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Truthfully many of the poeple shoving that type of money at least on IG and stuff are "welfare rich" meaning they use money given to them by the govt for food etc to book trips or buy expensive shit.
Disney Adults / Disneymania
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That whole category is such a fucking mystery to me. I don't get it. Are they just in constant debt? What is their reality like?
While we're here, I found this on DISboards from all the way back in 2007:
Here's a thing from Quora:
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From the clients I've run into like that they just really know how to game the system and also know that if worse comes to worse just declare bankruptcy and start again.
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I think they are more of an unintentional side effect. With the rising prices its more that Disney has always had trouble with park capacity. You want more ticket sales for more money but the more people you let in the worse the experience is for everyone (read the rich) who then leave for other parks. Ergo by bumping up prices you force out all the filthy plebs while keeping the people who spend a shit ton of money. In this case the only people left in the park are the rich, middle class families who save up for a while to go all out on a once a decade/lifetime disney trip, and the childless fanatics. Out of those 3 the fanatics are probably the least useful in terms of park revenue since they arent buying all the expensive family stuff but they come so often and often just buy food so they aren't ruining ride queues so Disney wont snub its nose at free profit. Where I think Disney fanatics are more profitable is in terms of merch and food (both on and off park) as its like having a child's id with the disposable income access of an adult.
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The only competitor to Disney is Universal. Six Flags, Cedar Fair, are just up jumped Carnivals with roller coasters once you go to those.
Bush Gardens / Sea World and Knotts Berry Farm are local things to do but they aint draws like Disney and Universal are where people fly to the city just to go there. Even Universal is less of a draw than Disney is. You arent getting Canadians coming down to Universal without Disney visit snuck in. The opposite is not true. They will come down to just do Disney World.
Universal still pegs to Disney prices with tweaks. I do think what they offer is more fairly priced. Its just movie theatre level gouging instead of Disney level gouging.
Epic Universe is gonna be interesting. If its successful Disney is gonna be put on actual notice. The theme park industry in Orlando is incestous. They bounce back and forth between Disney and Universal to get raises/promotions all the time. The guy who did Diagon Alley did Galaxys Edge for Disney. I do hear that Universal is trying harder to keep their people with them. Especially the Horror Nights team. How Disney hasnt delivered a competitor product for that is pretty interesting.
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Perhaps Dumbo-sized is more apropos.
(couldn't find a pic of the original Dumbo next to a human for scale)
MS Paint Gigachad
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ah fuck it. why not go all the way and say The-Fucking-whale-from-Pinocchio-sized
EDIT: the name is monstro
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Heffalump sized all right!
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Heffalump sized all right!
What is it about the Heffalups and Woozels sequence that gives so many people nightmares? It's like a known thing to such an extent someone made a Neon Genesis Evangelion AMV about it.
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I’d say it’s the dark atmosphere combined with the uncanny singing, character designs, and backgrounds which can easily be creepy to young kids. Much like the Pink Elephants from Dumbo. The Heffalumps and Woozles made me uneasy as a kid myself and I was particularly freaked out when they turned into hot air balloons. The sequence is so cool to me now as an adult LOL.
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Child endangerment
Here's the video she mentions:
Here's the video she mentions:
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I can tell these people don't use guns because they know nothing of ballistics. It isn't just the kid's height, but his mass that's gonna keep his ass in the seat. That little stunt could have sent him flying. You nearly killed your son. Good fucking job.
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It's so fucking weird how these people are enslaved to didney whorl. The reckless child endangerment for instant gratification is amazing.
My first girlfriend was one of these disney adults, in fact we broke up because she fucked off to go work at the Magic Kingdom as part of their college-student-indentured-servitude program. In hindsight, nothing of value was lost but I was pretty fucking mad about it at the time.
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A bit late to the party but I'm so gratified that this subculture has a thread, It's fine to like Disney and be in touch with your inner child to an extent, but when you infantilise yourself and make your entire identity about children's media company and shill out thousands of dollars worth on merch and kiddy stuff, that when it becomes creepy and sad. I dated a disney employee who later turned out to be a nice if not the most mentally unstable and bolemic-ridden dangerhair with more mood swings than Pluto T shirts. This shit isn't healthy and its sad its become so normalised.
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Disney's New Wedding-Dress Collection Features These Major 2023 Bridal Trends
Source: https://www.popsugar.co.uk/fashion/disney-fairy-tale-weddings-collection-2023-49094633?stream_view=1Archive: https://archive.is/tVLyV
There are seven pages of these.
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For a little bit of context for all this from someone that knows a fair deal about it.
There are essentially two whole different worlds when it comes to Disney, both as a company and among the fans, the movies and the theme parks, a lot of people are more fans of the movies and a lot of people are way more fans of the parks than they care about the movies, though obviously there's still a lot of overlap.
But there are times when the movies were doing well but not so much the parks and vice versa.
For example, the 90s is considered a high point for the movies but among older hardcore fans a bad time for the theme parks, as some iconic attractions closed and some new things were seen as meh.
On the flipside the era of WDW older fans are obsessed with is the 70s and 80s, which were a time in which the movie division (up until the late 80s) had largely gone to seed (maybe because the company focused more on the parks?), then there's going into the era of Walt's actual lifetime but almost always if you're obsessed with the era of the man himself, you love at the first ten or so years of WDW as it's seen as very much keeping the "spirit" of Walt alive.
Basically among older fans there's a narrative that Disney jumped the shark as far back as the 1990s, at least when it comes to the parks, some people point to the death of Frank Wells and the subsequent lack of tard wrangling from him as when Eisner started to really become shitty.
But these modern Disney adults seem to be pretty much just obsessed with the Eisner era and Iger era and are ambivalent to actively hostile to anything older, with the exception of some of the classic aspects of the parks, which still wouldn't stop them from applauding anything being torn down and replaced in the name of Wokeness (see: Splash Mountain)
This is a very big change from the fandom I knew from a decade ago in which there was heavily the narrative that Disney had already lost it's way and the past was better, this has now been replaced by a generation of people that swallow whatever slop they're fed with a smile on their face and get angry if you say things used to be better.
There are essentially two whole different worlds when it comes to Disney, both as a company and among the fans, the movies and the theme parks, a lot of people are more fans of the movies and a lot of people are way more fans of the parks than they care about the movies, though obviously there's still a lot of overlap.
But there are times when the movies were doing well but not so much the parks and vice versa.
For example, the 90s is considered a high point for the movies but among older hardcore fans a bad time for the theme parks, as some iconic attractions closed and some new things were seen as meh.
On the flipside the era of WDW older fans are obsessed with is the 70s and 80s, which were a time in which the movie division (up until the late 80s) had largely gone to seed (maybe because the company focused more on the parks?), then there's going into the era of Walt's actual lifetime but almost always if you're obsessed with the era of the man himself, you love at the first ten or so years of WDW as it's seen as very much keeping the "spirit" of Walt alive.
Basically among older fans there's a narrative that Disney jumped the shark as far back as the 1990s, at least when it comes to the parks, some people point to the death of Frank Wells and the subsequent lack of tard wrangling from him as when Eisner started to really become shitty.
But these modern Disney adults seem to be pretty much just obsessed with the Eisner era and Iger era and are ambivalent to actively hostile to anything older, with the exception of some of the classic aspects of the parks, which still wouldn't stop them from applauding anything being torn down and replaced in the name of Wokeness (see: Splash Mountain)
This is a very big change from the fandom I knew from a decade ago in which there was heavily the narrative that Disney had already lost it's way and the past was better, this has now been replaced by a generation of people that swallow whatever slop they're fed with a smile on their face and get angry if you say things used to be better.
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Disney has had very mixed results with actually scary things in the parks, I can see them not being in any rush to try to pull in the Horror Nights crowd.
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I originally read the 'All Parents' section in one of the graphs in the OP as 'All Perverts' and it fit so well that it took a few minutes before I had to face my disappointment with the actuality (which may technically be true, but they're still all normie degens of the highest order).
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When I couldn't ride California Screamin in California Adventure due to being too short I just cried to my mom while the rest of my family went on it. It sucked but there was always next time.
There's also plenty of other rides to go on without meeting height requirements. Padding your child's height to bypass their safety is absurd and the fact the parents think they didn't endanger their kids with this shit for Tiktok fame really shows.
As much as I remotely like Disney stuff and the parks from a distance, the amount of people that make it their entire personality is pretty horrifying. Thank you for this thread OP, it's an enjoyable read.
Geddy Lee's Fee and See
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Yeah, that kid is not even 7 from the looks of things (I am bad at guessing ages so he might even be as young as 4). He basically has no inertia to counteract the fucking acceleration shifts that the faster rides can actually throw at him. Like, there is a good fucking reason why they have those height signs up there: they are basically making a reasonable guess about how much you weigh on average and don't want anyone to be killed. Just do bumper carts or the tea kettle rides with a kid that young. You already seem to go to Disney often. He can ride that shit when he's old enough to actually be that tall naturally.