Podcast #031 – Fantasmic!
Podcast #031 – Fantasmic!
Top 7: Worst Ideas, a Constructively Critical Viewpoint
News Stories:
- Walt’s house is now for sale on eBay. (link)
- Effective January 1, 2007, you must be 21 years of age or order to enter the BET Soundstange Club, Mannequins, Motion, Rock-n-Roll Beach Club and 8Trax at Pleasure Island. All others will allow you in if you’re under 21, but if you’re under 18, you’ll need to have an adult with you.
- Jan. 19-21, 2007 will be the DVC preview of the Laugh Floor thing at MK. (unconfirmed)
- Chris Barry at JimHillMedia.com has an interesting and unconfirmed post about a possible beta test of a possible new thing possibly coming to Disney in the possible future. (link)
- Disney announced they will outsource at least 167 bell, valet and baggage service jobs starting in Jan. 2007, to BAGS, the group that currently operates the Disney Magic Bus thing. (source: OrlandoSentinel.com)
Top 7: Worst Ideas
Warning: As I mentioned in my podcast, this list is not intended to be a slam, rather constructive criticism that focuses on things that are good and bad and offers suggestions to fix the bad. For more detail on this list, please listen to this podcast episode.
7. Redoing Imagination … again.
6. Skyway aka “Skybuckets”
5. Redoing Innoventions
4. Selling McD’s fries
3. Building the All-Star Resorts
2. Dinoland, USA
1. (nothing)
Featured Attraction: Fantasmic!
The Disney Photo Movie is an old thing. I think it failed as it was outragously priced (IMHO). I checked it out a LONG time ago, and it was not too impressive. The only unique item was some of the stock footage you could add, with less crowds than you could EVER get. There are so many free/inexpensive applications out there that can do the same thing photo movie does(did). You could buy an application for less than the cost of one of the DPM DVDs, and use it for multiple trips/pictures/etc. Much better use of ones money.
My thoughts (hope I don’t get banned for being negative LOL)