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Friday, December 02, 2011
Mall Santa Gets His Beard Stuck In A Rope, Ends Hundreds Of Childhoods
Best Week Ever: Here’s a video of maybe the real Santa Claus rappelling down a rope towards his mall-throne at the Palm Beach Gardens Mall in Florida. SPOILER: He has some complications with the rope and his beard
I'm not sure why you would want Santa to rappel in to a group of children to begin with, he's a jolly old fat man, not an acrobat, but that aside, who in their right mind would rappel with a fake beard that goes right past their rappel device? Its just asking for what happens here. Now if this Santa had a beard more like the Santa in Miracle on 34th St. he probably would have been safe. Thankfully it was only a fake beard just leaving him with the awkwardness of the kids seeing Santa without a beard and hair, if it was a real beard getting caught the consequences could have been much more severe.
I would first like to say, THIS IS MY HOMETOWN MALL and I would like to take no credit for the stupidity of this display. I love the announcers comment, "see kids, magic can happen". It was anything but magical. Santa is supposed to ride in a sleigh, not rappel down a rope!!! What are we teaching our kids? I also find it quite interesting that after watching this video I called home to Florida to talk to my family about it and they had no idea. I hear about my hometown while in Pittsburgh, yet the news hasnt even circulated its foundation yet. The miracle of technology.
YES same with Sam I went to high school there!!! This is quite a humorous video. I agree with Tom: who thought this was a good idea in the first place? These poor children must have their idea of Santa altered forever! But on the bright side, when they grow up they will have a great story to tell their friends about when they believed in Santa and this happened. I wish this happened closer to Christmas and then maybe I would have had the chance to see this!
The tech problems featured on this blog tend to be structural, but this shows the importance of the wardrobe department and efforts to turn costume design into practical wardrobe pieces. Wardrobe department also failed to communicate needs accurately to the rigging department, and the rigging department seemed to have not adequately trained the talent. Aesthetically, the shoes really didn't fit the costume, and the whole production concept/design didn't really fit our society's understanding of Santa Claus.
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I'm not sure why you would want Santa to rappel in to a group of children to begin with, he's a jolly old fat man, not an acrobat, but that aside, who in their right mind would rappel with a fake beard that goes right past their rappel device? Its just asking for what happens here. Now if this Santa had a beard more like the Santa in Miracle on 34th St. he probably would have been safe. Thankfully it was only a fake beard just leaving him with the awkwardness of the kids seeing Santa without a beard and hair, if it was a real beard getting caught the consequences could have been much more severe.
Well... that was painfully awkward to watch.
I would first like to say, THIS IS MY HOMETOWN MALL and I would like to take no credit for the stupidity of this display. I love the announcers comment, "see kids, magic can happen". It was anything but magical. Santa is supposed to ride in a sleigh, not rappel down a rope!!! What are we teaching our kids? I also find it quite interesting that after watching this video I called home to Florida to talk to my family about it and they had no idea. I hear about my hometown while in Pittsburgh, yet the news hasnt even circulated its foundation yet. The miracle of technology.
YES same with Sam I went to high school there!!! This is quite a humorous video. I agree with Tom: who thought this was a good idea in the first place? These poor children must have their idea of Santa altered forever! But on the bright side, when they grow up they will have a great story to tell their friends about when they believed in Santa and this happened. I wish this happened closer to Christmas and then maybe I would have had the chance to see this!
The tech problems featured on this blog tend to be structural, but this shows the importance of the wardrobe department and efforts to turn costume design into practical wardrobe pieces. Wardrobe department also failed to communicate needs accurately to the rigging department, and the rigging department seemed to have not adequately trained the talent. Aesthetically, the shoes really didn't fit the costume, and the whole production concept/design didn't really fit our society's understanding of Santa Claus.
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