News Reimagined Toontown coming

[SuddenStorm]

I particularly liked this photo of a Toontown CM just before park opening this past Saturday.

He's dreaming of a better shift, somewhere else.

I think I finally figured out what bothers me about those CM costumes- they're gaudy and cheap versions of everyday clothes. There's probably 100 dads wearing those exact shoes in the park. And the material looks flimsy and artificial.

I'm not expecting Italian wool or anything here, and if one compares the Haunted Mansion costumes from say the '80s to now it is apparent that the material is cheaper in the modern iterations- but these Toontown ones just look bad.

 

[Jiggsawpuzzle35]

I particularly liked this photo of a Toontown CM just before park opening this past Saturday.

He's dreaming of a better shift, somewhere else.

I hated working Toontown when I worked there ages ago. I feel for that person.

 

[PiratesMansion]

I think I finally figured out what bothers me about those CM costumes- they're gaudy and cheap versions of everyday clothes. There's probably 100 dads wearing those exact shoes in the park. And the material looks flimsy and artificial.

I'm not expecting Italian wool or anything here, and if one compares the Haunted Mansion costumes from say the '80s to now it is apparent that the material is cheaper in the modern iterations- but these Toontown ones just look bad.

Flip the colors and make the pants shorts, and you're looking at the standard ride op uniform at Cedar Point and other Cedar Fair-run parks (can't remember offhand if Knott's uses the standard Cedar Fair uniforms or not).

It feels very lazy to me.

 

[TP2000]

I like a lot of what I've seen of the redone ToonTown, but the Dreaming Tree or whatever is just hilariously bad. It reads like something they planned out and then forgot about, and as it got close to the opening they had to scramble and ended up with this.

Agreed.

I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall in the conference room for the Emergency Party Lantern Meeting. Those lanterns were obviously a very late add, as the concept art and models never showed any party lanterns in the tree. And the pablum the PR team belched out a year ago regarding Walt Disney circa 1910 having his creative genesis story under that tree never mentioned party lanterns.

Like San Fransokyo Square in DCA, if you can't have an actual thing, just hang party lanterns on the thing you've got and call it Immersive!

 

[J4546]

I particularly liked this photo of a Toontown CM just before park opening this past Saturday.

He's dreaming of a better shift, somewhere else.

Looks good to me, it will be fun to watch the tree grow through the years. TT looks like a homerun refurb, can't wait to check it out next month! Hopefully the treehouse is open soon

 

[Figments Friend]

Yes! Not only do I remember it, but I remember when Michael Eisner said publicly there would be a Dick Tracy dark ride built at Disneyland.

EDIT: Um... so we can now type Dick Tracy on this site? Can we also now type the name of Disney Legend, Dick Nunis?

EDIT 2: Oh my gosh! The naughty word software got fixed! We don't have to call him Richard Nunis any longer! Hooray for maturity!

Hooray!
We can now FINALLY talk about Dick Van D. after all these years!
Bert from ‘Mary Poppins’…you know, that guy!
Hurrah!



Oh wait…
( looks above…)

Scratch that, the last part of his name is still ‘censored’ I see…
Dick, we still remember ya.
Someday, we will be able to type out your entire name.




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[MisterPenguin]

Hooray!
We can now FINALLY talk about Dick Van D. after all these years!
Bert from ‘Mary Poppins’…you know, that guy!
Hurrah!



Oh wait…
( looks above…)

Scratch that, the last part of his name is still ‘censored’ I see…
Dick, we still remember ya.
Someday, we will be able to type out your entire name.




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Some other words were also de-censored. But 'Dyke' is still censored and cannot be used by anyone.

 

[PiratesMansion]

Until further notice, the co-lead of Mary Poppins is to be known as Dick Van Dick.

 

[DrAlice]

Called it!!!

I suppose the look of this area doesn't matter as it's fate is to be covered in strollers, right?

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LOL. When is Disney going to admit that these are a problem?

 

[DrAlice]

My hot take (from watching videos) :

Those costumes are terrible. When I see a cast member in the crowd, my immediate thought is "woah.. what's that guy wearing?". Only after staring for a few seconds do I realize it is a cast member. I'm not sure what they were going for with those outfits, but I doubt it was that.

 

[TP2000]

My hot take (from watching videos) :

Those costumes are terrible. When I see a cast member in the crowd, my immediate thought is "woah.. what's that guy wearing?". Only after staring for a few seconds do I realize it is a cast member. I'm not sure what they were going for with those outfits, but I doubt it was that.

I don't know. My real fear is that is actually what they were going for. They did it on purpose and that's actually what the CM costumes are supposed to look like. And how scary is that to consider this was all on purpose?!?

But there's just something off about these new uniforms. I have absolutely no idea how this themes to Toontown, or Disney's classic cartoon characters in general. I don't even know what these uniforms theme to, but it's certainly not Mickey's Toontown.

In the group photo below, the inseam on nearly everyone's green trousers is horribly sized, so that doesn't help them. There's a few cute costume pieces or CM's trying to pull it off, but overall it's a look that just seems sloppy and weird and not an attractive at all. But, um... at least there's a cute reference to the short-lived Tomorrowland Viewliner in the souvenir shop's sign!

And, trying to be as positive as possible, at least the uniforms for MMRR CM's are entirely different and rather fetching! I noticed in the videos that the CM's working the theater pre-show area wear the yellow ushers vests, but the CM's working in the train station load/unload area wear the purple conductor's outfits. Clever! And classic Disneyland attention to detail!

 

[Consumer]

Disneyland really has let go of trying to make their cast members look presentable in any way, huh?

 

[Californian Elitist]

They look presentable in that photo posted.

 

[TP2000]

They look presentable in that photo posted.

"Presentable"? That's the most glowing term you could think of to described uniformed CM's at a grand opening event?

 

[SuddenStorm]

Disneyland really has let go of trying to make their cast members look presentable in any way, huh?

They've also let go to any expectation of service.

My theory? Their hope is to mostly eliminate cast member interactions with the app as quickly as possible, so why bother training your CM's to actually provide any semblance of service?

And it wouldn't hurt to have someone there to help CM's properly size their costumes. And it'd be nice if they actually enforced their new standards for tattoo sizing, it seems like anything goes. And to at least make sure beards are trimmed properly, there's far to many neckbeards.

 

[Figments Friend]

Some other words were also de-censored. But '' is still censored and cannot be used by anyone.

Well, apparently you can use it Mr. Tuxedo Clad One.
Lucky you!


I however, being but an imagined Dragon, cannot event quote your post with the word…as the name is instantly removed.
How very…….disrespectful to Dick!

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[TP2000]

And it wouldn't hurt to have someone there to help CM's properly size their costumes.

I fully realize that many young people have no idea what an inseam is now, but the inseams on those CM's trousers were so comically wrong! Just really bad. Like they have no idea what size to ask for, and no on in the Wardrobe department knows, or is allowed to ask, what their proper inseam is before they give them their pants.

That picture of the CM's on opening day proves that without a shadow of a doubt.

Top Tip: A man's inseam remains the same from about the time he stops growing around age 20 to the time he starts shrinking about age 70. Your waist size may grow or shrink, or mostly just grow, but your inseam will remain the same from age 20 until you start collecting Social Security. And by that point in your life, who the hell cares?

But when you are in your 20's and 30's?!? Know your damn inseam size and wear your pants correctly like a man should!

 

[MisterPenguin]

I fully realize that many young people have no idea what an inseam is now, but the inseams on those CM's trousers were so comically wrong! Just really bad. Like they have no idea what size to ask for, and no on in the Wardrobe department knows, or is allowed to ask, what their proper inseam is before they give them their pants.

That picture of the CM's on opening day proves that without a shadow of a doubt.

Top Tip: A man's inseam remains the same from about the time he stops growing around age 20 to the time he starts shrinking about age 70. Your waist size may grow or shrink, or mostly just grow, but your inseam will remain the same from age 20 until you start collecting Social Security. And by that point in your life, who the hell cares?

But when you are in your 20's and 30's?!? Know your damn inseam size and wear your pants correctly like a man should!

This is why God gave us rolling-up-the-cuff!!

 

[Californian Elitist]

"Presentable"? That's the most glowing term you could think of to described uniformed CM's at a grand opening event?

That’s the word I used, no? It’s the word another poster used, so I used it. There’s nothing “glowing” about that term. Again with the dramatics…

What’s the problem with the CMs? Their shirts are tucked in, with the exception of a few, there are no stains on their uniforms, no one is barefoot, and everyone has neat hair. Again, presentable. That’s the new Toontown uniform. What else were they supposed to wear, tuxes and ball gowns? Do you have a problem with the masks? Or would you prefer everyone dress like 18th century European aristocrats?

 

[CaptinEO]

That’s the word I used, no? It’s the word another poster used, so I used it. There’s nothing “glowing” about that term. Again with the dramatics…

What’s the problem with the CMs? Their shirts are tucked in, with the exception of a few, there are no stains on their uniforms, no one is barefoot, and everyone has neat hair. Again, presentable. That’s the new Toontown uniform. What else were they supposed to wear, tuxes and ball gowns? Do you have a problem with the masks? Or would you prefer everyone dress like 18th century European aristocrats?

I'm cracking up at the idea in your mind that the only step up from these loose fitting bright colored Disney costumes are 18th Century aristocrats.

People are allowed to have a different opinion. If you like these costumes that's cool and all but maybe see that others may not feel the same way. And you're both right, everyone's opinion is valid.