Forum - View topicNEWS: Eva Virtual/Real-Life Makeover of Neighborhood Halted
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GracieLizzy
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People are covered by the "All persons are fictitious" disclaim yes, but I don't think places are. Also plenty of places in US animated films have used real places, take the Princess and the Frog. Set in New Orleans, I believe the production crew were even sent there on a trip to make sure they got the setting right. 
I can think of plenty of others of the top of my head, Oliver & Company - New York City; The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Aristocats, Gay Purree - Paris; Basil the Great Mouse Detective, Peter Pan, and 101 Dalmatians - London; Lilo and Stitch - Hawaii, more specifically the island of Kaua'i, Rover Dangerfield - Las Vegas in the beginning (I think, anyway). Last edited by GracieLizzy on Sun Apr 25, 2010 7:06 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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Leon Evolon
 Posts: 212 Location: Crazytowne |
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I see in my crystal ball a lock in this thread's future
But getting back on topic -- what did Lawson expect would happen? An event of half the popularity of Eva would have caused traffic congestion in a small area such as Hakone. I think it was mostly bad planning and a little irresponsibility on the part of the visitors that caused this problem. So, I guess I'm just stating the obvious here 
It makes me wonder just how that screening is going to turn out... if parking for a little iPone app caused this much of a ruckus, just think of the commotion an advanced screening is going to create. |
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Kyogissun
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I forgot that had come out, I honestly don't follow disney films that intently but I'm still interested in seeing it... |
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TarsTarkas
 Posts: 5847 Location: Virginia, United States |
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This is not an "otaku" problem, not even an American or Japanese problem.
This is a people problem. Any event that is going to draw a rapid influx of people are going to cause problems in the community. Parking, people congestion, trespassing, and many other problems are all associated these type of events. Teenage idols in the U.S. visiting local community malls, high profile authors doing book signings, July 4th fireworks, and, the every present during the summer, beach access. So this is not a "dirty otaku" issue. But rather a Lawson problem in not preparing the community for the large draw of people. They should have just done this nationwide, like 7-11 does here for their nationwide promotions. |
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Kyogissun
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It's nice to know there are people smarter than me that can properly explain in an articulate manner what I mean to say. 
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luffypirate
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Awesome idea. I probably would have been one of those gawkers that got it shut down. I love Eva to death. Sucks I dont live anywhere near Hakone, or Japan for that matter ;p
Yeah this thread is turning to sh*t. I'm just gonna sit back and watch these goombas rage on each other
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taster of pork
 Posts: 594 Location: My House |
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Hardcore otakuness at it's finest.
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daedelus
 Posts: 743 Location: Texas City, TX (ajd: 6/11/05) |
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Never mess with someone's ride. That is a cardinal sin. Instead, give all the local wrecker services a ton of business by having the offending vehicles towed. Now there's a nice boost for the local economy. 
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Keonyn
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Alright, this is getting out of hand. So apparently someone came in and took a bunch of quotes and listed them out and proceeded to reply to them out of context to imply that people were being bigots, racists, or xenophobes; among other things. This user has already been warned now (3 times), so let's drop it. Any further attempts by the poster to troll will be removed, as well as anyone encouraging them or continuing to try to engage them in such a ridiculous debate.
Let's get this back on topic or let it die, but the venomous exchange result from that users initial troll post is done as of now. The posts involved in the exchange have been removed. Let's keep this civil, there's no reason such a benign topic should be requiring moderator intervention like this. |
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EricJ
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Yeah, I'm sorta wondering about the connection myself , seeing as the point seems to be the opposite:
The Aqua Teen problem was pasting inscrutable corporate logos of an unpublicized, underground, and otherwise intentionally obscure "viral campaign" for a show no one over college ever saw, by planting mechanical devices of unknown function in unauthorized locations, thus breaking local terrorism laws--in the very city whose guilt for not preventing 9/11 now causes them to go medieval on any breaking of Homeland Security), and it wouldn't have helped if authorities even HAD known what the heck the deal was about... While the problem here seems to be with authorized pasting of references to a show everyone in the vicinity DOES know about, and local authorities who do and would rather not have it around. |
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hesperus
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For the record; yes you are biggots, racists and xenophobes. The white trash in your forums was saying something in the lines that it is OK to fat american teenagers to like anime, but it's a sin for actual Japanese people to enjoy the product they make 
No wonder why most of the good reviwers and anime scholars don't want to be related in any way to 'ann'
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