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| Tom Wagner |
 Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2011 4:51 pm |
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When doing something as mundane as a safety spiel that's NOT in character how much are you allowed to play or try different approaches? Are you expected to play it straight or do they allow you to play it tongue in cheek?
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| CB |
| Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2011 9:55 am |
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Tom Wagner wrote: Are you expected to play it straight or do they allow you to play it tongue in cheek? |
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| Tom Wagner |
| Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2011 4:20 pm |
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It's scary how "involved" the spiels have become to the point of mentioning almost every body part that must stay in the ride vehicle. Integration of the safety spiel into the actual soundtrack of the ride is the best and, in my opinion, the most effective way to get the point across.
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| CB |
| Posted: Fri Oct 21, 2011 5:12 pm |
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While lawsuits may have been suppressed by adding those detailed lists of body parts and clauses, I wouldn't be surprised to find accident rates have even increased (from virtually zero for all previous generations combined, to a couple of minor mishaps every few months - I presume), because young people especially resent the patronizing litany of itemized "no-no's", and therefore feel compelled to mock and flout each prohibited action with defiant glee: It's what kids (along with childlike adults - and especially teenagers) DO. That sort of phrasing demands obedience - which nobody wants to hear when they're having a rollicking silly time at a theme park. When the safe behaviors are cleverly incorporated into the adventure itself, as a means of "getting on board" with the characters and immersive setting of an attraction, cooperation is naturally assured. Why is that so hard for anyone charged with effective crowd control and public safety to understand?
Attraction-riders trumpeting their own "hilarious" soundtracks, blinding camera flashes and flailing of "hands, arms, feet, and legs" rarely happened (to cite a prime example) over nearly four injury-free decades at the Haunted Mansion, when the Real Ghost Host voice told us how sensitive the Spirits were to loud and disruptive behavior in their "ghostly retreat". Since the legal authorities barged their way into the formerly perfect original monologue, it seems that sort of "horseplay" has become predictably commonplace. But at least the company is supposedly absolved from legal responsibility: After all, they've got that spoken "fine print", all those bold-faced hardhat industrial factory floor-themed warning stickers plastered everywhere you look, floodlit "gloomy darkness" and glaring EXIT/EMERGENCY signs on their side in court now. So who needs all that well-trained, attentive staff anymore? Makes a lot more sense to spend three times the budget allotment on lawyers who come up with this stuff. …Right? |
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| Tom Wagner |
| Posted: Fri Oct 21, 2011 6:18 pm |
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| The worst recent addition to the Haunted Mansion (at least in Walt Disney World) is the projection that "points out" the direction in which to exit the doombuggie. I didn't think anyone getting out of the wrong side was an issue but evidently it's enough of a problem that the legal department dictated this change. And don't get me started on the poorly performed added safety spiels in the loading area. DREADFUL! |
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