Originally Posted By Doobie This topic is for Discussion of <a href="http://www.LaughingPlace.com/Lotion-View.asp?ID=74" target="_blank">LP Lotion: LP Lotion: 50th Anniversary Kick-Off</a>
Originally Posted By Dave I would also like to thank Rick West for helping us out with the video of the ceremony.
Originally Posted By iDisney72 I love how the characters arrived straight from the commercial. Very creative!
Originally Posted By FerretAfros I like how many of those characters aren't seen very often. It was great to see Dumbo (looking much better than at the opening 50 years ago I might say), Herbie, and Rutt and Tuke. I especially likes the creativity of including the puppets in with the other characters. I was scared that the castle would look really tacky, as it does in the concept art, but luckily the things weren't as heavy looking.
Originally Posted By Brer Rabbit Man I wish I could've been there instead of at school today taking midterms! Thanks for providing the footage guys so we can feel included. -nico
Originally Posted By MoonRakerSCM You and me both Brer Rabbit. Though My GF went without me :-( Oh well. Looked nice though! Question- Did they scrap the big curtains for the castle unvailing? Or was that earlier?...
Originally Posted By Roger55 Curtain was scrapped. What I understand is that it blew over during installation and damaged the castle. They ended up just covering the 50th Logo on the front of the castle. I actually liked having the castle as the backdrop for the entire ceremony as opposed to a big curtain until the reveal.
Originally Posted By Witches of Morva ORWEN: Oh, I so wanted to go to the ball, too! But, instead, I get treated like the red-headed stepchild who has to stay home and clean up after a certain nasty old biddy--who can't do anything but hack up frog legs from the previous day!! What kind of punishment is THAT for one of Disneyland's biggest fans? ORGOCH: Don'tcha mean BIGGEST--as in FATTEST?! ORDDU: Oh, well, there's always July 17th, you know. We'll all have new broom sticks to fly on to California, by then!!!
Originally Posted By doombuggy The castle looks kind of blah...I thought it would be more glittering or is it the pic that doesn't do it justis? At least it isn't a giant cake.
Originally Posted By KarenW2 Ahh, maybe THAT was what we saw last night, on our way out of the castle, when we were leaving the Sneak Peek. My hubby looked up, as we were going thru the doorway, saw these huge brown wooden looking things, with multiple straps running around the length of them! He mentioned this, we looked up and our friend, John, said it looked like they might be something that's going to be used the next day, to hang from the castle or something! I'll have to let him know he was sort of right!!
Originally Posted By Dis-Philip It was nice that they brought out characters that they don't bring out often (Clara Cluck, Darkwing Duck, Launchpad, Don Karnage, Robin Hood, Friar Tuck, Prince John, Ratcliffe, the Country Bears, etc.). I'm still confident that characters like them (and other random characters) will be making appearances at the park for meet-and-greets during the 50th.
Originally Posted By debtee Thanks so much for taking the pix and video footage. It's fab that we can share in the activities with us being so far away and very much appreciated!
Originally Posted By Jami at MEV I was there too and just finished a long email to others to share the experience when I remembered that Dobbie said he was posting video. Awesome job folks!! Your video says it all. Get out your box of Kleenex and enjoy it! I wish everyone could have shared the experience with us lucky enough to be there. It was unforgettable. Jami
