Originally Posted By Kimrue Ok, maybe I'm just a goofball, but I sort of like to get the vacation planning videos every year...hec they're free,right?! Well, got the one last night for this year and got the fam together and we all were excited to watch it and it sucks bigtime!!! WE all fell asleep! No joke, literally fell asleep during a vacation planning video! THat is NOT good being that we don't need to be "convinced" to go to WDW, we watch it to get hyped up for our trips that we have already planned! What about the people that DO need to be "convinced" to go. This was the worst YET. I LOOOVE WDW and I think they usually do a nice job with the videos, this one was god awful... I can't believe we actually fell asleep, a family of 5!!! We were all excited to watch it. How weird that we fell asleep, it was kind of freaky...and BAD!!! We are going to "try" to watch it again tonight, we'll see...hope we aren't "hypnotized" again
Originally Posted By DVC_dad LOL !!! That is just awful. You wuold think they would make it exciting and informative. Maybe they figure if you get the planning video you already are set on coming to the parks. Who knows.
Originally Posted By bobbelee9 At least you didn't have to pay for it! I recently ordered one for my boss who's taking a group down April vacation. He hasn't been in 8-10 years so he might appreciate catching up on changes. Hope it isn't so bad that he changes his mind about going.
Originally Posted By Goofyernmost It is just awful. The biggest snooze I have run into for years. One thing good about it is it kind of makes you like Luke from last years planner. My grandchildren, ages 5 thru 8 have never been to Disney. I let my daughters borrow last years and this years, in preparation for our upcoming trip, and the kids absolutely hated the newest and have played last years over and over again. I know the intent was to make it seem like a dream situation but don't you have to be asleep to dream? If that is the case then this one is sheer genius. It makes WDW seem as exciting as watching grass grow. Hopefully next years will improve.
Originally Posted By TDLFAN What did you all expect from a FREE video, filled with promotional material that highly enhances the actual experience WDW offers? I mean.. are you all that surprised? Really?
Originally Posted By MickeyChick We've never been to WDW, so I ordered the planning DVD for the first time this year. I have several of the Disneyland ones, and love watching them over and over. But I too thought this year's was awful. So cheesy. I wanted to find a copy of last year's WDW DVD, but have so far been unsuccessful. Anyone have one they'd like to part with???
Originally Posted By Goofyernmost >>>What did you all expect from a FREE video, filled with promotional material that highly enhances the actual experience WDW offers? I mean.. are you all that surprised? Really?<<< That's just the point, TDLFAN! This video did anything but enhance the actual experience. To put it plainly, it sucked! If I hadn't already been to Disney there is absolutely nothing on that video that would make me want to go. It looked and felt more like a commercial for a retirement rest home. Since you live nearby and have a gazillion AP's from around the globe there is a good chance that you have not had a reason to get one of these video's. Most of the previous ones have been bright and exciting and definitely did attempt to enhance the actual experience. Not so with this one...I've seen more exciting funerals.
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo Funny, I really liked the latest one, even more than the others. I liked last year's too! But years previously were dire and cheesy in comparison. Different strokes I suppose.
Originally Posted By Goofyernmost I might have gotten a tad overly negative in my description. I don't suppose it was the worse thing on the planet but it really did, I think, lack the gusto and pazazz (sp?) that previous one's did. I think that it was much more significant to someone that had already been there then someone that has not. The video was designed, IMO, to be like a dream sequence. With that they were successful. It did seem like a dream sequence but I was never able to figure out how this was supposed to impact me. It also didn't have as many interactive things to do as the previous one did. I guess I am partial to glitz and glitter and this one left me lacking. For those of you that liked it, my humble apologies, it just didn't do it for me.
Originally Posted By trekkeruss I think the current video, at least the one I have, is fine. Not great, but not terrible. On the other hand, the souvenir videos of Epcot and Animal Kingdom that I bought on my last trip, now *those* are bad.
Originally Posted By TDLFAN >>It looked and felt more like a commercial for a retirement rest home.<< Well to be honest.. the video IS a commercial, and WDW IS a retirement rest home of sorts. No? >>I might have gotten a tad overly negative in my description.<< Backpedaling is NOT allowed. I appreciate your honesty, but never give WDW a break. They CAN and SHOULD do better than this, even for a free product.
Originally Posted By bobbelee9 How can retired people afford to live there? Although I would love to retire to the Poly. No lottery is big enough for that to happen. My boss's copy arrived at work today, but he's away until Monday, should I hide it? Will he fire me after watching it?
Originally Posted By Goofyernmost >>>Backpedaling is NOT allowed. I appreciate your honesty, but never give WDW a break. They CAN and SHOULD do better than this, even for a free product.<<< Just to clarify, I wasn't really backpedaling in the sense that I was saying that the video was anything but a large sucking sound. It surely is but I was hoping that I hadn't expressed that in a way that made others feel that they didn't have a right to like it as much as I hated it. Also I, for one, don't get much rest when I'm there. I have to go back to work to rest up.
Originally Posted By Liberty Belle >>Funny, I really liked the latest one, even more than the others.<< Waaaaait a minute, does this mean you can get the video in the UK? We can't get them here I'm starting to come up with the idea that Disney actually just hates Australia ... no Disney Stores, can't participate in the YOAMD mail-in ... that's it, I'm moving to Sparta!
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo Yep - we get them in the UK in PAL! But we can't get Adventure's by Disney Info ;-(
Originally Posted By BeautysBeast Maybe there was a carbon monoxide leak in the house while the family was viewing the video..i dunno.
Originally Posted By wdwbff I guess you have to be asleep before you can have a year of a million dreams..
Originally Posted By Great Stone Dragon The DVD has a lot of separate menus for the various parks, hotels, etc. I think it would have been a lot better it they had a separate option for "personal experiences". Since I've been there before, I really don't want to wade through other people's wishes at every turn. Maybe I should request a "fastpass" planning DVD next time.
