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Disney Interactive itself, the video game arm, never really seemed to "get it", I thought. They put out games featuring their IP but without much thought as to the fun quotient of the game (or the story, or the immersiveness). It's almost as though they felt the brand alone would carry things...

This actually is Ricky's wife posting as skippyrules.

I don't think you're taking it too far... i think you are spot-on as usual. Baudrillard would have a field day with that. People now seek the simulation of the simulation. It's enough to make me want to embrace the Last Child in the Woods movement.

I can see them trying for a reveal at IOA - as you exit Ports of Entry, you get a vista of the park across the lagoon, with several key wienies beckoning you from across the water. But it's more than TWO choices at the same time, so it adds excitement but maybe also conflict. Uni Florida has...

Most Limited Time Magic offerings are *extremely* inexpensive to create, produce, and advertise. We're talking in the hundreds of dollars per week. The soda sales from a single fast food location for a single hour probably could pay that kind of bill. Villains Unleashed cost a lot more money...

Eddie, what can you say in general principle terms about "the reveal"? World Drive is reportedly twisty to ensure that we don't see things until we come around the bend. Hench claims in his book that good design gives the pedestrian a maximum of two choices at any one time, to keep things...

I'm still not on the press list. The Halloween event and the recent California Grill event were both hosted by the Parks blog (totally different people) and both events were open to the public. I got lucky, in other words, for being among the first to sign up. I'd not been to any Parks Blog...

I think I've heard that before. I consider it possible the subject will come up AGAIN given the public response this time.

I'm sort of assuming the DHS party was a trial balloon. Could you imagine a future where MK is home to MNSSHP and all things cuddly... while DHS is home to villains and a SECOND Halloween party? I can.

Whoops! Brain hiccup there. It is indeed the Rapunzel side. I got up too early after a long night :)

EDIT: forgot to disclose the free snacks and drinks (and reserved Noodle Station fireworks viewing, though without the usual upcharge desserts)

I was able to preview the Princess Fairytale Hall on Friday night (note 1: it was not a 'soft opening' and the scheduled opening date is still Sept 18) (note 2: I was part of the DisneyParks blog meet up that got us free admission to the Halloween party, this preview of the Hall, and Glow with...

I agree with all of that. Also: In 2005 (my first year going; it's been an annual thing since then for us, as we have small kids) there was a FREE 5x7 photo snapped of you with the characters in their Halloween finery (I think it was Mickey and Minnie). It came in a themed cardboard frame...

The quandary I face, being in my exact situation, is whether to act like a reporter when Disney doesn't treat me like a reporter. I'm not invited to the press events, where I'd be delighted to be only to ask questions and learn (not be feasted), so from Disney's perspective, I'm a regular Joe...

I heard some folks around me asking (out loud) if she was for real or a plant, and others knew instinctively she was an actress. I knew right away, because her mode of interaction was of a certain type that I had seen in the private-party-Great Movie Ride dinner I got invited to by a company a...

This was my first event with the Parks Blog (except one where I was the guest of someone else, two years ago). I planned to mention the $50 card in my write up, as it kind of shocked me when I saw it. But I did *not* know that the media were given the card as well on their evening a few days...

Oh, I'll be the first to categorize it as a puff piece. It mainly has one goal: to point out that the Universal love-fest (and now-common Disney bashing) is starting to tilt into groupthink. Disney was once quite dominant and can be again... I think folks are starting to lose hope that they will...

I guess my larger point in the article could have been underlined differently (more effectively); I was trying to say that Disney is the industry leader and the 800 pound gorilla for a reason, and it is entirely possible that they can blow us away with these projects still. Put another way...

I did say hi to B. as we passed him, but your face registered as familiar without triggering the automatic name... so it was a few minutes before I realized it. And I felt really dumb, cuz I totally should have known faster. Anyway, yes, send advance notice and we will walk a park somewhere!

My day job has been hopping (and changed a year ago). We need to walk Epcot again or something. I realized the person I passed in Marketplace a few months ago was YOU, but only a few minutes after we passed each other. ARGH!