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Probably lightly entertained.
PhotoDave219
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I have no doubt that both Indy and LMA are going the way of the Dodo at some point. Just Indy, not anytime soon. LMA? I have no doubt.
cheezbat
Well-Known Member
Hope things get moving soon enough for softs at Diagon...
As for waterparks, Rapids Water Park in West Palm has a good amount of slides. (Not themed like Typhoon, Blizzard, or Aquatica, but still looks pretty good.) There's also that potential future Schlitterbahn park coming in future years....
Sorry, no comment beyond having had professional (well on my end, not so much on hers, but she is insane) dealings with her in the past.
PhotoDave219
Well-Known Member
Such is her reputation, so it seems.
There is ONLY one Numero Dos and he is just back from a lovely vacation ... oh, @Lee ...
Oh, but I missed that YOU were heading Disney, I was talking about me ... nevermind!
Nothing compared to WDI and Studios ... you think I just made up all those fanboi/Imagineer jokes?
spacemt354
Chili's
Well that's not really the debate (I think?). The debate is whether or not people who don't finish are deserving of a medal (At least that was the one I was involved in).
I say it's to each his own. If they paid money for the race, didn't train, and need a medal to show they participated, that's their own problem. If I was a runner who finished and got my award, I wouldn't dwell on others too much. Of course, I don't think they deserve one, but I don't think it's something too severe.
None taken. And for me it's not really winning the Internet for the day. I'm actually curious as to the significance of the medal and at what level of trouble the non-finishers are to the safety of the race. Because, to be honest, we tend to deal in hyperbole a lot on this site (good and bad) and I asked my questions not as a "gotcha" but to actually see if it's a genuine problem or if it's just one or two outlying opinions.
Clearly it's more or less unanimous.
PhotoDave219
Well-Known Member
There is ONLY one Numero Dos and he is just back from a lovely vacation ... oh, @Lee ...
Oh, but I missed that YOU were heading Disney, I was talking about me ... nevermind!
We had a good laugh. Besides If I'm in charge, I'd need you. Who else is gonna tell me the crap I missed like "Dont film in the UAE" and the disaster that is consumer products?
Do you know how much restraint I am showing in not making a joke here?
PhotoDave219
Well-Known Member
Nope. Its an issue all around.
It is. Very much so.
The Lifestylers all gravitate to MK and EPCOT. You'll never see them at Studios now that SWW are over, except for the 8/23 event. They made their once a year pilgrimage to DAK to do Harambe Nights. Now, they can wait until 2015 to go back. They will never go to the water parks because well ... have you seen these people? Bathing suit issues there be aplenty in those cursed ranks. They might show up at the Poly (weird tiki fixations that make mine feel dirty!) for DVC pics ... but when have they last been at the All Stars or SS or CSR or WL etc?
Nope, they are limited and they stick to a very limited schedule, unless they can get a freebie.
They all suddenly care about the Nickelodeon Resort or the new B Resort DD because there are freebies. Same when some new restaurant opens on I-drive etc.
Honestly, dealing with the type of folks/organizations that I do, it's all just a waste of time. No, not talking NSA/CIA ... but talking folks and companies that have endless tech budgets if they want to know what I am up to. I have a stack of computers that have been wasted ... you've never lived until you've had an entire hard drive sucked clean remotely so much so that not even an operating system exists when done.
This is also exacerbated (profoundly) by a language barrier. When a larger and larger percentage of visitors are non-English speakers - the stretching room "words" are just Musak. To be talked over...loudly.
Our wee family has been at DLP a couple times during Italian school holidays. On attractions like the Studio Tram Tour (which is narrated in French and English)...we could hear ZERO narration. Just animated Italian. I could give (lots of) other examples (but for once I'll try to keep a post shorter than War & Peace
This is an issue that WDW will have to deal with (more and more) at attractions with "talky" pre-shows as the percentage of non-domestic visitors grows. Because the alternative is the "jabber until the "real ride" begins" climate (as Omnispace mentioned above) that is growing at theme parks - both in America and in Europe.
Personally, I would like the Magic Bands enabled to deliver an electric shock to anyone who talks during a pre-show...but that's just me.
At some point, a CM needs to be loud and firm that folks need to shut their yaps. SHHHHH!!! is UNIversal.
At DLP, you never have the issues in PM's stretch room that you often do in the States because the CMs loudly demand SILENCE when the doors close and don't act like they are kidding.
Not at WDW. Nope you can never insult a walking dollar sign.
PhotoDave219
Well-Known Member
Thats rather disturbing. Given some of the places you've been, I'm not horribly shocked.... just a tad unnerving.
LeBron is an all-time great. I don't know how to compare him to Jordan, who struggled for years to get past the Pistons and only did when he had a great team around him. That sorta sounds like LeBron who was the entire team in Cleveland.
I don't really get the hate for the Heat. They went out and put together an amazing team that has been to the finals four years in a row (something that the Spurs have never done) and have won twice. Pat Riley is a class act and he built the organization that way.
I certainly agree that the Eastern Conference is weaker than the West, so Miami didn't really face a decent team until Indiana. But that doesn't negate or diminish their greatness.
Um ... ah ... yeah ... no.
I want to be clear that these folks are not my 'enemies' ... while this will (naturally) come off as a putdown of these guys, my enemies in the real world are much more significant and much scarier. I don't think of these people except when I am screwing around online or chatting with friends in the theme park business or fellow posters.
Indeed, I let much of the crap stay out there. There's one psycho Lifestyler who has painted me as a stalker, and I don't take that as a joke. But I leave that off these boards to not draw attention to mentally unstable folks who want to use me to further their businesses.
But sometimes, you do need to poke back. I'm hoping this dude gets that I actually respect his work and stops being combative about me because I made a joke about him being OCD (something that even applies to me!)
PhotoDave219
Well-Known Member
Maybe theyre closing American Idol so they can greenlight "The Muppet Show Experience"?