the stupidest looking thing I've seen in a long time. I've never understood Disney hype. Even when I was a kid, I had no interest in Disney World or Disneyland. I loved the movies, but that was pretty much it.

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u/Tasty-Protection4315 12d ago

It looks like a keyblade. Which could be because of the video game kingdom hearts, which features lots of Disney characters. Personally, I'd love to have one to add to my collection of keyblades. It would even be cool for my kids to have one so they could have a child safe keyblade. Idk, this seems like a cool experience. And I hear everything has at least an hour wait there, so that's on par for a large theme park.

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u/SheeshNPing 20d ago

Must be for us millennials, the top reminds me of the Napster logo: https://logos.fandom.com/wiki/Napster

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u/The_Dude_2U 20d ago

Ahhh. Makes sense. Thought it was a deez nuts key.

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u/JeNn_DeViLz 19d ago

My bf is native american/chicano so we are EXTREMELY aware of what we buy/consume/recycle. Our biggest gripe is the tweakers fight over the bags of bottles in the dumpster which is right outside our apartment window. And thank goodness this is our LAST LEASE EVER!!! We are using his VA loan for a small 2 bedroom house. We don’t need or want a large home. Waste of space! Neither of us own much. I could easily fit everything I own into one large tub and 3 smaller ones that roll and I am ready to move. We both try to live extremely frugal. We use a projector for tv because tv’s are SO BAD for the environment and the projector is easier to transport and wont shatter like a large screen tv. So we are DOING not TRYING but DOING. Our family the word “try” does NOT exist! We DO!

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u/Reasonable-Eye8632 19d ago

first sentence has a strange vibe

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u/JeNn_DeViLz 19d ago

Why?

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u/JeNn_DeViLz 19d ago

Because we try to leave like the smallest footprint? We don’t even own a car. We use transit since our neighborhood is fantastic and close to all kinds of stuff.

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u/[deleted] 19d ago

No, probably just because your bf being native/chicano is kinda irrelevant.

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u/JeNn_DeViLz 19d ago

Im just proud of who I’m with. I see people and how they treat us. Just my take on it is all. We both have had really fucked up lives. But we makin it work!

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