Originally Posted By TheRedhead "I'm sorry guys, I'm feeling pretty ignorant about this and for anyone who knows me knows I'm faaar ignorant about these issues, but what made it racial?" I'll echo it again, since no one addressed it. What is racist about it? Is this a West Coast thing?
Originally Posted By danyoung nemo, I was going to go back and reread the website before posting, but Al has taken it down. I think the whole Mexican slant to it (Pixarlandia) was seen by some as racist, as opposed to seeing it for what it was - just an April Fool's joke.
Originally Posted By JohnS1 The appendage "ia" is not necessarily applicable to Mexico. Anyone heard of Finlandia airlines, Scandia restaurant, Vonlandia (an early name for Greenland), etc. That's why it made no sense to me.
Originally Posted By JohnS1 That should've been "Vinlandia" not Vonlandia. Sorry. Also - Italia, and Scandinavia come to mind.
Originally Posted By gurgitoy2 Well, in some Spanish ads I've seen have used "Disneylandia", so I guess Al just went with that trend. I think the thing about the article that could have been seen as "racist" was just the heavy use of stereotyping. It wasn't even funny either...I was kind of bored with it after a while. I mean, the lowrider jokes, giant sombreros, etc...yawn.
Originally Posted By JohnS1 "the lowrider jokes, giant sombreros, etc...yawn" That must be the part some of us missed. All I saw after going to that link was a photo, period.
Originally Posted By danyoung Al took the bulk of the article down (perhaps due to outside pressure?).
Originally Posted By gurgitoy2 "That must be the part some of us missed. All I saw after going to that link was a photo, period." "Al took the bulk of the article down (perhaps due to outside pressure?)." Yeah, it was definately more than a photo before.
Originally Posted By Darkbeer I had lunch with Al on Easter, and he always takes down the April Fool's article a couple of days after he posts it. You can read the article if you go to Google and search for Pixarlandia and then look at the Cached version. (You don't get to see all the great images he photoshopped for the article).
Originally Posted By oc_dean Al reminds me of Don Imus. Becomes the whip'n-boy for all the racial outcry in this ultra sensitive country.
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Originally Posted By ploeb909 Huh??? Im not understading what was racial??? The ADIOS??? Please explain.
Originally Posted By BlueOhanaTerror Re: People who consider the park highly flawed, and still go there on occasion... You move into a new house, you find out the water's soft, and you don't like soft water... If there's nothing you can do to change it, you're still going to take a shower. It's just not going to be as fun, and you're never going to feel as "soap-free." If you're buying an AP to Disneyland, and admission to DCA comes with it, and you like a few singular things about that park, why WOULDN'T you go into that territory to enjoy them? Heck, I like some of the food at DCA, I like some of the attractions. But that park is a ridiculous mess, conceived and executed by a supervising board of dullards and accountants. That there ARE enjoyable elements within, is a testament to the strengths so resonant within WDI that can rise to the top DESPITE all efforts to quash their creative impulse. Still taking showers, but can't wait for the water to change...
Originally Posted By oc_dean That's one of the best analogies I've heard yet on DCA! Thanks B.O.T.! Except for me, I just avoid taking the "DCA shower" at all. I prefer "The DL Sanitizer", and just rub it all over my body, instead. LOL ;O)
Originally Posted By oc_dean Seriously though ... I have not set foot in that park not since the LP meet in July 2005! While I hit DL regularly throughout the year on my PAP. Only so many times I can go on the same 3 attractions I only like till I'm sick of them. And I don't want to burn them out.
Originally Posted By Hans Reinhardt LOL, I think that was the first time I was censored here. And for what? I have no idea.
Originally Posted By WorldDisney <<That must be the part some of us missed. All I saw after going to that link was a photo, period.>> <<Al took the bulk of the article down (perhaps due to outside pressure?).>> LOL, FINALLY got an answer from my post waaaaay back when. Yeah, I ONLY saw the picture, so was confused why people were so up in arms about one photo and a Mexican reference. Okay, there was MORE before obviously, thanks for that . And ONCE again, this topic has fallen into another "DCA sucks" thread lol. It amazes me to this day that people can still talk endlessly about it. I bowed out of the conversation somewhere around 2005, but it WAS fun . But yeah, its all been said. Truth of the matter DCA IS getting better, but it's still a mess of a park no doubt about it. Again, over probably the 100+ plus messages I written on the subject since I was ALSO one of the first people around when these boards opened, I was always pretty critical of the park but always, always, ALWAYS made it clear if you like it, love it, think its the greatest park ever, FINE!!! I never questioned people's taste for a theme park, I only talked about *my* concerns and left it there. The REALITY though is that my concerns seems to have fallen in the majority of the consumers out there and that's a bad, bad sign for Disney and they KNOW it! As much as people defended the park over the years and gave it every kind of excuse why it didn't bring in the crowds (I still LOVE the weather excuse--I sometimes tear up from laughter ;D), I think NOW most people can FINALLY say DCA is simply a problem park whether they like it or not and Disney apparently has known that since they instituted the first discounts 6 months after the park opened---at the time a HUGE deal. Now, just a staple to the park because Disney knows the second they stop the 2fer's, separate the 2 park AP's or any of the combined multi day passes, the park is as good as dead lol. Yes, we ALL know it benefits DL too, but I have a feeling DL will live on separated from DCA, quite well in fact. DCA will always be, I wish I remember who coined this phrase, the herion addicted monkey on Disney's back. Sure, it was always meant to rely on DL to a degree, but certainly nothing like this. It's truly sad. Okay, I'm out of the conversation once again (ONLY clicked on this thread to see if my question EVER got an answer---but I was once again seduced by the bickering---Everytime I think I'm out, you people pull me back IN!! ;D).
