StageFrenzy
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Siemens is sponsoring "it's a small world" in Disneyland, could it be that Siemens will be sponsoring Disney World's as well?
Does it have touchscreens?
Siemens is sponsoring "it's a small world" in Disneyland, could it be that Siemens will be sponsoring Disney World's as well?
Kevin Yee touched upon the subject in his Miceage piece this week, but WDW has been removing holiday touches so fast that you'd be hard-pressed to know it's Christmas in many areas.
Guest complaints about LoW at EPCOT have been heard loud and clear and the park will receive more decor for the holidays in 2010 and a new lighting display/show will appear in the next few years (but likely not 2010).
There's a good thought. I would not mind that....And a new facade...:lookarounSiemens is sponsoring "it's a small world" in Disneyland, could it be that Siemens will be sponsoring Disney World's as well?
They are on their 8th set including the clear and holiday sets since this time last year and variety of event and special release vinyls. The Clear set is open edition. 16 more sets by the end of 2010 and I imagine they wouldn't keep making them if they didn't sell well, not to mention there is a website devoted to them.
Siemens is sponsoring "it's a small world" in Disneyland, could it be that Siemens will be sponsoring Disney World's as well?
Too bad you didn't notice me... I'd have bought you a drink! Or two. :lookaroun
The wife and I have already talked about it, and southern California will be getting our tourist dollars next December. World of Color, here we come!
Truthfully, I'm not sure why we didn't do that this year. Oh wait... Yes I am. It's because of the MONSTEROUS discounts we got that were too hard to pass up. :hammer:
We must have just timed it differently, because the only 20+ minute stand-by waits I saw were on BTMRR, Space, and obviously Pan. Everything else at MK was walk-on, or close to it, for almost the whole trip. We didn't even bother with fastpasses until our last day at the MK (the 18th), just to cram as many rides in as possible.
At Epcot, Soarin' had long lines, but it always does. TT was 30+, but again, it always does.
At AK, Dino was 10 mins, the safari was between 20-30 most times we were around it, and EE was 20-30 also.
TSMM was always nuts, but that's to be expected. ToT was walk on, and RnRC was 20-30 standby.
I call those plenty "doable" times. :shrug: Epcot and AK don't have that many "E" type attractions... Hence the longer lines. Made sense to me.
They are on their 8th set including the clear and holiday sets since this time last year and variety of event and special release vinyls. The Clear set is open edition. 16 more sets by the end of 2010 and I imagine they wouldn't keep making them if they didn't sell well, not to mention there is a website devoted to them.
Speaking of which ... WDW guidemaps flat out suck the big one. Compare them to the guidebooks of the 1970s-90s. Just a joke. Space Mountain is 'an indoor roller coaster' ... Snow White's Scary Adventures is 'a journey inside through the dark' ... Small World is 'an musical indoor voyage' ... and people question Walmarting?
*sigh*I know I mentioned the Valentine hard-ticket party, right? Did I also mention that Studios latest attempt at a Halloween event of their own was shot down (makes at least the fourth REAL time in the past 12 years)?
Don't forget KODAK and PhotoPass... :lookarounThat's the part that really gets me, is that they don't jump at the chance now to use the maps to spread the word about a lot of the other stuff you can do on property.But I guess that's the problem with today's marketing is that it's all PARKS PARKS PARKS CASTLE CASTLE CASTLE!
*sigh*
Don't forget KODAK and PhotoPass...
The folks stuck on BTMRR in the rain did NOT look magical as we went by on the RR.
More to come ... maybe ...
Oh well, maybe next time ... and I'll get the first drink or two (unless I quit working first which after this week is a distinct possibility!)
Well, I didn't even stay on property this time, and WDW was a great value. It was going to be either WDW or Las Vegas (and once you add the flight and car rental even with the deals there ... WDW comes out ahead). Although late in the game there was talk of a mileage run to HK, which would have included a day at HKDL and I would have gladly swapped out WDW for that!
I may be in Anaheim in February, but I'm trying to push it off until March because I WANT TO ... NEED TO ... see WoC ASAP!
Anyway, are YOU putting up a trip report/observations thread? :xmas::xmas::xmas:
I know I mentioned the Valentine hard-ticket party, right? Did I also mention that Studios latest attempt at a Hallowen event of their own was shot down (makes at least the fourth REAL time in the past 12 years)?
:king: Nice to hear someone gush over transportation that is not a monorail.
We don't have a spiel per say. We're just required to go over safety and docking procedures. Most don't spiel at all. I always do.
If you did, you still wouldn't be able to afford the things you want (on cast pay)...the irony.![]()
HHN costs a lot of money year after year considering that they create eight new mazes, six new scarezones, a set for Bill and Ted's Excellent Halloween Adventure (though it's nothing like it used to be at IoA), and hire thousands of scareactors for a month. While this could be used by Imagineering as a great way to just create ideas year after year that would be used, over at WDW, it may pull people away from their other offering. Also, Disney would have to bring in a marketing genius to get people out of USO and into DHS which would also cost tons of money. While I would love to see Disney take a shot at this, I think HHN has turned into a complete monster of an event, and it would be close to impossible for Disney to pull people away from it. Universal has been trying to slowly usurp Knott's Scary Farm by bringing HHN back to USH, and while they have been doing better and better each year, they even make fun of themselves as the place to go to when you're too lazy to go to Knott's. If Disney wants to play 2nd fiddle to HHN, they can go right ahead, but they would go in knowing they would only be an added night for someone who has already been to HHN.Not trying to jump on Disney again, but genuine curiosity: why kill the Studios Halloween event? I was under the impression HHN is one of the few things keeping Universal in business these days, and on the fan boards, this idea always seems to generate a lot of excitement. This seems like a logical step in a park that targets tweens and teens, and would mean an extra hard ticket event each year for the die-hards.
That's the satisfied spirit!I was once on a bus to EPCOT where the driver told the passengers that Spaceship Earth was 220 feet tall. I mentioned something to him about it once we arrived, but of course he insisted he was right. It was only afterwards as I was entering the park that I realized that's how tall the wand used to be.
Thinking about this has made wonder, if you showed both a current map and an older Guidebook of the same park to the average joe who hasn't been to Walt Disney World before, totally ignoring the actual content of the parks (such as the attractions), which would make them want to go to the park more? My guess would be the Guidebook.
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