Originally Posted By AutoPost This topic is for Discussion of <a href="http://www.LaughingPlace.com/Latest-ID-81314.asp" target="_blank"><b>Latest: Disney Announced First Limited Time Magic Event</b></a> <p>From the Official Disney Parks Blog</p> <p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span>First, we’re beginning the New Year at Walt Disney World Resort in </span>Magic Kingdom Park<span> with Tomorrowland’s first ever “Bling in the New Year” dance party. For an entire week, children of all ages can celebrate the start of 2013. You’ll be able to watch live entertainment on Rockettower Plaza Stage, dance to great music and celebrate with some of your favorite Disney characters – all dressed in their New Year’s best. And if you can’t stay up until midnight, there will be a New Year’s countdown every hour leading up to midnight. The celebration begins on December 30 and runs through January 5.</span></p> <p><span>See the link for more info including the announcement of 2013 being "The Year of the Ear"</span></p>
Originally Posted By TP2000 Disneyland gets Walt's favorite Golden Horseshoe Revue for a month. WDW gets no one's favorite Kindergarten Pop Dance Party for a week. This is fabulous for Disneylanders, and stinks for Disney Worlders. Throwing out the Disneyland part of the equation for a moment.... what the heck was Orlando management thinking?!? They are launching their big annual campaign with a merchandise offering and a cheesy afternoon dance party for hyperactive toddlers who need something to do until Dad and brother get off of Space Mountain? A truly lousy way to launch a campaign. Orlando management had better have a lot better stuff planned for late January or February, or this campaign is worthless for anyone east of the Rockies. Just lame.
Originally Posted By Kennesaw Tom I'm not going to fault WDW management for throwing a dance party. I just don't like the lame promotional names they came up with. When you get right down to it there is nothing wrong with the MK having a permanent dance party, perhaps in the space that is now the Galaxy Palace Theater. Young people just like to dance. As for the Horseshoe Revue. I just wish they would bring it back, period!
Originally Posted By virk4 "As for the Horseshoe Revue. I just wish they would bring it back, period! " I agree.
Originally Posted By TP2000 I have no problem with a Tomorrowland dance party either; whether a character-infused afternoon thing for the kiddies to blow off steam, or a slicker nightly event for teens and young adults to dance and flirt. That exact thing has been happening in Disneyland's Tomorrowland continually since the early 1960's, and will be firing up tonight in just a few hours. They largely abandoned the legit Disneyland-style dance parties in WDW years ago, and instead have spent the last decade doing the cheesier character versions for kiddies. Stitch or Buzz seem to always be the hosts, with an out of work wedding DJ from Tampa acting as MC in a tacky Hawaiian shirt or something. "Hey gang, it's Macarena time!" Eek. What I see as problematic is that current Orlando management is kicking off the big new marketing campaign with... a week of the same old kiddy dance party in Tomorrowland. As if that's something special or unique. And isn't that already be part of the regular park entertainment menu during one of the busiest weeks of the year? Disneyland put some effort into this and is starting this campaign off with a bang by bringing back the Revue show for a month. The fans and casual visitors alike will love it. But honestly, what was Orlando management thinking by starting it with this??? Maybe something else really cool was planned but it fell through at the last second and they had to just throw this together? Maybe that's what happened? Either Orlando management really pulls something great together by the end of January, or this campaign will simply be owned by Disneyland and WDW can just move on to getting ready for the Seven Dwarves Mine Train in 2014.
Originally Posted By Kennesaw Tom Yeah, we are looking forward to the Mine Train...... I really don't think I am the target audience for either the dance party or the Mine Train... so I'm not loosing any sleep over this one.
Originally Posted By leemac This is such an odd promotion for WDW to participate in. WDW is all about advanced bookings and so this promotion just isn't going to move the needle. It will be a nice surprise for out-of-towners (if they are so motivated) whereas it might make some AP-ers and locals visit specifically. However announcing stuff just weeks in advance just isn't going to work for the vast majority of guests. I just don't understand why Marketing get so much money to spend on these annual promotions. They don't have to justify their spend with returns and can just spend money to justify their existence. All rather pointless - particularly for WDW.
Originally Posted By leemac <<What I see as problematic is that current Orlando management is kicking off the big new marketing campaign with... a week of the same old kiddy dance party in Tomorrowland.>> I've always thought it was odd that WDW didn't try to create a proper holiday out of NYE - stretch it over a week or more. Everything is so focused on extending the fireworks for one night now rather than experiences throughout the day. TDL and TDS have their New Year greetings - granted it is little more than a small cavalcade and some decoration but it would be a good starting point.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros I don't think there would really be any benefit to WDW to make a New Years event of any significance. The resort is already packed in the week leading up to it, and it's just too hard for people to schedule vacations in the time immediately following it. I was there this year Jan 5-10 for Marathon Weekend (intentionally scheduled for that week, since it's a typically quiet time for WDW), and it was just a nightmare to work into my schedule (and I'm a single person with no children to worry about school schedules or anything). Unless they're letting people into the parks for free, I don't think they can do enough to convince people to come that week. Unlike most other countries in the developed world, people in the US get relatively few vacation days, and it's rare that people want to use them right after the big holidays. But I guess they might be able to convince more international visitors to come that week.
Originally Posted By sjhym333 I agree about this promotion not really a big deal for WDW. I can see the idea of the dance party as being a fun thing, but for the promotion to work at WDW they really need to have a long term plan and then announce the plan so that people can make plans to come to WDW. The dance this is probably going to be fun, but I don't think anyone is clearing their schedules to make a rush trip to Disney to do it. I think it is an odd promotion all around. I would LOVE to see the Horseshoe come back permanently. I also think that Disney would be smart to lay off these promotions for a couple of years and move back to offering promotions that actually have some meaning. Can anyone say what a missed opportunity WDW's 40th and EPCOTs 30th were? One would think that the people in marketing are smart enough to know that when you do something all the time it really takes the specialness away from it (how many of us just breeze through FB invites and notifications because there are just so many of them?).
Originally Posted By DlandDug I, too, have no quarrel with a dance party for the kids. (The one on the soundstage at Disney California Adventure for the last month has been just fine.) But this should have been an "added" event rather than the kick-off for a major year-long campaign. Then again, this is "Limited Time Magic." Maybe the modifier "limited" applies to BOTH "time" and "magic." And a clarification about the Disneyland event. This will not be a return of the Golden Horseshoe Revue. As many of us suspected , it will be a "Salute" to the Golden Horseshoe. Exactly what that entails we will see in a week or so.
Originally Posted By TDLFAN >>>TDL and TDS have their New Year greetings - granted it is little more than a small cavalcade and some decoration but it would be a good starting point.<<< Not to mention the high quality merchandise and food items sold ONLY during that week which is IMO where the real gold mine is for OLC and what makes the event memorable for many true Disney fans. OLC should run Disney Co.
Originally Posted By LadyandtheTramp Have always loved the special event merchandise that TDL has throughout the year. If we happen to be there at one of those times, we just "have to" buy some.
Originally Posted By TP2000 It's Week Two of Limited Time Magic and WDW is celebrating with... nothing. So, let's rewind to Week One when they kicked off the Limited Time Magic promotion with the Bling In The New Year show! Turn it up! Make some Noiz! <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpGTBDpwk3Q" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...TBDpwk3Q</a> Magical touch is at the 1:00 minute mark of that video, when the sound tech guy wanders out the door onto the stage to check on something. Stay classy Tomorrowland!
