ImperfectPixie
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That's a blatant ripoff.
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News Magic Kingdom's Main Street Confectionery closing for refurbishment
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That's a blatant ripoff.
UNCgolf
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Animaniac93-98
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It's the Chapek Challange.
To see how much you can get away with charging for something.
note2001
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I don't think it can touch the $25/night fee for parking our cars outside our overpriced hotel rooms.
It's a piece of pavement and we're not taking it home.
Or are we? Hm.
Casper Gutman
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So according to other sites, Disney added some sort of sculpted M&M sign thing to the front of the confectionary and it just seems… inexplicable. Not only does it seem to break theme, but what exactly the other substance with the M&Ms is meant to be is unclear. Is it just me, or is it really awful?
Something like that. I believe it's supposed to be a mix of popcorn and m&m's.
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Casper Gutman
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That may be the intention, but that ain’t popcorn as I know it.
LittleBuford
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Even classic Main Street had anachronistic signage that very conspicuously broke theme (Hallmark and Timex, for example), but I agree that the M&M sculpture does not look good.
Disney Analyst
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It looks fine 
Casper Gutman
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True, of course, but it generally tried to conform broadly to an appropriate thematic form, even if it was anachronistic. This isn’t even clearly signage for the confectionary, it’s some sort of… thing advertising M&Ms.
Honestly, it seems like this is something M&M made and gave to Disney to put up as part of the sponsorship deal and some bored exec just had it nailed… wherever.
LittleBuford
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Those round things next to the M&Ms look weird. They don’t resemble popcorn if that’s what they’re supposed to be. I have no issue with the concept or even the inclusion of M&Ms, but the execution isn’t great.It looks fine
LittleBuford
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Casper Gutman
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The logo does. The signs themselves are consistent with the other, non-branded signs.I disagree. These signs break theme quite egregiously:
ImperfectPixie
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Yeah...as much as I understand how difficult it can be to try to create something that looks organic like popcorn or clumps of oats in trail mix...that just looks so bad. You can't just re-use the same shape over and over like that.
Animaniac93-98
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It's their colour and shape that makes them not look like food. It looks like what it is, a scoop of gold nuggets with some M&Ms.
And it's just sort of there, tacked onto the wall.
If the goal was to add more explicit references to M&Ms to the façade, there were other options.
And it's just sort of there, tacked onto the wall.
If the goal was to add more explicit references to M&Ms to the façade, there were other options.
castlecake2.0
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Still waiting for the party line phone to return
Chomama
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And the people talking in the upstairs windows!