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It's an example of why Disney was almost purchased and auctioned off in pieces before Eisner. Disney was still being run by "Greatest Generation" types who thought shipping off people to Vietnam would build character. Their idea of 'progressive' is stuff like hiring Tommy Tune because his hair is long like Kids These Days. (Also, whatever director thought to put Tommy's NBA sized body on a little horse and make it hobble down the street surrounded by bicyclists can go to hell.) It's actually hard to believe that Eisner is a bit older than Joe Biden, partially because he never goes away (he still shows up on CNBC and other financial outlets) and buying a billionaire allows you to stave off aging for longer, but also because he understood the boomer mindset so much better than prior Disney CEOs. He wasn't even THAT bad at guessing how Disney could maybe be relevant to 80s kids with ideas like the Lucas collaborations. It was only after the Mermaid -> Lion King run gave him such a big ego that he refused to step away that things started going south. What's weird is how much of this is a commercial for just how great the resort is and the actual Space Mountain only gets like the last ten minutes, which is at odds with the hype culture of today where you gotta go to the park for HIP NEW THING and also there's like four decades of rides not worth mentioning. Part of this, though, is that they rolled out all these vacation activities outside the park in the years after opening, and the company also took over control of the Poly/Contemporary after their launch being staffed by an outside company was, uh, not disastrous but definitely not good. So there was a lot of reasons to promote recreations and luxurious accommodations given that word was spreading that there was little to do and the hotels were bad. Disney World wasn't really Disney Friggin' World until Epcot opened. Craptacular! fucked around with this message at 08:17 on Jun 22, 2021 |
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https://twitter.com/WaltDisneyWorld/status/1407317662762475535 Harmonious kicks off Oct 1, as does a new MK show that I think is replacing Happily Ever After? called Disney Enchantment
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Harmonious show premiering on 10/1 You folks going for the 50th are gonna be trampled by bloggers ^^^^someone else is up this morning drinking coffee and reading twitter as well couldcareless fucked around with this message at 13:54 on Jun 22, 2021 |
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the fireworks show at MK is only for the 50th, not replacing forever
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Looks like this got deleted. What, uh, was it?
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SimplyCosmic posted:Looks like this got deleted. What, uh, was it? An idiot jumping off a moving car in Living With the Land, trying to steal a plant, then almost falling off getting back in the car (which is a good way to die on tracked rides, see also: PeopleMover accidents). The video really wasn't too interesting, other than watching someone doing something stupid that has probably already gotten them banned from the parks.
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couldcareless posted:Harmonious show premiering on 10/1 better than covid. it is a good day to die at Disney world. *lowers mickey ears helmet* E: why does everybody want to break the rules at Epcot? is it just the booze atmosphere? why doesn't anybody try to scale cinderella castle?
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Fluffy Bunnies posted:better than covid. it is a good day to die at Disney world. *lowers mickey ears helmet* I once saw someone get on gran fiesta tour with a margarita glass filled to the brim and to this day I still have no idea where they got an actual glass glass. While I scoffed, I was actually kinda jealous they had the foresight to sneak a drink on to what is a lovely, relaxing ride.
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Nobody gets drunk at a park like people get drunk at Epcot Maybe HHN back in the day
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BlueBayou posted:Nobody gets drunk at a park like people get drunk at Epcot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCsA4DlIu5U
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BlueBayou posted:Nobody gets drunk at a park like people get drunk at Epcot Oh man, my first year I got to go to team member preview all the city walk places had like, $1.50 meals and $1 beers beforehand so everyone was trashed. They regularly had people get fired for their guest’s actions that night. Speaking of HHN, managed to grab an absolutely bonkers AP rate for Portofino Bay on the club level for the second week of HHN. The next morning the rate was gone so I’m pretty glad we pulled the trigger. It’s been probably 3 or 4 years since I’ve stayed at the Universal Hotel so it’ll be nice to be back.
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Harmonious looks like its going to be really bad I want it to be good, but man, I just can't see how
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chitoryu12 posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUwIcOBMdSc I highly recommend checking out Themed Alternative. It's Kevin from Defunctland, Disney Dan and Nate Begle (one of the guys currently playing Crow on MST3K) doing off-the-cuff riffs on all the old Disney park TV specials. Unfortunately, they're abridged to just 15 minutes or so. The best one is probably the Living Seas, which is full of Disney trying to fill up time with anything water-related they can think of. This leads to a line I won't spoil that is so out of nowhere that it has all three guys dying of laughter. Also, one of the specials straight-up had Mickey shoot a dude.
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BlueBayou posted:Harmonious looks like its going to be really bad Even if it does end up being good, I'll dislike it on the principle that a MaGiCaL DiSnEy show doesn't belong at Epcot.
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Gavok posted:I highly recommend checking out Themed Alternative. It's Kevin from Defunctland, Disney Dan and Nate Begle (one of the guys currently playing Crow on MST3K) doing off-the-cuff riffs on all the old Disney park TV specials. Unfortunately, they're abridged to just 15 minutes or so. Holy poo poo my wife and I are watching these right now and they're so god drat funny "Now they're telling me that here they can grow things from the ceiling and I think that's against God's will."
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chitoryu12 posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUwIcOBMdSc holy poo poo this is the most 70s thing i've seen in...well, in a while
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Enchantment looks neat Harmonius looks like they took all the worst ideas from Rivers of Light and smashed them into a trash compactor and poo poo them out into World Showcase Lagoon. E: I am actually down to watch KiteTails because I really liked the shadow puppet poo poo from old ROL, so maybe they'll get some of the same storytellers back or some such?
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My biggest problem with the barges is they look like absolute poo poo and ruin the view across the water
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Yeah, I hate that too. It looks so bad in the daytime.
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APs looked like they were for sale this morning but it was another false alarm. Speaking of them, however, has there been any movement on this? Was it ever a thing? We were some of the people who sold ours back when it was clear the parks weren't reopening anytime soon and if we could get them back that would be just swell. https://wdwnt.com/2020/09/walt-disney-world-allowing-guests-with-a-cancelled-or-expired-annual-pass-to-purchase-a-new-one/ quote:With the changes to visiting Walt Disney World, Annual Passes have not been available to purchase. Pre-existing Annual Passholders have been able to renew their passes or cancel them, but not purchase new passes outright. Now Walt Disney World is allowing some previous Annual Passholders to purchase a new pass.
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Omne posted:My biggest problem with the barges is they look like absolute poo poo and ruin the view across the water I haven't been to Disney in 20 years but I strongly recall they looked worse than the barges you see on the Mississippi.
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Hazo posted:APs looked like they were for sale this morning but it was another false alarm. Disney isn't going back to APs until they're 100% sure they won't have to reduce capacity or shutter the parks outright again.
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Hazo posted:APs looked like they were for sale this morning but it was another false alarm. We cancelled ours in August of last year when they were going to start billing us again. My wife called the annual passholder number in May to get them back, not sure what options she chose, but we now have annual passes again. Just went to Hollywood Studios on Saturday.
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Going to Disneyland next Monday and I'm so excited.
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Roth posted:Going to Disneyland next Monday and I'm so excited. 
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Roth posted:Going to Disneyland next Monday and I'm so excited. My wife and I went this week. They are phasing back in the crowds (despite all our days being sold out on the reservation system, there was a huge increase in crowd size from Monday to Wednesday), and if you don't already have reservations at the themed sit-down restaurants (especially the cantina in galaxy edge) you may be out of luck, as we found them almost impossible to get into as they are running at much reduced capacity. Otherwise no issues getting into any rides we wanted and were 4 for 4 this week on the virtual queues. This was my first time back in almost 10 years, and Radiator Springs is still the longest wait in both parks, so some things never change. Commander Jebus fucked around with this message at 20:19 on Jun 24, 2021 |
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Their laptop is that modern but they still have VHS tapes around 
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LCdr. Jebus posted:I'm wife and I went this week. They are phasing back in the crowds (despite all our days being sold out on the reservation system, there was a huge increase in crowd size from Monday to Wednesday), and if you don't already have reservations at the themed sit-down restaurants (especially the cantina in galaxy edge) you may be out of luck, as we found them almost impossible to get into as they are running at much reduced capacity. Otherwise no issues getting into any rides we wanted and were 4 for 4 this week on the virtual queues. This was my first time back in almost 10 years, and Radiator Springs is still the longest wait in both parks, so some things never change. That's a shame. This was a spur of the moment thing, so we weren't able to do any dinner reservations, otherwise I'd have loved to celebrate going back with a Lamplight Lounge visit. Oh well, looking forward to the corndogs for lunch again, and I've missed Bengal BBQ. Maybe we'll get lucky with Lamplight.
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The 90s Disney VHS boxes are a weird iconic niche art form all their own. They make replica notebooks and clutches and keychains and all kinds of stuff. I don't recognize what that is that's sitting on top of Herc though edit: Looks like Goofy? We didn't have that one.
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Roth posted:That's a shame. This was a spur of the moment thing, so we weren't able to do any dinner reservations, otherwise I'd have loved to celebrate going back with a Lamplight Lounge visit. Carthey Circle , Trattoria and the rest all have walk up lists that occasionally had room, also done through the app. The Cantina also technically had a walk up list, but I never saw it available, and there were always hopefuls lined up outside for hours. E: That said this stuff changes daily, and I'm told the current capacity reductions are 100% labor based, so maybe they will have more tables online for next week. Commander Jebus fucked around with this message at 20:50 on Jun 24, 2021 |
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Those could be notebooks! They just released some notebooks that look like the VHS boxes. We have one on our coffee table from our last trip.
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couldcareless posted:Those could be notebooks! They just released some notebooks that look like the VHS boxes. We have one on our coffee table from our last trip. That's true, they had a few of those in that Disney Warehouse Outlet in Orlando. Looks just like old VHS tapes.
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Craptacular! posted:Their laptop is that modern but they still have VHS tapes around I mean, I have my childhood VHS tapes of Little Mermaid, Beauty & the Beast, Cinderella, and Aladdin. Thanks mom for moving them a million times & not just tossing them!
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