Originally Posted By Malin What I'm trying to say is do you promote it towards the usual Disney crowds and keep it inside the park, or do you take the plans outside the park and find a new audience.
Originally Posted By leemac <<That was certainly time enough for Disney to see the results of the brilliant planning and design that went into DCA, but was it late enough into the design of HKDL that poor decisions could not be undone?>> Sadly it was too late. Timur wasn't on the creative side of the project - he was on the delivery side and as the project got chipped away his successor was completely handcuffed to the plans in place. John Verity was supposed to return to CA after building TDS but got drafted in to rescue the construction efforts on HKDLR - he did an incredible job in hindsight.
Originally Posted By SuperDry <<< Timur's "grand" plan saved a few bucks but the poor decision-making has come back to bite the current team in the ass. It is frightening how WDP&R is still trying to correct the mistakes that that idiot made during his tenure. DCA and HKDL are both a product of his cost cutting. It is even more galling that after being sacked by Don Goodman he ended up as a MD at Goldman Sachs. >>> You just can't let those finance types loose within WDI, can you? No telling what they'll do.
Originally Posted By Bob Paris "Wow - you Europeans with your long vacations" LOL!!!!! Makes me think of my friends in the US and how they reacted when I told them for both my American holidays I visited for seven weeks each. I just didn't see the point of coming for less.
Originally Posted By Bob Paris "I can sit through a Mahler symphony happily with nary a twitch" Wow - doesn't that stuff cause people to commit suicide?!?
Originally Posted By MagicalNezumi Mahler's "Symphony No.1 in D Major" for the WIN. I love that piece. It's so dark and even has a funeral march based on "Frère Jacques" -- MagicalNezumi
Originally Posted By Mr X ***Wow - doesn't that stuff cause people to commit suicide?!?*** Mahler? Yes, sure. Some become despondent and suicidal. Others even go postal by the end of the 3rd movement. But Kabuki is far, far more deadly. Trust me. ;p
Originally Posted By MagicalNezumi ^^ Kabuki has nothing on "noh" performances. The first and only one I attended back in 1995, I was ready to leave Japan! Hehehe. -- MagicalNezumi <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noh" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noh</a>
Originally Posted By Malin *** Look forward to that trip report! (is it up yet somewhere?) *** First part of my Disneyland Trip Report is now up to view online <a href="http://mb.laughingplace.com/MsgBoard-T-108851-P-1.asp" target="_blank">http://mb.laughingplace.com/Ms...-P-1.asp</a> Apologies for delay.
