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WDW1974

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Spirit disciples? Dusters? From a newbie?

Who's believing the hype now? Seriously.

Until you actually understand what's being discussed and why, Steves comment is a valuable piece of advice.

Y'all want to start a pool on how long the dude lasts here? Because generally when you join a site and start attacking a member before your first 48 hours is up, it isn't the sign you're going to last.
 

WDW1974

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Speaking of Disney Twenty Three Magazine, can you still buy it at Barnes and Noble?

Not any more. You can't even buy it at Disney P&R. Not that it was exactly flying off the shelves as I always got copies at Property Control ...

I actually need to get my hands on a few of the current/Spring issue. Maybe I should hit up Zenia?
 

WDW1974

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Tom Sawyer Island is a must do for me every trip. It brings me back to my childhood. We had a forest near our house that I use to love going exploring. TSI symbolizes that childhood curiosity and sense of adventure. Roaming through the caves and the escape tunnel is just pure fun. Running around in an immersive environment, lots of spooky noises, narrow alleys, faces carved into the cave walls, dark passages, crossing over bridges, running up and down a fort, following along winding paths. Good, old fashioned fun. I just wish they'd reopen Aunt Polly's.

:inlove:

I'll visit it at DL!

The weather and timing just hasn't allowed me to get over to the MK's in forever. And, as someone who always would dine at Aunt Polly's, seeing it shuttered just makes me sick. I'll take one of their premade sandwiches and a lemonade over the crap they serve at BoG anyday.
 

TP2000

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Disney owns Social Media. That's why they can crow about it at an event like the recent Ragan Conference at WDW and the current Mommy Bloggers event at DLR.

This Social Media Moms event at Disneyland this weekend is fascinating to watch, at least from the safety of my hillside home office 7 miles east of Anaheim. I had no idea this thing existed, but it does. And the comments these women are making on their daily blogs and YouTube videos are hilarious and baffling. Why are they there???

Last year the Disney Social Media Moms kick-off reception featured shirtless male gymnasts performing for the ladies. I guess the Thunder From Down Under was already booked?
2013-Disney-Social-Media-Moms-DisneySMMoms-welcome-reception-entertainment.jpg

http://www.disneyeveryday.com/2013-disney-social-media-moms-celebration-in-pictures-day-1/

I just don't get what Disney gets out of this. They appear to have invited a few hundred mommy bloggers from around the country, some of whom have an affinity for the Disney brand and some who have little experience with it. The East Coast bloggers are excited to be in California yet don't get the Disneyland culture or scene, and are like fishes out of water thus far. The West Coast bloggers are thrilled with a free trip for the hubby and kids to Disneyland and are lapping up the special attention. Tom Staggs is there addressing the group in the Grand Ballroom of the Disneyland Hotel and they are rolling out the red carpet for them with Disney celebs and Imagineers, and unlimited Fastpasses and special viewing areas for World of Color and parades and Fantasmic! and fireworks, cocktail receptions, etc., etc.

Sunday morning they get Cars Land reserved all to themselves for gourmet breakfast and Mimosas and Lightning McQueen photos and walk-on rides on everything in Cars Land. Baffling!

And then you go look at these blogs the women have and watch their YouTube channels. And these women are blogging about the best jogger strollers and non-toxic lavender laundry detergent and their comments section is lucky to have the four or five comments, most of which are made by the same two or three gal-pals posting daily. Their YouTube channels have views of about 12 to 150. That's 12, as in one dozen people clicked on the video. I wonder how many watched the whole thing?

These are just bored housewives, er... stay-at-home-moms is what I meant to say, filling their days with blogs after they turn off The View. And their online presence and readership numbers are very, very small. And they're mainly just communicating with other bored housewi... stay-at-home-moms who think and act exactly the same. And who wouldn't want a free trip to Disneyland with a lanyard that gets you unlimited Fastpass access to everything?!? :rolleyes:

And Disney corporate pours all this money and resources and energy into hosting these women and their families? Why?!? I'm just baffled.

This Social Media nonsense seems like the ultimate case of the Emperor Has No Clothes. Maybe that's the secret message of the shirtless gymnasts last year? :eek:
 
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MinnieM123

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Just an FYI, Amazon has "The Art of Frozen" back in stock. Hopefully no one paid an arm and a leg to a reseller here!
http://amazon.com/The-Art-Frozen-Charles-Solomon/dp/1452117160/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1397344673&sr=8-1&keywords=frozen artbook
Also, the Walt Disney Family Museum store has their Mary Blair exhibition catalogue available for purchase.
http://www.waltdisney.org/content/magic-color-flair-world-mary-blair-catalogue

Thank you for sharing this information, especially about the Mary Blair exhibition catalogue. I love her artwork; it's so beautiful and uplifting. Her legacy lives on.
 

WDW1974

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This Social Media Moms event at Disneyland this weekend is fascinating to watch, at least from the safety of my hillside home office 7 miles east of Anaheim. I had no idea this thing existed, but it does. And the comments these women are making on their daily blogs and YouTube videos are hilarious and baffling. Why are they there???

Last year the Disney Social Media Moms kick-off reception featured shirtless male gymnasts performing for the ladies. I guess the Thunder From Down Under was already booked?
2013-Disney-Social-Media-Moms-DisneySMMoms-welcome-reception-entertainment.jpg


I just don't get what Disney gets out of this. They appear to have invited a few hundred mommy bloggers from around the country, some of whom have an affinity for the Disney brand and some who have little experience with it. The East Coast bloggers are excited to be in California yet don't get the Disneyland culture or scene, and are like fishes out of water thus far. The West Coast bloggers are thrilled with a free trip for the hubby and kids to Disneyland and are lapping up the special attention. Tom Staggs is there addressing the group in the Grand Ballroom of the Disneyland Hotel and they are rolling out the red carpet for them with Disney celebs and Imagineers, and unlimited Fastpasses and special viewing areas for World of Color and parades and Fantasmic! and fireworks, cocktail receptions, etc., etc.

Sunday morning they get Cars Land reserved all to themselves for gourmet breakfast and Mimosas and Lightning McQueen photos and walk-on rides on everything in Cars Land. Baffling!

And then you go look at these blogs the women have and watch their YouTube channels. And these women are blogging about the best jogger strollers and non-toxic lavender laundry detergent and their comments section is lucky to have the four or five comments, most of which are made by the same two or three gal-pals posting daily. Their YouTube channels have views of about 12 to 150. That's 12, as in one dozen people clicked on the video. I wonder how many watched the whole thing?

These are just bored housewives, er... stay-at-home-moms is what I meant to say, filling their days with blogs after they turn off The View. And their online presence and readership numbers are very, very small. And they're mainly just communicating with other bored housewi... stay-at-home-moms who think and act exactly the same. And who wouldn't want a free trip to Disneyland with a lanyard that gets you unlimited Fastpass access to everything?!? :rolleyes:

And Disney corporate pours all this money and resources and energy into hosting these women and their families? Why?!? I'm just baffled.

This Social Media nonsense seems like the ultimate case of the Emperor Has No Clothes. Maybe that's the secret message of the shirtless gymnasts last year? :eek:

I have said for years now that Disney Social Media exists to exist. For folks like Leanne and Tom and Gary and Blondie to earn paychecks while sending corporate dollars to social media 'experts' like Ragan and Holtz and many others (that you can likely figure out by following folks like Gary Buchanan on Twitter).

There is absolutely NO value to the company in a Mommy Blogger with a youTube channel that has 23 regular viewers. There is absolutely NO value to the company in a Mommy Blogger that has 36 clicks in a month, 32 of them from immediate family.

Yet, Disney is spending millions of dollars this weekend. And it is just one example because Disney is wining and dining smaller groups on almost year round basis.
 

jlsHouston

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Illness, other issues coming up, poor planning on my part (not that I need to plan, but more arrange things) and then pouring rain on the final day. It is the first time since 1982 that I have visited WDW (even for just a day) and not gone to EPCOT. Being a fanboi, I am still pouting and quite unhappy!

Don't feel bad. I spent 12 days at WDW last summer and somehow only made it into EPCOT twice and that was for food. When the vacation was all over I couldn't believe I never saw Illuminations once nor road Soarin, or got a crepe.
I blame it on my travel party...
 

ScoutN

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Invite only.

But I'd love to know how much Disney is spending on flying all these Mommies (many with 3-4-5 family members) to DLR, putting them up at Disney hotels, and giving them free meals, booze and LOADS of swag ...

Ole Lou jello is apparently having some event as Dixie Landings tonight. Group of 7-10 people that would have dropped $500+ easy decided not to go as a result. Place is crawling with Twitwhores.
 

ScoutN

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TP2000

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@TP2000 I just clicked on the link you provided and the post has no comments, even a year later. That "I Have 7 Follows" T-shirt is one of their better digs at these women, though. Just like having a weight-loss related celebrity show up.

Ha! I hadn't even noticed that. I just Googled "Disney Social Media Moms Reception" and immediately got photos of shirtless men gyrating for the ladies in the Ballroom of the Americas at the Contemporary, and it was just too good not to share. :cool:

I checked out her site and she was not invited this year to the Social Media Moms event in Anaheim this weekend. Apparently her tiny amount of page views and absolutely no one commenting on her daily posts was just too bleak for Disney to fly her out to Anaheim for the weekend. According to her Twitter she's drowning her sorrows with lots of wine flights in Orlando this weekend and pretending there's nothing happening in Anaheim.

I'm now following a few of the moms blogging from Disneyland this weekend; all of them from the East Coast and all of them more stereotypical looking/acting than you could even make up. And all of them are following hundreds of people or companies on Twitter, but have their own actual followers numbered in the dozens. Or one dozen, singular. The updates on their blogs garner comments of three or less, and even after a year their YouTube videos have less than 50 views (including family members, as @WDW1974 so wisely pointed out).

But there they are this weekend, slurping free champagne at the Disneyland Hotel while their husbands and kids go round and round on Radiator Springs Racers and every other E Ticket in Anaheim with their unlimited Fastpass lanyard.

All because they got a dozen views on their opinion of cheap yoga pants for sale at Target. I just don't get what Disney is doing here with these women. It feels almost like a bad pyramid scheme about to collapse. :confused:
 
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Cody5242

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No on Avatar. Not yet. They haven't even fully preped the site.

SDL will have day and night spectaculars, but I don't believe either will be a traditional parade. I should ask about that!
I hope the plans for Avatar are at least final. I'm guessing SDL nighttime spectacular will introduce new technology? Wouldn't surprise me if it's a more advanced castle projection show
 

asianway

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Ha! I hadn't even noticed that. I just Googled "Disney Social Media Moms Reception" and immediately got photos of shirtless men gyrating for the ladies in the Ballroom of the Americas at the Contemporary, and it was just too good not to share. :cool:

I'm now following a few of the moms blogging from Disneyland this weekend; all of them from the East Coast and all of them more stereotypical looking/acting than you could even make up. And all of them are following hundreds of people or companies on Twitter, but have their own actual followers numbered in the dozens. Or one dozen, singular. The updates on their blogs garner comments of three or less, and even after a year their YouTube videos have less than 50 views (including family members, as @WDW1974 so wisely pointed out).

But there they are this weekend, slurping free champagne at the Disneyland Hotel while their husbands and kids go round and round on Radiator Springs Racers and every other E Ticket in Anaheim with their unlimited Fastpass lanyard.

All because they got a dozen views on their opinion of cheap organic cotton yoga pants for sale at Target. I just don't get what Disney is doing here with these women. It feels almost like a bad pyramid scheme about to collapse. :confused:
So far there's been a cocktail reception, private dinner at the jamboree, debut of a new character design, now they're at a private dinner with toontown closing early for them. Retail value of the food & booze alone is up to over $1000 a head now. But it's ok, cuz the events are all "sponsored" read: shakedowns to alliance partners. For us mere mortals these sort of sponsorships gets us a free banana after a $200 run. Seems reasonable
 

jdmdisney99

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Nixon, Watergate, Vietnam War, gas shortages, Stagflation, rampant drug use, meaningless disco sex, urban decay, fear of global cooling (yes, global cooling), Three Mile Island, Love Canal.

Movies such as Marathon Man, Three Days of the Condor, Taxi Driver, The French Connection, Dog Day Afternoon, Dirty Harry, Deliverance, Jeremiah Johnson, MASH, Little Big Man, The China Syndrome, Parallax View, Rollerball (the original), Westworld, and Network were all representative of the cynicism and angst of the time.

Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again
Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock
Begin, Reagan, Palestine, Terror on the airline
Ayatollah's in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan
Wheel of Fortune, Sally Ride, heavy metal, suicide
Foreign debts, homeless Vets, AIDS, Crack, Bernie Goetz
Hypodermics on the shore, China's under martial law
Rock and Roll, cola wars, I can't take it anymore

We didn't start the fire...

...Oh, we weren't doing that? ;)
 

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