Originally Posted By Bob Paris 1 "*right people (can you not edit your posts on these boards?)" No. But the upside is, nobody can post forty eight jpegs per post as their sigs, along with countdown clocks to their eighteenth Disney park visit this quarter or put in stupid pictures of plush dogs riding in monorail cars. Something else to go in "Ideas For Spirit's Mental Illness Thread" thread? LP is not perfect but the look is clean and uncluttered and contributes a lot to a more mature, reasonable and thought out level of discussion, rather than the brain farts of the thirteen year old girls I see elsewhere complete with the BBS equivalent of glitter and stickers peppered over their posts.
Originally Posted By Bob Paris 1 "Oh great, yet another fanbois obsessive web site convinced they know how to fix Disney. Usually run by wannabe Imagineers. You want to run a theme park? Then stop obsessing over Disney's and get some investors to back you if you really know how to do things better. After all everyone is so much smarter than Disney." *Checks watch* Yup. Right on time!
Originally Posted By Bob Paris 1 How INCREDIBLY ironic that my post reoms and "The sky is falling!" was in response to EE's FIRST PAGE post, when the VERY POST mine follows(unread by me at the time)proves my point for me!
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer >>>How INCREDIBLY ironic that my post reoms and "The sky is falling!" was in response to EE's FIRST PAGE post, when the VERY POST mine follows(unread by me at the time)proves my point for me!<<< Always happy to help... LOL
Originally Posted By Manfried <<ANYBODY in HR or customer service will tell you that one of the MAIN WAYS your complaint will be taken seriously is if you present it in a professional and correct manner.>> Well said Bob.
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 Devoy, I'd just add that you'll be most successful with pictures over words. Fans like pics. They'll sit thru the same set of 431 pics of a DVC under construction on 11 different sites. So, while I think essays and columns have a place, pics will be much more effective and you can link to them on various sites. Showing pics of attractions and infrastructure in disrepair will gain attention because there simply isn't any justification for it. You also are presenting abject and absolute facts, not opinions. You can even show pics of things working the right way vs. how they look now. Things like that simply speak for themselves. Hell, you can even show areas that once were maintained (thinking horticulture) and now are left to go back to nature. Or places that once were vibrant (say WoL or Diamond Horseshoe etc) and are now dead. Look how powerful those pics of River Country rotting in the FLA sun are. Good luck ... ~GFC~
Originally Posted By Bolna <<You can even show pics of things working the right way vs. how they look now. Things like that simply speak for themselves.>> I think that would be a very good idea. I am sure many people don't notice things missing/not working because they have no idea what it should be like and will be amazed how much better things were if everything worked as it had in the past.
Originally Posted By ChiMike A great example of a video side by side would be the veldt on Jungle Cruise. You're talking easily about 15 different broken animations all in one shot
Originally Posted By devoy1701 We're working on the video and photo aspect, infact one of our members posted some good shots of The Seas and the Fountain of Nations last weekend. We currently lack an Orlando Local who visits regularly that is part of our dedicated team. I'm over in Tampa but would prefer not to have to renew my pass which I let lapse back in February. If we aren't able to find someone sooner I will start going back towards the end of August when the Seasonal Passes are unblacked out to start provided photo updates every 2-3 weeks. I'll also be taking videos on the Flip cam when necessary. Once we get that going, the Articles section will start showcasing specific attractions with before and after pictures, though we will continue to run editorial pieces every once in awhile too. Remember we've only been up for 10 days! If there are any locals on here that would like to help it would be much appreciated! You can email me at Andrew@fixtheMagic.com!
Originally Posted By LeonardKinsey Great job on the site, Devoy/Andrew! I signed up and "liked" it on FB. I was just at WDW a few weeks back and was really disappointed with the state of DHS, and The Great Movie Ride in particular. "Ceiling Alien" was missing, so we rode through that room with nothing happening for what seemed like an eternity - the CM was totally quiet and seemed very uncomfortable. Also, the Wicked Witch's mouth wasn't moving, totally ruining the scene. Unfortunately, non-functioning animatronics can't be captured with photos, so could I suggest that your members also take videos in addition to pictures? MK, on the other hand, was in pretty good shape! CoP was the only thing that stuck out as needing a lot of work. Why can't they keep the dude's neck from flapping out of his shirt collar?! It's creepy. Anyway, next time I'm down there I'll be sure to take lots of pix/vids and submit them for your site! Leonard Kinsey Author, The Dark Side of Disney "The Anarchist Cookbook of Disney Travel Guides" <a href="http://www.darksideofdisney.com" target="_blank">http://www.darksideofdisney.com</a>
Originally Posted By HokieSkipper <<A great example of a video side by side would be the veldt on Jungle Cruise. You're talking easily about 15 different broken animations all in one shot>> Was on the ride last week and everything was up and running.
Originally Posted By ChiMike Hokie, unless they have worked miracles under the cloak of darkness, a lot of the figures facial animations are disabled. Or is my information outdated? I figured you would know.
Originally Posted By HokieSkipper <<Hokie, unless they have worked miracles under the cloak of darkness, a lot of the figures facial animations are disabled. Or is my information outdated? I figured you would know.>> They haven't been working well for years, I'll agree with that. But this past week they were at their normal kinda-but-not-really movements. The ride needs to go down so they can fully implement the digital controllers on the damn things. But of course that refurb has been coming for like 6 years and counting.
Originally Posted By HokieSkipper But that kinda brings up another point, there are so many things across the park that have degraded for so long, there aren't many left who actually remember what they looked like originally, which is definitely scary.
Originally Posted By ChiMike Thanks for the response.. Yep, I would raise me hand as one of them! I try not to be too scary. The veldt animations more than any other scene on the river use to be way more animated.
Originally Posted By devoy1701 <<But that kinda brings up another point, there are so many things across the park that have degraded for so long, there aren't many left who actually remember what they looked like originally, which is definitely scary.>> I was thinking this too a during this project of ours... Sure I can take photos/videos of things that are broken and obviously not working. But effects that have deteriorate but are still partially operational...unless it's blatently obvious, I think I'll end up missing some things. I guess I can refer to some of Martin's tribute videos and whatnot?
Originally Posted By HokieSkipper <<The veldt animations more than any other scene on the river use to be way more animated.>> The ride really needs its refurb. Not that it looks bad, but it's just such an intricate ride, it needs some work to get everything running at 100% again.
Originally Posted By ChiMike I would like to see them modernize the inside of the temple and try to add more canopy-vegetation coverage over the sections of the river.
Originally Posted By HokieSkipper <<I would like to see them modernize the inside of the temple and try to add more canopy-vegetation coverage over the sections of the river.>> Dunno how much truth there is to it, but I was told that the Mansion-esque refurb it is supposed to get would have included a new effect for the temple which would have made it look like the bottom was glittering with gold and jewels, among other things.
