| # | Author | Message |
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| gurgitoy2
Tue 2/6/2007 1:19p | "The Dream Squads are trained to pick out vacationing families and couples. That is precisely the point of this celebration."
Wait...so you're saying they actually do pick out specific kinds of people and it's not really random? So a single person or a local is not supposed to win? |
82
| leemac
Tue 2/6/2007 1:30p | <<So a single person or a local is not supposed to win?>>
Certain prizes are geared for a particular age range of guest and therefore there is some selection. For other prizes it isn't so much that other people aren't supposed to win but the squads receive guidance as to key indicators of vacationing couples/families/extended groups. It is easier at WDW due to the smaller AP base so it isn't so much of an issue but DLR has put a lot of thought into the selection of winners to prevent locals/APers hounding the squads (which has happened a lot) or visiting daily to get a big prize. That said you can't account for everything (like what about "in-the-know" vacationing families seeking out the squads?).
One thing I was surprised about was that the squad CMs tend to remain on stage with their bags even after they have exhausted their booty (as far as I could make out). I would have thought stage managers would have pulled them backstage to redress. |
83
| MagicalNezumi
Tue 2/6/2007 3:48p | SuperDry wrote:
<<<Ah, but if I wait for Stitch!, then I also get to see the new Dreamlights and the new Sindbad. Maybe what you're telling me is that it's not worth waiting the extra two weeks for Stitch since Sindbad will be so good.>>>
Wait a few more weeks and ride the modified "Space Mountain". -- MagicalNezumi |
84
| SuperDry
Tue 2/6/2007 4:43p | ^^^ See #12. What you suggest would put off my visit by almost two months. |
85
| MagicalNezumi
Tue 2/6/2007 7:04p | Doh! That's right SD. Totally forgot you mentioned it. But since you really want to see the Stitch event, that's already mid-April. Why not "kill 4 birds with one stone" instead of 3? Decisions, decisions... (wink) -- MagicalNezumi |
86
| SuperDry
Tue 2/6/2007 7:09p | I might just have to visit twice. |
87
| MagicalNezumi
Tue 2/6/2007 7:34p | ^^^
Hehehe, all the better. -- MagicalNezumi |
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| Spirit of 74
Tue 2/6/2007 8:37p | <<Bingo. It is that sense of entitlement that bugs me immensely.
The Dream Squads are trained to pick out vacationing families and couples. That is precisely the point of this celebration.>>
Yes. So the traditional family of four (usually white with a boy dressed like a pirate and a girl dressed like Aurora) get freebies, but the senior couple get nothing, the teens out by themselves get nothing, the gay couple get nothing, the adult sister visting by themselves get nothing etc ...
Gee, talk about your magic.
You can get a dream, but only if you fit into a target demo.
What BS!
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89
| tcsnwhite
Wed 2/7/2007 12:07a | ^Yep, that's the American society for ya! |
90
| WorldDisney
Wed 2/7/2007 4:42a | <<Thailand, huh? Why wasn't I informed (and invited!?)?>>
LOL dude, you can't even get here next door to Korea and we been discussing THAT possibility for 3 months now!!! A freakin 2 hour flight from Tokyo.....so, I just didn't see you dropping everything to hit Thailand in a week ;). |
