Anyone else NOT care about Capatin EO?

[SeattleTink]

Add me to this list....I never understood the whole MJ thing.

I was very relieved last week that it HAD NOT opened when we were there.

I am glad to miss this particular re-opening.

 

[LifeIsTinkIsLife]

I am so tired of the Captain EO rumors and news and everything else! Am I alone? I remember seeing it when I was a kid and thought it was corny then.
PLUS, I guess i am in the minority that Micheal Jackson's death doesn't affect how I feel about him!

With you 100%. I have GotPlanS for ipod touch and it's all the park chat people ever talk about. It has been getting annoying, there should just be one thread or something that they can all talk about it and the rest of us can talk about crowds and wait times and ask questions, yada yada.

And yeah, MJ's death hasn't changed my opinion either. I feel bad when anyone dies but I never liked his music before and I don't after.

 

[darph nader]

No burning desire to rush back and see it. Saw it twice years ago,enough for me/us.

 

[FlameGirl]

I not only don't care to see it, I flat out refuse to see it.

 

[Sherry E]

Well, my friends and I - none of whom were MJ fans (other than liking a few songs here and there) - donned the purple 3D glasses on many occasions in the past to sit and watch Captain EO, but it was really just to get out of the heat and off of our feet!! Oh, and I liked the little furry, flying creature in it (they used to sell stuffed versions of him in the TL shops)! Captain EO was really popular for a long time, but, just as with other shows and things like Star Tours and the Country Bear Jamboree, people got tired of it after a while. But, I believe that Disney really removed it because it just wasn't right to keep it there with all the controversy surrounding MJ - though they may never admit that was the reason. I think it was more the whole stigma attached to it than a lack of popularity that caused them to remove EO.

I am sick sick sick of HISTA and I say good riddance to that! I would much rather have Mickey's Philharmagic or something else brand new to DL, but next time I am at DL, if EO is still there, I will probably see it for nostalgic purposes, just as I would go see the Country Bears again if they ever returned, even though I had gotten tired of that too.

 

[born_in_anaheim]

I am so loving that EO is back. I can't wait to show my kids, especially my 7 year old who became a fan just before he died. We will be there Saturday when the gates open!

 

[DizMe]

What I really think is that "Am I the only one?" threads are kind of pointless. I say that having posted some myself

 

[Peace.love.mickey]

I think what I like is 1.) no more HISTA and 2.) 100% childhood memory.....

I will go see it to see if that scary ladies nails still scare me !

 

[l’amore bella]

I hate the idea that Disneyland, a place for children, is showing this glorification to a child predator. Sorry, that's the way I see it.

I completely agree and feel the same way.

 

[clairabell29]

I hate the idea that Disneyland, a place for children, is showing this glorification to a child predator. Sorry, that's the way I see it.

That is EXACTLY what my mother and I said too!

 

[bumbershoot]

I never saw it...and I don't really want to.

Don't get me wrong, I was a fan of his music while the music was still good (to my ears). And I was actually at DLR, having just gotten into our room at PPH when I saw the news of his and Farrah's deaths so now it really weighs on my mind while there.

But...I really wanted DS to see HISTA when I felt he would be OK with it! And now I'm bummed it's gone. It's just so goofy. And even if WE have seen it a million times (which I have not, I have seen it ONCE and looked forward to seeing it again), DS, and other children, more of whom are born every day, have NOT, and it's not old to them.

Whereas, and this might only be in our household, if we go to see Eo, and DS likes his music, he'll ask about the musician, and...ya know, he's dead. No more music coming forth from him. So...what's the point? Sure, good music...but I've always had a hard time really getting into music when the artist is already dead...it just seems...pointless.


I think if they'd had it ready to go back in July, then there would have been a good point to it. Commemorate him, that's it, now go back to HISTA. But this late? Makes no sense. Would make MORE sense if they brought it back starting June 25th (24th? what day did I check into PPH?), but this date is so random and weird, even if it's his birthday or something...they are doing it because he's dead, so really, only shortly after that, or as an anniversary, does it make sense to me.

 

[Sherry E]

I never saw it...and I don't really want to.

Don't get me wrong, I was a fan of his music while the music was still good (to my ears). And I was actually at DLR, having just gotten into our room at PPH when I saw the news of his and Farrah's deaths so now it really weighs on my mind while there.

But...I really wanted DS to see HISTA when I felt he would be OK with it! And now I'm bummed it's gone. It's just so goofy. And even if WE have seen it a million times (which I have not, I have seen it ONCE and looked forward to seeing it again), DS, and other children, more of whom are born every day, have NOT, and it's not old to them.

Whereas, and this might only be in our household, if we go to see Eo, and DS likes his music, he'll ask about the musician, and...ya know, he's dead. No more music coming forth from him. So...what's the point? Sure, good music...but I've always had a hard time really getting into music when the artist is already dead...it just seems...pointless.


I think if they'd had it ready to go back in July, then there would have been a good point to it. Commemorate him, that's it, now go back to HISTA. But this late? Makes no sense. Would make MORE sense if they brought it back starting June 25th (24th? what day did I check into PPH?), but this date is so random and weird, even if it's his birthday or something...they are doing it because he's dead, so really, only shortly after that, or as an anniversary, does it make sense to me.

Oh you never saw it, Molly? You never wore the attractive purple 3D glasses? Well, I wouldn't say that the music in EO was good - it wasn't even as good as MJ's best songs - but it was an odd little space age tale, and I think MJ is wearing a jazzy little silver space suit at one point (if I remember corectly), and seeing his face that close up - before he got all that surgery - is kind of weird. Plus, Anjelica Huston is in it with long, scary, twisty fingernails and there is an annoying but oddly ugly-cute creature that flies around MJ and makes for an ideal stuffed animal in the store that sells the Ewoks and other Star Tours stuff. Plus, it was directed by Francis Ford Coppola. So it is worth one viewing, for sure!

Yes, the timing is a bit odd. I have a feeling that DLR would have whipped out Captain EO in July or as soon after MJ's death as they could, but they had red tape to cut through and then they had to examine the film and do whatever with it. I think this is probably the soonest they could get it out.

 

[bumbershoot]

No, ma'am! Robert says he saw it. But I just wasn't there at the time. There was a small time that my brother and I were taken to Disneyland as kids, and I guess we just weren't there at the right time!


editing...I found that it "originally opened on September 18, 1986". And I was a senior in HS for that, and most definitely wasn't taken to Disneyland that "old". Our time there was at around 11 (if that old) and probably a little bit younger than whatever age I was if it wasn't 11. By '86 I was only a year from college at a private liberal arts school, ready to go into my "huge corporations suck" phase, relatively shortly followed by my "disney sucks especially" phase caused by my mom and stepdad having owned a house in the disney-started but arvida (arvada?)-built Country Walk Estates in Miami...the development that was nearly blown off the map thanks to the builders having used *finish nails* in their construction, rather than proper nails that would at least think about withstanding a hurricane.

I only came out of that phase shortly after our "eh, we're here, might as well" trip in Sept '05!

 

[sonnyjane]

I just got back from the parks. I knew going into this day trip that I didn't want to see EO, but was hopeful that everyone ELSE seeing EO would make the rest of the park quite pleasant, and I was right! The park opened at 10 today, and by 10:30 there was already a 45 minute line for EO, and it just grew from there, but rides like Space, Indy, and even Peter Pan were only 15-20 minutes ALL DAY because of the EO madness. As I was leaving, I noticed that park security had stopped a man dressed as Michael Jackson outside of the gates and told him he could not enter because he was wearing a costume and was obviously older than 9 years old Other than that, it was pretty uneventful. There were a lot of people with EO shirts pins (they were selling them in most of the stores), so obviously a lot of people were interested in the premiere - just not me

 

[DisneyNic]

Couldn't care less.

X2.

X3.

 

[L2S2C]

I don't like Michael Jackson, never did. Some say I'm too young to really remember him. Im 29, I really just never liked his music. We won't be seeing captain eo, whatever it is, when we go in march. Im slightly embarrassed to say I only found out what it was today, I thought it had something to do with star wars

 

[kaoden39]

I couldn't careless myself. Just saying....

 

[Sara*s_Mommie]

Hated it then...won't even bother with it now.

 

[Mugglemama]

Egads...I just watched it on YouTube. It's like Fraggle Rock threw up on Battlestar Galactica.

I'm sure I thought it was "rad" when I was 13 in 1986 and at the height of my MJ hysteria. But my kids would haaaaaaaaate it if I made them waste 20 minutes of their precious Disneyland time on that cheesy show.

Abe Lincoln, we make time for. Captain Eo....not so much.

 

[sasywtch]

having had a son molested as a child, we will definitely NOT be going back to see it. I'm rather disappointed in Disney to go ahead with this.