News Round Up 2016

I don't think that is likely to happen. First off, they don't really advertise that they do it, so not that many people ask. Second I think the goodwill of doing this helps sell photopass.

No...but think about this:

I guarantee there have been thousands of hours of countless nitwits sitting in meetings talking about "those damn cellphones are allowing them to take pictures for FREE...how do we recoop that money!?!"

It's a sickness...really.

They can't capitalize on what technology has made obselete...so they should just take Elsa's advice.
 
Can you imagine how horrendously crowded that would be, though? The lights are nice, but within two minutes of getting into that area at DHS I was always desperate to get out. I can't imagine it working well in an area where people are also trying to get to shops and restaurants.
Yeah, I don't think this will be the lights.
 
I think the ship has sunk on Osborne lights...

But something in a better space might be nice. The Osborne lights where always put in too small of a space. It's 1,000,000 lights in 10,000 square feet.

Something not so cramped and loud would be a nice addition.

Can you imagine how horrendously crowded that would be, though?

IDK - I realize Disney claims they "Sent them back to the Osborne family", but it's not like you've heard that they are displaying them somewhere else.

Others mention that they would need to charge money for this - but i'm not sure about that. It really WOULD drive people (and locals) to DTD. It would likely increase dining reservations and very likely increase spending. Would it be enough to offset the costs? Maybe not, the biggest concern would be drawing people away from the parks, but being that they would only be a draw at night - it STILL wouldn't really prevent people using their park admissions during the day. I actually think it would be pretty smart - and they COULD spread it out across more of DTD Disney and really make an impressive show. This would even alleviate some of the crowding issues of having it crammed in such a small area. (You would even get people going across the lake to SSR to see all of Disney Spring "dance" with light.

Edit: I do admit I think the likelyhood of this being what it is being low, it would be almost too late to put them up this year, but I am more defending the logic of it, not the realism of it.
 
Can you imagine how horrendously crowded that would be, though? The lights are nice, but within two minutes of getting into that area at DHS I was always desperate to get out. I can't imagine it working well in an area where people are also trying to get to shops and restaurants.

That's because it was always in the wrong place. It made more sense in Epcot.

I was never a fan...and NOT because Disney was doing it...I just can remember several nicer, more natural displays for the public dating back to the 80's...near Pittsburgh
 

just coincidence that now the one place to meet the Mad Hatter they up the price?
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That's because it was always in the wrong place. It made more sense in Epcot.

I was never a fan...and NOT because Disney was doing it...I just can remember several nicer, more natural displays for the public dating back to the 80's...near Pittsburgh
With the way they set up Osborne lights, the streets of america were really the perfect place for them. Epcot doesn't have a place like that.

I saw them for the first time last year and as someone who does their own display to music I was in heaven.
 
With the way they set up Osborne lights, the streets of america were really the perfect place for them. Epcot doesn't have a place like that.

I saw them for the first time last year and as someone who does their own display to music I was in heaven.

My point was that it's not how you want to do a display...with spinning, whirling things stacked on top of each other so your neck is a 360 degree tailspin.

And they only started doing it there after they built the stunt show...it used to be back on the fake movie lot.

I always get the impression that Disney kinda "tolerated it"...which is why it was never a
Priority to find a more elegant spot.
 
With the way they set up Osborne lights, the streets of america were really the perfect place for them. Epcot doesn't have a place like that.

I saw them for the first time last year and as someone who does their own display to music I was in heaven.

Wait...you don't have large public displays in Minnesota? I would have thought there was something nice to go to in the Chicago area or something?
 
just coincidence that now the one place to meet the Mad Hatter they up the price?
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By $2/$1 respectively...so that's not "a thing"

To be honest...i'm always shocked now when they don't do at least a 10% hike for table service food...it's the m.o. For ten years.
 
IDK - I realize Disney claims they "Sent them back to the Osborne family", but it's not like you've heard that they are displaying them somewhere else.

Others mention that they would need to charge money for this - but i'm not sure about that. It really WOULD drive people (and locals) to DTD. It would likely increase dining reservations and very likely increase spending. Would it be enough to offset the costs? Maybe not, the biggest concern would be drawing people away from the parks, but being that they would only be a draw at night - it STILL wouldn't really prevent people using their park admissions during the day. I actually think it would be pretty smart - and they COULD spread it out across more of DTD Disney and really make an impressive show. This would even alleviate some of the crowding issues of having it crammed in such a small area. (You would even get people going across the lake to SSR to see all of Disney Spring "dance" with light.

Edit: I do admit I think the likelyhood of this being what it is being low, it would be almost too late to put them up this year, but I am more defending the logic of it, not the realism of it.

I agree with the logic of this...

Downtown would be the perfect place to do something like this and would drive foot traffic. They don't want or need admission for that.

Then they can do an IP focused event in studios in a couple years as a draw.

But it only solves a problem for 2 months a year...so it doesn't work.
 
Wait...you don't have large public displays in Minnesota? I would have thought there was something nice to go to in the Chicago area or something?
Well first I'm in Wisconsin not Minnesota. And yes we do have large displays but I really enjoyed the Osborne lights. We have the Miller valley lights, and a few other displays (including my own I can just walk outside my house).
 

Knowing how some fandoms take some things entireeeeellyyyy too seriously I completely understand. Avatar is one of those fandoms that seemed to get deeeeeeeep into it with people wanting to become Navi, researching as if they were real, there were even lines of erm... "self pleasure" toys. You just know if they didn't there'd be an incident of someone making a scene because someone didn't know the language or they'd go right to guest services to complain.

I mean, I'm all for falling into a hobby or fandom, but some people just can't draw the line.
 

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