Error in the TTA narration?

[blm07]

When attraction originally opened, I'm sure it was supposed to be only one family. Walt didn't plan the attraction to be open so long, so now it's kind of a stretch for the family to live so long. Maybe Disney is just trying to cover it up with the new TTA narration. Though, dad still looks like the same guy all these years :lookaroun

Also, I trust wiki for most information, like I need a professor to tell me what's right and wrong about Disney.

 

[ChrisFL]

ok, wikipedia often cites articles at the bottom that you can find the original information, and that part should be accurate.

 

[Wilt Dasney]

I don't think you can cite this as a flat-out error, so much as an alternate interpretation of the show. And no disrespect to MissM, but even a Disney source doesn't settle the issue in my mind.

When Disney says it's one family, they clearly don't mean that in the way it would normally be interpreted. They're just coming up with an easy way to explain what happens in the show without delving into metaphysics. It doesn't strike me so much as a definitive answer to this question as it seems the kind of response you'd get when you ask about the plot of a movie that's hard to describe.

("Well, there's this family, see...well, I guess they're one family...it's not exactly clear in places..." *other person starts getting glazed eyes* "Yeah, it's about this family...")

It's clearly not one family in the literal narrative sense (they may not even be the same characters from scene to scene, except for Dad)...so you can say it's one family in the archetypal sense (The American Family), or in the fictional characters never age sense (the Mickey from Steamboat Willie is the same Mickey seen today), or in the "jeez-we're-having-fun-so-don't-think-too-hard-about-this" sense. All of which I can respect. Nothing wrong with any of them. But they're no more definitive in my mind than the four families idea.

 

[Krack]

1984 MK Guidebook:

Trace 100 years of Progress for People as a hosting family demonstrates the many conveniences made possible in American life by a century of innovation in electricity.

1987 MK Guidebook:

Trace 100 years of Progress for People as an Audio Animatronics family demonstrates the many conveniences made possible in American life by a century of innovation in electricity.

1991 MK Guidebook:

Follow an Audio Animatronics family through 100 years of worth of electronic gadgets, contraptions and innovations in this revolving theater.

2005 MK Guidemap:

Follow a family through 100 years of progress.

 

[Phonedave]

1984 MK Guidebook:

Trace 100 years of Progress for People as a hosting family demonstrates the many conveniences made possible in American life by a century of innovation in electricity.

Now you open a whole other can of worms.

A HOSTING family implies that they are hosting something, such as a show, as opposed to a glimpse into the real life of a family.

So now you also have the option of wondering is it the same family of ACTORS who are portraying (or DEMONSTRATING) the various eras in American History.

Or you could just not worry about it, and take it for what it is - a demonstration.

I don't see people getting worked up about how all the Presidents appear at the same time in the HoP

-dave

 

[thelookingglass]

1984 MK Guidebook:

Trace 100 years of Progress for People as a hosting family demonstrates the many conveniences made possible in American life by a century of innovation in electricity.

1987 MK Guidebook:

Trace 100 years of Progress for People as an Audio Animatronics family demonstrates the many conveniences made possible in American life by a century of innovation in electricity.

1991 MK Guidebook:

Follow an Audio Animatronics family through 100 years of worth of electronic gadgets, contraptions and innovations in this revolving theater.

2005 MK Guidemap:

Follow a family through 100 years of progress.

Its funny how the descriptions of attractions on guide maps keep getting shorter and simpler.

2012 MK Guidemap:

"Watch stuff happen."

 

[Wilt Dasney]

I don't see people getting worked up about how all the Presidents appear at the same time in the HoP

Time travel. That's my theory.