More Wrapped Buses

[lazyboy97o]

Maybe they were waiting until it could be done with more than just a cardboard sign on the side of the bus.

That too occurred years ago. Disney is not pioneering some new idea.

 

[sshindel]

That too occurred years ago. Disney is not pioneering some new idea.

Of course not. So, now we're blaming them for being late to the game?

 

[xdan0920]

or monorail wrap is just not something to get worked up over.

Too far.

 

[DVCOwner]

And yet the idea of bus advertising was avoided for 40 years. Was Disney too stupid to mimic what was happening everywhere else for all those decades?

That is not true, Disney buses at Walt Disney World have always had advertising on the inside of the buses. They have also have contract buses advertising the Disney Cruse Line from the day it started sailing. They do not have Disney Cruse Line buses so that the people riding them know what bus to ride, it is to tell others on the park that next trip you might want to include a cruse. The difference now it the technology of "warping" vehicles has made it very inexpensive to do this without repainting the bus.

 

[lazyboy97o]

Of course not. So, now we're blaming them for being late to the game?

There is a reason they are late. It was either a conscious decision to not place advertisements on the bus or those who make such decisions were oblivious to the common ability to achieve their goal.

 

[jakeman]

Of course not. So, now we're blaming them for being late to the game?

Yes?

Wait! No!

Maybe?

 

[sshindel]

Too far.

Just wait to see how they wrap the ferries next. Think of all that marketing space they'll have available.

 

[jakeman]

Is this a bad time to point out that the Main Street vehicles in the 50s used to advertise without theming the other attractions in park at Disneyland?

 

[DVCOwner]

And yet the idea of bus advertising was avoided for 40 years. Was Disney too stupid to mimic what was happening everywhere else for all those decades?

Also Walt Disney World did not have a web site 40 years ago. It is a change in technology that allows this, nothing more or nothing less.

 

[lazyboy97o]

That is not true, Disney buses at Walt Disney World have always had advertising on the inside of the buses. They have also have contract buses advertising the Disney Cruse Line from the day it started sailing. They do not have Disney Cruse Line buses so that the people riding them know what bus to ride, it is to tell others on the park that next trip you might want to include a cruse. The difference now it the technology of "warping" vehicles has made it very inexpensive to do this without repainting the bus.

This is just more conflating of different things. Advertisements on the interior are not the same process, because otherwise both would have occurred together. Disney Cruise Line buses spend far more time off property than they do on property. Being distinctive also helps to ensure they stick out from the buses moving people around property. They're at least telling you something about what that bus is doing. A Disney Infinity bus isn't going to Disney Infinity Park not is an Agent Carter bus going to Islands of Adventure.

Also Walt Disney World did not have a web site 40 years ago. It is a change in technology that allows this, nothing more or nothing less.

No it is not. Thhe technology has been available and in use for years already.

 

[George]

Also, if the wrap got wrapped around the wheels, they couldn't go round and round anymore. This is really a tough issue with many multifaceted angles and such.

 

[lazyboy97o]

Is this a bad time to point out that the Main Street vehicles in the 50s used to advertise without theming the other attractions in park at Disneyland?

See above. An ad in a park for that park is still connected and informative of the park experience. The wraps point to nothing offered as an experience at Walt Disney World.

 

[sshindel]

See above. An ad in a park for that park is still connected and informative of the park experience. The wraps point to nothing offered as an experience at Walt Disney World.

I can go back to my room at a WDW resort and watch Agent Carter on TV after a long day at the parks.

 

[Hakunamatata]

This thread is my favorite...

You say that about all the threads....

 

[jakeman]

So just curious...is the goal post, like, mounted to the bed of a truck to move around or is it towed in a trailer?

 

[lazyboy97o]

I can go back to my room at a WDW resort and watch Agent Carter on TV after a long day at the parks.

You're really going to try and claim that watching broadcast television is part of the Walt Disney World experience?

 

[arko]

And yet the idea of bus advertising was avoided for 40 years. Was Disney too stupid to mimic what was happening everywhere else for all those decades?

there have been Disney wrapped buses for years just look at the Disneyland buses

See above. An ad in a park for that park is still connected and informative of the park experience. The wraps point to nothing offered as an experience at Walt Disney World.

I can't see ABC shows at Disney Studio's but there have always been billboards promoting them, both in the parking lot and in the parks.

 

[Hakunamatata]

You're really going to try and claim that watching broadcast television is part of the Walt Disney World experience?

It is for me.

 

[flynnibus]

But those deals were made in 1996, almost 20 years ago. Again not today's management (as much as I dislike everything else they have done).

Today's Management are the spawn of the prior management... The needle turned for WDW in the early nineties.

 

[sshindel]

You're really going to try and claim that watching broadcast television is part of the Walt Disney World experience?

And if it was?

I can also play Disney Infinity on my iPhone or iPad while I wait 120 minutes to see Anna and Elsa.