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One Little Spark...
Old thread, but...I'd forgotten about it. Glancing through it reminded me...it was a heck of a lot of fun!True entitlement!
Old thread, but...I'd forgotten about it. Glancing through it reminded me...it was a heck of a lot of fun!True entitlement!
I know you are making a point and all, and imma let you finish, but she had a "talent"....it went viral.The allure of an 85 million dollar net worth without any talent is strong.
I know you are making a point and all, and imma let you finish, but she had a "talent"....it went viral.
I'm not one to quote HuffPo, but this sums it up perfectly.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/wait-but-why/generation-y-unhappy_b_3930620.html
In my opinion, 100% yes.
I will not go into details, but I feel that certain guests are receiving constant, greater experiences simply because of their viewer counts on social media. I am not talking about a sweet "something extra" here and there, but more along the lines of every visit, getting special treatments and interactions. Being allowed to go where other guests can't, getting more than 20 minutes of one on one time with characters, being allowed behind counters, etc.
It seems that unless you dress your child up as a character, they will be seen as "less worthy" of getting the same treatment. Try explaining that to a kid sometime.
I am sure there are many "supporters" of this type of thing, as its seen as "cute", but try to look at the bigger picture. There are MANY of these types of accounts out there now, and its increasingly becoming worse and worse.
Please let me know if I am out of line in thinking this way. Shed some light on what I am missing.
I don't think anyone here would have a problem with what you're doing (unless your outfit looks so realistic that it confuses other guests into thinking you're a cast member, but that's a separate issue). The problem would be if you used your cosplay as a way to drum up hundreds of thousands of social media followers and then used that influence to get Universal Studios to give you special perks at the expense of other guests.To say that dressing up says you feel entitled is completely untrue. I am a 15 year old slightly aspergic jurassic park (and disney and trains) nerd. The next time I go to universal studios islands of adventure, I am going to dress up as a jurassic park scien tist complete with a lab coat which has an ingen patch on the sleeve and a Jurassic Park patch which is acuratrate to the film underneath the left pocket. I will wear my jurassic park t-shirt and my hand made id tag, and I will carry around a jurassic park clipboard which will have 20 pages of hand typed paperwork and last but not least my handbuilt embryo canister. The entire time I will be in character but am I expecting special treatment, no. just to say dressing up does not mean entitlement but to add that mom is a horrible person for the values she is raising her child on.
Quickly I apologize for the spelling and grammar as I am typing this on my tablet which is to say the least difficult. The rant is over and please don't disregard this post and the point I m trying to make because of these two reasons 1 this my first post.2 I am a menber of generation z.
Rant Is officially ended.
I hate to say it, but Walt Disney World is not there as a charity to provide EQUAL experience for the guest. People with a better financial status always have a better experiences. They stay at better hotels, eat better meals and get better service. I had a private party a few years back at Disney Hollywood Studios. When planning I was given a list of extras that I could add to the party and they included everything from private viewing areas, private meet and greets with Mickey, tours of things the public cannot see extra, etc. We had thirty people meeting one night and we did rent a private viewing area for Fantasmics!. We included a full dinner and drinks before the show. everyone in the group paid their share and it cost each of us a few bucks, but was well worth it. PS, did not have a private meeting with Mickey because it would have cost more than the dinner for 30 people.
The only people who make a big deal about this stuff are people that spend way too much time on the net. Who care what a little girl gets? Make your own magic happen. CMs pay attention to people that stand out. The buttons, costumes, or even doing something for another guest that gets noticed.
We talk to people that are standing around us. I moved for two moms that had children so they could watch MSEP in front of the castle in the FP area. They were smaller kids, and because I wasn't another ignorant adult, those kids got the view of a lifetime. I talked to the moms, then the dads. I thought they would never stop thanking me.
A couple left their camera bag at WL in the lobby while we were waiting for the ADR at Whispering Canyon. After 15 minutes they didn't come back, I picked it up and took it to concierge. I was repaid by karma later, when I lost something of mine and received it back at lost and found.
So my point, just enjoy the parks, sweet jesus, stop worrying so much about other people and what they are doing and worry about yourselves. Go out, be happy. I have recently hit really bad times and it is hard to be positive. But my vacation was perfect and I fall back on those memories to get me through it sometimes.
I was waiting for someone to bring up Tommy. I've also been waiting for someone to bring up Little Pan at Disneyland.
I think Tommy is a fantastic, motivational person. Let me make that very, very clear. He is an outstanding human being, a friend to all and someone a lot of people could learn a lot from.
That said, it is undeniable that Tommy has been given magical moments beyond those that are the norm. Hundreds of disabled children visit Disney daily and struggle with the new disability services, especially with long and unpredictable character lines. Tommy has been given many exclusive meet and greets, greets after closed lines, etc. When Tommy sees characters before they go on their break, he is essentially extending a closed line, that backs up into the next set, and so on and so forth. That character must take the same time on break regardless. He has many extended interactions with characters, and greets like the Fantasmic backstage. That Fantasmic is very, very hard to access. It's marked as Characterpalooza, but that is most definitely on the island. A certain IG account just did the very same greet, after remarking the day before how she hadn't seen Fantasmic in years because it was boring. But her trolley friends were quick to save that day.
On to Little Pan. Pan also has a very talented mother, who makes him male character costumes. They are amazing. The major difference? West Coast. Although he has great interactions with daily characters, as well parades, he has no entourage, no boom mics, etc.
I thought of Tommy too with this thread. And maybe it's hypocritical of me, but I really have no problem with him doing what he is doing. I mean, if they are waiting their turn or this is something Disney is willing to give them, then where is the harm? I think he is a great motivator with his running and his great bubbly personality and you can see why the characters LOVE spending time with him. I think it's a win-win for both his family and Disney. I just don't see them as entitled or expecting to be treated a certain way. In comparison, I can see the mother's costume hobby as being a means of 'getting attention.' She may not ask for special favors but I am sure there is a line of thinking like 'I wonder what reaction we will get if I dress my little girl up like a parade performer or ice cream shop girl.' But I can't REALLY fault that either. They put the effort into it and the CMs take notice.
Again, I am still on the fence with it. I am in the mind of 'no one said life was fair' and people get what they put in to their vacation. If you are just going for a meet and greet, the kid doesn't dress up and then doesn't talk to the character, the character will lead the conversation, get the picture and move you along. But if you dress the girl up, whether in a homemade dress or not, and the kid is really talkative, the character has more to do and makes a better connection causing a longer meet. It's just how it is. So I really am not offended, jealous, or upset that someone gets more character time than me. I worry about myself.
But then I do understand where it would be aggravating to some people when you see the same people get these kind of treats ALL THE TIME; it does make you wonder what goes on behind the scenes. And even I sometimes roll my eyes when I see people go a little overboard on the ‘look at me, give me attention’ actions. However, how many lines have we all stood in with self-absorbed people like that? Not THAT many, I am sure. To me, we have no idea how many other people the CMs 'cater' too like this. We just take notice of these two (Lane and Tommy) because they are on the internets. How many people get just as much attention but doesn’t necessarily post it? We don’t know. So entitled? No, not really. The posse/photo shoot thing is a little much but most of the time, I think it is just people taking the opportunities offered to them.
And this is exactly why I didn't want to bring up any single account. Shes VERY popular, great..awesome..wonderful for her. How about the many copy cats that are appearing? How long before its to the point where the only way to get any sort of special interaction is to spend time and money designing costumes?
Disney is supposed to be an EQUAL experience for the guest, regardless of social or financial status. I am aware celebrities have been getting special treatment for years, but it hardly every impacts other guests, as is what happens in cases like this.
Example: Not getting to meet a character because they spend 20 minutes with the special little girl in front of you, and run out of time.
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