A new dating website for Disney fans, MouseMingle.com, is the brainchild of Dave Tavres, who says the regular dating websites have no way to narrow the searches to gauge the level of interest in Disney.
The site launched last week and already has thousands of user profiles uploaded. Tavres says he registered the domain name back in 2011, but only began building the site earlier this year.
A profile can be created for free by filling out a questionnaire, which includes questions about your age, appearance and lifestyle, as well as Disney questions. Some of these are “Favorite Disney song? Favorite Marvel franchise? Which park do you call home? What type of annual pass do you have?” To contact another site user, there is a monthly fee of $12.55. The 55 is a significant number to Disney fans – Disneyland opened to the public in 1955.
Of the price, Tavres said, “I wanted the number to be low enough that people would not be scared – no barrier to entry. …But at the same time I want this to be a service that people take seriously and don’t create a bunch of fake profiles.”
He said, “Disney fans are literally all over the world. That’s my hope is that this is not just a theme-park-centric site. This is for the people who live in the middle of nowhere or in the Midwest or people who don’t live near a park in the rest of the world, but they still love Disney or something about Disney and they want to connect with other people who love it, too.”
Tavres is a former Disneyland cast member, having worked at the park’s Autopia attraction, as a tour guide and a train engineer.
News source: Orlando Sentinel
Photo credit: MouseMingle.com
