Althouse: "Ideally, we want guests to get excited, but this is one of the first times I've seen a guest get visibly excited."

June 10, 2023

"Ideally, we want guests to get excited, but this is one of the first times I've seen a guest get visibly excited."

"They love to look [these characters] in the eye. They love to be able to make a connection.... I see that sort of excitement in everybody's eyes."

Excitement and connection... as the character who is a tree come to life comes to "life" as a robot.

14 comments:

Dave Begley said...: I have never understood why people like Groot.

I see where Vin Diesel voices Groot. Tough gig. When I was last at Disneyland (pre-woke), there was a guest with the first name Diesel.; 6/10/23, 7:08 AM
gspencer said...: "Excitement and connection... as the character who is a tree come to life comes to 'life' as a robot."

Sounds like a re-boot of Pinocchio, you know, the one who lies constantly, like Democrats.; 6/10/23, 7:18 AM
Leland said...: Groot was a good sidekick, but the gag of "I am Groot" has a limited shelf life. I can't imagine watching a robotic version of it for awhile, and I know no connection is being made.; 6/10/23, 7:30 AM
Ann Althouse said...: I'm interested in the discordance between treeness and robotness.; 6/10/23, 7:33 AM
re Pete said...: "I’ll take Scarface Pacino and the Godfather Brando

Mix ‘em up in a tank and get a robot commando

If I do it upright and put the head on straight

I’ll be saved by the creature that I create

I get blood from a cactus - make gunpowder from ice

I don’t gamble with cards and I don’t shoot no dice

Can you look in my face with your sightless eye

Can you cross your heart and hope to die

I’ll bring someone to life - someone for real

Someone who feels the way that I feel"; 6/10/23, 8:04 AM
cassandra lite said...: Great Moments With Mr. Sweetgum.

We have descended to a level of immaturity that's unsustainable. America is Benjamin Button.; 6/10/23, 8:05 AM
Lem the artificially intelligent said...: "I'm interested in the discordance between treeness and robotness."

And I'm interested in this blog not getting accused of incitement.

The Biden White House is looking for the first trans robot who identifies as a tree.

Big feather in Biden's cap.; 6/10/23, 8:53 AM
mikee said...: Groot is not a tree, just an alien with features of lignin-based life, but who is also capable of making enemies into kabobs on a stick. Adult Groot was a killing machine as a character, essentially a less wordy upset Ent, and his cutting sprout child version is just a younger, cuter, Disney-promoted smaller version of that same violent persona. So if you like your trees to be angry Ents and your robots to be killing automatons, Groot the tree is indeed like a robot.

Sorta reminds me of GHWB Bush's son, GW Bush Jr., being dismissed as "Shrub" by the peptic ulcer of a Democrat operative and newspaper columnist, Molly Ivins. Shrub went on to be a bit of a burning bush, rather than a landscaping element.; 6/10/23, 9:13 AM
WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...: "I am groot" - wins a golden statue for most profound writing in a comedy series.; 6/10/23, 9:25 AM
Scott Patton said...: Arbot; 6/10/23, 10:07 AM
Wince said...: As with being the Border Czar, Kamala Harris as AI Czar will pursue the Groot causes?; 6/10/23, 10:54 AM
Aggie said...: I watched the video, and struggled to relate to any of it. It's not an event that I think I would look forward to; nor would I relish a conversation with any of the people interviewed in the video. I know I must sound like a grouch, but there was nothing wholesome about it - and that used to be the hallmark of the Disney experience, right or wrong. It's as if Disney has become some kind of weird club, operated by strange people as a service to other strange people, offering experiences that I could only view as foreign, bordering on alien - but nonetheless, of no interest to me. I even struggle to imagine volunteering to go on behalf of a child, because I'm not sure I would want a child being around these things. I've been to both Disney's in the US ,multiple times, as a kid and taking my own kids. Not any more though. It's become something other than entertainment and escapism. What do you call it when escapism becomes ensnarement?; 6/10/23, 3:36 PM
Bunkypotatohead said...: A kid in a costume would have looked the same. Even still the character looked more believable than the adults on stage.; 6/10/23, 5:35 PM
Bunkypotatohead said...: A kid in a costume would have looked the same. Even still the character looked more believable than the adults on stage.; 6/10/23, 5:36 PM