Originally Posted By Darkbeer From Al Lutz's article today at MiceAge... <a href="http://miceage.micechat.com/allutz/al061708b.htm" target="_blank">http://miceage.micechat.com/al...708b.htm</a> >>Why Lie? Around the time you read this update on Tuesday, DCA will be hosting a relatively low key grand opening ceremony for the attraction (and perhaps the Don Tomas snack bar). Unlike recent grand openings for the Submarines or the new Space Mountain, this DCA ceremony will be short and sweet and without a big budget party attached to it, with a few C List celebrities and some low-level pyrotechnics being the only real excitement. By Wednesday, the new ride will be up and running daily for anyone who wants to wait in line. And it's on Wednesday when the Guest Relations team in Disneyland's City Hall is preparing to don the bullet proof vests and do battle with all of the confused tourists at Disneyland looking for the new Toy Story ride featured on the TV commercials and all the freeway billboards. While the design and operation of this new attraction have been debuting smoothly and easily, the folks in TDA's Marketing department, known oddly as "Yellow Shoes Marketing", are making it difficult for the paying customers by refusing to admit that this new ride is in DCA. These are the same folks who went to war with WDI six months ago over what to call this new attraction, with WDI officially winning the battle and christening the ride Toy Story Midway Mania in both California and Florida. But the Marketing goons slunk back to their office with a trick up their sleeve, and went ahead and ignored the actual title of the attraction and instead began calling it simply Toy Story Mania in all printed and televised media. << Much more at the link.... And from this morning, KTLA is broadcasting from DCA, and Disney has placed a large screen over the Midway Mania sign, and replaced it with a "Toy Story Mania! logo. <a href="http://Darkbeer.smugmug.com/photos/314797409_PnDSH-M-1.jpg" target="_blank">http://Darkbeer.smugmug.com/ph...-M-1.jpg</a>
Originally Posted By trekkeruss IMO, it is absurd to think they would risk making some potential guests enraged by deliberately sending them to DL instead of DCA. Really, what would the point of that be?
Originally Posted By Dabob2 More much ado about almost nothing. The "battle with all the confused tourists" will amount to as much as the "battle with all the people enraged at 4 hour lines" when the subs opened. Some people will complain about anything, but most people are smart enough to figure things out.
Originally Posted By Hans Reinhardt Don't the signs around the Resort before entering either park say that the attraction is at DCA?
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan >>Disneyland's City Hall is preparing to don the bullet proof vests and do battle with all of the confused tourists at Disneyland looking for the new Toy Story ride featured on the TV commercials and all the freeway billboards<< Hyperbole lives! Those poor confused tourists. How do they dress themselves in the morning?
Originally Posted By Elderp "How do they dress themselves in the morning?" They don't, half come in their PJs and the other half I wish they would of worn their PJs.
Originally Posted By bean with lines for the attraction going from Paradise Pier all the way to the suncourt i think its safe to say people found the attraction with no problem.
Originally Posted By bean and to add to this so called conspiracy theory, did anyone notice that all the media has been raving about the attraction that is found in Disney's California Adventure? Not only that but the media focused on basically this park in all their coverage even showing off attractions like TOT, Grizlly, Screamin, FFF while little to no focus on Disneyland park. Also the media also started to refer to the attraction by its official name and not the marketing name. Not exactly the conspiracy theory that some writers are trying to make us believe in.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan >>Not exactly the conspiracy theory that some writers are trying to make us believe in<< ; )
Originally Posted By 2001DLFan <<bean: and to add to this so called conspiracy theory, did anyone notice that all the media has been raving about the attraction that is found in Disney's California Adventure? Not only that but the media focused on basically this park in all their coverage even showing off attractions like TOT, Grizlly, Screamin, FFF while little to no focus on Disneyland park. Also the media also started to refer to the attraction by its official name and not the marketing name. Not exactly the conspiracy theory that some writers are trying to make us believe in.>> Well, obviously the media wasn’t fooled by Disney’s marketing tricks. So the Yellow Shoes Marketing Team wasted all that energy trying to keep the location hidden. So, now the truth is out there. People wanting to experience the new TOY STORY MIDWAY MANIA will now be able to circumvent Disney’s marketing and actually GO TO DCA!
