SeventyOne
Platinum Member
Query: the community complained quite a bit about seeing backstage at Disney with the Express Bus system.
Why does Universal, which we say is meant to be a competitor for Disney in terms of quality, get a pass for throwing people in backstage areas?
Heck, Disney probably decided they could get away with it because of how often Universal does it.
It's a cop-out, but the rules are different for HHN. I think the fandom has always accepted some degradation in show quality because they recognized that the event was creating 6 (now 9) E-tickets from scratch, that in dada-esque fashion disappear forever after a month and a half. Also, adults-only event, so not ruining the "magic" for kids, yadda yadda.
To borrow wrestling terminology, HHN has always been a "smart-mark" event. The backstage peeks gave it more street cred. But even the smartest of marks don't expect Hulk Hogan to go out in the middle of Raw and talk about how the industry is staged.