Disney Adults / Disneymania

Apologies if this has already been posted, its from 2018. But I was only just made aware of it and if its not here already it desperately needs to be here.
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It's been long known that the Haunted Mansion ride is a favored place to dump ashes.
Yes, the Haunted Mansion and Pirates of the Caribbean. I don’t know if this is apocryphal or not, but I have heard the sets for those rides undergo extra cleaning because they are such popular spots to spread ashes.
 
Yes, the Haunted Mansion and Pirates of the Caribbean. I don’t know if this is apocryphal or not, but I have heard the sets for those rides undergo extra cleaning because they are such popular spots to spread ashes.
The thing that always astonishes me is that there’s fucking lore to the haunted mansion. How deep is it?

Well remember the railroad layout thing I mentioned? The one made out of the gimmicky roller coaster?

For some reason the bastards decided to connect the two together and throw in this… Really batshit insane “Romeo and Juliet but it’s an engineman and rich lady” love story with cursed Native tribal bs thrown in it.

Yes. They believe this shit. Oh there’s also a schizo who believes that and The Pirates of Caribbean ride are connected…. I’m dead serious. Here’s just one of many wonderful schizophrenic rages against god on how it’s connected.

...This is news to me but I am hardly a Disney fan.

Frankly, thats one of the most pathetic and cultureless things I have ever heard about. I can't imagine what it would be like to socially interact with the kinds of people who dump a loved ones ashes at a goddamn theme park.

I’ve heard, hell seen crazier shit before on theme park lunacy. Down where I live one of the main theme parks outside of Johnstown. Sounds normal so far right? The original owner of it was a genuine coal revenue hauling 20th Century shortline RAILROAD and placed it quite literally in the middle of their ROW and survived its closure.
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Image attached is a chartered train from the Class 1 road the short line interchanged with pulling right dead center of the theme park.

if you replace ANY of this with Disney stuff… The charm that made this so unique would be for nothing because of shilling jag-offs in their 30s crying at mediocre films. And I apologize for the TMI. I just needed to get this out before I lose it.
 
The thing that always astonishes me is that there’s fucking lore to the haunted mansion. How deep is it?

Well remember the railroad layout thing I mentioned? The one made out of the gimmicky roller coaster?

For some reason the bastards decided to connect the two together and throw in this… Really batshit insane “Romeo and Juliet but it’s an engineman and rich lady” love story with cursed Native tribal bs thrown in it.

Yes. They believe this shit. Oh there’s also a schizo who believes that and The Pirates of Caribbean ride are connected…. I’m dead serious. Here’s just one of many wonderful schizophrenic rages against god on how it’s connected.

The lore of the Haunted Mansion isn't that deep, all it is is a retirement home for ghosts, that's it, no connection to Big Thunder Mountain.

Now, the Phantom Manor and Paris' version of Big Thunder is a different matter entirely.
 
The lore of the Haunted Mansion isn't that deep, all it is is a retirement home for ghosts, that's it, no connection to Big Thunder Mountain.

Now, the Phantom Manor and Paris' version of Big Thunder is a different matter entirely.
That’s the one I’m referring to. Should’ve emphasized, my bad. Either way my point on the schizophrenic idiots on this still stands,
 
One of the rare people who is autistic enough to go pay $6,000 for a 2 person 2 nights stay at the now defunct star wars hotel but not deep enough into the Disney kool-aid to think it was worth it released a scathing 4 hour review of the hotel.


To summarize. It was more of a full day experience than just a hotel. Both days had around 8 hours (1-shift) where character actors are walking around the ship interacting with guests, and there's also a trip on a themed shuttle to the park's Star Wars Land for 4 hours on the 2nd day. They had and itinerary with events to do every hour as well as quests characters sent you over a phone app, and some were pretty inconsequential or designed with very young children in mind, but there was no way to tell which so you had to either go to everything and be micromanaged all day or risk missing out on something cool. She tried engaging with the choose your own adventure roleplay element of the experience, but it didn't really work because most of the guests weren't into it, the phone app had problems, and despite the low capacity of the hotel, there were still way too many people for the actors to provide any kind of bespoke experience to each like the marketing claimed, though the actors and the small interactions with them were still the highlight of the experience. There was also a lot of nickel and diming going on with paid add-ons everywhere which feels out of place with such a high upfront cost.

Some of the exceptionally bad moments:
  • She spent $200 to buy and have a droid figure in the gift shop mailed to her house and it got lost in the mail and Disney wouldn't refund it or correct it until she mentioned it on her high follower twitter account
  • There was an over $100 upfront upcharge to download the photos staff take of you over the trip. She bought this, there were no photographers present and she received 0 photos from this, and Disney wouldn't refund until she invoked her e-celeb status again
  • There is a musical performance at one of the dinners that was highlighted a lot in the marketing, and her table's view of it was completely blocked by a pole that likely wasn't even load-bearing
  • The phone app for tracking your familiarity and allegiances with each character was completely bugged and she got assigned to the good guy team despite hanging out with the evil guy leader and doing the evil quests the whole time.
  • It was raining at the park section of the trip, so they were given umbrellas when they left the shuttle, but they were cheap and would randomly shut
  • At the park there was a quest to scan a box. She used the apps scanner to scan it, and it said it worked, but it turned out that this was the scanner for normal park guests and for her to complete it she had to click a "?" icon on the quest screen and for some reason that is the scan button and not a help button. For another guest next to her the code just didn't work and this was apparently a common issue
  • The room had a TV that could only play Disney+. If you didn't have a Disney+ subscription, you had to either buy one or not use the TV.
  • The room had a window into space in it, but it was surrounded by LED light strips, so you couldn't sleep with it on, but apparently some Disney adults coped with this by bringing duct-tape to their $6000 hotel room to cover them up
But apparently this $300 million attraction that was so bad and poorly priced that it had to shut down in its second year of operation has vehement offenders who cope that it wasn't overpriced or bad, the general public was just too stupid to appreciate it, and there is a subreddit (/r/GalacticStarcruiser) of them seething over this video.

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Addressing a point in the video where she was given a limited time mission to do while they were already seated at a scheduled dinner and assumed it was a software bug:

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And here's two from an unrelated thread that I'm including because it's the most soy thing I've read in my life

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She also breaks down the costs and the value of the experience at the end, coming to the conclusion that it should be priced in the 800 dollar ranger per person. She also tackles some of the "its actually a great" cope from social media too.

Not at all a channel I would personally follow aside from this one video, but a very well done autopsy on something that was very clearly going to be a disaster from day 1 (hence why I followed it once they dropped that preview video).
 
Am I a Disney adult if I only like Disney shows and not Disney movies?
What is a Disney Adult?
A Disney Adult is hard to define, but much like Justice Potter Stewart's famous quote about porn, you know it when you see it.
A Disney Adult is not just someone who might enjoy the company's IP, or who has fond memories of films or trips to the parks, nor are they even a family who indulges occasionally as a tradition with their children. Instead, the Disney Adult goes further beyond.
These individuals define themselves by what they consume, and have made their consumption of Disney products and parks part of their core identity.
They are pueri aeterni of the modern era. Peter Pan fans with Peter Pan syndrome. They generally tend to be childless millennials, but a hot young crop of zoomers is hot on their tail, as is reflected in the park visitor data:
Its from the OP
 
the fact that these people had to wait for disney to offer them an opportunity to effortlessly do what we in the business used to refer to as "making OCs" is telling
something creative kids do for fun needed to be 'officialized' for these adults who supposedly have childlike minds and spirits

this here is the difference, for me, between "childlike" and "childish"
 
Tried to quote that one post Soyjak Enjoyer posted but fucking wow. That's one helluva trip.
 
OK so obviously as a follower of this thread I love dunking on these people. But I have never known any personally. Its one of those things I only ever really experience vicariously through the internet like pooners and reply guy anime profile schizophrenics.

But today it became real.

A friend of mine's younger sister is marrying into a family of Disney Adults. Now, she goes with them on their big (adult) family trips down to Disney World on a at least four times a year basis. There, they maximize their time by staying awake the ENTIRE 3-4 day time period they are there. Never sleeping to get maximum time active in the park. Also, we are nowhere near Disney World, geographically, so their trips must either take days of driving or a flight to do.

I cannot emphasize how disturbing this revelation is. At least it isn't my friend directly but a sibling. But I can only imagine what goes through her mind with this now happening.
 
OK so obviously as a follower of this thread I love dunking on these people. But I have never known any personally. Its one of those things I only ever really experience vicariously through the internet like pooners and reply guy anime profile schizophrenics.

But today it became real.

A friend of mine's younger sister is marrying into a family of Disney Adults. Now, she goes with them on their big (adult) family trips down to Disney World on a at least four times a year basis. There, they maximize their time by staying awake the ENTIRE 3-4 day time period they are there. Never sleeping to get maximum time active in the park. Also, we are nowhere near Disney World, geographically, so their trips must either take days of driving or a flight to do.

I cannot emphasize how disturbing this revelation is. At least it isn't my friend directly but a sibling. But I can only imagine what goes through her mind with this now happening.
Two thing I want to say on that.

First, I pray for your safety. Have the good lord by your side during your darkest days. Second, holy shit the mental image of reading this in Zorak’s voice from Space Ghost is now forever engrained in my mind. I cannot unsee this as an actual skit from the show.
 
and there is a subreddit (/r/GalacticStarcruiser)
This subreddit is making my eyes cross.
Really missing the space fam
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That's $24,000 minimum? And since it appears they didn't go by themselves, that's what, $12,000 or $18,000 or whatever per visit, times four?

What the hell? How can people so retarded have so much money? (Though I guess that's one of the overarching themes of this thread, it appears, so I guess I shouldn't be that surprised.)
 
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