OK, so I have only been around for a short time, and I'll use that as an excuse for my ignorance. What is this joke about snowglobes that people keep bringing up? Is it something like the car pools? Please enlighten me.
and:It's when the merchandising plan is more important than the movie's script.
To many today they seem far more interested in selling the reminders and trinkets instead of creating new memories and new experiences. They place the works of the past inside a glass dome and try to peddle the emotion, instead of creating the emotion in the first place.
or in other words:It's only when that exploitation becomes the singular driving force, rather than the creation itself, that a real problem occurs. A line that many agree that Disney crossed quite a while ago.
Ah yes - The "lack of creativity" issue. All due no doubt to the existing CEO. Cleverly referred to as a snowglobe or sticker or whatever the latest buzz is here on the DIS. I will not pretend to believe the animation division isn't in need of an overhaul. I will not agree however, that the company is exploiting the art of the past without creating anything new. I tend to interpret many of the unsatisfied customers here as having a strong distaste for the cold fact that Disney is principally in the business to sell to the consumer.It's when people - and companies - begin to focus more on the snow globe (the representation) instead of the true experience that things go wrong.
I agree. Whether it started with a parade or ever had some meaningful value is irrelevant.................the snowglobe reference has become nothing more than a slur. A tried and overused slur. It is all nice to try and now repackage "snowglober" and say that it innocently represents those who are more interested in buying memories than new experiences, but take away that smoke and it simply is intended to mean that anyone who finds anything of value or Magic in almost anything Disney has done in the past 5 years is someone who can be easily distracted by cheap, shiny, glittery pieces of crap with the Disney logo imprinted on them and wouldn't know quality or worthwhile entertainment if it bit them on the @ss. It is intended to imply that those who see anything positive coming out of Disney aren't seeing things for what they truely are and are blinded by the fact that the letters D-I-S-N-E-Y are attached. It is intended to discount the opinions of those who hold a contrary opinion, no matter how valid, by implying that they can't think for themselves. To some it is entertaining...............to others it is yet another barrier to communication (assuming there is a real intent to communicate....otherwise it is just another jab in an endless bout that will go on ad nauseum until the end of DIS time...............)Originally posted by KNWVIKING
Whatever metaphor or analogy "snowglobes" was originally intended to represent has long since been erroded into an oft repeated sarcastic bash intended for anyone not firmly planted in Car 3.
And here I am outside of Car #3 and can't claim snowglobe ownership . But we all know it really has nothing to do with what one does or does not own.................I'm a Car No. 3'er and I own a snowglobe.
You are correct PG..................it all comes down to the shorthand people choose to use. Either way, whether one chooses to use the shorthand version or write it out, this still stinks of a dismissal by those with a (sometimes founded, often times unfounded) knowledge superiority complex . As mitros asked in the op...........yes, snowglobes has sort of replaced or supplemented the carpools..................well, partially replaced as I don't know that the non-car-3ers have a new shorthand for our worthy adversaries. Personally I have no use for such things any longer for the very reason the good Viking touched on.I guess that I don't see the difference between saying "those who see anything positive coming out of Disney aren't seeing things for what they truely are and are blinded by the fact that the letters D-I-S-N-E-Y are attached" (good phrase Mr Kidds!) or saying "snowglobe". It's just someone's opinion after all, however it's phrased.
Absolutely...............as has always been the case around here .Somewhere in the middle is the truth in my opinion.
Once again, I agree. I just think there is plenty of room on both sides to have adult conversations without the need for anyone to be so closed-minded and dismissive as to say "I'm right and if you weren't so blinded by all that pixie dust flying around in your prescious snowglobe you would realize it". Sometimes it seems there are those that think that anyone who doesn't agree with them or see things their way is a cheerleader. Well that just isn't the case. Things are never as cut and dry as we like to think they are.I would rather hear all of the negative comments in the world grounded in truth than some of the Disney cheerleading that goes on at times.