Tiktok is a mistake
Are you seeking validation for your own habits? If what you have bought is truly valuable to you then you should not feel the need to seek validation for it, but if your purchases were merely meant to cement your identity then it is only natural that you now find yourself here seeking validation for them.
I have a 700 wpm typing speed and I use a 35-year-old Melmer-Sordo marlin XT-5 keyboard that I bought for $2.
I think, for a lot of these, you really have to see the rest of the room. If it's a semi-normal house with one startlingly large display case full of toys, that's one thing. If it's a house that is either A) totally full of toys or B) half full of toys and otherwise totally lacking personal touches, that's something else.
It'll likely get worse, tbh. I know a lady who is retired and obsessed with Disney World, she goes every year either with her (adult) daughter or with a friend. And when the subject comes up in conversation she'll go on an autistic half-hour long sperg about how wonderful Disney is, and how it's totally worth the money and far better than a cruise or tropical vacation or any other kind of vacation.
Yeah, if Disney gets into a kid's brain at a young enough age, they're usually in for life. They go after kids harder than a pedophile and they sink those fangs in deep.
That makes me curious as to what would have happened if I ever went as a kid. I know I would have been bored as hell. just wanting to go back to the hotel room to play my GameBoy or something.
I did go as a kid, once, and once again as an adult. It was actually a pretty good park and I appreciated it as an amusement park but even as a kid I was cynical enough to not trust advertising due to my parents and grandparents raising me to be skeptical of claims made by strangers. I think it really depends on how you raise your kids, I really enjoyed museums as a kid, even museums that didn't try to appeal to kids.
I went to Disneyland once as a kid, probably 10-11 years old. Boring as fuck. I have never been more underwhelmed by a theme park. I've been dragged to Disneyworld as an adult on a couple occasions, and it's just as dreadfully dull as it was back on the west coast only much bigger, more spread out and with about a hundred times as many credit card readers.
Funnily enough, when I went to Disneyworld back when I was like 10, my mom insisted we avoid Magic Kingdom cause it was way too crowded and commit our 5 day stay to Epcot and some adjacent water parks instead. I didn’t give a fuckshit about Disney properties anyway and had more fun just browsing Epcot’s little exhibits of different world cultures. I probably avoided the more obnoxious Disney fanatics in doing so anyway.
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Pretty much. Yeah.
Eeeeeeeeeexactly. Way later on, I realized I would have been down there while Nickelodeon Studios was still open, and I'm sure if I caught wind of that, I'd have wanted to go there instead. They also had that Back to the Future ride.
It probably would have bugged me, too, and yeah, I'm sure I'd only really want to see Epcot. Not that I'd go out of my way to see it, but it'd just be something to do that I'd at least get something out of, ironically, considering it's supposed to be a child-centric wonderland that costs a small fortune to even just visit.
Millenials grew up in the late eighties through the late nineties, this was the Disney Renaissance era. From 1989-1999 Disney studios would produce almost all of it's most famous animated works one right after the other, you know the ones they keep remaking ad-nauseum? All from that span of years. Disney also saw massive success in television animation during that era as well as things like Radio Disney and what not.
Atlantis and Treasure Planet are based Aryan / Anglo Saxon Adventurism films.
The two that I watched from that era were Aladdin and The Lion King, probably both on VHS because I would have been super young when those were new. But, I honestly don't remember any other kids being especially into anything Disney produced at the time, let alone any of my childhood friends. There was tons of excellent children's entertainment back then, and I'd probably have been (rightfully) called a fag if I wanted to watch Pocahontas over Power Rangers.
I grew up right on the tail end of all that shit and a lot of kids liked Disney but Star Wars was making a huge comeback and anime was starting to become more widely available with better localizations and so most of us watched that shit instead.
Same here grew up on the tail end of that wave but Star Wars we’re huge for me as a kid, especially the first two lego Star Wars games. I remember going to my cousins house (they were significantly order from 6-10 years) and they had a big collection of Disney VHSs. For some reason I was fascinated by Pocahontas 2 because I wanted to see more English colonialism and I wanted to see where the based colonizers came from.
I had all the Disney animated films growing up and I liked most of them but they never became anything more than just good movies to me. I was never asking for Disney toys or merch as a kid, I wanted Power Rangers and Star Wars and mangas. Even for western animation the non-Diney studio films left a larger impression on me as a kid, movies like Balto, Secret of NIMH, An American Tale, Road To El Dorado, and even Anastasia wowed me more as a kid due to their generally more serious tones.
