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Topic: Latest: Through Jim Hill Imagineer responds to fan criticisms

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51	mickeyboy43 Mon 5/5/2008 2:50p	****Sometimes I think my disappointment should be directed at the original sin which was the Disney family selling out!!! Is that how this all began? Is that the root of our problem. It hurts to discover the Imagineers do not care about online opinions. The in park guest surveys needs a survey to see how effective that type of survey really is.**** Online communities foster the die-hard fan base and make things sound much worse than they really are. Park surveys come from people who are there, right then. Online communities are mainly those people who visit the park so often, they begin to notice the tiny things that go wrong. Like the article says, everybody focuses too much on the negative, and even though Disney is supposed to have no negative (lolz, double neg) it was still soft opening, remember? ****There's a whole park like that. It's called DisneySea.**** Lolz, not to sound too racist, but its run by Asians, which means it has to be perfect or they lose their job to one of the other Billions of people over there who can do the job equally well.
52	fkurucz Mon 5/5/2008 3:31p	^^Its run by Japanese, of which there are only about 100 million and most are very gainfully employed.
53	MPierce Mon 5/5/2008 3:44p	>> Jim - you are assuming that said imagineer exists. I'd wager he is a figment of an overactive imagination that wants to spark some controversy his way. Maybe be felt aggrieved not to have either the Marty Sklar or Dave Smith letters about iasw. << >> My take exactly. Take a look at the article - at both the cm's comments and the Imagineer's letter. Both of them use classic Jim Hill style - partial sentence structure, starting sentences with "which", etc. It's my opinion that both comments were written by Mr. Hill himself. It's why I don't read his site at all any more, and completely discount any rumors coming out of there as very very suspect. << >> I always suspected... << I have some questions about this article also.
54	danyoung Mon 5/5/2008 5:04p	>Online communities are mainly those people who visit the park so often, they begin to notice the tiny things that go wrong.< Oh wow oh wow OH WOW!!! If LP had sigs, I'd adopt this as mine. Nicely worded, mickeyboy!
55	mickeyboy43 Mon 5/5/2008 6:25p	And as for them not having a replacement yet -- come on, when have you ever known WDI not to have an idea for a new attraction. I'd wager there were dozens of great attraction ideas designed for that space. This was almost definitely a money issue - not a lack of great ideas.**** Fire Mountain and Villain Mountain? Both never came to fruition due to the moeny issue after the "failure" of DLP during its early years. Eisner lost some of his prestige and was wiser with money afterwards. Fire Mountain=Kick butt coaster that changes styles halfway through and was to be in adventureland. Villain Mountain=New land in place of 20K that would be a staging point for MNSSHP. It was a log flume. I think there was an article on Jim hill about it.
56	Mr X Mon 5/5/2008 6:26p	>>>****There's a whole park like that. It's called DisneySea.**** Lolz, not to sound too racist, but its run by Asians, which means it has to be perfect or they lose their job to one of the other Billions of people over there who can do the job equally well.<<< I wasn't talking about how it was run, I'm talking about how well it was built. And here's a clue. It wasn't built by the Japanese. ;)
57	mickeyboy43 Mon 5/5/2008 6:27p	"Oh wow oh wow OH WOW!!! If LP had sigs, I'd adopt this as mine. Nicely worded, mickeyboy!" Thank you very much! Its the truth though, isnt it?
58	mickeyboy43 Mon 5/5/2008 6:28p	"And here's a clue. It wasn't built by the Japanese. ;)" Really? Chinese? Americanese? Who? Youve managed to pique my curiosity.
59	danyoung Mon 5/5/2008 6:59p	>I think there was an article on Jim hill about it.< Careful there, mickeyboy - you lost a bit of credibility by quoting Jim Hill!
60	Mr X Mon 5/5/2008 7:03p	***"And here's a clue. It wasn't built by the Japanese. ;)" Really? Chinese? Americanese? Who? Youve managed to pique my curiosity.*** It was built by WDI, same as the rest of the Tokyo resort (save Ikspiari?), and all the other foreign parks. In fact, some of the very same people worked on DisneySea at the same time as they were working on California Adventure.

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