Hall of Presidents

[TheGentTrent]

Does every president speak? I assumed that they would build a static figure (or near static) of the past president and then convert the old presidential AA to the new president

I always thought that was the case.

 

[darkridelover]

It's the same AA with new skin.

 

[Yabbadabba Doh]

I’ll be in MK on the 26th. Can’t wait to see it, glad it has returned.

 

[Parkscope Joe]

It's the same AA with new skin.

What? No.

 

[UNIrd]

The robot delivering the speech is the most presidential he's ever been.

 

[WAJAS]

What? No.

Yeah it’s not. The sitting down Obama is the same Obama AA just sitting down. This Trump AA is a need AA.

 

[Doug A.]

They essentially take the outgoing president and make that AA more static but still fidget, blink, etc. Then make a new AA for incoming president, same as it’s been for a while.

 

[Nick]

Attractions Magazine posted some close ups....the thing looks like Hillary. Maybe that’s why they took so long, they thought Hillary would win and had her AA ready to go but had to change it last second.

You realize that Disney created molds of both Trump and Clinton last year leading up to the election, right? They then just go with whoever wins. The holdup was over Trump not recording his speech in a timely manner, which is acceptable seeing as he's the President and there's more important things to deal with than a theme park likeness, but let's not make this something it's not.

They don’t speak, but they fidget, shift, look around and blink the whole time.

Do they not still do a role call? Because they all said their names in the prior version.

 

[Teebin]

They essentially take the outgoing president and make that AA more static but still fidget, blink, etc. Then make a new AA for incoming president, same as it’s been for a while.

Wouldn’t it be a hoot if all of the ex-president’s were either knitting, reading the newspaper, or working on their needlepoint.

 

[darkridelover]

They added spikes, chairs, and music stands to prevent people from making it to the stage.

 

[Nick]

They added spikes, chairs, and music stands to prevent people from making it to the stage.View attachment 5882

Well if they're gonna do that, at least it fits well thematically.

 

[Yabbadabba Doh]

Do they not still do a role call? Because they all said their names in the prior version.

If I remember correctly, the narrator used to do the roll call and a spot would light up the president who would nod or acknowledge themselves in some fashion.

 

[Teebin]

They added spikes, chairs, and music stands to prevent people from making it to the stage.

What used to be in the orchestra pit?

 

[Nick]

If I remember correctly, the narrator used to do the roll call and a spot would light up the president who would nod or acknowledge themselves in some fashion.

Ahh, yes, you are correct. I can practically hear the Morgan Freeman narration of the roll call now that you say that.

What used to be in the orchestra pit?

From a quick search, it was just empty. This picture is from the Obama-era version. It looks like they actually improved the theming by putting actual orchestra seats, etc in there all the while making it so that it's hard to get to the stage.

 

[Teebin]

I am still musing the fact that they actually installed spikes... I was sure that spikes was overstating it until I saw the picture. Spikes... lordy lordy.

 

[Alicia]

I am still musing the fact that they actually installed spikes... I was sure that spikes was overstating it until I saw the picture. Spikes... lordy lordy.

Have you seen Westworld? The spikes may be there to protect us from the robots!

 

[Nick]

I am still musing the fact that they actually installed spikes... I was sure that spikes was overstating it until I saw the picture. Spikes... lordy lordy.

It's not too dissimilar from the railings around the parks that have spikes on them to keep people from sitting on them.

 

[OLSinFLA]

Having seen the whole show online I find it actually an improvement over the old show. The screens are used more (even at the end on either side of the presidents) and they seem almost seamless. The narration (I swear it sounds like Whoopi Goldberg) is a bit more gentle than Freeman's and the overall concept seems to be focused on the concept of what the idea of a president is, rather than the "one of us" used before. That said, the Trump AA does look a bit odd, and the ending seems to just wind down, like it runs out of steam

 

[Teebin]

It's not too dissimilar from the railings around the parks that have spikes on them to keep people from sitting on them.

Let’s not be too coy. We all know why the orchestra pit changes were made.

 

[GoUCFKnights]

Having seen the whole show online I find it actually an improvement over the old show. The screens are used more (even at the end on either side of the presidents) and they seem almost seamless. The narration (I swear it sounds like Whoopi Goldberg) is a bit more gentle than Freeman's and the overall concept seems to be focused on the concept of what the idea of a president is, rather than the "one of us" used before. That said, the Trump AA does look a bit odd, and the ending seems to just wind down, like it runs out of steam

while the presidents are being announced, trump seems to be looking the wrong way for a lot of that, I hope that can be fixed