The 60th Anniversary of Disneyland: The Reality of it All

prberk

prberk

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StarWarsGirl said:
I'm kind of torn. On one hand, seeing the decorations would be nice. On the other hand, I really hate still hearing Christmas music in January.

Thanks for the info!
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Curious Constance said:
I'm the same way. As much as I love Christmas, I'm tearing everything down on 12-26 every year.
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PorterRedkey said:
This year we thought we would okay going the first week of January, but all the decorations were still up, but this was at WDW.

EDIT; here is a pic I took at MK. Just 351 days left...
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Actually, remember that traditionally the "12 days of Christmas" ends on January 5, the day before the Day of Epiphany, January 6. The time between the first day of Christmas, December 25, and Epiphany is "Christmastide," at the end of which was the traditional time to take down decorations, although in Protestant homes often that equated to January 1.

If you watch a lot of old movies, you will see them decorating the tree on Christmas Eve, which made sense for real trees, which have a shelf life after being cut, to last the Christmastide season.

I think what changed in the last two generations is the retail shopping season, which first pushed decorating back to the days after Thanksgiving, then to before Thanksgiving, then to right after Halloween, all as stores geared up earlier and earlier for Christmas shopping.

So, with the decorating starting so early now, people are more likely to be ready to take it down (especially live trees) earlier, but that was not the norm in generations past. And it is not the norm for the holiday calendar. January 5 is more normal, and especially after January 1.
 
Phroobar

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Curious Constance

Curious Constance

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GiveMeTheMusic said:
Shawn Slater commented on the Disney Parks Blog that PTN will be closing on September 5.
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I'm still surprised PTN is going away.
It's not like them to develop and create costly new parades/shows for a celebration event and then end them after the celebration is over.
It's such a big draw to the parks too.
You're thinking it is at least going to be brought out at holidays, spring break, and summer?
 
GiveMeTheMusic

GiveMeTheMusic

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Curious Constance said:
I'm still surprised PTN is going away.
It's not like them to develop and create costly new parades/shows for a celebration event and then end them after the celebration is over.
It's such a big draw to the parks too.
You're thinking it is at least going to be brought out at holidays, spring break, and summer?
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That was the plan, but it's possible things have changed. With all the boneheaded crap that gets pulled around here nowadays, who knows. Can you imagine spending all that money on such a popular parade and then just canning it?
 
Stevek

Stevek

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GiveMeTheMusic said:
That was the plan, but it's possible things have changed. With all the boneheaded crap that gets pulled around here nowadays, who knows. Can you imagine spending all that money on such a popular parade and then just canning it?
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No, I can't...but it's Disney so I kinda can. I gotta believe it's a temporary cost cutting measure as they won't have to pay the performers during the downtime. Now if they keep it dark and there is no Christmas Fantasy Parade this year...ugh.
 
FerretAfros

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It seems like DisneylandToday, the official DLR Twitter handle, is having trolling people with intentionally-vague information. From the folks that I know who would know about these sorts of things, it's expected to be a lengthy closure though they won't say how long; I would certainly assume that means at least until next summer

https://twitter.com/disneylandtoday/status/760576153841201153
@ShowcaseWishes Hello! Paint the Night parade also will conclude on September 5, 2016.
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https://twitter.com/DisneylandToday/status/760578542769991685
@EEstaris Hello! Future plans for these shows have not been determined. We apologize for any disappointment this may bring.
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When can we do this again?
 
GiveMeTheMusic

GiveMeTheMusic

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Dr. Hans Reinhardt said:
Careful. Just because they haven't announced what will become of the show down the road doesn't mean that it's over and done forever.
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The language used here is pretty concrete sounding - "conclude its run".

That said, I did get clarification and PTN is still set to run seasonally - Christmas and summer. Disney did not control the message here well - did they think no one would ask about PTN when they announced what we already knew about Celebrate and Forever?
 
Stevek

Stevek

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GiveMeTheMusic said:
The language used here is pretty concrete sounding - "conclude its run".

That said, I did get clarification and PTN is still set to run seasonally - Christmas and summer. Disney did not control the message here well - did they think no one would ask about PTN when they announced what we already knew about Celebrate and Forever?
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So no Christmas Fantasy Parade either...PTN instead? This is getting better and better by the minute. Seriously, do they just sit in a room and say, "let's figure out what makes the least amount of sense and to that?"
 

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