News Round Up 2018
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skier_pete
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Oh man - they're competing with @TheMaxRebo and my Beer festival! Dang it! Ours will be better, though, and no whales will be harmed in the making of it.
There is a time in my life I would've appreciate that - but now I just find it kind of gross.
The Pho
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That kind of seems odd considering how often they do events similar to this. Cast members should be pretty used to handing out and checking wristbands. Two of the after hours parties were very smooth when I did them just over a week and two ago.
beer dave
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The article says "the pickle chips are inedible, so don't eat them"...... how can this be? I looked for them to go into this, but they didn't....most fried pickles are good-- I don't think anyone could serve a meal with inedible food attached.....
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Kind of a bummer. The MNSSHP we went to in the fall and the Moonlight Magic from a couple weeks ago both had long wristband lines but they moved quick. And at each event they checked wristbands very closely. Lines were also long but again moved quickly as there were no FP line to contend with.
Yeah I agree. People also said that it took a while for regular guests to exit the park which made it feel more crowded. It was the first night so hopefully things get better.
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Blog Mickey tweeted the blow - I don't know if this lighting effect photo pass was exclusive to the VIP night but that is when they saw it available
skier_pete
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Do you think a bit of this is whiny AP holders? "Wahhh, they gave me this free thing and they dared to allow a bunch of others to do it as well." I mean, I don't think Disney said that this would be a "low crowd" event, and it's something you are not paying any extra for - Disney's choices are to either really limit the number of people that can attend or allow lots of people to attend and have longer lines. Maybe unlike the DVC events they feel the base is too large to have lighter crowds.
The one complaint I can get behind is not clearing out the regular park guests. They've gotten pretty good at this with the Halloween party and even the Moonlight Magic night they seemed to get all the regular guests out pretty quickly. Disappointing that they didn't do the same thing for this.
The one complaint I can get behind is not clearing out the regular park guests. They've gotten pretty good at this with the Halloween party and even the Moonlight Magic night they seemed to get all the regular guests out pretty quickly. Disappointing that they didn't do the same thing for this.
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I've only seen positive takes from people that saw the movie (though more middling reviews from critics) but looks like Christopher Robin underperformed a bit at the theaters this weekend:
Ethan Hunt shot down Christopher Robin’s chances at box office king this weekend as Mission: Impossible – Fallout took home the #1 spot. The action sequel spent its second weekend atop the box office with $35 million. That represents a stellar drop of just 42%, easily the best in the franchise’s history outside of Ghost Protocol, which run its first two weeks over the customarily low-dropping weekends of Christmas and New Years. Fallout’s second weekend drop compares very favorably to the drops of Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (49%) and Mission: Impossible III (48%).
Is Mission Impossible’s strength a factor in Christopher Robin’s underperformance this weekend? It’s hard to say definitively yes. The Disney film brought in $25 million, under the $30 million that most expected it to do. While it’s easy to look at one film’s success vs. another’s failure and see correlation, it is important to note that Christopher Robin was marketed toward more of a family audience. Still, nostalgia from adults was hoped to be a factor as well, and adults did come in as the majority of the audience. This could be chalked up a variety of factors, from the mild reviews (68% average on Rotten Tomatoes) to a variety of options for families still holding on strong in the top ten.
The good news is that word of mouth for the film was strong with an A CinemaScore, and that might help the week-to-week grosses that this one will need in order to hit a profit. January’s Peter Rabbit was able to translate enthusiastic word of mouth into exceptional legs, but that was during a much less lively time at the box office. Christopher Robin should be able to get to $85 million or so domestically, but will need international grosses to make a profit on a $75 million budget plus marketing. It’s opened in just eighteen markets so far and has $4.8 million for a $29.8 million worldwide start.
Ethan Hunt shot down Christopher Robin’s chances at box office king this weekend as Mission: Impossible – Fallout took home the #1 spot. The action sequel spent its second weekend atop the box office with $35 million. That represents a stellar drop of just 42%, easily the best in the franchise’s history outside of Ghost Protocol, which run its first two weeks over the customarily low-dropping weekends of Christmas and New Years. Fallout’s second weekend drop compares very favorably to the drops of Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (49%) and Mission: Impossible III (48%).
Is Mission Impossible’s strength a factor in Christopher Robin’s underperformance this weekend? It’s hard to say definitively yes. The Disney film brought in $25 million, under the $30 million that most expected it to do. While it’s easy to look at one film’s success vs. another’s failure and see correlation, it is important to note that Christopher Robin was marketed toward more of a family audience. Still, nostalgia from adults was hoped to be a factor as well, and adults did come in as the majority of the audience. This could be chalked up a variety of factors, from the mild reviews (68% average on Rotten Tomatoes) to a variety of options for families still holding on strong in the top ten.
The good news is that word of mouth for the film was strong with an A CinemaScore, and that might help the week-to-week grosses that this one will need in order to hit a profit. January’s Peter Rabbit was able to translate enthusiastic word of mouth into exceptional legs, but that was during a much less lively time at the box office. Christopher Robin should be able to get to $85 million or so domestically, but will need international grosses to make a profit on a $75 million budget plus marketing. It’s opened in just eighteen markets so far and has $4.8 million for a $29.8 million worldwide start.
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Yes, I went last night. When I first went to get my wrist band at Tortuga, the line was all the way past Tiki birds. I went on Splash Mountain and came back and the line was like 3 or 4 people, took all of like 5 minutes. They were checking bands at most rides early, I even saw at Buzz them telling people they couldn't ride because they didn't have a wrist band. It basically seemed like EMH for passholders, nothing special just extra time for rides, which was actually fine by me. The wait times on the app were wrong most of the time, but that is consistent in my opinion with normal EMH since they base it on fastpasses and there are none for this and EMH. Best example was at morning EMH yesterday at DS they told me slinky was an hour from that point (right where Buzz is doing his meet and greet) and it was only about 20 minutes.
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I can see that - like, this wasn't something promised to you when you bought your AP so you can't really complain if it didn't match your expectations .... though like a lot of things sometimes the fault is Disney's own hype machine - when they come out with special brochure and give it a special name, etc. I think people expect something unique to the experience - even if just some special merchandise or special Photopass shots or something
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$18? Jee Wizz that's expensive
splash327
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It was definitely crowded. At 11:30 there was still a good amount of people in fantasy land, it felt more crowded than a typical EMH. I do think this maybe a whinny AP holders. I had a blast last night, although I wanted to ride and I took it like my family did the weekend before during After Hours. I got in Haunted Mansion, Buzz, Space, Barnstormer (I rode all the roller coasters in Disney World yesterday, so I had to get this in to complete the set), Little Mermaid, 7 dwarfs, and Peter Pan. It seemed like there was a mad rush to the coasters at the start, so those wait times exploded early on.
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