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Melody In The Parks?

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I heard that Melody (Yeah,from Little Mermaid II) was in the parks :o,Atlanticaunderthesea said that,I guess she there to promote Little Mermaid II like they made parades for the releases of Enchanted,Ratatouille and Prince Caspian,she was wearing her underwater outfit (What she was wearing most of the movie) and she had the necklace she got from Triton.
Anyone has a picture of her?.
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...For real?

I thought they never made characters to promote DTV movies and sequels (except for Tinker Bell and friends, but the Fairies ha been around as a series of books, not to mention Tink is pretty popular).
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That's weird. I'd really like to see a picture. Not because I don't believe it, but it would be an interesting thing to see.
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pap64 wrote:...For real?

I thought they never made characters to promote DTV movies and sequels (except for Tinker Bell and friends, but the Fairies ha been around as a series of books, not to mention Tink is pretty popular).
That's what I heard,I also find it very weird.
They can promote the TinkerBell and Enchanted Tales and etc. but I don't think they can and should promote cheapquels.
And beside-The Disney Fairies is a whole franchise,not a cheapquel.
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She's not and hopefully never will be.

I'd rather there be more obscure characters in the parks but at WDW it doesn't happen alot. Too many first times just wanting to see Mickey and the gang.
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It's intersting to see but I also hope she wasn't there.
Also another question-Does Disney channel characters like Hannah Montana,the High School Musical characters or Raven appear there?.
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In the High School Musical pep Rally at DCA and Hollywood Studios there are generic east High students but that's it. The reason why is that kids would be disappointed if it wasn't the real Miley Cirus and Zac Efron (but they are happy with 5 foot tall rodents, go figure).
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Yeah, unless it's like a real, specific, recognizable costume, faces only SORT of have to look like their character, like Jack Sparrow etc. But yeah, kids/preteens would probably expect the real thing, EVEN if they know Mickey Mouse is "just some guy in a costume." However, I could TOTALLY see like a blonde wigged lady going around like.. California Adventure as Hannah Montanna, but NOT Miley Cyrus/Miley.. something.. from the TV show. Then again, I think they're trying to drop Hannah, and get Miley in the faces of our world. And the TV show is probably going to end soon, and after the movie, it'll probably all be over. So kids probably might not care in a year and a half.
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Flanger-Hanger wrote:In the High School Musical pep Rally at DCA and Hollywood Studios there are generic east High students but that's it. The reason why is that kids would be disappointed if it wasn't the real Miley Cirus and Zac Efron (but they are happy with 5 foot tall rodents, go figure).
And they"re happy with Fairies or animales? or that Giselle and Jack Sparrow aren't really Amy Adams or Johnney Depp? kinda weird :P.
I"m suprised that they aren't there after all the attention they get.
I wonder if WALL-E is in the parks.
Skellington or Sparrow-Her name in the TV series is Miley Stewart (It's kinda confusing,like Seinfield),after the movie will be released in May the series will stop? I"m not sure if all the attention she gets will stop then thought.
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well, i think it will go kind of like hilary duff. the movie will come out, it'll be popular, they might finish releasing the season dvd's, but by a year or so, the hannah montanna fad will definately be done with, but miley won't. she'll have a few more "mature" albums, and then she'll basically go the way of hilary duff: you still hear about her a little bit, but what's she actually, you know.. DOING?
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Was she popular as Hannah Montana? I don't know,she gets way too attention (For example,UmberllaFish said in the Hannah Montana thread that she has section just of her in Wal-Mart full of dolls,candies,wigs,video games,toys,purses and etc.),I don't think that even the films (And even the most popular ones like the Princess film and Pixar films) gets that much of attention.
I guess that her popularity will end if the series will end,or after the film will be released in May,or when there will be a new popular series.
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What Hilary has been doing is focusing on her music career. Her albums always do really well, as far as I know. It's been a while since her last one, but her greatest hits album is about to come out and that will end her contract with Disney, and she'll probably come out with some new and very different (hopefully not too "mature") album soon. She doesn't seem to do much acting anymore, which is disappointing to me since I'm more into movies than albums.

Hilary could have been just as popular as Hannah Montana. Her show was extremely popular, but it lacked two things that have boosted HM. First, Disney was not into merchandising the Disney Channel live-action stuff at the time. They did a little and gradually more and more, but they caught on to Lizzie McGuire's (Hilary Duff's show) popularity too late in the game. Then, after Hilary was done with Lizzie, they finally started to merchandise Lizzie stuff (at the Disney Store for example) the way they do things now, but using the Toon version of Lizzie only. Not using Hilary's real face and waiting till the show was basically over made that not work, but apparently, Disney realized they made a mistake there and so they are really hitting Hannah hard in the merchandising department, along with Camp Rock and High School Musical. All that merchandising keeps the person/character/show "in your face", and it boosts the popularity of it (though it annoys some people too, but those folks aren't the target audience anyway).

The other extra boost Hannah has that Hilary and her Lizzie show didn't have, and it's yet another thing Hannah really owes to Hilary Duff and Disney's experience with her popularity, is the whole rock star/dual identity thing. If all the Hannah fans would take a look at the Lizzie McGuire movie, they might see how Hannah Montana could just as easily have been a continuation of the Lizzie McGuire series from where the movie left off. And, Disney DID want to continue with a High School version of Lizzie McGuire, but Hilary wanted more money than they were willing to pay (but I bet they'd pay Miley for one).

So, basically, I'm saying that I really don't think Miley/Hannah would be nearly as successful at all without Disney's experience with Lizzie McGuire/Hilary Duff, and that Hilary could have been just as popular if Disney had given her the same level of support (though she was still pretty darn popular back at the point of the Lizzie Movie.
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I don't think that Lizzie McGuire got half of the attention Hannah Montana is getting.
and you"re saying that Lizzie McGuire and Hannah Montana are the same character? what do you mean continuation? (I haven't seen the Lizzie McGuire movie but I"m sure they"re different characters).
I guess Hannah Montana is popular because of her dual identity and how she lives with that and many small kids (Espically little girls) want to be pop stars.
Do you think that her popularity will get lower when the film will be released?.
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Ariel'sprince wrote:I don't think that Lizzie McGuire got half of the attention Hannah Montana is getting.
and you"re saying that Lizzie McGuire and Hannah Montana are the same character? what do you mean continuation? (I haven't seen the Lizzie McGuire movie but I"m sure they"re different characters).
I guess Hannah Montana is popular because of her dual identity and how she lives with that and many small kids (Espically little girls) want to be pop stars.
Do you think that her popularity will get lower when the film will be released?.
You must have misunderstood. I'm not saying Hannah and Lizzie are the same character. I'm saying they could have been. The reason I say that is that in the Lizzie Movie, if you don't mind some spoilers here, Lizzie secretly takes the place of a teen pop star during her trip to Rome to help out the pop star's boyfriend (who is also a teen pop star). The plan is for Lizzie to imitate her on an international music awards ceremony, if I remember correctly, and (again, if I remember correctly), Lizzie ends up performing as herself and is a big hit.

What this means is that if Disney got to continue the Lizzie McGuire series with Lizzie's High School years (as they wanted to but couldn't get Hilary to sign on; rumor is that they didn't want to pay her enough), they would be continuing from that point, and the concept of a teen pop star with a secret identity playing out almost exactly as the show Hannah Montana does would have been a very possible and likely way to continue it. Yeah, it would have been very different from the Lizzie McGuire show, but they really would need something different and it would continue well from the movie. So, to some of us it seems like Hannah Montana may have been the Lizzie High School series that never was. Anyway, even if they didn't have the idea of making her a pop star with a secret identity, it still was basically their replacement show for Lizzie... In fact, Hannah even LOOKS like Lizzie when she's got her blonde wig on. It's pretty crazy.

As for Lizzie not getting half the attention that Hannah is getting, I'd say half is probably about right. But, I explained why. The reason Hannah Montana is a household name and Lizzie maybe wasn't quite at that level (though Hilary Duff did eventually reach that point I think it's safe to say) is because of the merchandise and Disney's overmarketing of everything. They just weren't doing that at the time of Lizzie. They were starting to though, and I think they regret that they didn't do that with Lizzie. Lizzie/Hilary did get pretty huge in popularity (hence the bigscreen movie, the first Disney Channel show to get a bigscreen movie). It definitely was a major thing for the Disney Channel. I'd say that if it had been marketed like Hannah has, it could have been just as huge, but Hannah had the rockstar angle built right into the show, so that also gives her an extra boost.
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Oh,I see your point,so you"re saying that Hannah Montana can be the deleted Lizzie McGuire and continue the Lizzie McGuire movie because of the pop star with secret identity concept? then I guess it is,I haven't seen the Lizzie McGuire movie so I didn't knew about her being a pop star too so I thought you were saying that she and Hannah are the same character.
I see your point about the merchandise but did the series was popular as Hannah Montana? Raven is popular by the way?.
Anyway,Hannah Montana is popular because it's what Disney learned from Lizzie McGuire?.
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Ariel'sprince wrote:Oh,I see your point,so you"re saying that Hannah Montana can be the deleted Lizzie McGuire and continue the Lizzie McGuire movie because of the pop star with secret identity concept? then I guess it is,I haven't seen the Lizzie McGuire movie so I didn't knew about her being a pop star too so I thought you were saying that she and Hannah are the same character.
I see your point about the merchandise but did the series was popular as Hannah Montana? Raven is popular by the way?.
Anyway,Hannah Montana is popular because it's what Disney learned from Lizzie McGuire?.
Yes, that's definitely the main reason Hannah Montana is popular. Or, rather, what they did with the knowledge they gained from the mistakes they made on marketing/merchandising Lizzie McGuire poorly. And, yeah, Lizzie McGuire was probably as popular as any show of that kind could have hoped to have been without the merchandising craze and rock-star theme boost that Hannah had. So, basically, Lizzie got as popular as it did all on the quality of the show/cast alone, and it was way less campy and corny with the acting and humor compared to Hannah and other current Disney shows.

As for Raven, I believe her popularity was and is overestimated, even by herself. Not to say I don't like her, and she has a lot of talent, but I don't really hear too many people talking about Raven and what she's doing now or will be doing next. Her show was mildly popular I'd say, but she was looking like she was middle-aged by the end (and I didn't care for her friends at all). Plus, it was the start of that "really bad acting to appear funnier" thing Disney Channel shows started doing after Lizzie McGuire and Even Stevens, which didn't really do that and were MUCH better shows because of it.
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I have a lot of friends who work at Disney World, and a few of them in entertainment. As far as they know, Disney does not have Melody in the parks. If they did, though, there are few places she could be: Ariel's Grotto and Akershus Royal Banquet Hall. To my knowledge, those are the only places to meet Ariel.
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