Problem with the ducks is that Disney cannot control the contents. Random people can hide ducks with questionable or illegal contents, and they could be used for sales of illegal items.
I am not surprised. On my EBPC cruise this past December, there were people filing official complaints that their child hadn't found a duck. It was absolutely draining. The next thing that will go is the FE gift exchanges. We had 2 families disembarked because their tween/teenagers were stealing. So many other families reported not getting their items as well. Disney won't tolerate being held accountable for passenger run events and I don't blame them.
The ban on duckies has discouraged me from taking my family on their first cruise with Disney. We will still definitely going to cruise with Disney, but that allure is something I want them to experience for themselves before every cruiseline bans it.
If anyone is thinking that the duck hiding/finding activity is only a positive/fun activity, they haven't spent any time thinking about the ways in which the hiding/finding process could go horribly wrong. There are instances I can imagine which would pose real risks to cruisers....especially little cruisers....and there would be liability issues if this were something Disney didn't have a policy against or just turned a blind eye to.
A little kid could decide to hide one somewhere dangerouse bc they are focused on finding a good hiding place. I can see this is possible, but not more possible than s little kid being in the same dangerous place for a non duck related reason. Are there a rash of these incidents on other lines? And yes there are lots of kids on most cruiselines.
along that train of thought FE need to go sadly, some od the toys, trinkets could have small parts or lead and if a kid sucks on it, and then any candy that is home made could have food that another kid/ adult algetic too . not trying ot be devil advocate as this is the truth, a small town neat whe5re i live had a Saturday trick or treat and go store to store in costume and after an "issue" ( like one i described they no longer do that. On parades they use to throw candy to all but again they don't do that in my town for similar reasons. @@joykinser3444
@@joykinser3444 When you think of the number of cruises going non-stop and the number of people on them who knows how many incidences or even close calls have happened on all cruise lines. With Disney in particular having considerably more kids on each cruise it makes sense for them to have an abundance of caution. There are already so many fun and safe things for everyone to do that people don't need to make up their own thing. The adults are the ones making this a bigger thing than it needs to be.
@@FFPM371 Someone can get hurt trying to place/retrieve a duck in a precarious special hiding place. And someone can inadvertently break something trying to get/retrieve a duck hid in a special hiding place.
OMG! What is wrong with the duck find Disney? It's fun for all ages. Whether adults find them or kids. It's not taking any money out of Disney's pocket.
Can somebody please explain the reasons why this is not a good idea to have cruise ducks? What could possibly be bad about this. It is a cruise passenger led event. People should know this before crying to guest services that their kid never found one on something Disney is not at all involved in. People can swallow pins too. Should we ban pin trading?
There have been reports of children throwing them overboard, there has been property damage to disneys stuff, people have been hiding them in staff only areas, hiding them in potentally dangerous places like what happens when a duck ends up in the plumbing or wedged between a lever that lets a lifeboat down?
I could see if people were hiding these in places that are not safe, which would probably happen more than zero times, but I have never seen this, that could be bad. If there were so many ducks that is distracted from the decor, that could be a problem, but one that doesn't currently exist. And most likely, if they are only rehid and never collected on the last day, then they are unnecessary extra work for cast members to have to clean up. I don't know if that is an issue. I honestly think Disney sees this on other lines and it's just Disney snobbery. I live Disney and will only sail with them, but they pride themselves as being a luxury line and cheap rubber ducks don't align with that. They also like cinergy throughout the entire corporation. These ducks aren't exclusively Disney so they don't align with the watch Disney, buy Disney, stay Disney, do Disney concept. These are my guesses.
rubber toys hold a lot of mold, it's annoying for cast members to pick up and find, and it also encourages people (mostly children) to get under/into dangerous spaces to try to "hide" ducks
@@bonnielovelythis is a common practice on other ships so I honestly don't think it is about mold or safety. It could be, but that sounds like the most valid reason, not neccisarily the one driving the choice. I think those who dislike them are making a big deal over small ducks and those who are really upset about it are too. It was a fun thing that was not dangerous or distracting on either sailing I have done, but there is also so much to do on a Disney ship this shouldn't be a deal breaker.
I agree. Its getting out of hand. Another thing is, i stepped on an upside down Disney pin on the floor, (pin was facing up) which stuck on my Crocs. Thank goodness i was not barefoot. Pins can be a safety hazard.
Then let’s ban pins and pin trading. Make them magnetic or just non attachable. Wait…either way someone may swallow one. You can’t win no matter which way you slice it.
cant be magnetic as if they swallow could be bad new. sadly, in a litigious based society more and more stuff change form the way they were. a bad example is cycle helmets, like most i neere wore one and most my age did not either and for most part are fine lol. but today you need to even kid else the police pull you over and talk ( not ticket it our town) , and the Police have got tother with groups and have free one for kids/ parents that cant afford, just like at our rivers and beaches there are free life jackets for all @@FFPM371
I wasn't into the duck thing. It didn't seem to connect with Disney for me. Then I thought well...if the ducks are themed to the voyage such as HOTHS or Christmas sailings, I could get into it. We're sailing on HOTHS in October 2024 and decided to get ducks in costumes. NOOOOW...I wish I had stuck to my original plan of not doing ducks. I bought a bag of ducks dressed in costumes and now, they have no where to go 🤦♀️ poor duckies 😑
@@samamey1751 ... oh yeah, great idea! I was thinking I'd have to repackage them to hang on people's doors. But dropping them in fish extenders that are already hanging is way less complicated than what I was thinking to do. Thanks for that! 😁
We only did 1 each. That way we weren't making a big mess for cast members to possibly clean up. We hid them fun safe places and later saw kids with them playing with them. There is a claw machine at the bowling alley here that my son has been getting ducks and trying to pick ours for our next trip. He can just give them to the jeep peaople I guess, lol. We will just skip it. Kind of a bummer though.
I seen a video of people hiding 1000 ducks on a cruise and crew was helping hide them, it wasn't a Disney cruise. And throughout the cruise they seen kids playing with the ducks they found.
This is very disappointing. I feel like over the past few years Disney is reducing the magic from their parks and now the cruise lines. What’s next? How does this hurt the cruise line? We all know the ducks, magnets, fish extenders are not a representation of Disney but personal ideas the cruiser wants to share with other’s.
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Jeep wranglers get ducked all the time, personally it makes no difference to me, I can see it now someone steps on a duck claims they got hurt when they fell and there’s a lawsuit…. Trust me it could happen
What the duck? Not cool Disney. I say no harm, no Foul... Since you're pretty much all about making money, you could always say only Donald Ducks allowed.
One more reason to not sail Disney. I love watching small children get excited when they find them. I often carry extra in my pocket and hand them to kids in the elevator especially if the sibling has one and they dont. One little 5 year old had his every time I saw him the rest of the week.
Problem with the ducks is that Disney cannot control the contents. Random people can hide ducks with questionable or illegal contents, and they could be used for sales of illegal items.
I am not surprised. On my EBPC cruise this past December, there were people filing official complaints that their child hadn't found a duck. It was absolutely draining.
The next thing that will go is the FE gift exchanges. We had 2 families disembarked because their tween/teenagers were stealing. So many other families reported not getting their items as well.
Disney won't tolerate being held accountable for passenger run events and I don't blame them.
Were the kids on The Fantasy Ship during the Halloween Cruise? Some kids robbed tons of FE gifts from us and that we gave.
@@kcashutI was on the fantasy in august and so many people were complaining about not getting FE gifts and pins being stolen
@@kcashut No, we were on the Magic.
Why would they care if people hide ducks? Just dum
We went on a Disney cruise in May and a cast member pointed out a duck for my daughter to find.
The ban on duckies has discouraged me from taking my family on their first cruise with Disney. We will still definitely going to cruise with Disney, but that allure is something I want them to experience for themselves before every cruiseline bans it.
If anyone is thinking that the duck hiding/finding activity is only a positive/fun activity, they haven't spent any time thinking about the ways in which the hiding/finding process could go horribly wrong. There are instances I can imagine which would pose real risks to cruisers....especially little cruisers....and there would be liability issues if this were something Disney didn't have a policy against or just turned a blind eye to.
Please explain how it can be bad. Honest request. Im not being a dick.
A little kid could decide to hide one somewhere dangerouse bc they are focused on finding a good hiding place. I can see this is possible, but not more possible than s little kid being in the same dangerous place for a non duck related reason. Are there a rash of these incidents on other lines? And yes there are lots of kids on most cruiselines.
along that train of thought FE need to go sadly, some od the toys, trinkets could have small parts or lead and if a kid sucks on it, and then any candy that is home made could have food that another kid/ adult algetic too . not trying ot be devil advocate as this is the truth, a small town neat whe5re i live had a Saturday trick or treat and go store to store in costume and after an "issue" ( like one i described they no longer do that. On parades they use to throw candy to all but again they don't do that in my town for similar reasons.
@@joykinser3444
@@joykinser3444 When you think of the number of cruises going non-stop and the number of people on them who knows how many incidences or even close calls have happened on all cruise lines. With Disney in particular having considerably more kids on each cruise it makes sense for them to have an abundance of caution. There are already so many fun and safe things for everyone to do that people don't need to make up their own thing. The adults are the ones making this a bigger thing than it needs to be.
@@FFPM371 Someone can get hurt trying to place/retrieve a duck in a precarious special hiding place. And someone can inadvertently break something trying to get/retrieve a duck hid in a special hiding place.
We bought our ducks and we were excited about hiding them. I just don’t understand this!
Well, that’s just ducky .
I can understand if passengers bring 21+ ducks on board. I generally stick to 8 - 12 ducks per cruise
Good point: If every cruiser starts doing it the entire ship will be covered in ducks.
@@godofzombi but every cruiser is definitely not going to be participating, it’s just the small minority
OMG! What is wrong with the duck find Disney?
It's fun for all ages. Whether adults find them or kids. It's not taking any money out of Disney's pocket.
Can somebody please explain the reasons why this is not a good idea to have cruise ducks? What could possibly be bad about this. It is a cruise passenger led event. People should know this before crying to guest services that their kid never found one on something Disney is not at all involved in. People can swallow pins too. Should we ban pin trading?
There have been reports of children throwing them overboard, there has been property damage to disneys stuff, people have been hiding them in staff only areas, hiding them in potentally dangerous places like what happens when a duck ends up in the plumbing or wedged between a lever that lets a lifeboat down?
I could see if people were hiding these in places that are not safe, which would probably happen more than zero times, but I have never seen this, that could be bad. If there were so many ducks that is distracted from the decor, that could be a problem, but one that doesn't currently exist. And most likely, if they are only rehid and never collected on the last day, then they are unnecessary extra work for cast members to have to clean up. I don't know if that is an issue. I honestly think Disney sees this on other lines and it's just Disney snobbery. I live Disney and will only sail with them, but they pride themselves as being a luxury line and cheap rubber ducks don't align with that. They also like cinergy throughout the entire corporation. These ducks aren't exclusively Disney so they don't align with the watch Disney, buy Disney, stay Disney, do Disney concept. These are my guesses.
rubber toys hold a lot of mold, it's annoying for cast members to pick up and find, and it also encourages people (mostly children) to get under/into dangerous spaces to try to "hide" ducks
@@bonnielovelythis is a common practice on other ships so I honestly don't think it is about mold or safety. It could be, but that sounds like the most valid reason, not neccisarily the one driving the choice. I think those who dislike them are making a big deal over small ducks and those who are really upset about it are too. It was a fun thing that was not dangerous or distracting on either sailing I have done, but there is also so much to do on a Disney ship this shouldn't be a deal breaker.
I agree. Its getting out of hand. Another thing is, i stepped on an upside down Disney pin on the floor, (pin was facing up) which stuck on my Crocs. Thank goodness i was not barefoot.
Pins can be a safety hazard.
Then let’s ban pins and pin trading. Make them magnetic or just non attachable. Wait…either way someone may swallow one. You can’t win no matter which way you slice it.
cant be magnetic as if they swallow could be bad new. sadly, in a litigious based society more and more stuff change form the way they were. a bad example is cycle helmets, like most i neere wore one and most my age did not either and for most part are fine lol. but today you need to even kid else the police pull you over and talk ( not ticket it our town) , and the Police have got tother with groups and have free one for kids/ parents that cant afford, just like at our rivers and beaches there are free life jackets for all @@FFPM371
Cruising with them for 12 yrs and I’ve never seen a duck anywhere anyhow lol
uh they banned ducks in january and here i am going on the magic during SPRING BREAK and finding a very obvious duck.
My kids love the ducks. We went on a cruise a month ago and luckily it was before the band it
I wasn't into the duck thing. It didn't seem to connect with Disney for me. Then I thought well...if the ducks are themed to the voyage such as HOTHS or Christmas sailings, I could get into it. We're sailing on HOTHS in October 2024 and decided to get ducks in costumes. NOOOOW...I wish I had stuck to my original plan of not doing ducks. I bought a bag of ducks dressed in costumes and now, they have no where to go 🤦♀️ poor duckies 😑
You could just drop them in people's fish extenders as a fun surprise.
@@samamey1751 ... oh yeah, great idea! I was thinking I'd have to repackage them to hang on people's doors. But dropping them in fish extenders that are already hanging is way less complicated than what I was thinking to do. Thanks for that! 😁
Disney doesn't like people making their own fun.
We only did 1 each. That way we weren't making a big mess for cast members to possibly clean up. We hid them fun safe places and later saw kids with them playing with them. There is a claw machine at the bowling alley here that my son has been getting ducks and trying to pick ours for our next trip. He can just give them to the jeep peaople I guess, lol. We will just skip it. Kind of a bummer though.
I seen a video of people hiding 1000 ducks on a cruise and crew was helping hide them, it wasn't a Disney cruise. And throughout the cruise they seen kids playing with the ducks they found.
They just hate fun that isn't Disney-owned and managed. Watch them start selling rubber Donald duckies in the gift shop for $10.
This is very disappointing. I feel like over the past few years Disney is reducing the magic from their parks and now the cruise lines. What’s next? How does this hurt the cruise line? We all know the ducks, magnets, fish extenders are not a representation of Disney but personal ideas the cruiser wants to share with other’s.
Someone from my recent Disney cruise hid miniature ducks (the size of a tic tac/ fingernail). It’s a choking hazard for kids.
next no FE and door magnets lol
Wouldn’t you know I just bought ducks for our cruise in February 😮
Do it anyway. They don’t enforce.
I’m handing them out instead 😊😊
@@kcashutactually read reports they are throwing them away
1/5/25
Wells Fargo gave Carnival Corporation (CCL) an "Overweight" rating and a price target of $22 per share. Based on 15 Wall Street analysts offering 12 month price targets the high price forecast is $25.00 representing a +49% increase from the last price of $16.77.
Carnival Corp. reported record fourth-quarter and full-year 2023 revenue while forecasting another strong year in 2024.
Revenue totaled $5.4 billion in the fourth quarter, up 40% from the year-ago quarter and nearly 13% higher than the same period in 2019, right before COVID brought operations to a halt. Full-year revenue hit a record high of $21.6 billion as consumers unleashed pent-up demand-and savings-on travel
But feel on enjoying in Disney Wish
That was interesting. How about Donald Duck?
Well done Disney. The new miniature ducks (size of a tic tac) are a choking hazard for kids.
Jeep wranglers get ducked all the time, personally it makes no difference to me, I can see it now someone steps on a duck claims they got hurt when they fell and there’s a lawsuit…. Trust me it could happen
Ooh?
What the duck? Not cool Disney. I say no harm, no Foul... Since you're pretty much all about making money, you could always say only Donald Ducks allowed.
One more reason to not sail Disney. I love watching small children get excited when they find them. I often carry extra in my pocket and hand them to kids in the elevator especially if the sibling has one and they dont. One little 5 year old had his every time I saw him the rest of the week.
No more rudder ducks
Your comment is criminally underrated.
@@klhaldane oh? Sorry
@@klhaldane ooh sorry I didn’t mean it.
@@matthewhahn1132 You mean that was an accident? Cool.
More cash grab, they will force you to purchase their own ducks?
rubber holds a lot of mold anyway, so it's probably not sanitary either
If Disney can't make money off it, they won't allow it.
Yeah you would think they have a rubber duck store full of disney theemed ducks on board. If only Disney had a famous duck character.
Now I'd wish they would ban the "pixie dust" that people feel like they need to hide at the resorts.
Maybe some ducks have been tossed over the side. Not good for the sea life. Who knows!
first!
If it is not a Disney product, they will not allow it.