The Miscellaneous Thought Thread

TP2000

TP2000

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Also, wherever your ancestry may be from to make up the Great American Melting Pot, at least you aren't suffering the indignities of being a Canadian riding Disneyland's It's A Small World.

All they got was a plywood Mountie flapping his arms in a dark corner, with a Thunderbird perched on his hat looking suspiciously like he might leave a souvenir behind. :(

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Rich T

Rich T

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On my recent Magic Kingdom visit, I had a lot of interactions with great CM’s, but the use of the term “Friend” really became weird and annoying. It sounds creepy and cult-like, and there’s really no way for the CM’s to make it work. The more you hear it the more grating it gets. In the wrong situation, it can sound sarcastic. In all cases, it sounds odd and insincere.

I’m offended, Disney! You’re makjng me feel (gasp) uneasy! Change your policies to make ME feel welcome too, dang it! 😄
 
TP2000

TP2000

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This seems particularly tacky and weird. Cast Members in uniform passing out anti-Disney union buttons and leaflets describing how they are "fighting oppression" from Disney at the entrance to Disneyland as their contract negotiations drag on.

Why even bother pretending it's a "show" any more? :rolleyes:

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www.ocregister.com

Disneyland union hands out Mickey Mouse raised fist buttons to theme park visitors

Disney cast members asked arriving theme park visitors to sign a petition in support of union contract negotiations seeking fair wages.
www.ocregister.com www.ocregister.com

"Disneyland’s largest union coalition took its fight for a pay raise to the streets by handing out Mickey Mouse raised fist buttons to visitors entering the Anaheim theme park.

Disneyland union employees distributed buttons on Monday, July 1 with the Disney icon’s white gloved hand raised in a fist as a symbol of fighting oppression and asked arriving theme park visitors to sign a petition in support of union contract negotiations seeking fair wages.

Cast members, Disney parlance for employees, handed out the buttons with Mickey’s cartoon fist at the corner of Harbor Boulevard and Disney Way while wearing their theme park uniforms."
 
PiratesMansion

PiratesMansion

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TP2000 said:
This seems particularly tacky and weird. Cast Members in uniform passing out anti-Disney union buttons and leaflets describing how they are "fighting oppression" from Disney at the entrance to Disneyland as their contract negotiations drag on.

Why even bother pretending it's a "show" any more? :rolleyes:

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www.ocregister.com

Disneyland union hands out Mickey Mouse raised fist buttons to theme park visitors

Disney cast members asked arriving theme park visitors to sign a petition in support of union contract negotiations seeking fair wages.
www.ocregister.com www.ocregister.com

"Disneyland’s largest union coalition took its fight for a pay raise to the streets by handing out Mickey Mouse raised fist buttons to visitors entering the Anaheim theme park.

Disneyland union employees distributed buttons on Monday, July 1 with the Disney icon’s white gloved hand raised in a fist as a symbol of fighting oppression and asked arriving theme park visitors to sign a petition in support of union contract negotiations seeking fair wages.

Cast members, Disney parlance for employees, handed out the buttons with Mickey’s cartoon fist at the corner of Harbor Boulevard and Disney Way while wearing their theme park uniforms."
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Would it be better if they did it on Main Street as they did in Paris not that long ago?
 
CaptinEO

CaptinEO

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Sneakman said:
Was lighthyear mountain/ new Tomorrowland even real? I can believe a buzz update, but lightyear mountain sounds like a stretch to me.
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I'd believe it. A lot of things pointed to it happening including many employees seen inspecting the track that summer. There was a structure in the movie made to look like Space Mountain as well.

I'd 100% expect Chapek or Iger to have made this work, and then the movie's failure scrapped it. Again, typical Disney where they won't redo the dying Tommorowland without a movie tie in.

Furthermore in 2019 I remember reading how there were plans for Frontierland in Magic Kingdom to be Toy Story themed (woody). This fell through but they were going to replace country bears with a Toy Story Puppet show and retheme Big Thunder to Toy Story as well.
 
TP2000

TP2000

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NobodyElse said:
I was poised to say basically the same thing. The off-site costume aspect of this is a situation they opened the door to back when they changed their long-standing policy.
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It was caused because Pressler was building DCA as cheap as possible, and he didn't want to spend money to build more locker rooms and backstage CM infrastructure for costuming and storage.

Pressler, and the idiot execs he surrounded himself with like Cynthia Harriss, didn't think it was any problem to send Disneyland's often iconic CM uniforms off property, so you could see Haunted Mansion chambermaids pumping gas at Chevron, or Davy Crockett shopping at Ralph's, or at Tower of Terror bellhop standing in line with you at the bank.

The execs that came along in the decades after Pressler, either didn't have the money to fix it although they wanted to (like Matt Ouimet), or simply are too clueless to understand why it's still a problem to be fixed even though they have the authority and money now (like Josh D'Amaro).
 
TP2000

TP2000

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Okay, gang, it's July 3rd! I've completed my checklist, have you?!?...

Flags placed in the yard, bunting on the garage doors, gorgeous steaks from Colorado, corn on the cob from California, barbecue baked beans from North Carolina, S'mores fixings from Hershey, Pennsylvania, an iced bushel of Midwest beers, a basket of Pinot Noir from Oregon and Pinot Grigio from Washington, sparklers and smoke bombs for the neighbor kids, a ridiculous looking Uncle Sam top hat to wear for the decorated bike parade judging, a curated playlist with Motown, John Phillip Sousa, Neil Diamond and the Beach Boys, and most importantly...

A great big burst of patriotic pride at being blessed to live in this beautiful country, the greatest land of all!

I hope everyone here has a happy and hilariously fun Independence Day! 🇺🇸 😍🇺🇸

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Phroobar

Phroobar

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TP2000 said:
Okay, gang, it's July 3rd! I've completed my checklist, have you?!?...

Flags placed in the yard, bunting on the garage doors, gorgeous steaks from Colorado, corn on the cob from California, barbecue baked beans from North Carolina, S'mores fixings from Hershey, Pennsylvania, an iced bushel of Midwest beers, a basket of Pinot Noir from Oregon and Pinot Grigio from Washington, sparklers and smoke bombs for the neighbor kids, a ridiculous looking Uncle Sam top hat to wear for the decorated bike parade judging, a curated playlist with Motown, John Phillip Sousa, Neil Diamond and the Beach Boys, and most importantly...

A great big burst of patriotic pride at being blessed to live in this beautiful country, the greatest land of all!

I hope everyone here has a happy and hilariously fun Independence Day! 🇺🇸 😍🇺🇸

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Cool! I'll be right over tomorrow. I'll bring the potato salad. Are Nevada fireworks illegal in St. George?
 
SuddenStorm

SuddenStorm

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TP2000 said:
It was caused because Pressler was building DCA as cheap as possible, and he didn't want to spend money to build more locker rooms and backstage CM infrastructure for costuming and storage.

Pressler, and the idiot execs he surrounded himself with like Cynthia Harriss, didn't think it was any problem to send Disneyland's often iconic CM uniforms off property, so you could see Haunted Mansion chambermaids pumping gas at Chevron, or Davy Crockett shopping at Ralph's, or at Tower of Terror bellhop standing in line with you at the bank.

The execs that came along in the decades after Pressler, either didn't have the money to fix it although they wanted to (like Matt Ouimet), or simply are too clueless to understand why it's still a problem to be fixed even though they have the authority and money now (like Josh D'Amaro).
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When I went through the Traditions training five years ago, the trainer said it's the nametag that defines you as a Disney employee, so never to wear it off property.

Seems like a huge reduction because as you said- many of the costumes are iconic, perhaps more so than a nametag.
 
TP2000

TP2000

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Phroobar said:
Cool! I'll be right over tomorrow. I'll bring the potato salad. Are Nevada fireworks illegal in St. George?
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Fireworks are legal and sold in town, but illegal (obviously) in parklands and the rural hills and washes that are dry as a bone this time of year.

Judging by what I heard/saw here last year, illegal fireworks from Indian Reservations and Nevada are fairly common. But I'm just giving the neighbor kids sparklers and smoke bombs, just to keep them on my good side and to add that needed tinge of gunpowder smell to the air. 🤣

Can you do a potato salad made with redskin potatoes for color? And not too heavy of a dressing, with some fresh parsley? Thanks in advance!
 

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