In the SG Mind: Field Trip = Chance to Make a Fool of One's School

[glendalais]

I recently paid a visit to the Walt Disney Studio Store*, located on the The Walt Disney Studios Lot in Burbank.

While I was there, there was a school group visiting, I assume as the tail end of a Field Trip visit to the Studio Lot. They seemed to be enjoying themselves (I particularly loved the group of preteen girls who blew right pass what was quite possibly the largest collection of Disney Literature that I've ever seen out for sale and straight for the Hannah Montana merchandise :rolleyes :) , with one very big exception.

In a corner, the store had a mountain of plush figures set up, topped off with very large Mickey and Minnie plushes (you know, the ones that you take one look at and just want to take home to hug the heck out of, lol). These two kids were taking the large plushes and proceeding to do....inappropriate things with them .

Thankfully their teacher saw them, freaked out, ran over and dragged the both of them out before the Coordinator (I assume) who was roaming the floor saw them.

It seems nothing is sacred anymore. Not even otherwise cute and adorable giant mice plush :mad: .

*The Walt Disney Studio Store is a Walt Disney World Resort Merchandise Location. Their CMs are WDW CMs, with WDW Cast IDs and Nametags, and they sell WDW Merchandise, as opposed to stuff from the much closer DLR. That's why I opened this thread here, rather than elsewhere.

[GRUMPY PIRATE]

I'm suprised that some of the other students wern't using their camera phones!

[glendalais]

I'm suprised that some of the other students wern't using their camera phones!

Probably, I didn't see any though. They were the only boys in the store at the time and the girls were all enchanted by a certain singing and dancing Disney Machine.

[CujoSR]

Makes me wonder how a field trip to an amusement park is educational to begin with. I understand a group trip like Friday Night Live or even Grad Nights but not an organized, class trip. At least when polar and I went to Universal Studios in high school it had to do with television and film production. Even that was pushing it.

[turkeyham]

When I was in Jr high, we did take a field trip to Knott's Berry Farm. We had to interview a cast member in the park and ask them a serries of questions. My group was sent to the Ghost town area. My friends were sent to the mock missions. After that, we did get to play in the park with my class. :D:

[dazyhill]

If I had been on that trip to the Disney Studios when i was in Jr High, that large collection of Disney books would have stopped me dead in my tracks. It still would. Were the books all on animation or did they cover all aspects of Disney? (theme parks,storybooks,etc.) :reading:

[glendalais]

If I had been on that trip to the Disney Studios when i was in Jr High, that large collection of Disney books would have stopped me dead in my tracks. It still would. Were the books all on animation or did they cover all aspects of Disney? (theme parks,storybooks,etc.) :reading:

I don't remember that much. They had all the standard books you would find in any WDW Merchandise Location, Disney A-Z, WDW Souvenir Guide, Hidden Mickey. But then they had some stuff I've never seen before, or at least not in a Disney-owned store: Animation, Company History, I think I even saw something on the design and construction of Hong Kong Disneyland.

[GRUMPY PIRATE]

jeez, I was gyped!

The only field trips we got to take were to the Walnut Grove plant (A seed company) to see their computer, which was about the size of a small bedroom, and with a stack of punch cards ACTUALLY could play Tick Tack Toe with you by printing it out on the pereferated paper!!!

[Rallots]

I can say that as a CM at studios I get to deal with bratty cheerleaders, crazed soap fans (thank god that is over), and the occasional High School Musical nuts. I know that Grad Night is coming to the studios and I am not liking the prospect. The stories of "Night of Joy" which is the Christian Rock night are too awful to talk about without some real evidence about what I hear. What I do know is every security officer at Disney is there plus extra hired security.

[jsilvers]

When I was in Jr high, we did take a field trip to Knott's Berry Farm. We had to interview a cast member in the park and ask them a serries of questions. My group was sent to the Ghost town area. My friends were sent to the mock missions. After that, we did get to play in the park with my class. :D:

Apparently, Japanese schools justify field trips to Tokyo Disneyland by assigning students to find and converse with westerners. Which was vaguely amusing when I was there, but on a separate trip my boss (a tall, blond woman) apparently found herself swarmed...