A Spirited Dirty Dozen ...

Mike S

Mike S

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Tahu said:
Don't you know? Disney has no confidence in the parks being able to stand on their own. Why do you think the "Disneyland 60th" anniversary special was shot entirely at some theater nowhere near Disneyland and focused on promoting movies and TV?
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photoginit said:
And is it just me or does the new Mickey for Shanghai DL look creepy.
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I actually like both of those...
 
brb1006

brb1006

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photoginit said:
The Shanghai DL special was awful. Who thought it was a good idea to have her talk over freaking everything. Ugh. What a joke. But am i surprised, nope.
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That special actually was first shown two days ago (During the morning in the US) which I caught on Youtube which Disney streamed on it's official Youtube channel. They decided to use the same concert for this special.
 
WDW1974

WDW1974

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BrianLo said:
Unless there are 50k people hiding in tomorrow land, crowds are seemingly non existent
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CNBC was showing holding pens with many people waiting to get in at 1:30 local time. My guess is that Guests were held in large groups outside to avoid any potential stampedes (like the one that occurred along the Bund a few years ago that killed a large number of people). I am curious to hear and read other accounts of the day, though. Been too busy to do so yet.
 
brb1006

brb1006

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Tahu said:
The "Rosie O'Donnell and Drew Carey Show cast go to California Adventure" one was a fun cringe comedy. The Superstar Limo bit is a treasure.
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If you want to talk cringe comedy watch the opening of Epcot from 1982 where the host was singing in front of Spaceship Earth.
 
thehowiet

thehowiet

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I DVR'd the special that was on earlier tonight and am watching it now. Not sure I'm going to make it all the way through though. Thanks to the folks who posted the link without the play-by-play. If they were going to commentate the whole thing the least they could have done was given us Bill Walton instead: "Throw it down big fella!"

I also think the Imagineers might have over tightened Iger's screws when they put him together...unless he's in B-mode?

WDW1974 said:
Apparently, the John Lasseter meet-greet-and-drink was a highlight for American visitors (but, oy, that shirt!)
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Really looking forward to reading about Tom's experiences over there. Looks like he's having a good time.
 
WDW1974

WDW1974

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OK, putting this link here because the thread on the young boy attacked by an alligator at the Grand Flo has just ballooned and has so much insanity mixed with defending Disney mixed with parental blame mixed with this is the media's fault that I was hoping saner heads would read it and understand that the AP is still about as staid a news organization as you will find. This isn't sensationalistic in any way and depicts that Disney has had issues with gators ... I recommend the story in The Wrap as well because they broke news that Disney was having issues with people tossing food to the gators from the nearby Poly bungalows (something I guarantee you was never brought up during talks about issues that could arise in building the pricey villas).

Oh, and apparently Georgie K had to fly back from Shanghai early because Bob certainly wasn't going to. I believe he is back now already.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/af...nings/ar-AAh6Zl2?li=BBnbfcL&ocid=TOSHIBADHP15
 
WDW1974

WDW1974

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brb1006 said:
The night ceremony gave me vibes to the Sochi Olympics due to the music heard. Also the US used to have shows like that?
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I was at the openings of EPCOT and Disney-MGM Studios and they were uplifting classy affairs, ones that I probably didn't fully appreciate in my youth. I also attended the opening of DCA, which was ... was ... was something else.

But DLP also had a splashy opening, including a CBS special (they also had an EPCOT Center one, which is famous for having been hosted by Danny Kaye and a young child actress by the name of Drew Barrymore).
 
WDW1974

WDW1974

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BrianLo said:
Chatted up someone in line who is involved with ticketing and they agreed. Park is pretty much sold to slightly less than their projected theoretical capacity.

I found the crowds. They all are in Tron/Soarin/Rapids standby.

Regardless - it's quite pleasant and FP works for the big 3. The takeaway is get a Soarin FP first, go and do all of fantasyland next then head back.

A few other notes, everything is open, landscaping is finally in. I fell off keeping track but I hadn't seen tomorrow land landscaped at all and the hub still had issues. It needs to fill in over the next few months but at least it's planted.

Is it show ready? Yes. By the skin of their teeth? Abso-freaking-lutely. I'm happy with tree numbers but like all new parks it will look much better in 5-10 years.
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I believe the NYT reported it was capped at 35,000. Considering what you get regularly at MK, DL and TDL, that number, if true, is very, very small and designed so that everything goes smoothly until the press goes home in a few days ...

The big three? Aren't you leaving one out? Pirates IS the star of that park's lineup (yeah, hate it when I have to say told ya so).

As to the looks, I'm hearing lots of criticism for the general design and layout, landscaping aside. Are you staying on site?
 
WDW1974

WDW1974

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djlaosc said:
They've just been talking about Shanghai Disneyland opening on Good Morning Britain, and the reporter said that Bob Iger refused to have a sit down interview, and so asked him while he was walking something along the lines of "Has Shanghai Disneyland been built without corrupt practices?", to which he replied along the lines of "I don't want to talk about that."
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That's a loaded question. I would have liked to have heard exactly how it was worded. But he sure can't think on his feet to save his life because that wasn't the right way to answer at all.
 

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