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To Lift Your Spirits Up(date)
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CoffeeJedi
Active Member
I'm going to throw a totally unsubstantiated and wild idea out there. I believe our dear Mr. E-dew works in marketing. Specifially, internet marketing. Viral marketing.
Major corporations have been paying people to talk up their products on message boards for years. Now they're even paying people to edit Wikipedia entries. I think the Mouse is employing our friend here to drop little tantalizing nuggets of information our way in order to get us talking (and get us buying).
Now the real question is, would it matter? He'd still be an officially offical certified bonafied Disney Company employee. He'd still be telling us the truth. He'd just be telling the official company-line version of the truth, but the truth nonetheless.
Hm.
Major corporations have been paying people to talk up their products on message boards for years. Now they're even paying people to edit Wikipedia entries. I think the Mouse is employing our friend here to drop little tantalizing nuggets of information our way in order to get us talking (and get us buying).
Now the real question is, would it matter? He'd still be an officially offical certified bonafied Disney Company employee. He'd still be telling us the truth. He'd just be telling the official company-line version of the truth, but the truth nonetheless.
Hm.
JimboJones123
Well-Known Member
I bet him and the suits have a meeting tomorrow and go through these posts and just laugh at the people saying he should be fired for doing what his job description clearly state. HAHAHA :lol:
I called "plant" on the first post, and if I'm right -- Congrats Disney, you are doing something right. If I'm not, Disney, you gotta start working more like the other movies studios.
CSUFSteve
Active Member
Haha, is there a CSU in Fresno?? Actually, I meant Fullerton aka Cal State Disneyland, and yeah, I did work there during my CSUF days!
Actually, I live in San Jose now but, yeah, still a DL passholder. And yeah, I actually do average about once a month - sometimes more, sometimes less.
CSUFSteve
Active Member
Yeah, wouldn't surprise me. It's pretty well known that Disney strategically uses the Internet to its advantage at times, "leaking" info when it's part of an advantageous strategy for Disney to do so. Of course, sometimes Disney also gets annoyed when info it doesn't want circulated gets circulated. Awww, poor Disney
stalkingmickey
Active Member
I am at the world now and hope to be one if the lucky guest to test it. I will be makeig at stop at mk every day now. Wish me luck
CaptainMichael
Well-Known Member
Thanks, I know what I'll be doing tomorrow after work!
I wouldn't be so bold.
Maybe I'll see you:wave:
DisneySaint
Well-Known Member
Try, instead, that he is just a fan who gathers info from across the net (most of which is well-known) and then claims he is the one who broke the info. I will be impressed when we hear something completely off-base that has yet to be reported anywhere and then it proves to be true. Until then, innocent until proven guilty.
I think if Alien was an ok scene in the GMR, people could deal with the darkness of LoTR...:ROFLOL:
PintoColvig
Active Member
Iakona
Member
Well, I have not seen mention anywhere else on the net that HM was opening for small scal guest testing. However our friend knew soemthing;
http://forums.wdwmagic.com/showthread.php?p=2467837#post2467837
Thanks for the link to a guest's impressions. By the way, when the guest mentions:
"Also, a lot of the popping up heads have been changed and look more comical than frightening now which was disappointing. A few of the heads now pop out directly at you instead of just into the air, which I wasn't expecting and made me jump."
Those are the pop-ups that were meant to go in the attic scene but were deemed too frightening for children. They're now much farther away in the graveyard scene. Also, if you'll look closely you may be able to see that the comical appearing heads have a frightening face on the back of their cranium... you can check my old posts to see what that was for.
"Also, a lot of the popping up heads have been changed and look more comical than frightening now which was disappointing. A few of the heads now pop out directly at you instead of just into the air, which I wasn't expecting and made me jump."
Those are the pop-ups that were meant to go in the attic scene but were deemed too frightening for children. They're now much farther away in the graveyard scene. Also, if you'll look closely you may be able to see that the comical appearing heads have a frightening face on the back of their cranium... you can check my old posts to see what that was for.
Not to add fuel to the fire, but I have read on this forum (trip report I think) that they have been doing at least limited audio testing with guests before this thread was started.
Will this scarier nighttime conversion be a reality in the near future or is it more of a case that the heads were already done two sided before the idea was shelved?
ToTBellHop
Well-Known Member
I believe the latter...unfortunate, really, but it IS the Magic Kingdom...at least they kept the decapitating husbands...
joel_maxwell
Permanent Resident of EPCOT
thanks for the updates.... have you seen the new final 3 scenes?
Well, I have always thought that decapitation was good clean family fun.....:lookaroun
joel_maxwell
Permanent Resident of EPCOT
priceless
Can we just give it a rest about who he is!
He doesn't troll here, he doesn't seem to want "praise" or "attention" nor does he get sucked into long drawn out “I’m better than you” arguments. He simply posts some very key nuggets once every couple months and then goes away.
Simply put, he is either an imagineer or a marketing person. Either way, he is not going to tell us who he "really" is. Nor will there be a meet and great, nor will you be able to find him in the park and get his autograph.
Let’s just be happy with the updates he provides. His posts are of more value than most of the other junk being posts around here these days.
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He doesn't troll here, he doesn't seem to want "praise" or "attention" nor does he get sucked into long drawn out “I’m better than you” arguments. He simply posts some very key nuggets once every couple months and then goes away.
Simply put, he is either an imagineer or a marketing person. Either way, he is not going to tell us who he "really" is. Nor will there be a meet and great, nor will you be able to find him in the park and get his autograph.
Let’s just be happy with the updates he provides. His posts are of more value than most of the other junk being posts around here these days.
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