Originally Posted By WilliamK99 Access Hollywood spent over a minute on the event. Not bad considering it is only a 30 minute show.
Originally Posted By californian Thanks for the pics, as usual a great job. However and a big however this has got to be the most disgusting exploitation of Disneyland ever! They HAD to close the place down on a busy summer evening to "ordinary Disney fans" so that a bunch of super rich Hollywood types could have their fancy party at everyone else's expense, goodness knows that they have no shortage of exclusive places all over Hollywood that ordinary people are banned from, but they had to take this too! And heaven forbid that the royalty be inconvenienced by having this on perhaps a week day a least when maybe fewer would be effected or later at night, no sir. The studio should be truly ashamed, and it has motivated me to avoid seeing the film ever. I'll not even attend the merchandise "Event" now. Yeah I know, like they care, I've been a Disney fanatic for years but this has given me a whole new perspective on the current state of Disney. There wasn't much magic that night unless you were on the "A" list
Originally Posted By TomSawyer That's too bad, californian. (Welcome to the boards, by the way.) I hope you give the movie a chance because it looks like one of the most entertaining Disney films in a long time.
Originally Posted By californian Thanks Tom, been around a long time, since sometime in 2000 but have only posted 7 times according to my record. Thanks for being tolerant of my rant, only posted after seeing the pics, was just too much. I 'm sure it's all been covered before but I hadn't seen anything before this thread. I attended the original Pirate event in 2000 and remember how they treated us there, the contrast between that and this was just a lot to swallow.
Originally Posted By velogirl Which lucky member of the LP staff did the interviews? (in other words, who got to talk to Orlando?)
Originally Posted By slaakker I thought it was funny how the person holding the camera kept nudging the person doing the interviewing out of the way.
Originally Posted By DDMAN26 Who's the actress in the film? I've never seen her before but allow me to say hubba hubba.
Originally Posted By sobal For someone there for the Red Carpet Walk: Did the park play background music for the arrival, similar to background parade music? "Yo Ho, Yo Ho"? "Hooray for Hollywood"? Or silence?
Originally Posted By TomSawyer DDMAN26, that's Keira Knightly. Check out your movie listings to see if "Bend it like Beckham" is playing in your area. She starred in that and it's a fun movie. She was also the decoy Queen Amidala in The Phantom Menace.
Originally Posted By Dave >>>Did the park play background music for the arrival, similar to background parade music? "Yo Ho, Yo Ho"? "Hooray for Hollywood"? Or silence?<<< No they didn't and if they did you wouldn't have been able to hear it for the cheering fans.
Originally Posted By TomSawyer Dave, come on now. Were they cheering or were they actually lamenting and tearing their garments and gnashing their teeth because they had to watch part of a Hollywood premiere?
Originally Posted By imtigger2 CA... Oh give me (and all of us, including Disney) a break. If you'd been there as just a "regular" guest, you'd see what an exciting evening it was. Totally worth closing the park early for. Disney was great in accomidating the guests in both opening the park early, and keeping CA open later.. in addition to allowing all of us in on the Main Street fun and notifying all the local hotels and the guests of what was going on that evening. It was a spectacular event. With another theme park right across the plaza and with Downtown Disney both there to entertain, there really was nothing to compain about. Unless you weren't there. So, you just keeping sitting at home on your booty and keep complaining about candy wrappers in the park and the lack of bigger AP discounts, and all the rest of us will continue to enjoy all that Disney has to offer, and it will make it that much more enjoyable with one less person in front of me in line. I know... we're all entitled to our opinions, and this is mine.
Originally Posted By terwyn "If you'd been there as just a "regular" guest, you'd see what an exciting evening it was. Totally worth closing the park early for." That's questionable if a guest had a pre-paid vacation package or last Saturday was the only time you could take your kids to DL. And for what? A couple of minutes of aire time on ET or Access H'wood showing only the red carpet walk on Main St, not the ROA stadium?????????? The same thing could have been done for much, much cheaper at the El Cap. theater, where, by the way, Finding Nemo premiered earlier in June. Having Nemo's debut there doesn't seem to have hurt it's box office numbers did it? I'll bet if you got the transcripts from most of the entertainment news coverage, there would be 90% about the stars (and what they wore), 5% about Main St. and 5% about the ROA stadium. Big deal! Is that really going make or break "Black Pearl?"
Originally Posted By WilliamK99 Did the closing of Disneyland for 1 night Make or break "Disneyland"? The argument goes both ways.
Originally Posted By tangaroa No the real question is: Does the good of the few, outweigh the good of the many?
Originally Posted By TomSawyer How about: "Does the good of the few (dollars), outweigh the good of the many (dollars)?"
Originally Posted By tangaroa >"Does the good of the few (dollars), >outweigh the good of the many >(dollars)?" That would work too. By serving fewer people - DL made less money (and probably even lost money) for the day. They could have made much more by keeping the park open.
Originally Posted By ChiMike I wrote somewhere in this "premiere" mess of threads - my outlook on the financials. How about: "Does the good of the few (dollars), outweigh the good of the many (dollars)?" I think it is naive to think that the $$$ spent and lost on holding the premiere can be dwarfed by additional ticket sales solely caused by holding the premiere at DL instead of another venue.
Originally Posted By terwyn "Does the good of the few, outweigh the good of the many?" How about "mind over matter." Disney execs to paying guests: "We don't mind because you don't matter."
