Originally Posted By plpeters70 I'm surprised they haven't started using Spaceship Earth for something like this. You would think that they would see that huge, empty sphere as the perfect space to project stuff on.
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer >>I bet if they put that gold bling all over SSE you wouldn't be so happy with it! <<< Well...to be fair...I did like the wand in 99-00. That was cool, new, fresh, commemorative...and then overstayed it's welcome. If something was on SSE for a year, I could get over it.
Originally Posted By Bob Paris 1 It actually lasted beyond 2000, EE. I know because I was there in late October 2001 and the damned thing was STILL there!!! GRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Originally Posted By NikkiLOVESMickey They only took the wand down a few years ago. It very much overstayed it's welcome.
Originally Posted By Boardwalkbum One of my great joys was being @ EPCOT while the wand was being dismantled.
Originally Posted By Ursula The thing that bugs me about this campaign is that they went after solid Disney fans, asked if they could use their pictures, offered / gave no compensation (to my knowledge, I should say), and now some of these commercials are very successful They seemed to take advantage of exactly who they should be catering to and that sounds like a bad deal to me. Granted, the families could have said no, but they knew who they were asking and those folks were most likely flattered by the offer and didn't think it through.
Originally Posted By NikkiLOVESMickey <<They seemed to take advantage of exactly who they should be catering to and that sounds like a bad deal to me. Granted, the families could have said no, but they knew who they were asking and those folks were most likely flattered by the offer and didn't think it through.>> Oh, come ON! They chose to do this - now we're going to worry about them because they POSSIBLY didn't think it through?!?!?! These are adults - if they got so excited that they allowed Disney to "take advantage of them" then it is their problem. Touchy feely political correctness run amok!
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer >>>It actually lasted beyond 2000, EE. I know because I was there in late October 2001 and the damned thing was STILL there!!! GRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!<<< I know. That was the huge problem with it. When it was there for a purpose, it was very nice. 2001-2007 were brutal. I HATED that thing.
Originally Posted By MPierce I still remember when I broke the news over on wdwmagic that it was coming down.
Originally Posted By Ursula <Touchy feely political correctness run amok!> Well, no, you couldn't be more wrong about me, but whatever. You don't know me. I have two colleagues who had children who acted in two TV shows, and those shows paid for their college degrees. The residuals from commercials alone are staggering, and this one is national. I'm guessing the parents had no idea what they signed away.
Originally Posted By NikkiLOVESMickey <<I'm guessing the parents had no idea what they signed away.>> Again, their problem if they didn't look into it more thoroughly. If you're wringing your hands over how "Big Bad Disney" took advantage of adults, then I can certainly give you more important things to worry about. The residuals for PROFESSIONAL actors are staggering. For home movies of nobodys, probably not so much.
Originally Posted By bobbelee9 A Happy Haunt and her brother were in somebody's home video. If that shows up on the Castle, can I collect?????
Originally Posted By vbdad55 if people wanted to hold out for residuals- would they not have moved on to the next group? After all how many home movies and pictures are there at WDW ? I understand the argument ONLY if these were the ONLY pictures Disney wanted.which I do not believe
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 <<I still remember when I broke the news over on wdwmagic that it was coming down.>> I still remember when I broke it here ... and was told of all the hate and 'it's not true' on that MAGICal site. I admit it, I do love the hate ... it fuels the Dark Side so!
Originally Posted By NikkiLOVESMickey Exactly, vbdad. And I don't think Disney has any competition - no one else is looking for home movies of people at Disney World to put in advertisements. You don't have the option to sell your movies to a similar campaign, so anyone selling their videos doesn't have anything to bargain with. You take what Disney offers you and that's it.
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer >>>I still remember when I broke the news over on wdwmagic that it was coming down.<<< STORY TIME!
Originally Posted By MPierce >> I still remember when I broke it here ... and was told of all the hate and 'it's not true' on that MAGICal site. << >> STORY TIME! << That's where I got it, right here from you, and rightfully credited you with it. Few people knew of you over there. Actually the only person that got a little testy with me was Corrus. I could see where people would be getting sick of the Wand is coming down threads, since there was a new one started every week. I told them if the Wand didn't come down they could tie me to it, stip me, and flog me publicly. After Corrus said a few more unflattering things to me, and proclaimed the Wand wasn't going anywhere, Leehisownselfandlovedbyeverybodyatwdwmagic stepped in, and proclaimed that yes indeed talks were going on, and being finalized. Corrus never offered me an apology either.
Originally Posted By MousDad I don't think Corrus ever offered anyone anything thereafter. He pretty much disappeared.
