If you bought a Disney Dream Key walk from August 25 to October 25, 2021, you could person portion of a $9.5 cardinal settlement.
Disney has settled a people action lawsuit revenge successful November 2021 successful California territory tribunal complete really it marketed its $1,400 Dream Key pass, a programme that allows customers to salary a level complaint to spell to Disneyland and California Adventures taxable parks whenever they want passim nan year.
The colony website shows that payments to qualified people members were sent either by cheque aliases done a integer costs connected June 14.
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Unless a people personnel excludes themselves from nan colony payout, they springiness up immoderate correct to writer Disney complete nan aforesaid claims successful nan lawsuit.
Disneyland. Photo by Barry King/WireImage
According to nan plaintiff, Jenale Nielsen, Disney advertised nan Dream Key Pass arsenic a measurement to participate Disneyland without immoderate restrictions. When she bought nan walk and tried to make a reservation, however, she recovered that Disney had blocked retired galore days, including each weekends successful November 2021.
"Given that Disney had advertised and promised that location would beryllium nary 'blockouts' for Dream Key holders, Ms. Nielsen was surprised," nan filing stated.
Nielsen looked astatine Disney's website and recovered that it still had passes disposable for waste connected nan days it had barred Dream Pass holders, truthful nan blocks weren't caused by tickets being sold out.
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The filing called nan Dream Key a "second people ticket" to Disney's parks and said that Nielsen "was deceived by and relied upon" Disney's "false and deceptive advertising."
Locked Disneyland during nan pandemic. Photo by Jeff Gritchen/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images
Disney denied each of Nielsen's claims arsenic good arsenic immoderate wrongdoing aliases liability.
Nielsen received $5,000 arsenic portion of nan colony and 100,000 others affected will person astir $67.41 from Disney.
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For reference, a standard Disneyland taxable parkland summons starts astatine $96 to $194 per day.
Disney has now made changes to its Magic Key Pass advertising. The Dream Key is nary longer disposable to purchase. In its place, nan highest tier is now nan Inspire Key, priced astatine $1,649 and branded arsenic taxable to "applicable walk blockout dates."
The Magic Key calendar astatine nan clip of penning had readiness unfastened for almost each days successful July, August, and September for Inspire Key holders.