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Brian55NH	The DL doom-buggy exit spiel...	Lead	[-]
Ballroom Dancer Posts: 322 (06/16/09 18:20:33) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Tags : None There's always been one track I've scratched my head over when it comes the Disneyland HM - specifically the alternating male/female voices heard telling you to "Please exit to your left by stepping away from the cars with your left foot first. Step out and stand on the moving platform please..." Talk about pretty much killing the theme - there's nary a hint of the supernatural in either performance but instead are as straight-forward and pedantic as can be! (In fact you get the feeling they could have been just as easily heard verbatim at the exit to "Adventures Thru Inner Space.") With all the attention to detail that disney put into theming the attraction so perfectly, just why would they decide to go with something that mundane? Interestingly, the WDW HM never felt the need to include this, but instead just seemed happy to end with the GH telling you to "Watch your step..." and leave it at that...
Dan Olson		#1	[-]
Obviously Didn't Turn Back Posts: 2448 (06/16/09 20:10:33) Obviously Didn't Turn Back Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Brian55NH wrote: There's always been one track I've scratched my head over when it comes the Disneyland HM - specifically the alternating male/female voices heard telling you to "Please exit to your left by stepping away from the cars with your left foot first. Step out and stand on the moving platform please..." Talk about pretty much killing the theme - there's nary a hint of the supernatural in either performance but instead are as straight-forward and pedantic as can be! (In fact you get the feeling they could have been just as easily heard verbatim at the exit to "Adventures Thru Inner Space.") With all the attention to detail that disney put into theming the attraction so perfectly, just why would they decide to go with something that mundane? Interestingly, the WDW HM never felt the need to include this, but instead just seemed happy to end with the GH telling you to "Watch your step..." and leave it at that... It's important that people NOT think they're hearing a part of the show. There would always be dummies who think it's a gag, a hitchhiking ghost trying to coax them into leaving (or something), and they'd just sit there smiling like idiots. The spiel they have now is not the original one; it's much more pedantic and unghostly than the earlier one, recorded by X Atencio. And if my 40-year old memory may be trusted (I won't defend myself against skeptics on this one), there was no spiel there at all when the HM first opened.
johnnybix38		#2	[-]
Ghost Host Posts: 672 (06/17/09 03:25:27) Popup Ghost Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Well, at the WDW mansion, it's always been the Ghosthost who says "kindly watch your step please...watch your step" While Dan's explanation makes sense, you'd have to be a pretty stupid guest to to reach the unload area, the safety bar raise and still think it's a gag if it's said by the ghost host ...HELLO!!
Dan Olson		#3	[-]
Obviously Didn't Turn Back Posts: 2450 (06/17/09 07:49:03) Obviously Didn't Turn Back Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	johnnybix38 wrote: Well, at the WDW mansion, it's always been the Ghosthost who says "kindly watch your step please...watch your step" While Dan's explanation makes sense, you'd have to be a pretty stupid guest to to reach the unload area, the safety bar raise and still think it's a gag if it's said by the ghost host ...HELLO!! Pretty stupid guests we've got a-plenty. You can never overestimate the ability of people to misunderstand. You could put up a sign that says, "The sky is blue" in twelve languages, and not a day would pass without someone saying something like, "Oh, I thought it said the sky is orange."
Brian55NH		#4	[-]
Ballroom Dancer Posts: 323 (06/17/09 09:24:19) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Dan Olson wrote: johnnybix38 wrote: Well, at the WDW mansion, it's always been the Ghosthost who says "kindly watch your step please...watch your step" While Dan's explanation makes sense, you'd have to be a pretty stupid guest to to reach the unload area, the safety bar raise and still think it's a gag if it's said by the ghost host ...HELLO!! Pretty stupid guests we've got a-plenty. You can never overestimate the ability of people to misunderstand. You could put up a sign that says, "The sky is blue" in twelve languages, and not a day would pass without someone saying something like, "Oh, I thought it said the sky is orange." Which has me wondering why they've never felt the need to incorporate that spiel in the WDW version. God knows there's just as many stupid guests there...
x Little Leota x		#5	[-]
Dead Center Of Attention Posts: 3176 (06/17/09 10:02:09) Obviously Didn't Turn Back Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	WDW has many more guests in general. A sizable portion of which are tourists who don't speak English...and yet, they are able to figure it out like anyone else. Honestly, I'm not sure why the exit spiel at DL was changed. No one seemed to have a problem leaving their doombuggy when the original spiel was in place, and the new one seems a bit overkill to me. Although, when the park has hand washing instructions posted in the restooms, overkill shouldn't be surprising.
Haunted Hearse		#6	[-]
Dead Center Of Attention Posts: 3538 (06/17/09 23:10:21) Dead Center Of Attention Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	If I recall, the original spiel was supposed to go like this: You put your right foot in You put your right foot out You put your right foot in And you ~shake~ it all about. The problem was this dramatically lengthened the time it took to unload the Doombuggies, so the simpler spiel was used instead.
old grimm guy	Wait, I've heard that before!	#7	[-]
Foolish Mortal Posts: 38 (06/18/09 07:21:20) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	You put your right foot in You put your right foot out You put your right foot in And you ~shake~ it all about. Isn't that spiel still used on the Jungle Cruise? Something about translating what the natives are saying.
Haunted Hearse	Of course it is.	#8	[-]
Dead Center Of Attention Posts: 3539 (06/18/09 09:00:34) Dead Center Of Attention Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Isn't that spiel still used on the Jungle Cruise? Something about translating what the natives are saying. Of course, you know Disney. If an idea isn't working for one attraction, often, theyll use it on another attarction.

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