Disney press conference fails audience participation

HAHAHAHAHAhaahaHAHAHAHAHAA

Oh my God.

That's just... wow... seriously?

I can't imagine being in the audience. It had to be the most awkward experience of their lives.

Honestly, at least they tried. If the gaming press wasn't so jaded from lck of sleep, I think this could have been a breath of fresh air. Activision's was FAR worse.

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My favorite part had to have been the "volunteers" jumping right into the totally not-obviously rehearsed and yet super Disney cool performance!

I used to work for Disney doing retail. I don't think the management was too in touch with real reality and for a fantastic six dollar an hour paycheck (!!!), I had to force myself to be a part of their crazy delusional super happy universe. If I didn't actively engage each customer in a song and dance magical routine regarding our awesome sun lotion products (I worked in a swim suit store)...they do some psychological talking down to you crap and after four months, I had had enough.

Ulgh. I hate Disney.

I have never felt so embarrassed for those sitting in that audience. Not only were there hardly any attendees but I saw those that were there looking around. I mean, how awkward must that woman who apparently was a volunteer asking for other people to join her have felt to see no one responding...

Hahahaha. After the writeup at IGN [http://games.ign.com/articles/804/804373p1.html] I was interested in seeing how awkward this was. WOW talk about a huge mistake, Disney. This might have been OK for a free show in a Jr. High parking lot cross-country tour, but E3... ABSOLUTELY NOT.

Remember kids, this is why the '90s sucked.

the hell of disney - DIRECTLY into your kids brains.

hahaha

Good lord, lmao, roflcopter!

That was the funniest shit I've ever seen. Today.

That got me HYPED!!!

I agree with #3 (student). If you haven't seen the Activision press conference yet, go watch it now. It is quite possible the most painful thing I've ever seen.

Yeah, this Disney press conference is monumentally stupid and misdirected, but as #3 stated, at least SOMEBODY is into it (unfortunately they are the ones presenting).

Jamie Kennedy, on the other hand...dear God.

That audience sucks, cmon get into it

There are times for prep rally dance routines aimed at selling subpar merchandise based on soulless and intellect-free kid fare...E3 is not one of those times.

Trying to get a bunch of jaded, cynical, 25yrs+ game journalists to do a Disney Kids dance would be the equivalent of asking Satan to crochet a doiley with a cross in the middle of it. Not gonna happen.

At least the Jaime Kennedy thing angered people. This just made people shake their heads in shame.

This...was just painful...I remember sitting through High school pep rallies that were better than this! My god! Shoot the cheer leaders! Shoot em!!

First of all, I have no idea what the hell "High School Musical" is. It's no movie *I've* ever heard of and I watch a LOT of movies.

Second, did they really think they could pass two people off as "volunteers" when they start chroeographed dancing immediately and then start spouting a rehearsed speech about the game to get the audience into it? Um.. DUH.

Third, watching this made me ill. It's not hyperbole and I'm not being a drama queen. I very honestly started to feel a little vomit-y after about the fourth repitition of those retarded cheerleaders (I know, redundant phrase) screaming "yay!".

The rest of it just made me borderline want to cry. It punches me in the soul that corporations think this is what gamers want or that we're just such a bunch of brainwashed, numbed, consumer tards that they can slip anything by us and we can be so easily sold on things.

It is stuff like this which makes me wince every time that Reggie guy or some other guy clearly business oriented and so far removed from my own generation (I'm 30 years old) get on stage and talk about the new direction gaming is going in or their great new products. Look, you're some fat balding 45 or 50 year old tool who couldn't care less as long as you're selling units. It's just painful to watch those guys try to feign excitement and knowledge and culture and strive so hard to be "hip" only to look like total douches.

I really hope everyone who was on that stage gets hit by a bus and spends the rest of their lives in a coma.

Did they really think that a game based on a movie targeted towards the pre-teen market would have middle aged reporters dancing in the crowd? This and the fact that E3 is invite only now pretty much guarantees the audience is pure business.

HAHAHAH that was the funniest thing I've seen all day. More awkward than your typical episode of "The Office."

WOW. That was weird.

They tried. They must have not known what kind of audience they were dealing with.

Yeah... I would agree that the Activision press conference was a lot worse, and very painful to watch, like that David Hasselhoff drunk video. But yeah... a song and dance for a press conference asking for audience participation is a misplaced.

But dude! You guys had cheerleaders! This E3 equivalent of (or as close as you'll get to) booth babes. And they kicked really high! WWWhhhhhhoooOooOOoooo~~~``1`1!1!

First, anything invloving High School Musical makes me want to vomit on sight, secondly, they may have been the most painful thing ive ever seen.

As if we needed another reason to abhor Disney. What happened to the days when Disney movies were... bearable? "High School Musical" WTF is that?! Straight to DVD movie + Karaoke + video game DOES NOT EQUAL ANYTHING GOOD.

But seriously. There were people, most of them college graduates, who sat around in a room, and thought,"Hey, we should make a VIDEO GAME based on our FAILURE OF A MOVIE" and everyone else thought it was a good idea.

I feel like i've been stabbed in the brain.

What's sad is that all the High School Musical videogame paraphernalia is going to become a bestseller before the year ends.

Watching it on an internet clip was uncomfortable enough for me...Couldn't even watch it till the end. This will make me want to pick up a PS3...

What a trainwreck! Loved it!

haha dry

Laugh all you want to people but this type of presentation and the games it represents is indicative of where the industry is heading. With the DS and Wii being on every developers mind, they look towards the idiotic "tween" market to cash in with licensed dumbed down garbage based on more of the same type of crap we always see flooding the DS.

I'm not sure who I feel more sorry for; the audience, or the poor dopes Disney convinced to do this, and are getting no response.

The infamous Sony E3 conference of years back was so bad it was hilarious, it gave us the giant enemy crab, Riiiiiidge Racer, and hit the weak point for massive damage.

Activision, for how bad it was, was a SINGLE horrible mistake that simply poisoned the whole thing. It was even apparent to the other people on stage as they made fun of Jamie in an effort to distance themselves from him.

This, this was orchestrated crap on levels I didn't know mankind could go to. The number of people who had to be in on this is quite large when you think about it, that not one of them said "guys, this is fucking awful, I would so far as to say the people who had these ideas should kill themselves immediately, and whoever is left should hire people that know what they're doing".

I hate you Disney, you have murdered my innocence.

Hey you jaded cynical journalists remember that no matter what you can ALWAYS follow your dreams and be that person you always wanted to be!! WHOOOOOOOO!

I'm going to make a second post here to ditto Rick Taylor's comment. Their E3 presention, presented to adult press journalists, was, in no other way to describe it, insulting. As I mentioned in my previous post, managers expect Disney employees to maintain that kind of enthusiastic state of mind when pitching anything. And while it may be appropriate for, you know, something for a Disney park (which by the way, I have a hard time handling all the Disney magical spirit OVERLOAD crap in one day), or a Disney TV show, but completely inappropriate for something like this.

Very insulting. These are professionals. You can't pull the same bullshit you do with your consumer sheep, Disney.

It mught look retarded to most people but they did try, and disney is used to working with kid; and kids would have loved this.

Wrong target audience, it could have worked much better in front of kids.

it's a game based on "high school musical" they wanted to recreate the feeling of high school by making the press conference as awkward as possible. It's not a dumb stunt, it's AR immersion.

Was Disney under the impression that the gaming press is composed of 11 year old girls?

And those volunteers are two of actors in the movie, just so you know... Guess they realized they don't cut it with testosterone-filled-audience, they even had to go with the one woman in there...