What drives you nuts when you see a Disney commercial?

[Boopuff]

I'll start: I can't stand the commercial where the family runs into the GF (totally empty lobby) the CM at the desk is all smiles, and the little girl runs into the arms of Cinderella in front of an empty Main Street. (I know it's a commercial but it just seems so.... fake.)

 

[BlueStarryHat]

No sweaty crowds.

 

[barkley]

the little girl runs into the arms of Cinderella in front of an empty Main Street.

see now, that brings back memories for me of when i was a kid and to some extent when my close to 30 year old 'kids' were little and we could do disneyLAND during off season and find fairly empty areas of the park midweek with characters kids could run up to and interact with. when i was little the characters didn't have (not sure what they call them) wranglers or handlers but even when my kids were little it wasn't so apparent-they stayed in the background and let the characters direct the interactions. but yeah, it's totally unrealistic.

with me it's the lack of crowds-totally unrealistic no matter the day/time.

 

[Dead2009]

I'll start: I can't stand the commercial where the family runs into the GF (totally empty lobby) the CM at the desk is all smiles, and the little girl runs into the arms of Cinderella in front of an empty Main Street. (I know it's a commercial but it just seems so.... fake.)

Cause it's supposed to sell you on going to the parks...lol.

 

[LoveSpringsteen]

The near-empty parks with no lines anywhere. Everyone looking fresh and clean and not wrinkled and sweaty.

 

[Smugpugmug]

I'm so sick of seeing the same commercial of a man and his family going on the Disney Wish with a cover of a song from Cinderella (I think? Unsure) playing in background. No matter how many times it's played, I still won't book a trip on a Disney cruise ship lol

 

[luvnwdwgal]

They’re so unrealistic. I love WDW and we have been there many times. I don’t think anybody would want to go if they showed what it was really like. Sweating, waiting in long lines, crowds, tired kids who are crying, trying to find somewhere to sit down and eat, exhausted people who keep pushing along to get their money’s worth out of their tickets, etc. And yet I can’t wait to go back.

 

[RedAngie]

One from years ago when Seven Dwarfs Mine Train was new. They speeded up the ride for the commercial. No way it went that fast.

I think decades before it was the same for Big Thunder Mountain.

 

[5kidsmommy]

This commercial literally came on as I was reading this post.

Yeah totally unrealistic.

 

[barkley]

I don’t think anybody would want to go if they showed what it was really like. Sweating, waiting in long lines, crowds, tired kids who are crying, trying to find somewhere to sit down and eat, exhausted people who keep pushing along to get their money’s worth out of their tickets, etc.

i dunno-you could do these sequences and then pan to sequences of the quiet serenity of getting a facial or a massage at a spa, sipping a cocktail on your room's balcony with a nice meal from room service and then curling up for a nap in a luxurious bed. use a catch phrase like 'the magic extends beyond the parks-discover ALL the magic a disney resort vacation can provide'.

 

[TLSnell1981]

The near-empty parks with no lines anywhere. Everyone looking fresh and clean and not wrinkled and sweaty.

And children running up to hug characters on the street.

 

[Princesca]

How can they not get sued for false advertising? Those things don't happen... it's kinda mind boggling. I mean, your burger at McDs never looks like the commercial but at least you GET a burger.

 

[_19disnA]

How can they not get sued for false advertising?

In the advertising world, it's called 'puffery' where most reasonable people know that some of what is shown is an exaggeration of how it actually is in real life. Disney commercials I have seen are examples of that.

https://legaldictionary.net/puffery/

Puffery is legal, but false advertising is not ................saying you are selling a miracle cure for cancer (when there is no such thing) would be an example of illegal false advertising.

 

[Magical2017]

Empty parks.

 

[Mrs.AMC]

I can't recall the particulars of the commercial but it was a few years back and it was for Disneyland but they showed a family on the beach at the Grand Floridian resort

 

[Mrs.AMC]

They’re so unrealistic. I love WDW and we have been there many times. I don’t think anybody would want to go if they showed what it was really like. Sweating, waiting in long lines, crowds, tired kids who are crying, trying to find somewhere to sit down and eat, exhausted people who keep pushing along to get their money’s worth out of their tickets, etc. And yet I can’t wait to go back.

People return knowing it's sweating, long lines and crowds, etc so I beg to differ that no one would go if they showed what it was really like in a commercial.

 

[Mrs.AMC]

And children running up to hug characters on the street.

That does happen in DL. At least it did. Don't know if it's returned since Covid or not. Characters wandered streets and there were not always lines to meet them. When we went, they discouraged lines, it was more an open run up and interact thing. This was recent, pre-Covid shut down but recent.

 

[Mrs.AMC]

How can they not get sued for false advertising? Those things don't happen... it's kinda mind boggling. I mean, your burger at McDs never looks like the commercial but at least you GET a burger.

They CAN happen though.
I've got photos of near empty hub at MK from a couple years ago
Heck, near late night even now it's often empty in areas of the parks
So they are rare but not impossible and not false advertising in the sense you are talking about.

 

[tvguy]

Well as a west coaster, all the national ads are for WDW not DL.
And as many have mentioned, the ads aren't very realistic.
Like, where is the shot of the downpours and flooding at WDW?

 

[TLSnell1981]

That does happen in DL. At least it did. Don't know if it's returned since Covid or not. Characters wandered streets and there were not always lines to meet them. When we went, they discouraged lines, it was more an open run up and interact thing. This was recent, pre-Covid shut down but recent.

Yes you could find some in DL. One of my favorite visits ever was in Cali with my granddaughter when she was 5 years old. She walked up to Tigger...he turned, played for a minute and we took a photo. She looked up at him and said, "do you want to bounce?' He took her hand and bounced down the street with her in tow. Some of the other guests weren't to happy but it's still one of her all time favorite moments at Disney. And that was a very long time ago.