Originally Posted By Doobie This topic is for discussion of the August 23 article: Make Mine Sixty-Nine - Part Two at <a href="News-ID508650.asp" target="_blank">http://LaughingPlace.com/News-ID508650.asp</a>.
Originally Posted By Labuda I'm confused... I thought the Mousekateer one was done by Wayne Allwine and Russi Taylor. Guess not, eh? :/
Originally Posted By LindsayC Actually.. that was an error, that photo has the wrong credit - that is the one by Allwine and Taylor
Originally Posted By ChiMike I saw the Mickey's in February and when I went back in March I was very much pleased to no longer see them! Very much in the minority, as always, Mike
Originally Posted By Labuda WHy were you pleased to have them gone, Mike? Were they trashed when you saw them in Feb? They were pristine when I saw them in December. Only thing that bugged me were the adults & children who thought the rope was there for fun & they could crawl all over the statues to their hearts' content. HEATHENS!
Originally Posted By ChiMike No .. Simply an issue of opinion. I thought they were kind of pointless and another PR gimmick in a long line of PR gimmicks to help disguise the true problems lying with in Disney's divisions. I don't really care for these temporary gimmicks, and thought they clashed with the imagineered view of the Train Station. I wonder how much the entire program cost, in manpower and money. I'd much rather see even the marginal cost be applied towards an animated project or theme park maintenance. Something with meat (or vegetarian equivalent). I'm sick of the finger snacks.
Originally Posted By leemac Mike, I'd agree with you, but as the Mickeys were designed purely as a charity event, I loved them. I can't wait for the DLR auction and hope to be able to make a bid or two on my favourites! As with the view, I guess they wanted them to be at the Magic Kingdom, but didn't want people to have to have admission to see them.
Originally Posted By ChiMike Very good point Lee .. I had forgotten the chairity angle. I know they were very popular, and I'm not trying to make anyone feel worse in the slightest for enjoying them. It's just not the, "Walk I walk"
Originally Posted By vbdad55 Gave me an excuse to go to Downtown Chicago...so we enjoyed them.....we saw them the first week they were there so they were in pristine condition at that point....... From people I talked to, those who do not go to WDW often, or in some cases ever seemed to enjoy them the most....for me I liked them-- I applaud the charity effort.....but it made me miss WDW even more...so it felt like an appetizer-- but there was no meal as they were not at the entrance to WDW or DL.
Originally Posted By dshyates I'm with Mike in that I didn't really care for them all grouped around the entrance. It kinda ruined the scenery. Maybe if they spread them around the park and then passed out a scavenger hunt like map where you had to visit each one to answer a question. Or if they wanted to be really corporate spread them around all 4 parks. After completeing the quiz you get a pin or something.
Originally Posted By dshyates I already see a flaw with the above plan. Someone would post all the answers online and then people would simply fill it out and get their pin. So instead of a map with the locations pass out a card with all 75 listed broken down by which park they are in. Place each statue near a greeter or in a shop where a CM would stamp your wisit to each Mickey. After all 75 are stamped you get to go get your pin where a CM would stamp the completed card so you can only get one pin. That way Disney would sell more admission media, of course a small percentage would go to the charity.
