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"Virtual Wonderland Party" Results in Fiasco

Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2004 8:55 pm
by Jack
"VIRTUAL WONDERLAND PARTY" DVD FEATURE RESULTS IN FIASCO

Wednesday, January 28, 2004

BURBANK, California (AP) -- A seemingly innocent program for children on the new Alice in Wonderland DVD causes numerous complaints and a damaged reputation for Disney's Buena Vista Home Entertainment.

Yesterday, Disney issued a new "Masterpeice Edition" DVD of one its animated classics, Alice in Wonderland. Among the several bonus materials is a feature called "Virtual Wonderland Party" - a program similar to the likes of "Barney" that combines live-action humans in costume as the characters with 3-D games, re-creating the tea party sequence from the film.

Among the various interstitials provided in this feature is a song-and-dance number called "Let's Paint Our Noses Red", in which the costumed people on screen along with children by their side, hold prop buckets of paint, and pretent to paint themselves, singing the lyrics: "We're painting our noses red; Let's paint our faces red; Let's paint our beds red; Let's paint the world red."

This led to the first of many incidents in Seattle, Washington, in which a young boy apon watching this segment, went into his father's workroom, and opened a jar of paint, using a brush to cover his head with the substance, and proceeded to paint everything in his room red. Within minutes, the boy suffocated himself my blocking his mouth and nose from air with the thick liquid. Apon discovering this, the parents rushed him to the emergency room, and his condition has not been released.

"We think it's absolutely horrifying that they are putting junk like this on kids shows. Who do they think they are teaching our children to do dangerous things like this?" the mother, Teresa, made a statement.

These parents' angry complaint to Buena Vista Home Video was only one of the many that came in within that day. Among the other incidents reported of children immitating the characters in the "Virtual Wonderland Party" was a girl who attempted to bake cookies with raw fish and other meats inside of them and proceeded to come down with the Escherichia Coli virus.

This has led to numerous threats to sue the company, and Buena Vista is likely to recall the Alice DVD soon.

UPDATE: In the midst of all these reports, another accusation has come against Buena Vista Home Entertainment this evening for a seperate incident.

The parents of a young boy who was allowed to participate in the taping of the "Virtual Wonderland Party" DVD feature, are now claiming that during the segment "Follow Me", in which the characters played a follow-the-leader type game, giving orders such as "touch your head, now touch your elbows, now touch your toes, etc.", the man who was in costume as the Mad Hatter character told their son to "now touch my crotch". According to their statement, when the boy refused to do so, the man (who's identity is not being released at this time) chased the boy into is trailer in an effort to kidnap him, before the child managed to make his way back to the set. Supposedly, apon finding the boy later, the man proceeded to make the threat: "If you tell your parents about that, Santa will see that you're a taddle-teller, and he won't bring you any presents next Christmas."

This is a hard blow to the BVHE, which is already dealing with the numerous other accusations stemming from young viewers watching the "Virtual Wonderland Party" feature. Thus far, BVHE has declined a comment.





















Just kidding. :wink:

Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2004 9:14 pm
by Loomis
You are a very clever and evil man, Jack.
"now touch my crotch"

You almost had me, dude :lol:

I was about to quote the kid who suffocated and say "Oh well, we've lost another idiot". :D

Then I read the last line.

:up:

someone has way to much time on his hands.

Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2004 9:22 pm
by Papa Bear
Well the first story was beleivable but as it continued on it became more and more apparent that someone somewhere was full of red paint and sushi cookies. Quite entertaing though.

Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2004 10:17 pm
by Ric-Mx
:lol:

It was fun... and believe me, after being working at a newspaper editorial department I can believe almost anything as weird as thas could be truth...

thanks gos it isn't...

hehehehe

Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2004 10:49 pm
by Satoshi
Oh my gosh Jack, don't scare me like that! I wasn't planning on watching the Virtual Wonderland Party but now if I ever want to I'll have to do it with the image of a sick perverted Mad Hatter in my head. :(

Lol that was pretty funny though. :twisted:

Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2004 10:51 pm
by PheR
the worst thing is, that this is absolutely believeable (or however this word spells)...I haven“t seen this featrue yet, but as much as I Understand, it is horrible, it would have been better if this wonderland party have been like the virtual safari then.

Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2004 11:41 pm
by Leonia
:o :o

Dude, don't scare me like that!

Although I'd have to admit this would make a very funny, albeit sick April Fool's joke.

Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2004 3:42 am
by michelle
hahahaha :lol:

Nearly had me there

That's some really good writing!

I wouldn't want to tempt fate though :P

Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2004 3:48 am
by indianajdp
You DO realize that someone, somewhere will read the first part and go tell this story elsewhere on another board as the Gospel Truth. Then, like the plague, it will spread.

Good God man, this is the internet!

In a matter of days Snopes.com will have yet [i[another[/i] Disney listing refuting the claim that a boy died mimicking a stunt from an Alice in Wonderland DVD.

Do you have ANY idea what you've done?




:lol:

Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2004 5:22 am
by chrisrose
:o

My god. I completely believed that whole thing. I was sitting here, just horrified. Maybe I'm really naive... or maybe Disney has sunk so low in my mind that I have no trouble believing the worst of the company anymore. Sad, isn't it?

And I guess I was ready for a fiasco since I watched a few minutes of that Virtual Wonderland crap (to appease a family member who was curious to check it out and wouldn't listen to my warnings of how bad it was sure to be) ... and it was jaw-droppingly awful. The creepy Mad Hatter, the over-the-top "acting", the excessively happy-giggly kids, the baaaad choreography .... and why was the girl playing Alice so damn perky anyway? Alice in the movie was downright cranky most of the time.

I would love to see the Alice DVD recalled... and re-released without the Virtual Vomit Party. Of course I don't want any children to DIE in order to make that happen...!

Jack, that was a sick, sick joke. :P

Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2004 6:35 am
by Joe Carioca
rotfl rotfl rotfl rotfl rotfl
Very funny and creative, Jack! Hahaha!

Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2004 7:50 am
by PatrickvD
LOL! that was hilarious! :lol: I was ready to post "that will teach Disney to not throw so many crap on their dvd's" rotfl

Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2004 8:26 am
by swray1024
How freakin' hilarious. I was going on that one. It is tragic that we all seem to 'believe' that things like this happen and happen all too often.

Yikes. I can't believe I fell for it, but at least I have good company!

Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2004 11:15 am
by Prince Adam
I completely fell for it! I had my coat on getting ready to go buy it before they recalled them! Seriously!

I feel like such an idiot...

Re: "Virtual Wonderland Party" Results in Fiasco

Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2004 11:38 am
by Rebel
Jack wrote: Among the other incidents reported of children immitating the characters in the "Virtual Wonderland Party" was a girl who attempted to bake cookies with raw fish and other meats inside of them and proceeded to come down with the Escherichia Coli virus.
So within 48 hours of the DVD being released, this girl acquires the DVD . . . she watches the "Virtual Wonderland Party" . . . she bakes some cookies with raw fish and other meats . . . she eats the presumably untasty cookies . . . she is infected with the Escherichia Coli . . . symptoms of the infection quickly appeared . . . doctors ran test to determine that it was Escherichia Coli . . . and the news media gets the story out to the world. All within 48 hours. Wow.

The first bit about the boy and the paint is almost believable, but this girl's story is too suspicious. In addition to the short timeline, we have to believe that this girl has the initiative, knowledge, and resources to immediately go off and make and bake these fish and meat cookies without any adult supervision. If the cookies were baked, the fish and meat ingredients would be baked as well and thus the Escherichia Coli bacteria (not a virus) would be destroyed. Yet somehow this industrious girl ingested and became infected. Perhaps she licked her fingers after handling the raw meats or ate some of the raw cookie dough? In any case, like these cookies, this story is hard to swallow.

Good job with the paint boy though.

Rotflmao

Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2004 11:45 am
by Mr. Toad
3xj

Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2004 11:53 am
by Joe Carioca
Regardless of the infamous Virtual Wonderland Party, I'm happy that the "Alice" DVD is selling pretty well over Amazon.com!

Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2004 12:41 pm
by doctorjpw
I can't top what others have said but I just HAD to include my tip-o'-the-hat.

As someone earlier mentioned it is indeed a sad commentary that so many of us were ready to believe it. I'll fess up that I completely bought paint boy and sushi girl...but the perverted mad-matter was too much...

Wonderland Party

Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2004 12:55 pm
by Disney Guru
:goofy:

I agree with you completely. I didn't like it either. I thought it was sick. But I guess that just depends on your opinion on the matter.

Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2004 12:56 pm
by poco
Funny! :lol: THanks for making me laugh after I read it! I wouldn't be surprised if some kid actually did paint his room red!