One thing to point out, remember how everyone says that there were never any lightbulbs not replaced 'back in the day'? Look at the 10:50 min mark there's 7 blown and not replaced on the Emporium sign alone along with a lot missing on Main Street and this was in 1973
www.youtube.com/watch?v=15W1Q-1hnDk&list=WL&index=107
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No it's definitely been claimed on here that "every night lights were checked and replaced". Perhaps all 7 went a moment or so before that was filmed and perhaps 10 seconds later we missed CM's replacing them and giving free merch away to anyone who witnessed it?
They would not have come out to change a lightbulb while on stage. In the days of the short lived incandescent they would have had ladders up all over the place. They did replace them overnight, but hundreds of others went out the next day up until very recently. They might have come out to fix a defective mechanical show item, but they also closed the attraction down to do that. Many people felt that if all they had was one day to see places like MK then they preferred to see one item not working then to not see any of them at all. And that only seems logical.No it's definitely been claimed on here that "every night lights were checked and replaced". Perhaps all 7 went a moment or so before that was filmed and perhaps 10 seconds later we missed CM's replacing them and giving free merch away to anyone who witnessed it?
Seriously though, I'm not arguing that standards are as good as they were all those years ago now. Yes there's vast room for improvement in the present Disney especially with the prices so high. It's just when I noticed that it reminded me of how we so often hear on here about how small details were never missed at Disney and how perfect everything was. That clearly wasn't the case but it's one of those things that's said that it's difficult to prove and so get's trotted out every time there's chipped paintwork or a missing bulb caught now. It struck me as odd that for the first time we can see that perhaps our memory was playing tricks on us as there's clearly a lot of missing lightbulbs in a very prominent area there before our very eyes at a time we're told that stuff like that never happened?
Look at those burnt out lightbulbs in 1973, I thought that didnāt happen till the 2000s?One thing to point out, remember how everyone says that there were never any lightbulbs not replaced 'back in the day'? Look at the 10:50 min mark there's 7 blown and not replaced on the Emporium sign alone along with a lot missing on Main Street and this was in 1973
www.youtube.com/watch?v=15W1Q-1hnDk&list=WL&index=107
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Well that's what some say, apparently hundreds went each night? I went in the 70's and certainly the standards appeared to be better back then. I think back then there were more cast members on maintenance to the point that almost like firemen that some staff were there just in case they were needed. I would never argue that standards are better now but I'm kind of pointing out that some of the claims taken as Gospel about things like not seeing chipped paint or burnt out light bulbs were not true and I'm just providing receipts of that.
Yea, there werenāt many people in that footage that appeared to be overweight, even older folks.
I myself am 5ā-10ā and weigh about 260 lbs., and even though Iām down about 25 lbs. from a few months ago, Iām still well into the obese category.
Also, except for that short scene with the two strollers, there was a noticeable lack of them, as well as wheelchairs.
Was there even such a thing as āstroller parkingā back thenā¦?!
Even more reason to make the statement about "Never seeing light bulbs out" even more laughable. We've literally gone from saying it never used to happen to now making excuses for the very thing 'that never happened'
Even more reason to make the statement about "Never seeing light bulbs out" even more laughable. We've literally gone from saying it never used to happen to now making excuses for the very thing 'that never happened'
I first went there in 1983 and to be honest I never even noticed if there were strollers or not, so I'd have to guess that there weren't many. They had lights out, they had chipped paint and they had animatronics that weren't working. I spent about three days in MK alone and what I do remember is anything I saw broken one day was fixed by the next or the attraction was shut down. Over the many consecutive years I went to WDW I never really saw any decline until all the extra "clean up staff" was reduced because they stopped open smoking in the parks, except for designated areas. Then it took a little longer for trash pickup to get coverage of the whole park.Yea, there werenāt many people in that footage that appeared to be overweight, even older folks.
I myself am 5ā-10ā and weigh about 260 lbs., and even though Iām down about 25 lbs. from a few months ago, Iām still well into the obese category.
Also, except for that short scene with the two strollers, there was a noticeable lack of them, as well as wheelchairs.
Was there even such a thing as āstroller parkingā back thenā¦?!
