Originally Posted By YourPalEd Yep, i saw her on the monitors of the universal studios tram tour yesterday. No more opie. I thought she was a disney girl, what happened? Who got fired? Is this good or bad or meaningless, besides the fact i already know it's meaningless to me.
Originally Posted By YourPalEd I'm a disney girrrll. I'm a disney girl. A princess really. And i expect to be treated like a little princess. No more peas under mattresses EVER!!!!
Originally Posted By Darkbeer Whoopi signed a multi-picture deal with NBC Universal a few months ago. Supposely one part of the contract addressed her doing the hosting of the Tram Tour via video. But heck, she decided to actually be the live host for one tram a couple of weeks ago... <a href="http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2006/07/25/whoopi_goldberg_acts_as_tour_guide_for_u" target="_blank">http://www.starpulse.com/news/ index.php/2006/07/25/whoopi_goldberg_acts_as_tour_guide_for_u</a> >>Whoopi Goldberg thrilled visitors to Universal Studios in Hollywood last week when she took over the theme park's famous Backlot Tour and acted as a guide. The comedienne/actress has recorded a new video guide for the backstage trek at the park, which attracts 125 million visitors every year, and she launched the initiative by getting up close and personal to fans. Goldberg hopped on board a tram full of surprised tourists and knowledgeably navigated them through the Backlot Tour, offering anecdotes, jokes and film information, pointing out sets where she'd filmed some of her movies.<<
Originally Posted By YourPalEd Thank's for the info darkbeer. My stomach feels like a code V suddenly. Does this mean Whoopie is a disney traitor? You can't have your castle and spinning globe too, can you?
Originally Posted By YourPalEd I doubt she would have been able to do a very good job on the tour i took yesterday. I hopped on the japanese tour, cause the line was so short and there was only 10 minutes to go. There were students in the western area, and film crews in the new york down town area. We skipped the earthquake and kong! I don't know if the tourists noticed or not, but at the end of the show, the quake and kong are specifically mentioned, yet we missed them entirely. Next time for me i guess.
Originally Posted By bean "The comedienne/actress has recorded a new video guide for the backstage trek at the park, which attracts 125 million visitors every year, and she launched the initiative by getting up close and personal to fans." 125 million visitors? what are they counting all the crew members, caterers, wildlife, and any other person or animals that are working there on a movie shoot?
Originally Posted By FerretAfros It does seem like an awfully high number, considering that HKDL is having trouble reaching it's 5 million quota for its first year. But then again, USH is an already established park that lots of people know about.
Originally Posted By YourPalEd I bet it's 12.5 million a year or less. Sometimes people exagerate for the effect, hee hee.
Originally Posted By Hans Reinhardt "125 million visitors?" That's impossible. That number is roughly more than 1/3 the population of the United States.
Originally Posted By knoxvelour I'm sure they're counting turnstile clicks and not just the individiaul people who go to the park. With an annual pass $10 above one day admission, I'm sure they have a lot of repeat visitors. I went 5 times in one year just because I had a pass.
Originally Posted By WorldDisney 125 million???? Yeah, must be typo somewhere. I don't care how many repeat visitors there are. There are 33 million people in California. That means, that if you take every person in the state (assuming of course, only people from Cali visit) every man, woman and child has been to this park at least 3 times in the last year . Not bloody likely. Typo at best.
Originally Posted By WorldDisney Sorry, I meant everyone in the state has to visit the park 4 times in the last year. See, typo .
Originally Posted By YourPalEd "Good Eveeenning." Hey it's Alfred Hitchcock, the great director, who never won an oscar cause he was too good at scaring people with their own foibles. "I think," said mr. hitchcock, "that maybe the 125 million is the entire amount of estimated people to have gone on the tram since it's creation. You know like 27 billion served dead, rounded up, then grounded up, cow patties."
Originally Posted By lasvegasgirl Look closely at post # 8...... there is a POINT inbetween the 12 and the 5 ..... it reads 12 . 5 125 LOL
Originally Posted By BrigmanMT 2 The tram has been operating since the munsters were on TV. Doesn't Universal currently get like 6 or 7 million guests a year? Nobody goes to the studios and misses the tram tour. The attraction has been operating for forty years. If the park only got 4 million guests a year it could hit that number easily. I know the park used to just be the tour, so the guests numbers were for sure lower than the ones we see today, but to me 200 million people in 40 years sounds like a pretty resonable number to hit.
Originally Posted By Darkbeer Got some inside info from USH today.... The "Suits" rode the new Tram Tour and have agreed that there was too much Whoopi, and have cut back on the "Manditory" clips, you now get her about 4 times per Tram Tour instead of Nine... Thank You "Suits"!!!
Originally Posted By knightnfrees I remember the "tour guide" being the highlight of the tour. There used to be alot of pristige with being a tour guide. It seems with the introduction of video to the trams, the guide takes a back seat to Whoopi, et al. I know it's been a few years since I've been on the tram...Has the 'performance' of the guide's spiel been diminished drastically?
Originally Posted By YourPalEd Up until whoopie, the past announcers on the tram were the academy award winning directors. Ron howard, was the last announcer for the tram. Unfortunately, i'm planning to use warner, otherwise they might have had another best picture, best director academy award winner on their hands. Just like whoopie was the godess cali, in golden dreams, who had nothing to do with the events, whoopie over at universal, had nothing to do with the making of the films, but takes credit for them anyway.
Originally Posted By YourPalEd I took the japanese language tram tour recently, and the video clips were not in japanese. Couldn't they add an extra soundtrack to the dvd, and teach the tram riders to press the language select button?
