Latest: Video: The Aqualillies Synchronized Swimming Team Performs at the Art of Animation Resort

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<p>Recently the&nbsp;Aqualillies, a synchronized swimming team, performed in the Big Blue Pool at the Art of Animation Resort - the largest pool on property. The video also does a pretty good job of showing off the rest of the hotel.</p>
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Originally Posted By LPFan22

Fun video! What a great way to promote the resort.

 

Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA

That explains the weird what I thought was a commercial.

 

Originally Posted By Disneymom443

very fun, reminds me of the 50's.

 

Originally Posted By TP2000

The commercial caught my eye because it starts off with slim and pretty young ladies traipsing around the lobby looking for all the world like circa 1962 Pan Am stewardesses or the smiling Barbie dolls that Disney used to staff their parks with in the 1960's and 70's.

And I thought... wait a minute, these are all pretty girls. Dozens of them. In a Disney World commercial in 2013? Where's the "multicultural" family with the vague ethnic look you can't quite pin down but is clearly not Anglo Saxon? Where's the chubby sweatshirt mom with the hair pulled back in a scrunchie because she gave up on life a decade ago? This commercial is so, so, so... Politically Incorrect!

And then about a minute into the commercial they all enter the pool and begin their synchronized swimming routine and I went "Oh!".

A sneaky way for Disney to get around the PC Code Of TV Commercial Conduct and populate their ad with nothing but pretty, slender, gracious young ladies. Smart, Disney, very smart. ;-)

 

Originally Posted By FerretAfros

Very neat! Definitely a little strange for a commercial, but it sets it apart ina good way (though it doesn't really have much that distinctly indicates it's WDW or AOA until the logos pop up at the end). It did seem a little strange that Disney owns such a great catalog of music, yet they used some very generic music; typical of the Disney Parks Blog stuff, but overall this seemed like a much better production than those.

And I agree with TP that it's nice to see Disney break the mold a little bit, since their typical oh-so-PC commercials really aren't fooling anybody and are just so bland and overplayed