Originally Posted By ExpDave >>>But when you have middle age women doing trip reports where every photo is a meet and greet, and most parents on other bulletin boards are fawning over planning the M&G's (the same ones that when they return home had skipped Pirates of the Caribbean or Carousel of Progress or Spaceship Earth), it shows how the mentality has really changed about Disney parks.<<< I'm absolutely NOT into the M&G, but I don't have kids either. Here is one way that this over riding character use effects my enjoyment of the park. The Crystal Palace use to a buffet restaurant with a wonderful atmosphere, I really enjoyed eating there. Now it's all about Character dinning. I can just see characters milling about and kids going nuts in what use to be a very peaceful environment. I won't eat there anymore. Perhaps if they had dinning times without characters, but I don't think they do.
Originally Posted By leobloom >>>>>give the new area a chance to at least be built and open.<< << Funny, people said the same about Toy Story Playland.....hmmmmm..... >> Same was said when it looked like the SSE descent was half-done. The 'dusters said to wait, that it wasn't finished, that surely there was more to come. And we see how that turned out. For a lot of us, WDI just has a bad track record in Florida over the last decade. Wait and see? I've waited and seen. They're habitually underachieving.
Originally Posted By MPierce >> Same was said when it looked like the SSE descent was half-done. The 'dusters said to wait, that it wasn't finished, that surely there was more to come. And we see how that turned out. << Weren't there a few very reliable people that were told just that about SSE?
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 <<Speaking on issues without knowledge is a common practice here.>> Don't be so hard on yourself ... we expect that.
Originally Posted By MPierce >> Don't be so hard on yourself ... we expect that. << I hate it when I set myself up to be the fall guy.
Originally Posted By Lee hisownself >>I hate it when I set myself up to be the fall guy.<< What now? Why bring Lee Majors into this....
Originally Posted By MPierce >>I hate it when I set myself up to be the fall guy.<< >> What now? Why bring Lee Majors into this.... << Anybody who remembers that show is an Old Person!
Originally Posted By DlandDug Not old-- but I actually had me one of these: <a href="http://www.nwwone.org/world-war/worldwar-image-large/vintage-lunchbox-the-fall-guy-1981_230607492286.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.nwwone.org/world-wa...2286.jpg</a> (As a vintage collectible, of course!)
Originally Posted By MPierce >> Not old-- but I actually had me one of these: <a href="http://www.nwwone.org/world-wa...2286.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.nwwone.org/world-wa...2286.jpg</a> (As a vintage collectible, of course!) << I wonder how much that would be worth, with an original unbroken thermos, in today's market.
Originally Posted By Scutr They were probably using all-plastic Thermoses by then, but I've heard that original, unbroken glass ones can fetch a pretty penny. Odd, for some reason the link in Pierce's reply took me to a site selling WWI artifacts. While the same link in Dug's post took me to a much scarier place where Lee Majors was still a tv star.
Originally Posted By Socrates "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar." --- Sigmund Freud Socrates "The unexamined life is not worth living."
Originally Posted By MPierce >> "Sometimes it's not" --Bill Clinton << I nominate that this post be retired to the LP Hall of Fame, and it's number, #114, be placed on a banner, and hung from the rafters of the LP stadium.
