News Round Up 2017

[skier_pete]

I like the paradise pier Starbucks mug...hello, eBay

Man, you have to develop better west coast contacts...

 

[lockedoutlogic]

Man, you have to develop better west coast contacts...

I walked with one of Trader Sam's haunted mansion mugs last year...

But you know me...while generally speaking I think chasing disney Chinese product is pretty low rent (or with many here...not paying the rent)...I do have a few exceptions.

 

[TheMaxRebo]

News

“Coco” Soundtrack Features Original Songs, A Memorable Score And Traditional Mexican Sounds

I still don't get why the trailer uses "Bittersweet Symphony" as the music given how important the actual music in the movie is to the story

Side note, we went to see Tangled in the theaters last weekend and they had a (at least new to me) trailer for Coco and it definitely made it seem more interesting to me than what I had seen prior.

 

[OhioStateBuckeye]

I walked with one of Trader Sam's haunted mansion mugs last year...

But you know me...while generally speaking I think chasing disney Chinese product is pretty low rent (or with many here...not paying the rent)...I do have a few exceptions.

How'd you get one of the Halloween mugs? I really wanted one last year but we did not have a trip planned.

Going to WDW this year over Halloween and I hope to get one.

I still don't get why the trailer uses "Bittersweet Symphony" as the music given how important the actual music in the movie is to the story

Side note, we went to see Tangled in the theaters last weekend and they had a (at least new to me) trailer for Coco and it definitely made it seem more interesting to me than what I had seen prior.

Ah nice, I've been wanting to see one of the Disney princess movies in theaters, I think Princess and the Frog is next.

The music songs pick for trailers sometimes confuses me. For example, the trailer song for Force Awakens was better than anything that was in the actual movie (in my opinion, anyway). So I'm confused as to why it never showed up in the score.

 

[romitaz]

Nobody said the franchise is "stumbling"...I think they have eroded a lot of the benefit of the doubt from diehards...That's all.

Any old crap isn't gonna cut it forever...just my opinion.

And your experience is just your experience...just like mine is mine.

And while I see my kids and their friends acknowledging Star Wars...not a lot of toys/shirts/etc around the schoolyard.

It's a "thing"...but it doesn't seem like it's as big of a deal as it could be.

OK, I am one of the "Die Hard" fans. The issues with said fans as they are now in their 40's - 60's and in fact will begin to "die hard" all on their own. Pun intended.

I see the HUGE deal that Star Wars has become to the generations that REALLY matters. The much younger ones than us. Judging from the shear number of little Jedi's at the parks last week, we really don't matter anymore. The fan-base is growing, not shrinking. It's the old geezers like us that are shrinking. I, for one, did not mind the prequels. Could they have done better? Yes, but I saw my nephews and nieces come out of the theater awestruck and knew that another generation had been hooked. Even with "crappy" prequels.

 

[lockedoutlogic]

How'd you get one of the Halloween mugs? I really wanted one last year but we did not have a trip planned.

Going to WDW this year over Halloween and I hope to get one.
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I was staying at the Disneyland hotel and they happened to open the line right when we're walking by...so it was on a 2 minute wait. I was trying to get more than 1 but it was only a partial shipment and they would only sell me one at that time.

Later in the day/week there was at least an hour+ line.

I never opened it...stashed somewhere

 

[rteetz]

How'd you get one of the Halloween mugs? I really wanted one last year but we did not have a trip planned.

Going to WDW this year over Halloween and I hope to get one.

Line up early based on what I saw from last year. It was incredibly popular.

 

[lockedoutlogic]

OK, I am one of the "Die Hard" fans. The issues with said fans as they are now in their 40's - 60's and in fact will begin to "die hard" all on their own. Pun intended.

I see the HUGE deal that Star Wars has become to the generations that REALLY matters. The much younger ones than us. Judging from the shear number of little Jedi's at the parks last week, we really don't matter anymore. The fan-base is growing, not shrinking. It's the old geezers like us that are shrinking. I, for one, did not mind the prequels. Could they have done better? Yes, but I saw my nephews and nieces come out of the theater awestruck and knew that another generation had been hooked. Even with "crappy" prequels.

I don't think the fanbase is shrinking...I think it is going to fall more into any normal style fanbase - which it never was...

And the prequels were beyond off and an outright mistake. It was the backstory everyone wishes they didn't know now (come on...ADMIT IT!)

Bad news for everyone on that "old fan front" her at the Dis:
I went to the doctor today and they can't find anything terminal...you're stuck with me for the time being...

 

[OhioStateBuckeye]

I was staying at the Disneyland hotel and they happened to open the line right when we're walking by...so it was on a 2 minute wait. I was trying to get more than 1 but it was only a partial shipment and they would only sell me one at that time.

Later in the day/week there was at least an hour+ line.

I never opened it...stashed somewhere

True Disney magic hahaha.

Line up early based on what I saw from last year. It was incredibly popular.

The Disney Parks blog announced that they would be sold this year, but i still haven't heard anything about it. I think I assumed they'd start selling them in October, but nothing yet.

Hopefully they ordered more than last year.

I'll be there the week of Halloween and I won't have park tickets, I'm just attending Universal's HHN and one MNSSHP at night. I'll be working remotely so I am more than willing to take my laptop and sit in line.

 

[lockedoutlogic]

Sounds like you'll be hanging at the poly a lot, Buckeye

 

[romitaz]

I went to the doctor today and they can't find anything terminal...you're stuck with me for the time being...

There is always tomorrow. Till there isn't...

 

[OhioStateBuckeye]

Sounds like you'll be hanging at the poly a lot, Buckeye

Probably, I do love that hotel. It's either that or work in the hotel room.

 

[lockedoutlogic]

Probably, I do love that hotel. It's either that or work in the hotel room.

Yeah...

...the thing that detracts from the poly for me...honest to god...the amount of smokers outside everywhere near the rooms.

It's 2017...let's move on like the rest of humanity, please?

"I've been coming here since opening...cough cough..."

Blah blah blah

 

[sachilles]

Yeah...

...the thing that detracts from the poly for me...honest to god...the amount of smokers outside everywhere near the rooms.

It's 2017...let's move on like the rest of humanity, please?

"I've been coming here since opening...cough cough..."

Blah blah blah

Funny on our last visit we spent one night at AoA, and there were a ton of smokers. Yet at Port Orleans Riverside, Saratoga and CBR, I don't remember seeing many at all. Could have been time of day, or clientelle. AoA had a very south american flair while we were there.

 

[Q-man]

Star wars never left the main stream consciousness from 1983- 1995 in a pre internet world...

It's not a modern movie "franchise" like the fast and the furious.

It was instrumental in creating modern Hollywood.

You give Star Wars and it's fans too little credit...and 5 year olds who play with a toy for a week and teens buying a $22 imax ticket today too much.

But we will ultimately see...make bad Star Wars and see what happens.

You've got to be kidding. It survived both Lucas' CGI follies when going to disc and the god awful prequels. JJ's love of lens flare ain't going to do it in.

 

[TheMaxRebo]

Funny on our last visit we spent one night at AoA, and there were a ton of smokers. Yet at Port Orleans Riverside, Saratoga and CBR, I don't remember seeing many at all. Could have been time of day, or clientelle. AoA had a very south american flair while we were there.

Last time I was there I went for a run around hourglass lake which is presented as the running path ... but it is also where a lot of the smoking sections where and was pretty annoying to have to go through a bunch of smoke and smokers while running

 

[lockedoutlogic]

You've got to be kidding. It survived both Lucas' CGI follies when going to disc and the god awful prequels. JJ's love of lens flare ain't going to do it in.

I treat that as a painful, 6 year mulligan...don't know there'll be another...

And remember: JJ made a GREAT movie...not a canned reboot. I'm told that everyday here

 

[lockedoutlogic]

Last time I was there I went for a run around hourglass lake which is presented as the running path ... but it is also where a lot of the smoking sections where and was pretty annoying to have to go through a bunch of smoke and smokers while running

Yeah...I can see that.

My favorites are crescent lake and Saratoga/downtown

 

[TheMaxRebo]

I treat that as a painful, 6 year mulligan...don't know there'll be another...

And remember: JJ made a GREAT movie...not a canned reboot. I'm told that everyday here

I am the position that what he made is both ... very much a reboot/remake of the formula used in episode IV - but a very enjoyable and well made one

 

[lockedoutlogic]

I am the position that what he made is both ... very much a reboot/remake of the formula used in episode IV - but a very enjoyable and well made one

I've spent two years trying to figure out what exactly bothers the hell out of me about that movie...

It's a reboot...but it's not that.

I think it's arrogance about how "great" abrams did...all the back patting...and fords involvement.

I think it's very much like avatar to me: big gate but no lasting pull.