Originally Posted By AutoPost This topic is for Discussion of <a href="http://www.LaughingPlace.com/Latest.asp?I1=ID&I2=75515" target="_blank"><b>Latest: Disneyland Paris' Hotel Santa Fe adds CARS Billboard</b></a> <p>Disneyland Paris has released via Twitter a picture of their Hotel Santa Fe with the new CARS billboard featuring Lighning McQueen and Sally.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://laughingplace.com/files/latest/20101005-6.jpg" height="252" width="400" /></p> <p style="text-align: left;"> </p>
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo Nope, there are also Cars bed spreads. There is quite a fierce debate on the European boards about this. Some saying they would prefer a quality non toon refurb, and others eating this tripe up (guess where I stand in the debate?)
Originally Posted By u k fan It's not as cool as Clint, but I do welcome something new. The previous billboard was very tired looking!!!
Originally Posted By leobloom >> Some saying they would prefer a quality non toon refurb, and others eating this tripe up (guess where I stand in the debate?) << On the sensible side?
Originally Posted By FerretAfros Theoretically, I wouldn't really have any huge problems if stuff from Cars was incorporated in smaller ways, but there's just nothing subtle about this billboard. Combine it with the time delay since the release of the film, and it's just weird. Was there a billboard there before, or is the structure completely new? It looks completely out of scale with the building, and more than a little tacky.
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo It used to be Clint Eastwood in one of the spagetti westerns. The front of the hotel is supposed to look like a Drive Up Movie.
Originally Posted By u k fan See, Cars does make sense for a drive in movie, but it just completely stops the hotel from being "Disney" and makes it "DISNEY!". Gone are the cool touches (when I first stayed at the Santa Fe it was one of the few places in Europe I could find A&W Root Beer) and in their place we get more "DISNEY!" I suspect with Cars 2 coming to Europe soon this may be this tip of the iceberg. I would be happy to accept Cars rooms if they went down the All-Stars route and made some of the rooms suites as a room for 4 isn't big enough for us usually and it leaves very few Disney options in Paris!!!
Originally Posted By FerretAfros >>...but it just completely stops the hotel from being "Disney" and makes it "DISNEY!".<< That's possibly the best description of the synergistic push that has been going on with Disney for the last decade or so. If you don't mind, I might need to use that in the future. Disney doesn't seem to realize that being "Disney" to people is well done quality throughout. Disney thinks that being "Disney" is plastering "DISNEY!"-branded items on every surface possible. It's not the properties that make Disney strong and memorable; its the strength that makes the properties memorable.
Originally Posted By u k fan FerretAfros, feel free to use it any time you like. I actually surprised myself when I wrote it how much that description seems to fit perfectly!!!
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo Agreed guys, and once again UKFAN cleverly yet humbly hits the nail on the head. I love Disney, but DISNEY drives me insane (and not in a good way).
Originally Posted By jmuboy Wow, the Hotel Santa Fe has to be the ugliest Disney hotel on the planet!
