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Originally Posted By Duncan32 We had a Blast doing that on Wednesday the look on the Mom's Face was Priceless
Originally Posted By LPFan22 Seeing the mom's reaction made my eyes tear up. The ride on the carousel with all of the characters must have been an amazing feeling. Good for them!
Originally Posted By ccaracciolo I'm so glad I wasn't the only one crying! I don't usually do that but when the characters came running out and even a TEENAGE BOY smiled and hugged Mickey, well...I lost it. What a fantastic prize. Well done, Disney!
Originally Posted By NikkiLOVESMickey That was fantastic! When all the castmembers and characters came out after they announced the family's name, I cried too! To say that this was a special moment is a huge understatement! I wish that would've been me!
Originally Posted By danyoung As cool as that was for the family, and as much fun as it was to see the video, does anyone but me think it was an awfully big coincidence that the winner of this contest was a perfect demographic of what you'd want the winner to be? Imagine if a gay couple had won and brought another gay couple with them? Or Goth? Would the press coverage been as plentiful? Just wondering . . .
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 Leave it to Danny, to yet again be the voice of sanity. (It IS a scary world we live in.) It is such a 'coincidence' that out of the vast diversity that WDW attracts that a white-bread, midwestern, thin, family of four would be selected winners isn't it? Doesn't that always seem to be the case? No singles. No gays. No minorities (unless Disney can find a nice African-American middle class family). No one that's fat. No one with piercings and tattoos. Strange. But I'm sure it's just the magical pixie dust that allows these kind of folks to win ... and then utter quotes (with no help from Disney PR hacks!) that 'this is the dream of a million years!' ... and 'We're just the typical Disney family.' ... and 'it was like a dream to walk down Main Street and no one else was there.' And KUDOS to Orlando Sentinel writer Scott Powers for having the testicular fortitude to pointedly ask WDW incoming pupp...I mean president Meg Crofton what Disney would have done if the 'winners' weren't so damn All-American. But warning Scott, asking questions like that can lead to you looking for a job with the Hoboken Community News!
Originally Posted By TDLFAN This is the most freakish thing I have ever seen Disney do. Truly scary for words. ...And the whole thing smells faux faux faux to me..
Originally Posted By Duncan32 why are you reading into it, This family won and thats all there is to it. There are still traditional familys around and there is nothing wrong with that
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 ^^Because traditional families always seem to win. That's why. It's fixed, I tell ya!
Originally Posted By TDLFAN Traditional families do not win either. There are no Amish walking down that red carpet.
Originally Posted By danyoung I agree with Spirit & TDLFAN, Duncan32. It's not just because a happy family from middle America won this time. It's because EVERY Disney contest like this is won by the same type of family. Go back and look at the 1,000,000th customer, or 100,000,000th customer, or any other milestone that Disney celebrates. The winner is always a spanking clean couple with 2 kids usually in their early teens. It's just too good to be true every freakin' time.
Originally Posted By TDLFAN No blacks either, unless they are tayloring for the press in advertisement projects. Reason why I found it refreshing two black CMs are Ambassadors this year... Then again, maybe the white bread management wanted to add credibility to their already tired "diversity" policies.
Originally Posted By MPierce I am not familar with how you entered the contest was it by the internet, mail or did you have to enter in person. If you did enter by mail or the inter, did you have to submit a photo of yourself. I'm just curious.
Originally Posted By Labuda No photo necessary when entering. You could enter online or via snail mail.
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 <<No blacks either, unless they are tayloring for the press in advertisement projects. Reason why I found it refreshing two black CMs are Ambassadors this year... Then again, maybe the white bread management wanted to add credibility to their already tired "diversity" policies.>> That's likely it. I pay a lot of attention to the advertising business and how things are presented/sold to consumers. Disney loves putting black faces in commercials, but winning contests is another matter. Like I said, I'd love to see a breakdown of who wins all the major prizes ... not the fastpasses, Cokes or pins.
