Defending The Hall of Presidents

 

In December we visited Disney World and I got to go to The Magic Kingdom for the first time in many years. One of my favorite places to visit is the Hall of Presidents pictured above.  The idea came from a Disney exhibit at The New York World's Fair  in 1964 which was called, "Great Moments With Mr. Lincoln." An Audio-Animatronic figure of Lincoln stood up and gave a collection of half a dozen of his great speeches.

Disney loved the idea and although he died in 1966, this exhibit turned into "The Hall of Presidents attraction in Disney World when it opened in 1971.  Several Presidents speak, including the current President at the time. Each President is announced and a light shines on each of them.  The speeches and introductions are the central part of an extraordinary video display about our country.

My wife wasn't planning on going, because she wasn't as interested in the attraction, but she went with me and enjoyed it.  I was going to blog about this, but a few days after our trip there was an article on Yahoo News saying that it should be replaced with another Muppet exhibit.  The article received over 400 comments, some positive, some negative and some just funny.

I posted a comment and said that, "The Hall of Presidents gets an A+. It was one of the best things I saw all day." One guy replied, "Well, there's one orange problem with it that we can't get around." He was bothered by the President Trump figure and many of the comments were for Trump or against Trump.  However, I picked out some of the amusing comments just for you:

"They should close its a small world ride. I rode this ride decades ago and I am 68 now and I am still traumatized by the song. It keeps repeating in my brain."

"They should replace it with girls on trampolines."

"How about making it the hall of vice presidents?"

"Let's replace people who write senseless articles with muppets!"

"Yeah let's replace a kid's entertaining history lesson with Muppets. We are dumbed down enough already. 🙄"

"Good place for cranky kids and losing my last nerve parent to go and cool down. Can't think of why any one under the age of 65 would care about it being open" (I am 64)

"Why don't they have 2 exhibits: one for each side?"