Originally Posted By LOVE-DCA IT seems like after reading the article on Wikipedia, they had a lot of versions of mr Lincoln show! and i go to disenyland 15 times a month, and no never seen the hall of presidents
Originally Posted By LOVE-DCA The point is that it’s coming back. And we ALL can see it ..some of us again. Some of us who are not so old for the first time. this will be exciting. And I got my answer it’s coming December 18th.
Originally Posted By LPFan22 Just remember that the Dec. 18 date is not set in stone and could change again.
Originally Posted By Mickeysbestfan I don't understand why it's such a big deal to bring Lincoln back. Wouldn't it have been better to make it a hall of Presidents or something simular to that?
Originally Posted By Manfried I don't think there's enough room at Disneyland for The Hall of Presidents. That's a big show building in Florida.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros Didn't they say that they were going to add a couple AA's to the show? I think I read somewhere in spring that they were going to have Lincoln, Washington, and possibly Obama. I don't know if it's true, but that's certainly a different version of the show. I haven't seen it mentioned in anything that was released recently though. In other news, I'm really excited about them using Two Brothers. I think that's one of the best parts of the American Adventure in Epcot, so I'm glad to have it in DL too.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 They used Two Brothers before at DL. Not the most recent (haircut/headset) Lincoln show, but the one before that.
Originally Posted By Hans Reinhardt I don't think there's enough room at Disneyland for The Hall of Presidents. Funny you say that because The Hall of Presidents was on the slate as a "future attraction" for Disneyland for many years.
Originally Posted By Rsey103 Obama and Washington are out, I think. It's just going to be Walt Disney's and Royal Dano's Lincoln. I'm glad folks are looking forward to him coming back....
Originally Posted By Manfried Yes it was, but that was before Space Mountain was built. Now there is no room, unless you put it in Frontierland where Big Thunder Ranch is located.
Originally Posted By Hans Reinhardt Actually, no, I specifically recall there being an announcement in the Walt Disney Story exhibit for years after Space Mountain opened that Hall of Presidents would be coming to Disneyland. I don't know if it was planned to be in that exact spot or not.
Originally Posted By dresswhites i don't know. i have mixed feelings on this one. When it reopens i probabaly will go see it. However i wonder if the show will get much of audience after all the aps see it. Lets face it, thru most the 80s, 90, and 2000-2004 theater attendance was always pretty sparse. Good or bad it is just not a must see for most people who visit the park, including Aps who always clamor for the show to come back when it goes missing. Maybe with the Disney Gallery connecting to the building it will bring in a few more souls.
Originally Posted By Tinkeroon I'm looking forward to it and unfortunately it will be reopening just after we return from our next trip. I think we will be leaving DL on Dec. 13th. So we'll miss it by less than a week. Something to look forward to for the next trip I suppose. sigh
Originally Posted By Darkbeer The new version of the Backstage Pass (AP Newsletter) talks about the return of Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln. There will only be one AA, but there will be a post-show montage of "influential Americans".
Originally Posted By Rsey103 Do you think the location has hurt attendance in the past? I think when guests enter the park there's an enormous pull up Main St. to the Castle and the lands, bypassing Lincoln. Yet, there is a lot of interest in Lincoln and the Civil War era in the country. The Lincoln Museum in Springfield and the Battlefields in Gettysburg draw big crowds. As do Civil War re-enactments, I think. Somehow, that interest hasn't always transferred to the Opera House at Disneyland.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros Does the Civil War era stuff have any significance in California, though? Growing up in the middle of where a lot of that stuff took place, there was always a great awareness for it and its significance. When I moved to southern California, I found that most people only had the vaguest sense of what happened then, and none of it really involved much in the way of specific names, dates, or places. There's just something about the culture out here that doesn't seem like it's really that interested in hearing about the Civil War. I could be mistaken, but I just feel like most Californians wouldn't care either way.
Originally Posted By oc_dean I think it does hurt. I think most majority of people are in a hurry to get into the main lands .. and hit the big rides as fast as they can. I think what would help is to print an ad on the guide pamphlets right across the front. That's actually a "no brainer" solution. And not just have it that way for a month or two .. but the whole year. Like one little strip section that could boarder the lower section of the guide pamphlets. I .. on the other hand .. would love it if they recreated the specialty ticket that came with the A/B/C/D/E ticket books. When you pulled off the gate admission ticket ... it was planted right infront of the As: <a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3jV5FcVqpE8/Sea2J9LFiZI/AAAAAAAAHu8/hMMOo6ldiXw/s400/First+Lincoln+Tix.jpg" target="_blank">http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3jV5...+Tix.jpg</a> What was unique about this ticket ... it made you feel like it was such a special ticket .. that it required it's very own ticket. It was marketing brilliance, placing that at the front of the A-E ticket books ... and it worked on me in my teen years.
