Originally Posted By Liberty Belle They look great and I'm quite pleased to hear they'll be available to buy!
Originally Posted By tashajilek As far as the CM'S are concerned Disney gets what it pays for. Most of the CM'S i see in the park look fine to me. The worst CM i have seen was at the SS Swings with white patches of sunscreen all over his face lol. Anyways, if i find the TOT poster i am going to buy it.
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt "I also worry about the DCA CM's of 2012 fitting into those themed 1930 uniforms, with their stringy hair pulled into a dirty scrunchy, and their 30 second makeup job, and their scuffed-up modern shoes from Target." Yep, they sure won't look anything like the people depicted in the style sheets shown in the Blue Sky Cellar.
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt "Hey, your hair looks like a rats nest, your eyeliner looks like Cleopatra, your shoes look like you just played soccer in them, and your uniform hasn't been pressed in a week. You can't work like that, you need to go home for the day." LOL LOL LOL
Originally Posted By leobloom You get what you pay for. Someone gets paid low wages and then you expect them to spent extra time to look nice for a theme park job. Fantasyland, pure and simple.
Originally Posted By markymouse I love Disney's inclusion of all kinds of families. I'm sure everyone noticed that beyond that nice straight couple buying a balloon for their kid, a gay couple with their teenage son are standing there, basking in the way all three of them are looking cool with their belts at the identically perfect jaunty angle. And love that one shoulder up thing. Very "We're enjoying Disneyland at a much deeper level than you." You go, Disney! And don't even get me started on those Soarin' guys. Mr. Man is dressed like he's meeting Jackie O. for cocktails, while his boyfriend looks like he ought to spend a little more time on his wardrobe and a little less time on the hair gel. I give them six months, tops. Nothing funny (?) to say about the Tower poster. It's just a great effect.
Originally Posted By TP2000 Now, see, you saw Mr. Man on Soarin' with Bad Hair Boyfriend. But I saw Mr. Man on Soarin' with his gal pal 'Chris' who plays on Mr. Man's co-ed softball team and who let Mr. Man borrow her truck and pitched in building Mr. Man's new backyard deck last summer. But perhaps that's because Mr. Man's gal pal in the poster has a silhouette and short hairdo exactly like my gal pal Lori who sometimes lets me borrow her truck and is always happy to tag along for a Home Depot run.
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA LOL! Man, they used to say I 'think too much' about the various attractions. I didn't even notice these things in the posters. I guess my 'gay-dar' isn't quite as in tune as others.
Originally Posted By ChiMike >>I wish Disney could do something about the way so many of their park employees look. The WDI creative types spend all this time and money (LOTS of money!) to pull together a fabulous looking environment like Buena Vista Street, and then TDA spends all this money to design and maintain a gazillion themed uniforms for these employees to wear, but the end result looks so slobby because the employees wearing the uniforms don't appear to give a darn. And no manager ever seems to stop them at the break room and says "Hey, your hair looks like a rats nest, your eyeliner looks like Cleopatra, your shoes look like you just played soccer in them, and your uniform hasn't been pressed in a week. You can't work like that, you need to go home for the day." I wish Disney could crack down on things with the way their front-line CM's look.<< A lot of this also was the result of Disney allowing for costumes to be taken home and back.
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA <A lot of this also was the result of Disney allowing for costumes to be taken home and back.> Yep! Dumbest idea ever. They justify it by saying 'it saves money.' Well, it was always more expensive to have costumes on site than to have cast members take them home. Duh. So is having theme-d costumes. Not everything that is done in the theme park industry -- especially when you're supposed to be the industry leader -- can be 'sharp penciled' to death. Although boneheads like Pressler and Suzy Cheesecake whatever her name is tried. Because, like, they know better.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan >>Yep! Dumbest idea ever.<< Right? It would save them lots of money to have everyone wear tan Dockers and a blue polo shirt throughout the park, too. Sheesh.
Originally Posted By TP2000 And yet, they don't do that. There's still themed uniforms everywhere, and if DCA circa 2010-11 is any indication, the uniforms are getting more and more lavish and themed, not less. Al Lutz has stated that every remaining CM uniform in DCA from the 2001-03 period is getting replaced with a different themed one before Summer '12. Plus all the new themed uniforms they are introducing for Cars Land and Buena Vista Street. Did you see the swanky outfits for the Carthay Circle Theater waiters? Wow! It was obviously a cheap trend that Pressler and Suzy Cheesecake (AKA Cynthia Harriss) introduced in the 1998-2003 period, among dozens of other cheap and idiotic things those two un-American bozos also tried to introduce in Anaheim, but it's also something the current TDA has noticeably pulled back from since 2005. I'm looking forward to seeing how they freshen and replace the original 2001 DCA uniforms with new ones for 2012!
Originally Posted By ChiMike I'm right there with you TP. I think the larger point though, is that what good do those great efforts do, if the end-user is still going to show up in the costume, looking like they just went dumpster diving at the Inn Between. Like a lot of things, I am afraid the genie is out of the bottle on Costuming. Disney didn't want to pay for more walk-time for the CMs so they allowed them to take home their costumes. On the East coast, it doesn't get better than when seeing a Land castmember filling up their twenty year old SUV at Hess.
Originally Posted By markymouse I don't know how the numbers really work out, but I've also heard the argument that having CMs wear their uniforms home might not even end up saving money in the long run, because of uniforms disappearing. "I'm sorry you've quit this very stressful, seriously underpaid job. Now would you please make a special trip back to return your uniforms rather than keeping them as a cool souvenir or selling them on eBay. Pretty please."
