Originally Posted By MickeyChick Aren't they having the premiere for Pirates 2 at DL again? Any guesses on what day the movie premiere will be? I've heard that it will be before the actual July 7 opening of the movie. If no one knows what date it will be, does anyone have an idea of what day of the week it will be? Are movie premieres usually on Fridays? I'm planning an end of June trip, and want to avoid this. We won't be there on a Friday, so maybe we're safe.
Originally Posted By Darkbeer The date has not yet been released, but we know it will happen. It will be sometime in the last two weeks of June. The first Premiere party was on a Saturday.
Originally Posted By mousegrl What occurs at a premiere party? Is the park closed early, crowded, ect.? Thanks. O, and will Orlando be there?
Originally Posted By mousegrl ^We'll be there the 21-25(June), so I'm trying to figure out, if the premiere is held during that time, will it be a good or bad thing?
Originally Posted By disneyfreaksk I asked this question a while ago and a CM thought the premeire was going to be held at WDW. But I suppose they would do something at DL also.
Originally Posted By MickeyChick I'm just really hoping that we can avoid it. If it's a Saturday we'll miss it too, since we'll be there on a Sunday thorugh Thursday.
Originally Posted By disneyfreaksk Man, I am trying to think of how I can be there! I know it will be ungodly croweded, but what a lifetime experience!
Originally Posted By MickeyChick I agree that it would be kind of fun to be there, but since this trip will be the first for my mom in 14 years, I don’t want anything to slow us down. Like those ungodly crowds and closed rides and lands.
Originally Posted By Darkbeer The Movie folks got their wish, and it is being held at DIsneyland, not WDW. For the first Premiere event, the park closed at 6 PM, instead of Midnight. There was some major issues with it, including closing down most of the West side of the park (HM, Splash, Indy, etc.) about 2 PM. First, it took about a week's lead time to prepare the area, which pretty much shut down most of the Rivers of America. Special walkway paths were made, and CM's were out to make sure folks followed the one way pattern. No Fantasmic!'s could be offered. Also, the day of the event, no parades could be offered, since Main Street was all blocked off. The one benefit was the celebrities walked down a Red Carpet down Main Street, which the guests were allowed to watch.
Originally Posted By Darkbeer Here is an article talking about the problems... <a href="http://www.o-meon.com/pages/arc_pgs/arc_16.html" target="_blank">http://www.o-meon.com/pages/ar c_pgs/arc_16.html</a>
Originally Posted By POTCFAN Saturday June 28th 2003 the park remained open for any guests who wanted to view the celebrities walking the red carpet for the Pirates premiere. I was one of those awful people who planned my vacation around the event. The first "star" on the red carpet was Danny Bonaduce at 6.00pm, followed by many others from the Disney and ABC stables. Jon Voight was awesome as were Orlando and Johnny. The last person I saw just before 9.00pm (almost had to run down the carpet as he was late) was Cuba Gooding Jr. Because of the success of the first POTC I am sure that the crowds will be even bigger (and younger) in 2006.
Originally Posted By mousegrl Ughh. Sounds like a headache to be in the parks those dates. (Not even for you, Orlando) How far in advance will they announce the date of the premiere? I just may need to do some adjustments as far as dates go.
Originally Posted By mousegrl APRIL!!! Kakkamamie kookie doodle dooooo!!!! Ughh. Being I already reserved with WDTC, I'm gonna have to pay to change dates. (I know, I shoulda done it on my own.)I could ask them to pay because of the inconvience, but at this time, and probably for the far future, they will most likely 'not' know of the premiere. If I decide to keep the dates, they better reimburse me in some way. (As mentioned in the article that Darkbeer posted.) I can only go the last 2 weeks of June. It sounds as if, no matter when it's held during that time, the park will not be the same for those two weeks. I'm taking my 18 year old cousin for her first visit to the park. That's the biggest bummer part for me. I could handle the closures, as I've been there many times, but I wanted her to experience Disneyland in all it's original glory. Poop. What to do, what to do......
Originally Posted By MickeyChick I’m in the same boat, mousegrl. I’m taking my mom who hasn’t been in 14 years. We also planned to go sometime the last two weeks in June. But because of all this mess, I’m thinking that we might just postpone until the end of July/beginning of August instead. I really didn’t want to go during the middle of the summer, and thought that late June might be a little better crowd wise, but the trade off of NOT being there during the Pirates movie mess might just make it worth it.
Originally Posted By Darkbeer Here is another story, this time about how the CM's were treated during the premiere... http://www.mouseplanet.com/david/dk030702.htm (cut and paste)
Originally Posted By mousegrl LOL. I totally thought the end of June would be the best time for us. Not the middle of Summer, yet the schools are already out so no field trips, ect. Now I find out that there will be grad night while I'm there and the premiere. Aye yi yi. My hubby has already taken time off work, so my dates have to occur the last two weeks of June. Sigh.......
Originally Posted By disneyfreaksk POTCFAN, so are you implying that it isn't worth it? Did'nt DL show the movie on Jumbo Trons?
