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Title: Astrix and Obelix invade Once Upon a Dream Parade
Post by: davewasbaloo on June 08, 2009, 12:11:45 PM
Hmmmm, personally as much as I like a joke and Asterix, I do not think much to this one. What do you think?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSsuqzN9bD0 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSsuqzN9bD0)
Title: Re: Astrix and Obelix invade Once Upon a Dream Parade
Post by: lil-shawn on June 08, 2009, 12:20:40 PM
oh well, i wonder all the time how many stupid humans are on the world,
thats so stupid what they did.
Title: Re: Astrix and Obelix invade Once Upon a Dream Parade
Post by: 15MagicalYears on June 08, 2009, 12:39:27 PM
How stupid can you get? Did they understand how dangerous this was to the performers and float drivers?

Grrr, that was horrid.
Title: Re: Astrix and Obelix invade Once Upon a Dream Parade
Post by: Pamani on June 08, 2009, 12:46:50 PM
There's simply no word for what they did! They ruined the parade that day and gave all who were watching the parade a horrible experience :cry:

They should be banned from every Disneyland in the world forever :twisted: Oh, the revenge...
Title: Re: Astrix and Obelix invade Once Upon a Dream Parade
Post by: The Butlin Boy on June 08, 2009, 01:45:59 PM
What on Earth possessed them to even think of d something as dangerous and stupid as that? :evil:

Well on the plus side, I don't think we'll see them around again, I would imagine they were escorted out by security and banned from the parks if DLP got the justice it deserved :wink:
Title: Re: Astrix and Obelix invade Once Upon a Dream Parade
Post by: Pete's Dragon on June 08, 2009, 01:51:03 PM
*engage full scarism mode*
wow, hilarious. What comic genius stumbled upon this idea?  :roll:
Title: Re: Astrix and Obelix invade Once Upon a Dream Parade
Post by: davewasbaloo on June 08, 2009, 01:52:20 PM
It is funny how different sites are commenting on this one. I agree with you guys, but there are some sites where people are finding this amusing  :roll:
Title: Re: Astrix and Obelix invade Once Upon a Dream Parade
Post by: Pete's Dragon on June 08, 2009, 02:12:51 PM
Quote from: "davewasbaloo"It is funny how different sites are commenting on this one. I agree with you guys, but there are some sites where people are finding this amusing  :roll:

Well if that's the case, I think I picked the right Foum to join.  8)
Title: Re: Astrix and Obelix invade Once Upon a Dream Parade
Post by: davewasbaloo on June 08, 2009, 02:58:59 PM
Sadly a lot of the printed guidebooks recommend the forum that find this amusing.
Title: Re: Astrix and Obelix invade Once Upon a Dream Parade
Post by: Willow on June 08, 2009, 03:06:45 PM
It was far from amusing from my point of view. Maybe its French humour?

The Queen of Hearts should have hit them with her Flamingo. (I think its a Flamingo)  :lol:

It would have wrecked a lot of people experiences of the parade which is much more important. It wrecks the magic.

Davewasbaloo, which forum finds it funny? PM me if you don't want to publically publish it.
Title: Re: Astrix and Obelix invade Once Upon a Dream Parade
Post by: Krollok on June 08, 2009, 04:05:12 PM
I wonder how they got the costumes into the park particularly the Obelix costume. :-k
Title: Re: Astrix and Obelix invade Once Upon a Dream Parade
Post by: Anthony on June 08, 2009, 04:53:55 PM
Oh well, at least the resort pocketed the €150+ (?!) they spent between them on entrance fees.

In fact, consider how they prepared their outfits, got out of bed early that morning, packed their costumes in a nice bag, caught the RER, bought their expensive tickets... all for this... ah, what a life that must be.
Title: Re: Astrix and Obelix invade Once Upon a Dream Parade
Post by: CafeFantasia on June 08, 2009, 05:01:56 PM
I mean, ideally, Disney should've shot them down within 5 seconds. I'm surprised they let them run around for that long, before stopping them. If that had been America, 5 seconds, bang, dead, move on :-)
Title: Re: Astrix and Obelix invade Once Upon a Dream Parade
Post by: Adam on June 08, 2009, 07:03:37 PM
I am also surprised it took them so long to get rid of them. I would have thought they would have removed them within half a minute.

A silly stunt that is in no way funny. Most fans wouldn't even get it!
Title: Re: Astrix and Obelix invade Once Upon a Dream Parade
Post by: DLP-Photos.com on June 08, 2009, 07:39:50 PM
These people should not be allowed back in a Disney park again. What they did was extremely dangerous and really not funny - not for the cast members, the characters or the audience.

However, it is not the 2 idiots I am most shocked about. The security should have stopped them way earlier than this, but I guess they didn't want to make a scene in front of the audience - especially the kids.

But sad that some people find this so amusing :(
Title: Re: Astrix and Obelix invade Once Upon a Dream Parade
Post by: nemo1981 on June 08, 2009, 09:10:47 PM
hi guys!
 my personal opinion to this "performance":
it shows that there are still a lot of french people that hate disney being in their country!!! french people will never really be happy about disneyland paris,because they are so patriotic and think disney doesn`t fit near a city full of culture like paris....
i think they wanted to make a statement,cause they say"disney-mafia"....
so to be honest,i`d hated them if i`d been there that particular day.

However on the other hand what if one of them once worked  for disney and was really treated badly by disney?what if he wanted his"little revenge"? cause we all know disney is not the nicest,when it comes to treating their staff...

So don`t get me wrong: I love Disneyland! Just wanted to say:maybe these guys wanted more,than just being funny...disney is a huge and sometimes not so nice corporation and maybe they wanted to make a statement....
Title: Re: Astrix and Obelix invade Once Upon a Dream Parade
Post by: Poppy The Monkey on June 08, 2009, 09:36:32 PM
In relation to the last post - if this person did have a personal vendetta against Disney - they are better ways for him to get his revenge on the company than ruining the parade for the guests and scaring the performers.

In fact the guys also made they're way onto the Pinocchio float and sprayed "Silly String" over one of our bungee girls. Heads in security did roll after the event: at how long it took for the men to be removed.

There was about 5 people involved in the stunt, 3 were caught and dealt with by security having their video recordings distroyed - obviously the other 2 slipped through the net and were able to publish their Publicity Stunt on You Tube.

On a lighter note most of the cast were laughing at it after the parade, expecially Pinocchio's "friend" who was trying to remove the silly string from the Bungee girls whilst singing "I've got no strings"....

 Lets hope this doesn't give other orginisations ideas though!!
Title: Re: Astrix and Obelix invade Once Upon a Dream Parade
Post by: luke85 on June 08, 2009, 09:42:10 PM
I guess some people enjoy behaving like fools in order to cause disruption and stop others from enjoying themselves.

I can imagine a lot of excited families gathering around to watch the parade, only to be interrupted by these idiots, then their kids having to watch the guys being taken away by the CMs. I bet there were a lot of confused and upset children watching the parade that day.

I think it's really sad that stuff like this can happen at DLP, but there is only so much the CMs can do to prevent "guests" from doing stuff like this.
Title: Re: Astrix and Obelix invade Once Upon a Dream Parade
Post by: smurfy74 on June 08, 2009, 10:53:47 PM
i watched it and thought, hmmmmm, what a sad state of affairs, and was shocked to see how long it took to get them removed
Title: Re: Astrix and Obelix invade Once Upon a Dream Parade
Post by: Aveen2008 on June 09, 2009, 12:38:40 AM
what idiots!! Lucky no body was hurt and they were caught pretty early in the parade.

That's not funny it's just totally pathetic. As Anthony said though the park made Money out of them anyway so even if it was a prank against Disney I think we all know who has the last laugh....yes the park and the company who are world wide and successful!

As someone else commented that this perhaps shows that French people aren't happy with the disney park being there I think they are forgetting how that park provides hundreds, probably thousands of French people with employment and at this time of economic Crisis they should be glad to have it in their country to bring in people and trade!
Title: Re: Astrix and Obelix invade Once Upon a Dream Parade
Post by: dagobert on June 09, 2009, 09:05:23 AM
I really don't understand why people are doing such stupid things! But I also don't understand what took so long until the CMs tried to catch them. I think there are surveillance cameras everywhere, so I think the park security might have seen them.

It is really dangerous for the actors of the parade and I'm glad that nothing happened.

I'm sorry for the people who just wanted to watch the parade!
Title: Re: Astrix and Obelix invade Once Upon a Dream Parade
Post by: WDI1992 on June 09, 2009, 01:07:03 PM
it's dangerous and idiotic!
I hope they got what they deserved... horrible day for guestflow I can imagine  :?
you can not just jump on them as the whole crowd is watching and floats and dancers are moving...
and anyway in reply to Disney not being nice to staff; Disney being the giant company it is, you can not expect every person working for the WDC or DLP to be nice and smiling for 24/7, so I'm not saying there's no crancky person working for Disney of course  :wink:  but as it stands, Disney treats their staff very well in general and CM's love to work in or for the Disney company. I haven't heard lots of CM's really complaining and most of the time their having a blast at what their doing... so thankgoodness for that  :wink:
Title: Re: Astrix and Obelix invade Once Upon a Dream Parade
Post by: giorgio1712 on June 09, 2009, 01:43:37 PM
Well they really are a couple of losers looking for attention. I hope they found some from the security guards baton  :evil:  Its saddens me to watch that it just destroys the whole feel of the parade and takes away the "magic"!  :(
Title: Re: Astrix and Obelix invade Once Upon a Dream Parade
Post by: Reiana on June 09, 2009, 03:13:42 PM
I think, it took security some time, to realize what was happening. I think they would have never imgined that some stupidheads could do things like that.
Maybe they didin't want to risk any accidents chasing these guys.
But on balance it took to long and they were simply overchallenged.
Title: Re: Astrix and Obelix invade Once Upon a Dream Parade
Post by: mommy2ash on June 09, 2009, 04:35:54 PM
i cant believe those two idiots. they put so many people in danger running around the floats like that. ugh
Title: Re: Astrix and Obelix invade Once Upon a Dream Parade
Post by: pantipan on June 09, 2009, 04:45:00 PM
Quote from: "nemo1981"hi guys!
 my personal opinion to this "performance":
it shows that there are still a lot of french people that hate disney being in their country!!! french people will never really be happy about disneyland paris,because they are so patriotic and think disney doesn`t fit near a city full of culture like paris....

Wow, slowly. It's just 2 guys who are looking for 15 minutes of celebrity...

With this "new" worldwide humour style" for teens. "Doing crazy things or Passing over unauthorised things wihout respect of the others"

No really, children likes Disney & Disneyland, it's not a question of country.
And there's a lot of ex-children in France.

I live in the south of France and I really don't feel resentment about Disneyland. A lot of people came with me over there, it was always some great times.
Title: Re: Astrix and Obelix invade Once Upon a Dream Parade
Post by: Alexander on June 09, 2009, 06:28:50 PM
Do not get too agitated about them. Running up and down is not very clever, I would have expected more if they wanted to bring over some kind of message.


As for the "duration"...
You cannot expect security to wrestle them down, like they sometimes do with streakers on football fields. First, they might get hurt, and just imagine what kind of experience THAT would be for the guests.

But, um, guys: Calling for them to be shot? Not quite the spirit we're looking for here, is it, end equally unfunny.
Title: Re: Astrix and Obelix invade Once Upon a Dream Parade
Post by: Masamune on June 10, 2009, 09:03:36 AM
That's really bad. I don't get why anyone would find that funny.
Title: Re: Astrix and Obelix invade Once Upon a Dream Parade
Post by: davewasbaloo on June 10, 2009, 10:32:12 AM
If you look on You Tube, there are a number of stunts. I think they are trying to land a TV show by the looks of things - pretending a pond is a beach, climbing into a freezer at a store half naked, dressing up as a penis to buy condoms etc.
Title: Re: Astrix and Obelix invade Once Upon a Dream Parade
Post by: Angelgirl on July 01, 2009, 12:41:06 AM
Hi davewasbaloo.

I saw this when you posted on another forum, and have to say, like you, I found it unfunny. Also found the comments on the other forum unfunny, which is one of the reasons I have joined this forum.

Back to the idiots, I would be really arrgh, if I'd waited for the parade with my 2 girls, to then have it interrupted by these "Jokers"! It was shocking at how long it took for them to be removed.
Title: Re: Astrix and Obelix invade Once Upon a Dream Parade
Post by: *TIMMIE* on July 04, 2009, 01:32:30 PM
It is just pathetic to see those two. They are really selfish to bring others in danger and spoiling it for the crowds.  :evil:
Title: Re: Astrix and Obelix invade Once Upon a Dream Parade
Post by: Captain Pan on July 04, 2009, 01:55:31 PM
Well it doesn't look like an Isolated incident, it looks to be a very poor Attempt of a Trigger Happy TV stunt! As the youtube publisher appears to have shown a variety of other clips at a fishmongers and swimming pools.. (I'm actually amazed i remembered the french!)

Looking at it stupidity and 15 minutes of glory what fuels minds of the stupid minority of the globe.. I only Wish I was the Queen of Hearts, the white rabbit or even Mad Hatter, both would have found themselves very Un-Disneylike unconscious on the ground following a clothesline!
Title: Re: Astrix and Obelix invade Once Upon a Dream Parade
Post by: Alexander on July 04, 2009, 09:23:28 PM
Quote from: "*TIMMIE*"...and spoiling it for the crowds.  :evil:
Just remember:
The more you :evil:, the more they  :D/  :lol:  :P

Relax.
Title: Re: Astrix and Obelix invade Once Upon a Dream Parade
Post by: CentralPlazaPerson on July 04, 2009, 11:34:45 PM
DESPICABLE!
Maybe they came to the wrong park. Parc Astrix is down the road last time I checked!
The Queen of Hearts was not amused!
Title: Re: Astrix and Obelix invade Once Upon a Dream Parade
Post by: DisneylandParisFan on July 07, 2010, 04:57:13 PM
How stupid. Did you see the sad looking children that were really upset because of this happening! That was such a horrid thing to do. Poor kids. :(
Title: Re: Astrix and Obelix invade Once Upon a Dream Parade
Post by: Mrs Potatohead on July 09, 2010, 01:59:02 AM
this makes me slightly worried, that security, who look in peoples bags before the gates did not realise these two 'clowns' costumes in the bags or did not pick up on it..they had wigs, the whole shebang! ive had to practicaly empty the entire contents of my bag before on the table!!! unless they had everything hidden under their clothes which again is also pretty suspicious of the fact they werent noticed... i know that really they are looking for serious security threats like knifes etc, but it would have raised a few eyebrows if it had have been me!
Title: Re: Astrix and Obelix invade Once Upon a Dream Parade
Post by: Festival Disney on July 09, 2010, 03:04:22 PM
If I personally was a CM within sight of that... I would have tackled them to the ground :P