Ugh, yes they did. They called the press in. And made a joke of themselves. Sure it's usually call the press-->announce-->come out impressive, but this was still an announcement, regardless of the poor reaction to it.
Any way you choose to spin this, the fact is they're once again wasting time "announcing" things that should be considered day-to-day operations instead of waking up and smelling the Butterbeer. While we're at it, no need for such a condescending tone.
But they DID make an announcement. It was a lame one. The idea of them notifying news people about it and doing it as a public thing IS kind of funny...but they did, in fact, alert the news people and have a public set-up to announce some new benches and the change in night stuff at MK.
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I'll agree with you here. It seems the only hype is in this thread.
The real issue was stated in an earlier post. Why did this even warrent an announcement? Of any kind. There are people on this board who would point to this announcement and argue that Disney isn't sitiing back and watching Universal surpass them. This is the equivalent of adding extra stalls to the ladies' room. It's not worthy of mentioning. But we all know why Disney announced it, simply to make it look like they are doing something.
On the news, they said there would be changes for Fantasmic, including new seating. The "including" part would lead one to believe that there was going to be more to it. I didn't necessarily make the jump to "expansion", but being a fan, I did wonder what the whole thing was. Obviously, there was nothing In which this was "included." That was it. New seating.
Have you ever heard of Pavlov's classical conditioning? Yes, with the dog and the ringing bell and the food... That's right. Can you really blame a "foamer" (for the record, I'd rather we call one another Disney fans but i digress) for thinking announcement + press = something worthwhile? As the dog was conditioned to think food would come at the sound of the bell, most fans here - at least those who have seen Disney's practices for a while - are conditioned that media + formal announcement = something of value. Obviously the joke's on us since it seems that for some reason, that equation holds true for every resort except the one we love most.
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