Marathon Weekend 2020

[camaker]

I need to see my girl Minnie on that full medal and hopefully something cool for goofy since it’s his big anniversary race. The problem for me is that these are race medals for the biggest rundisney event of the year and they look... flat. I hope it’s because it’s a rendering and we aren’t seeing any cool details like sparkly paint or raised designs. That said - not holding my breath and hoping to be surprised tomorrow and through the rest of the week during the reveals.

They look like the cheap medals typically given out at low budget local 5k/10k/half races to me. RunDisney Paris has been knocking it out of the park with some stunning medal designs in recent years while the US RunDisney seems to be seeing how little effort they can put into the designs while phoning it in!

 

[steph0808]

Those medals look....horrendous. There, I said it. Hopefully that's because they're just crappy photos and not actual medals.

Also, I'm worried that, even though one picture showed Minnie with Mickey for the full, the medal won't feature her because the pre-race merchandise doesn't.

 

[Barca33Runner]

I’m going to stick by the old adage that if I don’t have anything nice to say, I shouldn’t say anything. It’s better that way, it saves me about 7 paragraphs of not nice things that those medals inspire.


ETA: Serenity now. Serenity now.

 

[CDKG]

Does this really count as a medal reveal when we are just seeing cartoon style artist renderings? I will hold my opinion until I see the real thing... Medals always look better in person!

Now...if the 5k would just open up more bibs.

 

[flav]

Now...if the 5k would just open up more bibs

And Pluto open his eyes....

 

[Disneyslowrunner]

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The bling is not what inspires me to do a race, but these are pretty bland. I love the retro look for the shirts, but these just look cheap. It's like they thought, "just get the medals out there, they won't notice the fact that we phoned it in."

Honestly, I find it a little disheartening because while I love Disney, which has always been expensive, this is just another symptom of Disney finding ways to give you less for a higher price. Since I started doing RunDisney a number of years ago, Disney has added so many surcharges and drastically raised so many of the prices on everything that all the little extra charges have added up to a huge total. I guess it makes me a little mad because I love doing these races, but I am pretty sure this will be my last year of being able to afford to do a RunDisney race, which is why I decided to do Dopey this year. So, I had hoped that at least the medals would be cool this year.

 

[michigandergirl]

Meh for me too. Let's hope they look better in person, it seems they usually do. I'm anxious to see the half, full & Goofy since those are the medals I'll be getting.

 

[Bree]

Well that was underwhelming. It was a nice throwback to Silly Symphonies, but I want to see the actual medal. That artist rendering was awful.

 

[roxymama]

I kind of like how they sort of seem old-school Epcot-ish. If that makes sense. Kinda like the 35th anniversary epcot stuff???
I'm holding off on my full opinion until I see all of them and the actual medals with texture/detail.

The goofy one mile is my fave though. Too bad I can't pass for a 12 yr old.

 

[rteetz]

I am intrigued to see what the others look like. I don’t hate these by any means but they aren’t my favorite either. I just want the goofy medal to impress for the anniversary.

 

[MissLiss279]

I like the hex shapes - my company has hex shapes in its logo, so I find that interesting.

 

[lhermiston]

I kind of dig the Oswald medal’s color scheme. It’s something different.

 

[SheHulk]

Like lots of others I wish they had waited to "reveal" until they had real photos, because these renderings are of course flat-looking and disappointing. Better to wait until you have the actual objects. I guess if you want to drive up registrations while it's still early so people can feel they can sign up and train...
I signed up for Goofy for the first time instead of only the marathon because A) I wanted to take the pressure off myself to set a time goal, and to just have fun while feeling I accomplished something by covering this "new" distance and B) it's a Goofy anniversary and I was expecting a cool medal. So I hope there is a cool medal.
And runDisney, if you ever come to these discussion boards to gauge reactions to your reveals, hear this: Minnie had BETTER be on that marathon medal after being taken off the 10k. There will be lots of mad Minnie fans out there otherwise.

 

[lahobbs4]

I'm not mad at the medals. I love retro-inspired design and the only medal I own that wasn't a circle was the CURSED 2017 WDW Half Marathon medal (and the really cute luggage tag one from W&D). So I'm totally ok with the shape of these.

 

[flav]

these renderings are of course flat-looking and disappointing. Better to wait until you have the actual objects.

You would think that if Disney can make 3D movies and CGI rendering of animals they would be able to do a 3D simulation of the medals?!

Minnie had BETTER be on that marathon medal after being taken off the 10k.

Agreed. Maybe they want to compensate for Princess being 100% female by doing MW 100% male?

 

[courtneybeth]

Agreed. Maybe they want to compensate for Princess being 100% female by doing MW 100% male?

Oh I hope that's not the case. Though if Princess is running out of themes for medal weekends, I am seriously fine with them doing "Prince" medals. I'd race for a chance to get Prince Eric on my medal holder. Flynn Rider, Naveen, and Charming are also invited to the party.

 

[PaDisneyCouple]

Brief update from Pa: DW continues her training, and it doing great.

I have an MRI of my knee tonight after dinner. To make sure nothing else is going on. Massage last Monday led to huge improvement, but MRI and PT were already scheduled due to lack of progress until then. Will see what they see...

 

[PaDisneyCouple]

That was a thing? I remember W&D used to be a night race, but wasn't that familiar with the old courses. Running under those lights would've been awesome! Too bad they're gone AND there's no more night races!

We did it in 2015, the last night race. Even talked about it yesterday on the drive back to Pa, and how when we did it, we understood why folks loved it so much. DW got video of running through. When I started down the street, one of the classic Charlie Brown Christmas songs came on. Should've never gotten rid of it. And that race was better at night. The camaraderie upon finishing and heading to party reminded me of an all-night party after a senior prom.

 

[*DisneyDreamer]

I really don’t get what people want to see with the medals? You’re entitled to your opinion, but it’s just constant complaining every time there’s a release. I don’t think there is anything wrong with these. Pluto is cute, and Oswald has got an interesting color scheme going on. A medal is meant to symbolize and acknowledge an accomplishment, and regardless of what it looks like, it holds the same meaning, doesn’t it?

It will be interesting to see what these look like in person, since I didn’t expect just artwork. I’m anxious to see the rest.

 

[DerTobi75]

You can complain as much as you want about runDisney France. They do so much strange and stupid things, BUT they design much nicer medals.

I hope for a real photo, to see the medals but right now I am a little bit disappointed