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Disney in Shadow (Kingdom Keepers, #3)
by Ridley Pearson, Tristan Elwell
by Ridley Pearson, Tristan Elwell
For a series supposedly so heavily researched, they still get basic things wrong - and that's annoying.
Example? When you leave MK you have two options to get back to the Transportation and Ticket Center (TTC) - the ferry and the monorail. That's it. You can NOT take a bus from the gates of MK to the TTC. Buses go to the resorts from MK gates but NOT the TTC.
It's so aggravating that the little details continue to be wrong. Because it's in those little details that a true WDW fan who's reading the series because it's about WDW, loses touch with the story.
This book also was rife with revisionist history. Now apparently, Walt always planned to let the characters have free reign at nights, the CM's all know about it, the Overtakers don't want to take over the whole world, just the Parks, "Jez no, call me Jess" at the end of book one and back to Jez for book two is now firmly Jess again, "Sleeping Beauty Syndrome" turned to SBS is now just "The Syndrome," etc.
And, again this book sets up for another so the story purposefully does not end.
Example? When you leave MK you have two options to get back to the Transportation and Ticket Center (TTC) - the ferry and the monorail. That's it. You can NOT take a bus from the gates of MK to the TTC. Buses go to the resorts from MK gates but NOT the TTC.
It's so aggravating that the little details continue to be wrong. Because it's in those little details that a true WDW fan who's reading the series because it's about WDW, loses touch with the story.
This book also was rife with revisionist history. Now apparently, Walt always planned to let the characters have free reign at nights, the CM's all know about it, the Overtakers don't want to take over the whole world, just the Parks, "Jez no, call me Jess" at the end of book one and back to Jez for book two is now firmly Jess again, "Sleeping Beauty Syndrome" turned to SBS is now just "The Syndrome," etc.
And, again this book sets up for another so the story purposefully does not end.
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Nov 26, 2010 06:20pm
I gave the book 5 stars, but I agree with your points. He really should research more. I mean, in the first book, he calls Fantasmic 'Fantasmics.' Come on!
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I am a huge Disney fan, and I agree with some of your points but I think that, in some ways it could be a bit better researched but all the little errors aside, it's a pretty good story line.
I don't think that there's really much problem with a couple of inaccuracies. The book is endorsed and published by Disney. If such a regimented company approves, I think it's okay. Things like the fact that buses don't actually go from one place to another like in the book is irrelevant. I think his research was interesting and also left a lot to your imagination, which was fun.
Marie wrote: "I don't think that there's really much problem with a couple of inaccuracies. The book is endorsed and published by Disney. If such a regimented company approves, I think it's okay. Things like the..."I think it's ENTIRELY relevant. All this money and access and research at his fingertips - access many fans would practically die for - and he STILL can't get basic facts right? It's just absurd.
MissM wrote: "Marie wrote: "I don't think that there's really much problem with a couple of inaccuracies. The book is endorsed and published by Disney. If such a regimented company approves, I think it's okay. T..."For a writer, sometimes the depth of the plot can be increased through a certain event or incident, so I think he made a good choice. He didn't miss any important pieces or be inaccurate on something major. The fact that buses don't run between a certain park isn't a big deal. It's just not. It might be inaccurate, but it's not important. For instance, it's not Kirk he stated that Splash Mountain was in Tomorrowland. He simply tweaked the transportation. Does that really matter? I think not.
Marie wrote: "MissM wrote: "Marie wrote: "I don't think that there's really much problem with a couple of inaccuracies. The book is endorsed and published by Disney. If such a regimented company approves, I thin..."The bus was one tiny example. You're getting fixated on that when the entire series is full of inaccuracies. How about the "fact" there is an open public-accessible wifi network? Someone reading that might get to the parks and wonder why it's not working for them. The bus is one small comment on the larger issues that the books are terribly, miserably inaccurate. As a Florida resident Annual Passholder, I know the parks like the back of my hand. I grew up going to them. And to see someone given such carte blanche access and STILL get so many details wrong? Truly disappointing and frustrating.
MissM wrote: "Marie wrote: "MissM wrote: "Marie wrote: "I don't think that there's really much problem with a couple of inaccuracies. The book is endorsed and published by Disney. If such a regimented company ap..."I get your point, however I think you're just too focused on the details and not seeing the overall picture. But I can see how that might be frustrating for you.
The transportation inaccuracies are the LEAST of the problems with these books. There are inaccuracies about the parks and characters throughout every single volume. The overall picture isn't very pretty either. The story is a huge mess. Besides, they constantly advertise the fact that Pearson was allegedly given special permission to backstage areas in order to get all the details right, and he didn't.
They have their issues, but overall I feel like they did a good job. With Disney, there's a lot of details one could get wrong.
Not if the author claims to have been given special inside information just to make sure everything was accurate and faithful to the parks, and not if it has Disney's name splashed all over it as an official tie-in. They aren't even tiny details only superfans would notice, they're glaring errors even a casual fan should realize were wrong. There are editors and fact-checkers for a reason, and these books appear to have been examined by neither prior to publication.
Drew wrote: "Not if the author claims to have been given special inside information just to make sure everything was accurate and faithful to the parks, and not if it has Disney's name splashed all over it as a..."True. The series' blatant annoying advertisement of their Disney expertise, and then they get facts wrong, can be annoying. I don't like when Disney Disney-fies stuff about themselves. It's like, "No, just no."
