Fireworks at disneyland at 11:30 last night
 

What's with that? A Sunday night at 11:30 is odd. Was it a test of a new Holiday show perhaps? Was Miley's BD party last night?

The Miley Cyrus birthday party thingie was last night.

Yeah, Miley's Sweet 16. Closed the Park at 5:00 to paying guests. No fireworks for them. Heheh, paying guests got no fireworks friday either, and they were late on Saturday. But Miley got her birthday werks. Hooray for her.

We saw them from the tram (we were at HoB and avoided Miley-induced trampling)

I read today that her actual bday is Nov 23rd. Holiday season much? No way they'd close the park then.

The odd thing wasn't that they were late, it was that they were from a different location than normal, or at least so it seemed to me.

They were a lot louder at my house than normal so loud that I actually went outside just to verify that they were DL fireworks.

The locals weren't too happy & gave plenty of complaints. Miley celebrating her birthday is one thing, but setting off loud fireworks close to midnight on a worknight is another story.

It was very short show, maybe 5 minutes. So they weren't exactly pausing for Julie Andrews lulls. We were on the tram during them so we could see they were launching from the normal launch zones, so it seemed. I think it was just more big shells with less average time between them. That and the different rhythm just makes them stand out more. Every time they come back from a break I think they've gotten louder, but I'm just less use to them than I was.

Somehow I don't think this birthday party was for her, as much as it was a product of the Disney marketing machine using her 16th birthday as a way to make more money off of her.

Things I heard about the day - she apparently cut her cake before they closed the park to the public. And CM's were supposedly told, "If you're not working, go home. Get caught hanging around trying to catch a glimpse and you're fired." (all from a thoroughly unreliable third hand source, so you know it's true, especially now that I've put it on the internet).

Eh, a little from column A, a little from column B. I doubt she was dragged in kicking and screaming.

Yeah, I had to go outside to make sure it was DL also. But it was from the same direction, and shorter and louder. I just thought Mileys party was Sat. but I guesss they would not close the park at that hour on a sat night, huh?

Should we sing to her?

Happy birthday next month,

Happy birthday next month,

Happy birthday dear Miley!

Happy birthday next month!

:p

You all are just jealous haters. That girl is da bomb!


Headliner! Get off my computer! Go do your homework!

No, I didn't have a spare $250 to get in, not that they would let me in by myself anyway......

Too funny. Besides just shows someone famous with money can do. She's nothing special actually. Feel sorry for those who paid to go to her party but then again. Had to laugh they made sure security that those who were attending didn't bring in any sharpies and pens lol...for autographs lol...so when i turn 40 i'm gonna buy out the park for my friends and LOTers to have a private event just like Miley and our own fireworks show.

She's the bomb alright - I wish she'd blow up....

Why do you feel sorry for people who paid extra for closer access to a music star they love? Miley was there and worked the crowd, from what I hear her fans at the event had a great time.

And apparently there were only about 5,000 tickets sold, so the park would have been nearly empty. Not too bad of a deal if you got the money to spend.

She's not all that in other words. Little girls worship her. When i was little in another day and time and years ago there was no Miley etc. Barbie dolls and all innocence stuff. But times have changed. I do not like Miley and am getting tired of everyone saying she's so nice and sweet etc. She's just a regular human being and so what she buys out Disneyland to throw a party for herself Big deal.


She's not all that. I'm hopin in time she just looses it like so many others before her. I agree with Mark wish she'd just blow up.

How much exactly have you spent to follow Bon Jovi around?

Not the point here. Just making an observation it is mostly teenies and little girls who adore Miley. And even if they would buy out Disneyland wouldn't mean i'd go. I didn't even go to the fundraiser at the Edison. There....in fact it's the moments that i don't spend money on meeting someone that would mean more than spending it and meeting them. And for fact the best money i ever spent was for one concert where Jon held my hand and sang to me. There ...i'm done here...seems i get picked on for stupid ****.

Miley die.....

I just don't get how one decides whose fan obsession is worth spending money on and whose is not. I'm no more or less interested in either Miley Cyrus or Bon Jovi, but if that's what gets you excited and you get something that you feel is amazing for your money, who am I to say it's wrong?

Aw, don't be so hard on her. She's a spunky kid with fairly good pipes and a marketing monstrosity behind her. I'm sure she didn't buy out the park, actually - it would've been Disney who made the decision to use the park to make that extra cash (and give her fans the opportunity.) Her fans are as excited about her as other fans are excited about their idols.

Teeny-boppers aren't anything new, either. Rick Nelson? Leif Garrett? New Kids on the Block? Annette Funicello?

What GD Said.

Did you know there are people who actually spend hundreds of dollars each year so that they can get into Disneyland whenever they want? And then they spend probably thousands of dollars on crap inside the park! It's just crazy!

I just did the math: 5,000 tickets x $250/ticket = $1,250,000. Not a bad take for the night.

Wow, "Miley die"? That's pretty harsh.

mmg, I don't think you're stupid at all. But I do think that she's as important to her fans as Bon Jovi is to you, even if it doesn't seem like it should be the case.

Which is about what I've always guessed it would take to rent the park out (fully staffed) for an evening. So Miley gets a dream birthday, some of her fans get to share in the fun, Disney gets a few bucks off merchandising plus the general publicity benefit. Win win win.

Except for FP and DP who get to be woken up by fireworks.

Note: "Only about 5,000 tickets sold" because that's all there were available. I expect they could have sold out the entire park if enough tickets were up for grabs.

Also only a limited number of attractions were open.


I also expect that Miley, Inc. did not in fact "buy out the park". I would guess Disney paid Miley to appear. The event was a promotion for the "year of whatever in the hell it is this year" thing.

You know, I wonder, would that work?

You rent out the entire park for say $1.5 Million. You then sell 5,000 $325 tickets to an exclusive "Unlimited Fastpass for all attractions" night.

I'm sure that Disney might have an issue with that.

But wouldn't it be uber-cool to rent out the park and just have you and 25 of your closest friends having the run of the park? If you split the cost, it would only be $60,000 per person.

I'm in. Who else?

:)

We were some of the last out of the park on Sunday. The set up looked like it was going to be a fun time. If I had $250 to drop and the tolerance for screaming teenage girls it may have been a fun time in a nearly empty park.

If Kenny Chesney had a private event in DL for only $250 I'd do my damndest to get there.

Sorry to have sounded so harsh. Just maybe cuz when i grew up at that age i really didn't have any idol like nowadays. Kids seem to grow up super faster and it seems like it is normal to have someone to idolize but at the same time they need to realize these people are normal and human and not to put them up there on a thrown either. I mean all these little girls wanting to be Miley. They should be told that they have unique qualities and to be who they are. Not like someone they admire. We are all indivudals life would be borning if we were all the same.

It would be fun to get enough money together and rent out the park ourselves for an evening. A LOT swanking....

There was an time and day when little girls didn't have idols?

However, I think it seems like 'more' now than maybe when I was growing up, but to be fair I remember how big 90210 was when I was growing up, or all the other shows and programs. How many girls were Brenda, Kelly, and Donna wanna-bes were there? Hundreds of thousands, I'd guess. And not all our idols were 'innocent' - some have even been scandalous or sexily clad - how about Farrah Fawcett and the whole Charlie's Angels thing. It probably just seems like 'more' because there's simply more media and availability. But we've always had idols... If I had more time, I'd have a huge list.

When I win the lottery (and it'll happen any day now... I just know it...), I'll rent the park for a LoT Night!

When I win the lottery I'm going to rent the park out.

Then the next day I'm going to tell all my friends what a great time I had. Because I'm a sharer.

Thanks, Cartman.

There's so much to do at Cartmanland but you can't come! :)

I think if the Dave Matthews Band played the Golden Horseshoe, I think I'd just explode in a cloud of fag dust.

Well... Unlike my opponent, I’m the Big Tent candidate. If I’m elected, you all get to go!








(Except Alex, because he's a curmudgeon. And Kevy.... Because...Well... The lawyers will probably demand it...)

Now that would make for a memorable night!

Brad i hear ya there. But our bands don't do such a thing as someone as Miley or even Disney did for her or her dad who knows.

As far as us having idols growing up i was too old for the 90210 craze nor did i wanna be a Brenda, Kelly or Tori wanna be. But then again it all comes down to upbringing about morals and values. Charlies Angels was a little before my time. I guess i was innocent or rather unique in the fact i didn't want to be like anyone else either. I did watch the Brady Bunch alot.

If i ever get enough money together and rent out the park i'll make sure the Dave Mathews Band plays the Golden for ya Brad and Bon Jovi for me.

Compared to many of the role models that have been available for girls to look up to, Miley is pretty harmless IMO.

I don't think that Miley fans are necessarily trying to be her. They might love her show or her music. They might want to have her sense of humor and her spunk and her independence, but I don't think it's harmful to encourage that.

Quite honestly, I enjoy watching her. I totally can see how, if I was eleven, Hannah Montana and High School Musical would draw me in. And with the exception of seventh and eighth grades, I've never tried or wanted to be anything but me.

It may happen sometimes, but I don't think avid appreciation or fandom necessarily requires subjugation of personality. (Though as I've gotten older I've seen it more as passion misplaced, and active life exchanged for a passive one. I am not as much of a 'fan' of things these days.)

You'd have to re-cast it, so I have a feeling you could never recapture it.

I have a friend who is obssessed with Jonas Brothers. I mean come on it's so unheathly to go by their house and try to meet them as well as Miley's and stalk them.

If you were ever in New Jersey, would you try to swing by JBJ's house?

Please, don't tease the monkey girl :)

NO i wouldn't why you might ask? His privacy with his family. That's why. It's wrong in my opinion and my friend would park outside the Jonas Brother's house and Miley's house waiting to meet them personally. Now there is a line to be drawn. I do have his home address but he also has a house in New York now but his house is his property and i would not tresspass. Now after 9/11 Richie stood on the corner of his street selling lemonade to send to help the victims and families. And if you had $50 you could have a ride in his Aston Martin. No i didn't know about it til it was too late if i had i would have gone over there and helped out. Heck for $50 i would have gladly given that to ride in his car.

It's super creepy that you have his home address.

What I think most of us are trying to convey, is that to the tween/teen age set, Miley Cyrus is to them what JBJ is to you. How would you feel if they said about JBJ what you said about Miley (die)?

No it's not super creepy i have his home address. It was on the internet for anyone to find out. Not that i would do anything just cuz i have his address. I'm not doing anything with it.

I'm just saying i do not like Miley and the fact that she bought out Disneyland for her birthday is all. I don't nor ever will idolize her like so many others have. And my friend who sits in front of her house and the Jonas Brothers. Now that's creepy in my opinion. I know when to draw the line and i wouldn't go to his house since he has kids living at home and are little. If he were out and about by himself then i would approach him.

I'm done here....time to go scrapbooking and not be jumped on for my opinion.

Though, like I said, Miley didn't buy Disneyland out for her birthday, DISNEY bought Disneyland out for her birthday. It was a money-making event for them, not a fun playdate for her.

And, totally, actually stalking ANY celebrity (or non-celebrity) is creepy, no matter who it is. But that's not really Miley's fault, or any celebrity's.

Is it okay if I stalk non-celebrities?

There are a couple of people whom I have often thought about obsessing over.

Yeah like a former person who was arrested for stalking a band member of another band. She would follow him everywhere he went with his kids in tow to be exact and she was just creepy. He even put out a restraining order against her.

I really hope the paparazi law comes into effect too. They need their privacy when they are out and about but that's something else entirely.

Hey now if someone famous (which it's happened) comes into my store that is not considered stalking. We get a share of famous people. i do not harrass them either they are there to shop although i do help considering that a couple of them are regulars.

Why start asking permission now? ;) :p

Hey... I was never convicted!

You flatter me !!!!

Wait, did you just call NA creepy?

I try to be a creepy as possible. Scaring Leo is an amusing quest.

It's amazing how one forgotten letter can change the meaning.....

As quoted in Time:

Note, didn't say "threw me a private party at Disneyland." Nope, the bragging point was that others were kicked out of Disneyland so the Park could be "Shut Down" just for her.


No more slack from me for this being a publicity stunt foisted on her. She chooses her own words. And those words were disgusting.

Agreed.

She's still just 15. I'm lucky if Moonie junior can make it through dinner with out a misspoken sentence or two.

No, but if her parents bought out the park vs it being a Disney sponsored event it does change my perspective and opinion. I have no beef with a private party closing down the park. She's not the first. But I no longer feel bad that she had to do this as part of her Disney contract.

"Don't close my Park,
My Disney-wisney Park,
The tourists just don't understand,
that if you close my Park,
My Disney-wisney Park,
I can't come visit Disneyland"

Don’t by my discs,
My smaltzy little discs,
Just go and buy another brand...
For if you by my discs,
My smaltzy little discs,
My Dad’l close down that Disneyland..

Meh, doesn't bother me. That's exactly how I would have said it if my parents did that for me when I was 16.

Hell, that's exactly how I'd say it if someone did that for me now!

First of all, we don't allow naked posting on the LoT, so get back to bohemian weekend.

Second, yeah that's the way I might say it if I were crass enough to do that. But when I close Disneyland for my private party, it will be at 10:00 p.m., right after fireworks. 'Cause my private party goes to 7am. And because I'm not kicking people out of Disneyland before they've had a normal (winter hours) operating day at their expensive disposal.





Huh? ... we do allow naked posting on the LoT. Oh ... hold on a minute ....

Yeah, put me in the "it's a non-issue" camp. She's sixteen and has been working hard. She deserves to have a little fun. It was on a Sunday night in the beginning of October - it's not like she shut down the park on July 17th.









BTW: I am wearing shorts and a short, although the shirt is unbuttoned.

What about drunken, naked posting?

You're wearing two pairs of shorts? One for each leg?? ;)

Well, I'm usually not drunk, but I may be Neekid at times......

:eek:

A little-known fact is that I'm a nudist at heart. I've even mowed the back yard in the buff!

Damned typo: shorts and a SHIRT
Some things just should not be done nude. Not for modest but for concerns over flying things hitting sensitive parts.

No matter how she said it, it was a hard-ticketed event with profits that went to Disney. It doesn't really change anything, except for pointing out that the wealthy pop star is being somewhat left outside the loop about all of the business dealings.

They also donated $1 million to Youth Service America.

I'm pretty indifferent about Miley's party. Others have "shut down" the park for parties too. But, I think it was cool how they did open it up for fans to buy a limited number of tickets to attend. At least they thought of her fans too.

Yay!

Upon further thought I have decided that when I put what she said through the filter of a 16 year old, well it's pretty damn cool. It was a Sunday, it was no different then closing it down for Grad nights in the summer or special events at xmas.

Well, I'm glad I figured out why there was fireworks at 11:30 on a sunday.

As far as why this party happened- it's simple. It was pretty much a big hunk of advertising for both Disneyland and the Disney Channel.

I think Miley got the best deal out of it all with a great "Sweet 16" birthday party (though she was working at the same time), and some fans may have enjoyed it as well. Not to mention the $1,000,000 donation.

It's what Disney does best, synergy in advertising.

The only ones unhappy were the ones trying to sleep when the fireworks went off. 11:30 or 12 midnight is when I usually go to bed so I got to watch Miley's fireworks and was not upset at all.....

Dear GD,

Please don't forget that Disneyland is in your backyard.

I reckon it would bother you if you had planned your 17 hours trip across the Big Wet Patch a year ahead (like we do) only to find that a chunk of the two days you had slated for the park were diminished because a local tied it up.

"A huke a huke - DisneyLand's closed - soooorrrrry" said the animatronic moose.

I'd go postal - just like Chevy Chase's Vacation...and it would take more than a giant ball of string to placate me.

Hugs,

The Stoat.

I don't think they really made a direct profit from the party. The advertising may help the bottom line but at $250 per ticket for 5,000 tickets that's 1.25 million. They gave 1 million to charity. I'm pretty sure they spent the other $250,000 on expenses. Of course there's the tax write-off of the donation, but it sounds to me like a great way to get "free advertising".

Actually, the party guests got kicked out around 10 or 11 or so. Miley and her party got extra time once the screaming fans were gone to actually enjoy themselves. I heard the Indy crew was extended till like 2am.

Really? That's cool, at least she got to enjoy herself then. I wonder if her dad hung around with her.....

I do hope she behaved better than (what I heard) Lindsy Lohan did.

So the 11:30pm Fireworks were AFTER all the paying guests were kicked out?

Interesting question. Perhaps just her close friends and media got to see that part. That would be strange, though. Perhaps the paying guests were "kicked out" of the rest of the park to the closing ceremonies on Main Street (the cake and happy birthday song, and fireworks) then were kicked off Main Street shortly there after?