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Kudos Disney Co  !    

For a Ben Franklin, we can get access to previews of:

movies we can buy tickets to, rides we can buy park admission for, movies we can buy DVD's of, home furnishings and consumer products we can buy, D23 merchandise we can buy, clothes we can buy, Broadway shows that we can buy  tickets for, and art we can buy. Theme, theme, there's got to be a theme here.

To be fair, there will be a display from the Archives, with the highlighted pieces just recently shown on national TV. Plus there will be entertainment. I would be stunned in the Jonas Bros did not show up, and someone has to sing some Frog Princess songs at some point. I know you'll get "complimentary gifts" and booths will be giving things away.

Again I say kudos to Disney Co. Here's a building full of advertisements about stuff we want you to buy, and we're gonna charge you a pretty steep fee to take a look. If GM coulda done this, they wouldn't have had to file bankruptcy.

Gripe, gripe, gripe. Macworld's been doing that for years, but because it's Disney running the show instead of a bunch of dedicated Mac geeks, they're supposed to let everyone in for free?

Where's the people bitching and moaning about having to pay way too much money to be crammed like sardines into San Diego Comic-Con to go to presentation after presentation by movie and TV studios pimping their latest product? Oh right, Comic-Con's not run by Disney either, so I guess that's OK, too.

Convention center space doesn't come cheap, my friends, and Disney's still a business. Be glad that they're not trying to wring 900 bucks plus per person  plus a required hotel stay like they did when the Official Disneyana Convention last came to town.

If it isn't obvious already, I'm excited by D23 Expo, and I'm going to be there. For you folks who aren't willing to shell out a hunderd bucks for this event (and that's pretty reasonable for four days, IIMHO), your loss.

Wow.  I see why you're called Curmudgeon!  What do you think Comic-Con, WizardWorld, MacWorld, WonderCon, etc., all are?

I also say kudos to The Walt Disney Company ... for creating something that I'm very, very excited about, and other fans seem to be as well!

I hope Curmudgeon isn't there.

PSCHNEBS and IRVTHAL stole my thunder. ComicCon and Macworld were my two first thoughts as well...

Obviously, Curmudgeon will never be happy unless Disney gives everything away for free while still building state-of-the art attractions that anyone can ride anywhere for free.

But yet, for all his complaining he still shows up here to read and post on everything. Methinks the curmudgeon doth protest too much.