When you've got the money to be able to do that, then yes.Sprince wrote:The park will be closed for everyone because of HER????
It's not my park either, nor is it your park, and I doubt it's Ewan MacGregor's park. It's Disney's park, they own it, they hire people out to work in it, and they schedule when it opens and closes, and who it's opened and closed for.Sprince wrote:it's not her park!,
And if Disney is given an opportunity and the money to throw a private function, they'll do it.
Great idea. Negate the whole idea of a private party and just have 50,000 guests hanging around the park. Half of them will be chasing her with cameras, the other half will scoff and purposely try and ruin it.Sprince wrote:if she lets the guests be there then it's okay then it's okay
Ever wonder why celebrities like to travel incognito in a park, or at least have an entourage of Guest Relations and Park Security around them? Because regular people would swarm them like crazy, regardless if they liked the celebrity or not.
One day in February 2005, WDW's Magic Kingdom was closed 2 hours early in order for a private "Welcome Party" to be thrown for new College Program castmembers. IIRC, it was called a "Cast Member Blast-Off", as we were "blasting off" into the world of working for Disney. The party only lasted a few hours, but it was a lot of fun (it was during this party that we got to ride Space Mountain with the lights on...and that's more terrifying than in the dark!). I remember my friends and I loudly belting out the "Wishes" song in the tunnels on the way to the buses back to our apartment complex. But the point is, it was a private castmembers-only party. Having guests there would only not only change the experience (a small group of castmembers playing in the park is very noticeable, so imagine a couple hundred of them!), it'd ruin the park-going experience for both guests and castmembers. It's a private party for a reason.
But hey, Miley Cyrus is a public figure, not some college program castmember, so she should be used to all the unwanted and unnecessary attention. So she should just go ahead and keep the park open to the public.
Like I said before, if she's got the $$$, then she can.Sprince wrote:Just because she's rich doesn't mean she can have the park of herself.
Yes, thank you Miley for wanting to have a birthday party like anyone else.Sprince wrote:Gee,thanks a lot,Hannah Montana
It'd be quite hilarious if someone who bought a ticket for the Disneyland party misread it and went all the way to WDW, only to find the party was the night before and back in California!Wire Hanger wrote:That's why I said rumor. Bu still MK canceled that party and is closing early on the 4th apparently. With or without Miley.
I'm glad someone else noticed that too. Why is there so much focus on the not-really-necessary negative of this private event and nobody's looking at the good things it will bring?Ames wrote:So at least some of the money is going to a good cause.
You're missing the point. All private functions, be it a celebrity birthday, a company-sponsored event, or a Grad Nite, is always a hindrance to regular guests because the park has to close earlier than they expected in order to get everyone out, all the special events set up, and all the private-function castmembers clocked in.BDF wrote:But at least Grad Nites tend to take place late at night, when the guests automatically leave.
Have you ever been a guest on a Grad Nite day (be it regular guest or Grad Nite guest)? The park closes much earlier than usual in order to ensure all guests are out and all events are set up. The castmembers have to have special costumes, so anyone scheduled to work it need to go to Costuming hours ahead of time, and don't show up until early evening, just as the morning/afternoon castmembers are ending their shifts (or extending them to help during the pre-Grad Nite hours). We have to make sure all the guests are out of the park by 7:00, then have three hours to return the entire park to a morning appearance (clean streets and food wagons, fully-stocked and arranged merch shelves, functioning attractions, etc.), with the exception of some places that have to be closed, and some places that actually get changed (they had some arcade games put in at Adventureland during one of the Grad Nites I worked - well, pre-Grad Nite and some Grad Nite spillover as I was only scheduled to work until midnight and not 6:00 am like most of the other CP's).
Grad Nites are a pain for most castmembers because while on an average day there's time spread out to get things done, and the park is closed to the public for a good 8 to 10 hours in the evening, everything suddenly gets compacted to a 3 or 4 hour change-over, and then post-Grad Nite, in the wee wee hours of the morning, everything gets cleaned up once again for the regular guests who come by in the morning. So while a Grad Nite traditionally starts around 10:00 or 11:00, guests are actually out of the park by 7:00. And while a Grad Nite traditionally ends by 5:00 or 6:00, castmembers are expected to have everything ready again by 9:00.
And that's usually how it is for ANY private event, though the hours may differ. I'm surprised that Disneyland's only having a one-hour buffer between regular guests and Miley guests.
Here's a little question for anyone that's still annoyed at this whole "Miley closing off Disneyland to the public for a private birthday party":
If it was someone more high-profile that most everyone generally likes, or if it were someone that's not as well-known (and not a subject of much anti-fan bashing) but still has the $$$, would you still be complaining that the park is being closed to the public? I bet if Ernest Borgnine threw a 95th Birthday Party in 2012 and closed off Disneyland to the general public, there'd be a lot less hate from the UD posters and a lot more "Aw, that's so sweet, it's a major milestone, he deserves to have a big party like that!"
Or what if it was a company (let's say Coca-Cola) sponsoring a charity event to end world hunger, where tickets are sold to many of its corporate executives and their families? Would you guys still be saying "Dammit it, Coca-Cola, we want to play in the park, why are you excluding us???"
The whole point is that a private function is a private function, regardless who's giving it, who's paying for it, etc. And the whole point of a PRIVATE function is that only people that are asked to go (or people who pay $$$ for the ticket) are allowed in the park. So for god's sake, can we please stop the whining that Hannah Banana is having a birthday party (birthday parties are normal after all!) when most of you likely would treat this kind of news with apathy and indifference if it were anything less controversial.
Albert
I'm proud of you, Albert. I agree with pretty much everything that you wrote.
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Let alone make it in the first place, it it was likely to get banned?
if people are siginng your paycheck you should be professional no matter how famous you are...
