iheartdisney91
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oh well SORRY! i want the wand to stay but like i said this thread isnt gunna help unless we talk to the wdw co. but they would never listen. just trying to be reasonable.
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Reason the Wand may come down?
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oh well SORRY! i want the wand to stay but like i said this thread isnt gunna help unless we talk to the wdw co. but they would never listen. just trying to be reasonable.
So you're saying the decisions once decreed by WDI can be overridden? Like a 7-year rule for a wand?
Seems like there is a new sheriff in town...
ToTBellHop
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All of these threads end up being arguments over whether or not the wand should stay (because someone in the know ALWAYS says it's permanent and yet we will have a new thread next week on this). Note that this is a News and Rumors forum. There is no news pertaining to the wand and yet another rumor has been debunked. Discussions of whether or not it should stay really belong in General Discussion. I wouldn't mind talking about the SSE postshow, though. Any news on it? I haven't heard much and yet it's supposed to open in the near future. Granted, I'm not expecting too much...New Global Neighborhood was definitely cool looking, but not a life-changing experience. It's a rather large space though...could be cool. Hopefully it's not "Big Ball Post Show with Flik the Ant and Friends"...
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ToTBellHop
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Please read more than the first post of a thread with over 100 posts before posting........................
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Expo_Seeker40
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I just let the tear line tag be there....:drevil:
Forgot what EOC was.....I assume it's about how the ride has been operating nearly everyday and at almost full park hours since 2003? :shrug:
Forgot what EOC was.....I assume it's about how the ride has been operating nearly everyday and at almost full park hours since 2003? :shrug:
And millions of guests loved having their picture taken with the Chinese Theatre at the end of Hollywood Blvd. To really say otherwise really runs contrary to the millions of other people who go to the REAL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood just have their picture taken outside around some footprints. The building is a symbol of Hollywood in its golden age, which is exactly what MGM was about in its opening decade. Disney made a conscious decision to stray from that, and the park is weaker because of it.
Ok...so you want you picture in front of the chinese theatre.....here's an idea...walk around the hat...no more obstruction of view...:ROFLOL: now that wasn't too hard was it
Jerriko
Ok...so you want you picture in front of the chinese theatre.....here's an idea...walk around the hat...no more obstruction of view...:ROFLOL: now that wasn't too hard was it
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Expo_Seeker40
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well yes I agree with both of you with regards to the chinese theatre, but since most guests don't have a very wide angle lens on or for their camera...they can't get the entire chinese theatre in the background, usually just the main pagoda... or if taken from the side, you still loose much of the chinese theatre.
Why can' t they take the earful tower, stick it outside the entrance over the large circular flower bed used for the x-mas tree and have the parks true symbol right out front for people to take pics of. Then take the hat and put somewhere else in the park, or in my opinion somewhere near fantasmic.
Why can' t they take the earful tower, stick it outside the entrance over the large circular flower bed used for the x-mas tree and have the parks true symbol right out front for people to take pics of. Then take the hat and put somewhere else in the park, or in my opinion somewhere near fantasmic.
dxwwf3
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That would probably be the best thing that could happen, but unfortunately it won't.
duck_daddy
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Also very mature?
Run and tell? I would think a Ph.D. student at Yale could handle a little more than that! He shouldn't have jumped, but you jumped first. This person has a right to post after reading the first post if he/she wishes. Why does it always come to this?
ToTBellHop
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The issue with all such decisions is returns. Do they get any more money by putting the Earfel Tower outside the entrance?
I do agree, however, that the Earfel Tower is HORRIBLY placed. It's almost impossible to get a good picture of it and pretty much impossible to have a picture of it with your family in the foreground. Poor design...of course, MGM is the most poorly designed of the four theme parks. No real organization.
I do agree, however, that the Earfel Tower is HORRIBLY placed. It's almost impossible to get a good picture of it and pretty much impossible to have a picture of it with your family in the foreground. Poor design...of course, MGM is the most poorly designed of the four theme parks. No real organization.
Expo_Seeker40
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It was done for two things...one more than the other. The tower was placed next to the road to promote the park IMO....and also to be in theme with a water tower on the backlot of yesteryear.
I still like the take it down and put at the entrance again. I understood easily as a child why the watertower was the parks symbol i.e. old hollywood, etc...I still don't understand how mickey's hat from fantasia evokes everything that is the hollywood that never was, but always will be...unless that mean the hollywood never full of giant hats, but always will be!
As far as returns....what the hat is to merchandise...so could the earful tower be on shirts, caps, mugs, pins, and even special ear hats with the black and white pattern.
I still like the take it down and put at the entrance again. I understood easily as a child why the watertower was the parks symbol i.e. old hollywood, etc...I still don't understand how mickey's hat from fantasia evokes everything that is the hollywood that never was, but always will be...unless that mean the hollywood never full of giant hats, but always will be!
As far as returns....what the hat is to merchandise...so could the earful tower be on shirts, caps, mugs, pins, and even special ear hats with the black and white pattern.
ToTBellHop
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It's true, but I figured the point of putting the hat where it is was also so they could take pictures of guests in front (and charge, what? $20 a piece?), which I guess they can't do with the Chinese Theatre (I didn't know that, but now I do). I'm not sure they could do that with the hat outside the park...and it'd be tough to get a wide shot. I'm sure there would also be issues w/ security check being right there. I'd certainly love for it to be there as much as you (I don't like the current location), I'm just not sure it'd work. They should have used some forced perspective and put it on top of the Great Movie Ride, making it look like it was behind it. That would've looked nice in the pics.
You are correct sir. Way I hear it the current WDI has become such a corporate mess that is a merely an empty shell of what it used to be. It will need a complete top down makeover before it is capable of making decisions for the parks.
Thats why Marty Sklar and others left, their little party (sit fat, dumb and happy collecting big bucks for kissing up to the executives) was over.
His name is John Lasseter.
This guy and the brain trust he has assembled are extremly passionate about Disney, they love the company, its history, and the philosophies it was built upon. They, like most people, feel that in recent years the Disney company has lost sight of one thing...quality. Lasseter and his team, as well as other new rising stars in the company are hoping to correct past misteps and usher in a bold new era.
ToTBellHop
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Too bad he doesn't seem to care about WDW too much...yet. Maybe that would change with a corporate shake-up. I think we will see some changes once the YoaMD is over and final numbers arrive and they can't be explained away no matter how good the current head honchos are with PowerPoint.
WDW Monorail
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Mr. Iger!! Tear down that wand!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Whats interesting is taht he said SOME TIME AGO it was decided the wand would stay for at least SEVEN Years.
So if "some time ago" was 2000..the wand has now been up for seven years since its 2007.
ToTBellHop
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he also said it will be here for a long, long, long time. I believe the statement was that it will be there as long as Spaceship Earth is...pretty unambiguous to me.