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Posted on 12/27/19 at 8:16 am to llfshoals
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If you don’t get it, you probably don’t care much about your own family IMO.
This is absurd.
Posted on 12/27/19 at 8:19 am to SlowFlowPro
The Disney App is nice but I will rather spend time with my family uninterrupted. We are annual pass holders now and go quite often so we really aren’t worried about ride waits as much anymore. If Disney gets too busy we either drive over to Seaworld or Busch Gardens in Tampa.
Posted on 12/27/19 at 8:31 am to Horsemeat
I live very close to Disney. We go to EPCOT a few times a year. We basically walk around the world showcase and get drunk. Aside from that, I can’t bring myself to endure the misery that is involved in going to the other parks.
There is a definite cult following that Disney has and they are in very large numbers around here. Their employees basically spend every day of their lives at Disney either working or touristing. It’s just weird. All are very liberal and childish people in my opinion. They definitely have a group-think mentality. Many are gay or very odd with their sexuality.
There is a definite cult following that Disney has and they are in very large numbers around here. Their employees basically spend every day of their lives at Disney either working or touristing. It’s just weird. All are very liberal and childish people in my opinion. They definitely have a group-think mentality. Many are gay or very odd with their sexuality.
Posted on 12/27/19 at 8:32 am to llfshoals
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If you don’t get it, you probably don’t care much about your own family IMO.
This right here, is why I fricking hate disney. Dumb arse shite that is a SCAM and a cult. Thankfully our family are more outdoor people so we take hikes, travel hunts, and go see new places. At least with hunting/fishing, I have the opportunity to get food out of the deal. There is no line to sit by the fire and talk to my nephew under the stars about life or whatever. I've had better talks with the wife while hiking than we ever had in on the couch. Life is extremely more meaningful once you get the hell out of civilization.
The country's national parks system is the world's greatest theme park - and we all have access to it.
Posted on 12/27/19 at 8:33 am to Horsemeat
Went last year with the family
My kids loved it
I’m perfectly ok if I never go back
You couldn’t pay me money to go in the summer.
My kids loved it
I’m perfectly ok if I never go back
You couldn’t pay me money to go in the summer.
This post was edited on 12/27/19 at 8:34 am
Posted on 12/27/19 at 8:36 am to The Spleen
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This is absurd.
"If you don't get my wife and I leveraging our kids' future and making matching shirts every 6 weeks while our ragged and exhausted kids pose for our endless pictures they don't want to take but that we need to impress our friends who inexplicably find Disney impressive, then you don't love your family."
Posted on 12/27/19 at 8:38 am to Horsemeat
I enjoy Disney, even more so now that I have a kid.
Years back, me and the wife were there and we were having dinner at that Hibachi place in Epcot. I was sitting next to a guy and his wife. He was overweight, had greasy hair and a wet looking mustache. Picture a Yankee Ignatius Reilly.
She had kind of a horse face. She was wearing a sequin Mickey hat with matching sequin Mickey shirt, sequin Mickey shorts, and tied it all together with a sequin Mickey fanny pack.
I was talking to the husband, and I asked him how long he'd been there. "Two weeks so far," was his reply.
"Wow, two weeks?"
"Yeah, and we have two more weeks to go. We do this a couple of times a year."
A whole month at Disney, a couple of times a year. Good for him for finding something he enjoys, but man, there are other things out there to enjoy and spend that kind of money on.
Years back, me and the wife were there and we were having dinner at that Hibachi place in Epcot. I was sitting next to a guy and his wife. He was overweight, had greasy hair and a wet looking mustache. Picture a Yankee Ignatius Reilly.
She had kind of a horse face. She was wearing a sequin Mickey hat with matching sequin Mickey shirt, sequin Mickey shorts, and tied it all together with a sequin Mickey fanny pack.
I was talking to the husband, and I asked him how long he'd been there. "Two weeks so far," was his reply.
"Wow, two weeks?"
"Yeah, and we have two more weeks to go. We do this a couple of times a year."
A whole month at Disney, a couple of times a year. Good for him for finding something he enjoys, but man, there are other things out there to enjoy and spend that kind of money on.
Posted on 12/27/19 at 8:40 am to llfshoals
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If you don’t get it, you probably don’t care much about your own family IMO.
It’s more expensive than going to the beach, but that doesn’t mean I can’t go to the beach too. Which me and my wife do when we want a weekend to relax.
Your enjoyment of the Disney experience is directly proportional to the attitude you take with you there.
If you focus on the crowd instead of your family, you won’t enjoy it.
If you are annoyed at the lines you should be annoyed at yourself for not doing your fast passes right.
You get free passes to mini-golf. Use them, it’s fun. I don’t think you’re beating my 58 on the Fairways course though.
If you don’t enjoy the place, frankly you’re just doing it wrong, and because it is expensive you’ll compound your misery.
Find someone like me that knows the place and how to navigate it. Listen to them about how to approach it, and you’ll soon discover that just a little planning will make a world of difference and on the way home you’ll be thinking about how to do it better next time.
Aside from that first line I agree with pretty much everything you've said.
I've been to Disney 5 times in the last two years, but we've also taken a few weekend trips to other cities that are just a few hours away. You can do both.
You're 100% right on the crowds and lines. If you know who to do it right, you won't wait in a line. I can legitimately say I don't think I've waited more than 30 minutes for a ride in Disney.
Disney is 100x more enjoyable when you get out of the mindset that you have to do everything. I hate when people say "I need a vacation from my vacation," because that's your own fault.
Posted on 12/27/19 at 8:47 am to USMEagles
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I would like to go to Disney once or twice, but the die-hards kind of ruin it.
I'm sure I'll take my kids to Disney, perhaps even a couple times. But I think you're right and that's what weirds people out. For a long time I've noted that this board (perhaps BR/LA people) seem overly obsessed with Disney, and since that time I've noticed the same from other folks we know, mostly otherwise normal but very suburban types. Not sure if it's on the rise or I'm just noticing it more.
I think it's like a little insular community that has now gotten a bit unhealthy because of social media. I think most of the world looks at the mom obsessing about Disney and taking her family 7 times a year from hundreds of miles away as a little odd. Which is irrelevant if they can afford it and the kids love it, but it's still a very limited thing to pour money and time into. And the other people who are like minded compete about it, and the whole thing just seems totally bizarre once it's taken out of the Disney cult and put into the real world.
It reminds me of the status flying community. I have nothing against an average middle class IT consultant becoming an American Airlines king, and obviously there is plenty of utility/practicality involved, but there is a ton of oneupmanship and jockeying and entitlement, etc. which when exposed to real life often seems ridiculous.
Posted on 12/27/19 at 8:55 am to Horsemeat
If I go to a theme park I’m hitting up Universal, Busch Gardens, Six Flags.
frick Disney, it sucks
frick Disney, it sucks
Posted on 12/27/19 at 8:59 am to boxcarbarney
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I was sitting next to a guy and his wife. He was overweight, had greasy hair and a wet looking mustache.
I cannot express my unfathomable sadness after reading this sentence and then learning it wasn't Ron Jeremy.
Posted on 12/27/19 at 8:59 am to deltaland
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Busch Gardens
BG in Williamsburg
Posted on 12/27/19 at 9:05 am to Horsemeat
No idea about the obsession, but it is weird AF I agree.
A friend of mine used to work there as an intern and they have a whole campus for the workers. Well, apparently it's like a 24/7 orgy and Disney even gives out free condoms
A friend of mine used to work there as an intern and they have a whole campus for the workers. Well, apparently it's like a 24/7 orgy and Disney even gives out free condoms
Posted on 12/27/19 at 9:06 am to CP3forMVP
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I've been to Disney 5 times in the last two years
Posted on 12/27/19 at 9:08 am to Tigers0891
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I don’t get the appeal of going to spend a frick ton of money to hang among the lowest common denominator - the American public.
thread could have ended right here.
I go on vacation to see new things and have new experiences, not to see what I could easily see at the local Walmart or Golden Corral
Posted on 12/27/19 at 9:12 am to Horsemeat
What’s so bad about Disney? You ride fun rides. Everything is themed. Everyone is happy. It’s clean. Service is excellent. It’s pretty easy to do everything. They have good restaurants. You can drink everywhere. There’s lots of things to do and see, and it’s not just kids stuff
Posted on 12/27/19 at 9:17 am to Horsemeat
I have a co-worker that’s been there too many times to count. He goes at least twice every year. He swears it’s his wife who loves it, but there is no way he’d go that often if he didn’t like it as well.
Posted on 12/27/19 at 9:20 am to Horsemeat
I would have agreed a long time ago but I'm on my way to Atlanta to spend a bunch of money watching teenagers hit each other and run around in tights.
People would find that strange and a waste of money.
People would find that strange and a waste of money.
Posted on 12/27/19 at 9:21 am to Pettifogger
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I think it's like a little insular community that has now gotten a bit unhealthy because of social media. I think most of the world looks at the mom obsessing about Disney and taking her family 7 times a year from hundreds of miles away as a little odd. Which is irrelevant if they can afford it and the kids love it, but it's still a very limited thing to pour money and time into. And the other people who are like minded compete about it, and the whole thing just seems totally bizarre once it's taken out of the Disney cult and put into the real world.
It's been 6 or 7 years since we last we went, but once you're there you kind of get lost in your own experience and tune out a lot of this stuff. You still see it, but not to the point of annoyance. The only thing that really annoyed me there were the people that would just stop to check their phone, their map, or have a conversation in the middle of the walkways. And all the fat people on scooters.
It's a fun place to take your kids, but it's far from the end-all-be-all vacation destination. We took the kids twice, and my wife is the only one that'd go back. She floated the idea of going this year, and both kids shot the idea down.
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