News Round Up 2017

[rteetz]

As it is with Carrie Fish, Mark Hamill and Stan Lee.

Just because Disney bought their properties shouldn't make them a legend. If that's the case, I bought an awful lot of movie tickets for their films. Could I be a Disney Legend too?

Star Wars attractions were in the parks long before Disney bought Lucasfilm. As for Stan Lee you might have a point but all of these people now have a history with the Walt Disney Company.

 

[rteetz]

I think Disney plays fast and loose with these legends. As much as I love them, Stan Lee and Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher aren't really Disney. Disney owns them now, yes, but when they were at their creative best and developing their stars they weren't Disney. Just like at the last D23 Susan Lucci the soap star was inducted. It's all really about media attention and publicity and such, though occasionally there are what I would consider to be true Disney stars thrown in there.

To me Susan Lucci makes sense though. All My Children was an ABC show for decades. Disney has owned ABC for decades now. At some point these people become part of the company. If you think it should stay true to Disney then really it should only be Disney animators, voice actors, live action actors and Imagineers for Disney Studio films and nothing else.

 

[DrunkJam]

What I like is that we are there from November 4th-8th. Four nights - ZERO parties. YAY! (I don't like these parties limiting my evening plans -especially with the new nighttime show coming to MK.)

Honestly, It's annoyed me a little bit, we are there 13-23 december. 6 of those ten nights are party nights! I *might* book one, but...

 

[lockedoutlogic]

The disney legend thing is just self promotion and they have cheapened it. It's not worth paying attention to anymore...frankly.

 

[lockedoutlogic]

Honestly, It's annoyed me a little bit, we are there 13-23 december. 6 of those ten nights are party nights! I *might* book one, but...

Don't...it's a ripoff

 

[lockedoutlogic]

What I like is that we are there from November 4th-8th. Four nights - ZERO parties. YAY! (I don't like these parties limiting my evening plans -especially with the new nighttime show coming to MK.)

That's jersey week, kid....

...did you hit your head before you booked?

 

[DrunkJam]

Don't...it's a ripoff

Hmm, I wondered. Cos, it does look like it is crowded, and basically just some extra characters, and cookies.

 

[rteetz]

Hmm, I wondered. Cos, it does look like it is crowded, and basically just some extra characters, and cookies.

And fireworks and a parade that has been the same for decades.

 

[lockedoutlogic]

Hmm, I wondered. Cos, it does look like it is crowded, and basically just some extra characters, and cookies.

It's oversold and double the price it was about 9 years ago...so there's that.

 

[rteetz]

It's oversold and double the price it was about 9 years ago...so there's that.

That said I have never done it and would do it once just to experience it and say I have done it.

 

[rteetz]

News

The Blue Angels flew over Magic Kingdom this morning.

U.S. Navy Blue Angels Perform ‘Magical’ Flyovers at Magic Kingdom Park

 

[Indybill]

NEWS

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news...c-kingdom-fireworks-fight-20170406-story.html

 

[rteetz]

NEWS

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news...c-kingdom-fireworks-fight-20170406-story.html

I heard about this. That's somethin for sure....

 

[DrunkJam]

OK, we can compromise, watch the fireworks from the hotel, and see the regular ones in the park on one of the nights there is no party. We're not regulars. My kids won't know which characters are rare, or how different the fireworks are, or any of that.

 

[lockedoutlogic]

That said I have never done it and would do it once just to experience it and say I have done it.

It might be worth it to do it once...but I'd bet the house you'd be overall unimpressed/take it or leave it.

 

[DrunkJam]

That said I have never done it and would do it once just to experience it and say I have done it.

Yeah, I was thinking that, but, it's hard work justifying, when the trip doesn't really need more money thrown at it for my kids to remember it forever.

 

[rteetz]

It might be worth it to do it once...but I'd bet the house you'd be overall unimpressed/take it or leave it.

I have heard better things about the Halloween party than the Christmas party so I think I would try that one first.

 

[lockedoutlogic]

I have heard better things about the Halloween party than the Christmas party so I think I would try that one first.

I would agree with that...though the Halloween party is pretty uncomfortable these days.

I still have cold sweats about the Disneyland one...worst park experience ever.

 

[DrunkJam]

I have heard better things about the Halloween party than the Christmas party so I think I would try that one first.

Yeah, we totally should have tried that one when we got married at the YC in Oct 2010. Ah well.

 

[Indybill]

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news...c-kingdom-fireworks-fight-20170406-story.html

I heard about this. That's somethin for sure....

I am wondering if someone got video and sound. With all the people around/behind them getting ready to record Wishes, surely someone got it.