A very negative title but that's what the video creators have named it. A really interesting watch for those interested in stuff Disney said they would build but never did with lots of detail. Courtesy of Yesterworld Entertainment
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Disney’s Broken Theme Park Promises & False Advertising
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MadderAdder
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A great video! I miss creatives like Eisner.
Cmdr_Crimson
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It all was just....
Disstevefan1
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SURE, he gets to say Disney lies, I say it and folks go NUTS!!
JK! I really like this channel.
Walt Disney1955
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I think the classic false advertising you might see in, say, a Disney commercial is when you see someone at the Contemporary resort open up their window and they can practically touch Cinderella's Castle from there. Okay, I know there are some rooms that would face the Castle and you could see it from your window but it is never that close!
Cmdr_Crimson
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Exactly! They had this one commercial a while back that bugged me where it makes you think that the monorail is similar to DL's and can go inside MK and be very close to Cinderella Castle..
If this was really like this from this perspective it would have been right where the Crystal Palace sits from the Adventureland side
Walt Disney1955
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Exactly! They had this one commercial a while back that bugged me where it makes you think that the monorail is similar to DL's and can go inside MK and be very close to Cinderella Castle..
If this was really like this from this perspective it would have been right where the Crystal Palace sits from the Adventureland side
Just from that picture alone, I can't think of a time on the monorail where you are that close to the Castle. You still have to get into the front of Main street once you get off and then it is a hike up Main Street before the Castle looks THAT close to you.
WorldExplorer
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That reminds me of the trams.
Remember when Epcot and Hollywood Studios trams were going to return in 2022?
Remember when Epcot and Hollywood Studios trams were going to return in 2022?
Goofyernmost
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If I recall correctly if you are on the Monorail you do see the Castle from the monorail entering from TTA and also on the MK Hotel loop and perhaps the best chance was on the EPCOT/MK loop. A different camera lens can create the image that it is closer than it really is. One example of that is the Master Golf Tournament in Augusta, GA. When they show the pictures of Magnolia Lane with the Clubhouse framed by the trees it looks like it is half a mile long. It's not. It is a very short drive in, if you could drive in, but unless you are in the tournament it isn't going to happen anyway. Plus it is promotional imagery, in other words advertising. You don't travel all the way to WDW to see the Castle from the Monorail, but it very strongly suggests that the monorail will take you to MK, which it does. Besides we all should be worldly enough to not believe anything we hear or read and only half of what we see.
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I also think that the one thing guests love about the MK is the feeling seeing the castle gives them. Yes you may not get the view from the monorail that the commercial depicts, but I doubt anyone visiting the MK will be disappointed by that. You can see the spires of the castle pretty much from the TTC, more so if you take the ferry. From the monorail you glimpse it as you exit the Contemporary and turn into the MK station. The real 'reveal' however is from Main Street and what a fantastic reveal it is. I seriously doubt that anyone upon seeing the castle pop into view would feel any less impressed because they thought that from the monorail it would look bigger? You can walk through it and touch it so it's unlikely that anyone would feel cheated by Disney, it's not as though anyone is shelling out extra money to ride the monorail in the belief that they'll get a different view than those who take the bus or ferry?
I usually feel far more frustrated by Disney and Universal when they advertise their actual rides and use CGI heavily even though the ride exists and could be used without it. As an adult it's obvious that I'm not really flying on a broomstick with Harry Potter or really floating in space on Cosmic Rewind, but the commercials use CGI to try to hint that you might be. Yes they're not really trying to rip anyone off as such, but I always think why not spend a few days filming the actual attraction and skip the CGI as the ride's obviously good enough without exaggerating it unnecessarily and making it something it's not.
CaptainAmerica
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That's not what "promises" or "false advertising" mean.
Magenta Panther
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I sure as heck wouldn't call Eisner a "creative", but he did at least seem to LIKE Disney.
Skibum1970
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What about the concept art for Seven Dwarves Mine Train that showed an elaborate layout as compared to what we ended up with? Or the Slink Dog coaster that showed the coaster going through trenches and then not so much? I'm not sure that concept art would count as false advertising, though, as most know that it is an artist's conception but 7DMT was a big miss.
Goofyernmost
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What ride did you go on? I saw the same stuff while actually on the ride that the promotions show. It does go through trenches when it drops down. It does seem like it is going faster but one has to remember that 25 miles per hour looks pretty fast when you are just standing along side it like the camera would be. It's all just camera angles. All they need to do is to turn the camera in the opposite direction the train is running. It looks like a bullet that way. common sense should dictate that the mine train will have many kids on board and to them it seems quite fast.
Dwarf coaster and Slinky both opened differently to the initial promotional imagery. But nothing beats the mid- late 90s promos they did where the CGI and mock ups they used was nothing like the actual experience.
Just under a quarter of a mile long, actually, from the gate to the clubhouse. The pictures do the distance justice.
Let's not forget that both Slinky and 7DMT were changed/shortened from promotional imagery to opening day attraction. But I'm sure that since you don't remember it, it couldn't possibly have happened.
Walt Disney1955
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Universal I can remember did this in the early 1990s with some ads. You are kind of riding a bike on E.T. anyway, but I can remember Kongfrontation and the ads made it look like Kong's head was bigger than the cable car you are in and that he practically grabs you out of it. Also, Jaws never came up on the boat like they pictured either.
Oh for sure, you do see it. Before you hop on the ferry or monorail you can see it from a distance and it sort of has this feeling of anticipation the closer you get to it. So that's fun of course. Obviously you don't see it as close as that ad shows, but then again if you see a hamburger on TV it doesn't look like that when you get it at a fast food place either.
To be honest if people genuinely believed that picture of the ride vehicle being picked up out of the water by a shark, having the roof ripped off and guests being engulfed in flames, then I seriously doubt anyone would have ridden it
King Panda 77
Thank you sir. You were an inspiration.
I hate that they always CGI king Louis off any promotional material for the Jungle cruise .