Tuesday, June 14, 2011

FoamTard Truck Complaint

Apparently some people are upset about this video of Disneyland before opening showing a truck driving through Frontierland/New Orleans Square.



They're saying its 'bad show', and how 'Walt would have been enraged' etc. They really have no leg to stand on, considering a few things.
1) This is before park hours, and before any guests step into the park. Trucks, pressure washers, cherry pickers, and the like are going to be all over the place at any given time. This is all basically the 'stage preparation' for the guests.
2) Disney has deliberately filmed, and posted videos of in the park, before/after hours of how things work. I don't see how this is any different.
3) Editing a moving truck out of six seconds of film time? People, really? The Disney film dept. that does stuff like this isn't ILM. They're not gonna waste a day of cutting that out.
4) The members on "another site" are very hypocritical. One day they're complaining about a duck video having a truck in the background, but another praise the one that gives light to how the autopia cars are filled up, and how they rotate plants during the third shift (for those that don't know, third shift is commonly known as the after hours, or night crew that work to get the park looking good before guests arrive).
5) Did they forget that a while ago...Disney allowed a news team to come in, and interview third shift employees, and show some of the secrets of how tricks work on Indiana Jones Adventure?


They ate that video up and loved it. But not the one of a truck driving through the park. Go figure, right?

It's funny to me how people find the stupidest things to complain about. Sure, one could argue, much like this person mentioned on "another site" how Walt would have been enraged at the site of his guests seeing a truck inside the park like that. It IS SOMEWHAT understandable. However, with the high speed access to anything, and being able to take a quick video or photo on the spot, post it to the WORLD wide web, and have millions view it instantly, things are inevitably going to slip. Just look at the stuff thats been leaked before showtime. MiceChat actually gave us all hi-res photos of Star Tours before opening. Other times we've gotten mere pixelated images of items backstage. The thing is, Disney knew that the truck was in there while this film was in the editing bay. They chose to leave it in there to probably show people "yea, this is before hours. That is a GMC pickup driving where thousands of you walk daily." 





But who are we kidding? Foamers gonna foam, right?

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