Originally Posted By SuperDry <<< Interesting you bring the Super Bowl up as I seem to remember the I'm going to Walt Disney World comercials, and the special parades with the NFL player marching down Main Street. Is this any different? >>> Yes, it is different, as others have already pointed out. I notice that you didn't answer my question.
Originally Posted By barboy ///Or, since the installation has already taken place, if it's that big a problem--STAY HOME or go to another amusement park./// LOL, Touche! --- a well earned point for you jdub
Originally Posted By Malin <<< Yes, it is different, as others have already pointed out. I notice that you didn't answer my question. >>> First your question wasn't aimed at me, so thats the reason why I didn't answer it. Second I think its just a case of people having double standards, US Parks can celebrate there Super Bowls but the Hong Kong park should never celebrate the Olympics.
Originally Posted By Malin <<< Or, since the installation has already taken place, if it's that big a problem--STAY HOME or go to another amusement park. >>> Whats interesting here is that the Original Poster has made it perfectly clear he doesn't like the park and refuses to step foot in the place.
Originally Posted By SuperDry <<< I think its just a case of people having double standards, US Parks can celebrate there Super Bowls but the Hong Kong park should never celebrate the Olympics. >>> It's not a double standard. The US parks do not set up screens in the park and broadcast coverage of the Super Bowl to those in the park while it's happening. If the Chinese medal winners were to be honored by a parade in HKDL once the games are over, then that would be something similar to what happens in the US. Although, it would have much less meaning, as HKDL is not of national significance in China.
Originally Posted By Malin Do you not bother to read any of my previous post. The park is not using the screens to cover the Olympic games to those in the park while it's happening. The screens are used for the daily show Mickey Presents Dream Sports Moments. Yeah it does show highlights from the Olympics during the show, but its done to illustrate people's dreams.
Originally Posted By Mr X ***The thing that does grate on me a bit is the whole notion that live sports somehow overrides the normal rules of decorum. Many casinos in Las Vegas now have flat-screen TVs in the gaming pits so that people don't have to miss "the game." In my opinion, themed environments should take you away from the regular day-to-day world, rather than bring it in.*** Not too surprising. The ONLY matter of importance there is to keep butts on those stools (if it were legal, I'm sure they would offer complimentary catheters so gamers wouldn't have to get up for ANYTHING). So, if they're losing patrons for hours at a time to go watch "the big game", I'm sure they couldn't care less about the themed environs.
Originally Posted By Mr X ///the special parades with the NFL player marching down Main Street. Is this any different? /// ***That too needs to stop. I don't want NFL, MLB or Pres. Bush (unless at the Hall Of Pres.) or any outside, non-Disney related distractions in the park.*** What about guest entertainment?
Originally Posted By SuperDry <<< So, if they're losing patrons for hours at a time to go watch "the big game", I'm sure they couldn't care less about the themed environs. >>> Ah, but it also detracts from the specialness that other guests get from being there. And if the casino over time turns away from being a unique environment to one that's more like the local sports bar but where you lose a lot of money, this will affect gaming revenue as there's less reason to go.
Originally Posted By Bob Paris "Whats interesting here is that the Original Poster has made it perfectly clear he doesn't like the park and refuses to step foot in the place." As it stands NOW, yes, that is true. Nothing would please me more, however, than to have my "local park"(I live in Perth, Western Australia)be one of the best in the world - a Disney theme park I could be truly proud of and is close enough so I could visit regularly(and unbegrudgingly)without much expense. As this crappy little half day park is now, I wouldn't waste the time if you paid me. Stunts like this(ruining the mood in Main Street/the hub)just make me think they have given up completely. Rather than going in the RIGHT direction it just seems more to me like they are going the "X Games/Summer Concert By The Bay/Let's try ANYTHING to Get The Suckers in" DCA route. And we all know how THAT turned out.
Originally Posted By SuperDry <<< Do you not bother to read any of my previous post. >>> I did read your post #12, but apparently I interpreted it differently than you intended. I took it to mean that the screens were put up for the Sports Moments special event, but that as long as they were up, they were also being used to show general Olympic coverage at other times of the day. Now, I think what you're trying to tell me is that they are ONLY being used for this special event, which happens to incorporate some Olympic footage among other things. If that's the case, then I retract most of what I said.
Originally Posted By barboy //What about guest entertainment?// Hey, go catch a Legend of the Lion King show LOL OK, I'll be serious. I just think Disney should not adulterate their theme by introducing 'outside' entertainment unless that entertainment can thematically fit. You want to hear David Hasselhof sing? Fine. Dress him in a future/space suit and let him hit the notes at Tomorrowland Terrace. But I don't want him riding the train around the park in a private car waving at everybody. And I don't want to see the National Assoc. of Realtors, the San Antonio Spurs, Jeff Corwin and some animals or a batch of Hooter girls parade themselves down Main St.. If Disney must bring in Corwin stick him in Animal Kingdom and if they insist on some Hooters send them over to Pleasure Island.
Originally Posted By Mr X ***I just think Disney should not adulterate their theme by introducing 'outside' entertainment unless that entertainment can thematically fit.*** What about amateur outside entertainments, ala Magic Music Days at WDW? What about Marching Bands in town square or marching the parade routes. School choirs and the like?
Originally Posted By SuperDry <<< What about amateur outside entertainments, ala Magic Music Days at WDW? What about Marching Bands in town square or marching the parade routes. School choirs and the like? >>> Not a big fan of any of those things. I don't go to Disney to see some high school marching band from Podunk on Main Street. I realize that it's a tremendous treat and honor for the students involved, but if that's a justification, why don't high school drama classes get to put on their plays on a stage in Tomorrowland?
Originally Posted By Mr X Well, it may be a treat (don't know about "honor" lol) for the kids, but Disney is the one encouraging such things...mostly to cut costs on having to provide more in house entertainment (or none at all). As for not going to Disney to see some high school band from Podunk, isn't that pretty much what you DO see on any Main Street U.S.A.?
Originally Posted By Goofyernmost >>>Replace "Olympics" with "Super Bowl" in the above. The same arguments could be made - do you still agree?<<< If there were a way to compare the Olympics to the Super Bowl, I would agree. The SB is local, involving two teams that only a limited number of fans give a hoot about. The Olympics is world wide with many names, faces and nationalities on the line. I do take back the "entertainment angle" because it is more of a compromise with the country it was being shown in. The mouse cannot escape politics. Still, I don't find that the showing of the Olympics in a Theme Park as being offensive or bothersome. It's not a holy land, just a park.
Originally Posted By barboy ///Many casinos in Las Vegas now have flat-screen TVs in the gaming pits so that people don't have to miss "the game." In my opinion, themed environments should take you away from the regular day-to-day world, rather than bring it in./// I recently dined at a PF Changs in Bay Area(an 'upper' chain of Chinese food). I've been to one before down in San Diego and the chain prides itself on a very immersive royal/wealth China theme complete with large water features, beautiful accent lighting and prominent statues. The joint was playing 'top 40' music and employing all white and Latino servers. They couldn't find not one Chinese server or of Chinese descent?!? So here I am eating my broccoli beef in a beautifully adorned upper *Chinese* themed restaurant and I hear Sheril Crow, Maroon 5 and Gorillaz playing throughout the joint---they even piped it in the restrooms. Why can't they play traditional, instrumental Chinese music to enhance the ambiance. I told the shift manager about the flagrant assault on his restaurant's ambiance and he didn't give a rip--- I guess 'corporate' wants it that way. I will never go back.
Originally Posted By Witches of Morva ORDDU: My sisters and I don't care for clashing theme within a Disney theme park, either. So we understand and agree with the point you're trying to make, barboy, duckling.
Originally Posted By jdub >>I recently dined at a PF Changs<< LOL, can you spot the oxymoronic words in the above phrase? >>The joint was... employing all white and Latino servers. They couldn't find not one Chinese server or of Chinese descent?!?<< You know a corporate chain restaurant cannot hire based on appearance like that. If you want an Asian look--and much better food, I should add, you should go to an actual, authentic Asian restaurant. I've been there once too, and will also not go back, either--but it is because the entire experience was a total joke, food included.
