Disneyland 60th Anniversary Special

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raven

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Stevek said:
I gave up watching those years ago. As I've seen in many places, this show wasn't about the hardcore fans like you, me and the rest of the gang here. It's meant for the average joe and they attempt to appeal to the masses...which I think they still could have done if they set the actual live performances entirely in the park. But it is what it is.
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Live performances are good but most of them didn't have anything to do with Disneyland. I would've loved to see someone performing songs from old attractions or even an old parade or Diamond Horseshoe Review.
 
hokielutz

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MoonRakerSCM said:
I expected some sort of modern Disney channel type mess for this special, but I tuned in for a bit out of curiosity.

Wow... what idiot assembled this? A mish mash of generic Disney stuff with no sense of purpose or relation, why even call it a 60th Disneyland special? This has nothing to do with Disneyland and is a blatant ad for Disney the company...

Perhaps I was already in a sour mood this weekend but damn this 'special' was complete utter crap.
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Walt Disney, before Disneyland was finished, leveraged marketing for his upcoming parks through a regular TV program called 'The Wonderful World of Disney.' It was used not just to entertain, but to show off/market the upcoming theme park. Eisner, in his earlier years, continued this tradition as he introduced the film playing that night on WWoD.

So yes... it was, as expected, a two hour celebrity studded affair that put Disney Parks front and center, and designed to drive family discussions around the dinner tables this week about which Mouse property they should visit this year.


I expect NBC/Comcast to cry foul this week, or start broadcasting the 8 Harry Potter films with plugs for Univ Studios & Potter World.
 
GiveMeTheMusic

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hokielutz said:
Walt Disney, before Disneyland was finished, leveraged marketing for his upcoming parks through a regular TV program called 'The Wonderful World of Disney.' It was used not just to entertain, but to show off/market the upcoming theme park. Eisner, in his earlier years, continued this tradition as he introduced the film playing that night on WWoD.

So yes... it was, as expected, a two hour celebrity studded affair that put Disney Parks front and center, and designed to drive family discussions around the dinner tables this week about which Mouse property they should visit this year.


I expect NBC/Comcast to cry foul this week, or start broadcasting the 8 Harry Potter films with plugs for Univ Studios & Potter World.
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No need, they advertised Potter during the special.

The special did not put the parks front and center, they were a barely mentioned afterthought. People are annoyed/disappointed because the parks weren't front and center.
 
hokielutz

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GiveMeTheMusic said:
No need, they advertised Potter during the special.

The special did not put the parks front and center, they were a barely mentioned afterthought. People are annoyed/disappointed because the parks weren't front and center.
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The way I am reading the message boards... is the fan base is upset that it did not put DisneyLAND front and center.... but talked up a number of the other properties & assets. That was my point.
 
GiveMeTheMusic

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hokielutz said:
The way I am reading the message boards... is the fan base is upset that it did not put DisneyLAND front and center.... but talked up a number of the other properties & assets. That was my point.
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Shanghai was described for 2-3 minutes. WDW, TDR, DLRP, HKDL never came up. Disneyland itself was mentioned in passing a few times, with a few segments filmed at the park. The majority of the program were musical performances from Disney films in the Dolby Theater, which has nothing to do with Disneyland or the parks.

People just wanted a Disneyland 60 special about/featuring Disneyland. I don't think that's too weird or out there.
 
hokielutz

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raven said:
...for younger audiences.


It's Disney's song, not Idina's. She only gets a small percentage she performs it. The rest goes to Disney and the song writer (Robert Lopez). The movie is 2 1/2 years old now but Disney keeps pushing it because it was the only girly/royalty/merchandise item and they've had in a while and have yet to make another item to take it's place. But it is very overwhelming.
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Yes I know it is Disney's IP... but Idina's performance is what sold the tune. I did not mean that Idina is raking in millions per year for the one song.... but it spurred a windfall of professional exposure and success for her, and in turn she profited from it.

By the way... isn't it a bit unrealistic to expect anyone to come up with a regular release of new kid friendly IPs that sets records at the box office? Yes movie studios can and do produce a solid line up of films and characters.... but Frozen was a rare combination of the right characters, story, music, and timing to send people to the movies. I don't expect the sequel will even come close to sniffing the original's performance.
 
prberk

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GiveMeTheMusic said:
Shanghai was described for 2-3 minutes. WDW, TDR, DLRP, HKDL never came up. Disneyland itself was mentioned in passing a few times, with a few segments filmed at the park. The majority of the program were musical performances from Disney films in the Dolby Theater, which has nothing to do with Disneyland or the parks.

People just wanted a Disneyland 60 special about/featuring Disneyland. I don't think that's too weird or out there.
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Actually, Walt Disney World did come up, when they showed the preview for Star Wars Land. They said it would be coming to both.

But overall I have to say that I was conflicted.

I did want more Disneyland. A special about Disneyland should be a special about, um, Disneyland! It should have shown more history of the park (Wally Boag and the Golden Horseshoe; Steve Martin and the Magic Shop; landmark attractions -- it's a small world, Pirates of the Caribbean, the Haunted Mansion, the train, Space Mountain, Indiana Jones, The House of the Future, the monorail, and even DCA attractions; parades -- the MSEP, Paint the Night, Candlelight Processional, World of Color; the hotels; the night life (grad parties, musical acts like The Beach Boys, Satchmo, and the Osmond Brothers who have performed there). They could also have had fantastic musical numbers -- but maybe feature the theme park songs instead.

And, of course, they could have still promoted the upcoming Star Wars Land just as they did.

But where I am conflicted is with the performances and execution themselves. They were very well-done, and in taking what I thought was a tone similar to the Academy Awards (even at the same theatre), they came across to me as very classy. I thought both the Star Wars symphony segment and the dance segment (especially Mary Poppins' "Step-In-Time") were very, very classy and well-polished.

On that I appreciate them taking the high road and giving it the live, Academy-Award production values.

What we got, though, would have been more appropriate for the Walt Disney "100 Years of Magic" celebration or something similar. This one missed the chance to really celebrate Disneyland.

I guess they had to first decide where to host the event -- and if they needed an enclosed space, the Dolby Theatre was great for that -- incomparable to anything at DL itself. So, I appreciate that, especially for the song-and-dance numbers; but I do believe that overall they needed more of Disneyland.
 
Stevek

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raven said:
Live performances are good but most of them didn't have anything to do with Disneyland. I would've loved to see someone performing songs from old attractions or even an old parade or Diamond Horseshoe Review.
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Which is pretty much what I, along with one of the other posters was saying. If you watch alot of the really old Disneyland TV shows, they had all sorts of groups performing songs inside Disneyland. That made sense even though the songs themselves weren't even Disney songs. Those shows were filmed entirely in the park and a celebration of Disneyland and the things that happened inside Disneyland.
 
lazyboy97o

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zooey said:
I enjoyed it. Could have been more about Disneyland certainly but I have a feeling that had it been a documentary like many think t should have been nobody would have watched it. They wanted to make some event programming that would appeal to even casual Disney fans, not just hardcore Disneyland fans. We're talking a national broadcast here in a competitive time slot. In that regard they did what they needed to do. None of that is meant for people who use Disney forums in their spare time... It's an ad for people who may not have even known it was Disneylands 60th.
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It didn't need to be a documentary to be about Disneyland. This would have been a perfectly fine event next year to celebrate 80 years of feature animation.

networkpro said:
Disneyland park was the launching point where the ideas expressed in the prior film works finally had a tangible physical presence, that's the idea behind the whole DisneyParks concept. From that original starting point its only grown in the same place and in different locations and is still part of the locations that attempt to make dreams come true. If it were limited in the fashion that you are espousing, it would only have been a locally televised event in the LA area since the majority of attendance is from the local area.
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Disneyland was not about just building rides for movies. If it was it was an utter failure for decades.
 
Den Carter

Den Carter

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Does anyone know if it's possible to somehow watch this in the UK? The online stream on ABC's website won't work here. Anyone know if a UK broadcaster is picking this up? Thanks
 
Curious Constance

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I definitely would have preferred more park centric stuff and performances performed IN the park, as I'll take any glimpse I can get into Disneyland. Heck, I order the vacation planning DVDs yearly just to geek out with my kids on all the park coverage.
Having said that, I can also enjoy these kinds of blatant Disney advertisements for what they are. And there were 3 different park performances, so that was cool.
I like hearing different renditions of Disney classics too.
Basically, I'm not too hard to please.
 
GiveMeTheMusic

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Den Carter said:
Does anyone know if it's possible to somehow watch this in the UK? The online stream on ABC's website won't work here. Anyone know if a UK broadcaster is picking this up? Thanks
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Try using the Hola browser extension to visit ABC's website. It will make it think you're American and allow you to watch the stream.
 

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