Ghoulish Delight
11-19-2003, 08:54 AM
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Did anyone besides myself and RStar attend the surprise party for Mickey yesterday in Toon Town? Here's my rundown.
It was hot. Blazin' stinkin' hot. And Toon Town is NOT the place to be at noon on a warm, clear day. Ugh, 40 minutes standing around in the sun.
Okay, enough griping about the heat. The blazing, opressive heat. Why can't they get some shade in that place!? It was so hot....
Ooops, back to the party. So here was the setup. TT opened at 11AM (there was some sort of private event at 10, anyone know what it was?). They had roped off the area in front of Mickey's house. Basically, everyone was kept behind the fountain. There was a large red rug with a Mickey head on it placed in front of the house. About 10 minutes before the festivities began, they invited children to come sit on it. There was a large banner that said Happy Birthday attached to the front of the house, signed by the characters, and balloons.
About a half hour before noon, they started playing music over the speakers they had set up. It was...umm...bad. A very corny song with the chorus "It all started with a mouse." The old Mickey's Toon Town theme song (anyone remember the Saturday Morning cartoon show where they shot bits in Toon Town?). A Mickey Mouse rap. :rolleyes: And this repeated about 3 times. So much fun. Did I mention I was baking in the sun while listening to this?
A few minutes before noon, the other characters (Minnie, Donald, Goofy, Pluto, Chip and Dale) were seen sneaking around behind the houses wearing party gear and carting a cake around.
At noon, four CMs came out, two men, two women. The women were wearing a one strap Minnie-styled dress. The men were wearing red suspendered Mickey pants. Very flattering. They proceeded to badly act a little intro about how exciting the birthday was and all (I know, I'm being very critical for this sort of thing...but I call it like I see it). Then they announced the Disneyland Ambassador (whose name I can't recall) who came out with the characters. After a short something by the ambassador, Minnie took over. She told everyone to keep quiet for the surprise, had us quietly practice yelling surprise, then went and rang Mickey's doorbell. This was all prerecorded dialog from Minnie. It was pretty well done.
Mickey was heard inside fumbling around to the door. He gets to the door, opens, and "Surprise!!!" How exactly he was surprised with 150 people camped infront of his door for an hour and terrible music blasting from speakers next to his house, I'm not quite sure. But he was. :D
He said thank you and such. They brought him the cake. That led to the cutest moment of the whole thing. When they wheeled the cake over (which appeared to look like the cake that is in Minnie's oven, a nice touch), a young kid sitting up front on the rug said, loud enough to be picked up by one of the CM's mics, "Is it cheese cake?" Very cute.
Then the four CMs that came out originally sang him a special birthday song. I'd recount it, but I believe I my brain has blocked it in some sort of self preservation. Song finished, confetti was spewed, hooray!
The ambassador then made a final speach, which led to the tackiest, most shameless part of the whole thing. The speach ended with a line that went something like [everythig is paraphrased but the words in bold...those were the exact words], "Thanks for making Mickey's birthday so special, and enjoy your day at the park. And feel free to enjoy the Merchandising Even at World of Disney." Merchandising event?!?! What a tacky place to be plugging merch. I thought that was pretty uncalled for.
And it was hot.
All in all, it was what it needed to be. Short, cute, sweet. I have pcitures, but I managed to leave my digital at home, so I had to buy a one-use film camera. I'll post pics as soon as they're developed and scanned.
Did anyone besides myself and RStar attend the surprise party for Mickey yesterday in Toon Town? Here's my rundown.
It was hot. Blazin' stinkin' hot. And Toon Town is NOT the place to be at noon on a warm, clear day. Ugh, 40 minutes standing around in the sun.
Okay, enough griping about the heat. The blazing, opressive heat. Why can't they get some shade in that place!? It was so hot....
Ooops, back to the party. So here was the setup. TT opened at 11AM (there was some sort of private event at 10, anyone know what it was?). They had roped off the area in front of Mickey's house. Basically, everyone was kept behind the fountain. There was a large red rug with a Mickey head on it placed in front of the house. About 10 minutes before the festivities began, they invited children to come sit on it. There was a large banner that said Happy Birthday attached to the front of the house, signed by the characters, and balloons.
About a half hour before noon, they started playing music over the speakers they had set up. It was...umm...bad. A very corny song with the chorus "It all started with a mouse." The old Mickey's Toon Town theme song (anyone remember the Saturday Morning cartoon show where they shot bits in Toon Town?). A Mickey Mouse rap. :rolleyes: And this repeated about 3 times. So much fun. Did I mention I was baking in the sun while listening to this?
A few minutes before noon, the other characters (Minnie, Donald, Goofy, Pluto, Chip and Dale) were seen sneaking around behind the houses wearing party gear and carting a cake around.
At noon, four CMs came out, two men, two women. The women were wearing a one strap Minnie-styled dress. The men were wearing red suspendered Mickey pants. Very flattering. They proceeded to badly act a little intro about how exciting the birthday was and all (I know, I'm being very critical for this sort of thing...but I call it like I see it). Then they announced the Disneyland Ambassador (whose name I can't recall) who came out with the characters. After a short something by the ambassador, Minnie took over. She told everyone to keep quiet for the surprise, had us quietly practice yelling surprise, then went and rang Mickey's doorbell. This was all prerecorded dialog from Minnie. It was pretty well done.
Mickey was heard inside fumbling around to the door. He gets to the door, opens, and "Surprise!!!" How exactly he was surprised with 150 people camped infront of his door for an hour and terrible music blasting from speakers next to his house, I'm not quite sure. But he was. :D
He said thank you and such. They brought him the cake. That led to the cutest moment of the whole thing. When they wheeled the cake over (which appeared to look like the cake that is in Minnie's oven, a nice touch), a young kid sitting up front on the rug said, loud enough to be picked up by one of the CM's mics, "Is it cheese cake?" Very cute.
Then the four CMs that came out originally sang him a special birthday song. I'd recount it, but I believe I my brain has blocked it in some sort of self preservation. Song finished, confetti was spewed, hooray!
The ambassador then made a final speach, which led to the tackiest, most shameless part of the whole thing. The speach ended with a line that went something like [everythig is paraphrased but the words in bold...those were the exact words], "Thanks for making Mickey's birthday so special, and enjoy your day at the park. And feel free to enjoy the Merchandising Even at World of Disney." Merchandising event?!?! What a tacky place to be plugging merch. I thought that was pretty uncalled for.
And it was hot.
All in all, it was what it needed to be. Short, cute, sweet. I have pcitures, but I managed to leave my digital at home, so I had to buy a one-use film camera. I'll post pics as soon as they're developed and scanned.