Originally Posted By Mickeymouseclub Does DL stay open 3 hours after the park closes for resort guests? WDW would have to wait a long time for Epcot to empty out. ANd Epcot has a lot of barges that have to be moved completely out of the center island and under a bridge. It taked hours to move in to set up and hours to safely move out every night. I don't see how it can even be compared. And it is fun to hear the unexpected loud boom!
Originally Posted By Westsider Looking at the calendar on disneyworld.com, over the next 10 days Epcot has just one night where it stays open an extra 3 hours, until Midnight, on Friday May 7th. This infernon barge blowoff thing happens nightly, regardless of whether its one of the relatively uncommon Extra Magic Hour nights or not. And no, its not the most alarming Bad Show things at WDW. It's just sort of one of the cheesiest and most random things, and it makes us laugh. The best Bad Show thing we saw at Epcot on the last visit was the Unload hostess at Gran Fiesta Tour leaning/sitting up on the wood railings at her console, chomping gum, and playing with her cellphone with both hands while boats were in motion in the station. She kind of glanced at us as our boat slid in to unload, and made a quick wave motion with her right hand without speaking, then went back to her texting and gum chomping. CLASSIC WDW FAIL! But wow, did we laugh. You can tell they have no DOSH oversight in that state, and they have very different standards for what a Lead or Manager should be looking for in the performance of their Cast. In fact, they don't have Leads at WDW, just "Coordinators" who, um, coordinate things. That Gran Fiesta Tour hostess definitely needed some more coordinating, since there is no one there to lead her.
Originally Posted By danyoung Westsider, I know you're a DL CM, and it seems as if you have a sense of superiority about DL CM's vs. WDW CM's. And your opinion may be justified. But I'd bet that for every example of bad show you find in WDW, you'll find one in DL. I know just from reading the fansites online that there are plenty of instances of bad show in DL. So I'm not so sure you're in the right here about one park being superior to the other. Just a guess, however.
Originally Posted By Manfried I have seen bad Cast Members in both parks. The Disneyland ones are no better or worse than the Walt Disney World ones.
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt I think a little cast member rivalry between resorts is natural and not surprising. Let them have their fun.
Originally Posted By DlandDug Well I think making the barge blowoff a little added bit of show looks kind of cool. Just my opinion, of course. I would be surprised if there is more firepower in the Paradise Pier lagoon than in Reflections of Earth. Those barges are really big. I've seen a presentation where they put a video camera among them while the show was in production. It was quite a spectacle. BUT... based on the Pirates of the Caribbean sequence that I've seen in some pretty bad video od World of Color(right here on this site!), I may be wrong. There was an awful lot of flame effects, both in the buildup and in a couple of very big sequences. It may be more flame effects than seen in any other Disney show. I guess we'll have to wait and see the World of Color when it is actually in production to really know for sure. Or, for now at least, take the word of the person who has actually designed and programmed the show. What a concept!
Originally Posted By DlandDug And speaking of amusing CMs in Florida, while riding back to our car in the DAK lot, a cast member with a very thick Noo Yawk accent was touting the "Illuminations of Earth" show at Epcot. He repeatedly told us, "doan miss da Elimination uhv Earth, tunnite, at Epcot!"
Originally Posted By danyoung >I guess we'll have to wait and see the World of Color when it is actually in production to really know for sure. Or, for now at least, take the word of the person who has actually designed and programmed the show.< C'mon, Dug - why are you trying to silence mousermerf like that?
Originally Posted By believe >>>>That Gran Fiesta Tour hostess definitely needed some more coordinating, since there is no one there to lead her. <<<<< Maybe so, but what we really want to know is... was she cute?
Originally Posted By Westsider >>"Maybe so, but what we really want to know is... was she cute?"<< No.
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 I think Westsider is certainly correct about the many ways 'show' is often overlooked at WDW. Sadly, it wasn't always that way. I don't really think the burnoff qualifies, myself. Just not that big a deal. And I did find it amusing that a few years after 9/11 they decided they had to announce it, so none of the rubes would think the 'evildoers' just picked a very bizarre time and place to attack WDW!
Originally Posted By danyoung What you call amusing, I call a pretty smart decision during a very scary time. Imagine hearing a big boom like that, seeing a huge fiery flash, and thinking "Oh no - the terrorists are bombing Epcot!" Sounds kinda silly, but it was a very real fear for a lot of people, and for quite a long time after 9/11.
