Originally Posted By Mr X <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8OhQia9s8M&feature=related" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...=related</a> Just happened to find this on a random search to dazzle a new LPer on the wonders of DisneySea. Has someone linked to it and I missed it or something? Pretty awesome video. I love how it could be "all over the world", and "over the course of a lifetime together", and yet magically takes place all at DisneySea. Hey "experts", why haven't we seen this before!?
Originally Posted By SuperDry Were have you been, Mr X? This has been floating around since the 5th anniversary!
Originally Posted By Mr X I guess I missed the Tokyo section for like, I dunno, a couple of years! Oops. Anyway, cool video!
Originally Posted By MagicalNezumi Mr X, all those scenes in the video are part of a series of film shorts made for the Anniversary. It's available on DVD and the print version is available as a novel. -- MagicalNezumi
Originally Posted By Mr X Well, personally I wouldn't take it THAT far. Still, a neat angle on advertising...very well done, and dare I say immersive? Most appropriate for that grand dame of theme parks, DisneySea!
Originally Posted By SpokkerJones You could never make a video like that for DCA, even after the makeover.
Originally Posted By Malin Tokyo Disneyland also has a very cheesy music video for its 25th Anniversary.
Originally Posted By The Goddess Mara I bought the DVD of these vignettes at the park a few trips ago. It's for die-hard fans!
Originally Posted By SuperDry <<< Pretty awesome video. I love how it could be "all over the world", and "over the course of a lifetime together", and yet magically takes place all at DisneySea. >>> I want to comment further. I think the video does a great job at expressing what DisneySea is about, even though it doesn't really . Let me explain: Most of us have been in a position of having to describe what TDR's second gate is like, both to "Disney Parks" fans that don't know anything about TDR, and to non-Disney people as well. I used to say something like "Well, it's about the sea, and water themes" but this is of course way off the mark. Most people say "Oh, like SeaWorld?" Then when I say that there are no animals, they just scratch their head, trying to imagine SeaWorld but with no animals. More recently, I've taken to saying "DisneySea is about exploration and adventure, with more adult themes than DL." That does a better job, but doesn't really create a visualization for anyone that's not been there before. This video doesn't really explain what it's like to go to the park as a guest, but somehow, it does convey how the park is different than DL: although it doesn't literally give you the sense that you've gone around the world or give you the emotions of a lifetime, what the video shows is somehow of "like kind and quality" to what it's like to visit, without attempting to directly convey it. It's hard for me to explain what I'm trying to say. Put another way, every time I see it or show it to someone, it's almost jarring at the end when the TDS 5th Anniversary logo appears, as people tend to get lost in the video, forgetting the context, and then it pops in your face that it's about a Disney theme park. Then I have to explain that the video doesn't *literally* express the park-going experience, but that it's somehow parallel to it.
Originally Posted By Mr X I always explain it like "the way Disneyland has lands, DisneySea has ports of call to explore".
Originally Posted By trekkeruss <<all those scenes in the video are part of a series of film shorts made for the Anniversary>> WOW, I am SO GLAD I opened this thread! I just watched all five of the short films on YouTube. These are the best park promos _ever_! So that begs the question, where can I find this DVD? I assume it's out of print, yes?
Originally Posted By SpokkerJones "Then I have to explain that the video doesn't *literally* express the park-going experience, but that it's somehow parallel to it." Actually, I find that the 5th anniversary videos, including the music video, is way more honest and real than any American Disney theme park commercial. Sure, the DisneySea videos are just that, commercials, shilling for you to visit and visit often, and buy some crap (though the parent saying that the kid could only buy one trinket was surprisingly restrained. In the American version I imagine the kid would be decked out in Disney crap). What the DisneySea short-films do is impart humanity into a visit to DisneySea. They aren't fanciful and unrealistic, as if you are going to personally ride Dumbo with Goofy and there's no one in the park and you're the star. It just portrays people, with real problems and issues, visiting the park. The music video is more fanciful, but it illustrates nothing more than memories and rekindling the lost feeling of youth (to no doubt encourage Japan's aging population to visit). It's all set in front of the beautiful backdrop of DisneySea. The quality of the park validates the level of emotion in the music video. Like I said, you couldn't make such a video for DCA because no one would take it seriously. At the end of the day it's just a theme park, but it is the closest thing to Walt Disney's vision of a place where you "leave today and enter a world of yesterday, tomorrow and fantasy." Its creators stood on the shoulders of giants and saw further than any M.B.A. with a focus on spending per guest and the average length of guest stays. Because when you build it right in the first place, you don't really have to worry about those things too much.
Originally Posted By SpokkerJones Not say there aren't totally fanciful TDS commercials. Here's one: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xK5zVM9DurU" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...zVM9DurU</a>
Originally Posted By SpokkerJones Looking at the Sea of Dreams music video again, it's amazing to me how they don't use CG or carefully constructed shots to portray the park as something it's not. The characters in the video can be placed in little corners of the park or in front of the centerpiece Mount Prometheus and it's all amazingly detailed. They even feature the little A-Ticket attractions, such as Fortress Explorations. You believe Roy E. Disney when he said on TDS' opening day, "I can think of two people in particular that would have been thrilled with this new park that has risen up next to a park they would have found very familiar. I am of course talking about Walt and Roy Disney." Did anybody talk about how Walt and Roy would have loved to be at DCA's opening day? Would anyone have believed it?
Originally Posted By The Goddess Mara They were still selling it at the park when I was there last October.
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo OMG - I finally got around to watching all 6 of them and they were amazing. Great films, hardly any toons, lovely stories, really thought provoking, funny, clever. They really reawakened what it is I used to love about the Disney experience. Thank you soooo much for pointing me in their direction. WOW
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo Maybe there is a new exec who served at WDW or DLP. Just be glad it's not a Toy Story Play Port
Originally Posted By SpokkerJones Nothing lasts forever. I'm glad I visited the park when I did. BraviSEAmo! Tower of Terror just opened. It was the 5th anniversary. Maybe I visited the park in its prime. Imagine that.
Originally Posted By SpokkerJones Not that a spinny ride in the wrong spot ruins a Disney park. They'll have to really work at it if they want to reach Pressler/Harris lows.
