Originally Posted By AutoPost This topic is for Discussion of: <a href="http://www.laughingplace.com/w/articles/2014/12/25/disney-parks-frozen-christmas-celebration-live-blog/" target="_blank"><b>12/25/14: Disney Parks Frozen Christmas Celebration Live Blog</b></a>
Originally Posted By Megara Why make people wait 3 hrs to see characters. Why don't Disney just make double frozen girls. One set, stage left, another set, Stage right. Whose gonna know. Get the lines moving quicker. Those poor parents waiting that long in a lineup with their kids. Instead of enjoying the park. Crazy.
Originally Posted By schnebs I DVR'd the show and watched it over the weekend. Well, it finally happened - Disney finally abandoned any pretense of pretending the show's about the parade or that we're going to learn anything new and exciting about the parks. It was pretty bad, even though there were a couple of good performances. Does anyone else think it's ironic that the weakest musical performances were the ones of the songs from "Frozen"? Disney, if you ever decide to do a "Frozen" themed entertainment special (and please, don't, really), spend the money to get the actual voice talent from the movie instead of the usual cast of Disney Channel pop stars and somebody you found on YouTube.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros >>Why make people wait 3 hrs to see characters. Why don't Disney just make double frozen girls.<< The 3 hour wait is with 2 sets of sisters out for the meet & greet. The wait time was also reduced when you meet them one at a time, rather than getting both at once, but obviously it's still very popular and still very low capacity. It really makes me wonder why they've put so much marketing emphasis on character M&Gs in recent years, since they're difficult and expensive to operate with any meaningful capacity; I'd guess that the Frozen M&G needs at least 10 CMs (4 character performers, 4 photographers, and at least 2-4 guest control to keep things running smoothly) and still has an hourly capacity less than a third of a single Dumbo-like spinner that could operate with 1-2 CMs (and is notoriously low capacity) >>Well, it finally happened - Disney finally abandoned any pretense of pretending the show's about the parade or that we're going to learn anything new and exciting about the parks.<< I didn't watch, but I'm kind of glad that they've stopped the charade. Call it a Christmas Special or Holiday Celebration or whatever, but the parade has been playing second fiddle as long as I've seen the broadcast. It seems like it's still popular for what it is, so it's probably a good move to abandon all pretense of a parade; the last one I saw included no more than 5 minutes of total parade footage in the broadcast, and the clips were so quick that they all felt like they had been cut off. At least this allows them to theoretically have a decent production of the pop stars and advertisements
Originally Posted By CuriousConstance "It really makes me wonder why they've put so much marketing emphasis on character M&Gs in recent years, since they're difficult and expensive to operate with any meaningful capacity; I'd guess that the Frozen M&G needs at least 10 CMs (4 character performers, 4 photographers, and at least 2-4 guest control to keep things running smoothly) and still has an hourly capacity less than a third of a single Dumbo-like spinner that could operate with 1-2 CMs (and is notoriously low capacity)" I would guess it has a lot to do with demand. You can see the demand is there with the crazy wait times.
Originally Posted By Yookeroo "You can see the demand is there with the crazy wait times." This really makes me wonder why there isn't more marketing emphasis on M&Gs.
