Never watched Sesame Street, much less The Electric Company. I grew up on Captain Kangaroo, and I remember the original Treasure House set.
Oh yes!! Loved Mr. Green Jeans. He was on long enough for my older kids to see him too. (They lost their jobs when Reagan deregulated TV.)
Mr. Moose was my first spirit animal. He's since been replaced by Cookie Monster. We all grow up I guess ...
The thing about Captain Kangaroo is that Keeshan's show made more sense, and had higher production values, than a lot of prime time programming aimed at an adult audience. Like Star Trek, it was dedicated to the proposition that there's intelligent life in the TV audience. I didn't discover Mister Rogers' Neighborhood until I was a junior in high school, but there, too, we had a program that, though targeted at preschoolers, had the quality and the production values to stand up to an adult audience (and something meaningful to say to that audience). Even if Fred was the butt of an awful lot of jokes. (Time to take my medication: makes the day go a lot slower.) That's probably also why my "must see/ride/do" list for my visits to WDW are so atypical: not a repeat visit to a thrill ride in the bunch (other than M:S), but multiple visits to CoP, AA, GMR, and HoP.
No kidding. I realize that there are some pretty bad eggs in our lineup of past Presidents, but so far but Trump's term is shaping up to be a doozy. He makes Nixon look like a saint in comparison. With what's gone down so far since the inauguration, and what appears to be an emerging coup d'etat of sorts by the Trump Administration, I would have an incredible amount of respect for the Walt Disney Company if they stripped the show down to Great Moments With Mr. Lincoln, or just did away with a Presidents show altogether.
Ditto! This travesty will need to be erased from the history books. (Yeah, yeah, I know it's wrong, but I hope things are set right before I die which is not, probably, that far away. Especially without my healthcare.)
I really hope they don't do that. They can write the show in a way to minimize the importance of the sitting president, but reducing the whole thing to focus on a single AA would be a waste in a theater that size You're primarily a DLR guest, right? One of the things I really like about WDW is how the attractions there have traditionally kept broad real-world inspirations. Mr Lincoln at DLR seems a little out of place (other than nostalgia) but HOP fits right in with WDW headliners like Spaceship Earth, The American Adventure, and The Great Movie Ride. True, recent additions have been pulling WDW away from that direction (and those sorts of attractions have always carefully curated what they focus on), but I see no need to butcher the current show because of the current person in that role
I hope they just go back to Lincoln speaking (Nixon didn't speak when it debuted, and they've only had the last 3 current presidents speak), or perhaps revamp entirely to have one from each of the first three centuries (Washington, Lincoln, FDR?) and perhaps leave the 21st out for now. Those 3 could speak to the office and each faced a major crisis, so there's that connecting thread. Trumpistas would probably complain, but if they made it enough of a revamp and even emphasized the "crisis" thread, they could probably manage it, seeing as how Trump hasn't dealt with a crisis on that scale yet (though Lord only knows if he'll create one). They'll probably cave and have him do a voice, though. I can only imagine his tweets if they don't.
Didn't realize I was being political. Is there anything else this week? Sorry, I know you are doing your job.
Your personal political views of President Trump belong in the World Events section. If this can't be followed, the thread will be locked.
I'm a supporter of President Trump ({duck & cover!}), but with his sharpness and (necessary) "shock value", I'd support ending the HoP in MK, sending it to the Smithsonian, and putting something else in its place. I do not want crazy whacked-out anarchists burning down Liberty Square.
A full AA show about American history done with the Muppets would rock! I wish TDO wasn't so cheap to prevent it from happening. On the other hand, I wonder if a decent c-ticket dark ride based on the Headless Horseman could fit in that building. We could all be on horses (configured like the bikes in E.T.) as we try to get across the bridge into Sleepy Hollow and are attacked by the Headless Horseman. It would be tight but I think it could fit.
While I don't make it to WDW often enough for the question of whether Trump gets a speaking part in HoP to be anything but moot, losing HoP entirely would just be a reason for me not to bother going back to WDW at all. As it is (and as I remarked in another thread), every time I start to think about reinstating my DL pass, Disney management does something else over on my side of the country to give me a reason not to.
Really? Oh well, it was Disney's weird idea to do an Oz musical starring the Mouseketeers too. Not all of Disney's ideas were winners.
Disney as in the company not the man. I believe the first sitting President to speak was Bill Clinton.
