it would be fun to go to disneyland and just do a CREEPY ROBOTS tour, like seek out and experience the creepiest robots disney has to offer. 'it's a small world' and all the fantasyland rides based on disney movies would be high up there.
― ban opinions (reddening), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 00:16 (twelve years ago) link
so nice to see you guys aren't cynical about Disney. I still don't give a good goddamn about Mickey and the crew but the "vacation kingdom" is a marvel of engineering and monomaniacal devotion to theme and pleasure.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 00:23 (twelve years ago) link
here in Florida I gotta deal with Facebook updates from friends and relatives in Disney at least twice a week.
re that photo above: do we have a vintage disney photo thread? i would love one.
― Mordy, Tuesday, January 24, 2012 10:46 AM (3 hours ago)
big fan of this tumblr: http://vintagedisneyparks.tumblr.com/
― ⚓ (gr8080), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 00:38 (twelve years ago) link
one of the best weekends of my life involved riding around MGM studios on bikes at 2am while the park was closed and then looting Epcot souvenir stands the following nite
― ⚓ (gr8080), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 00:39 (twelve years ago) link
ahhhh old school disneyland characters were TERRIFYING!
http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kxt46l3dxZ1qb3a81o1_500.jpg
― ban opinions (reddening), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 00:41 (twelve years ago) link
Promised my kids we would go when the younger one was 5 and the older one was 8, which is ... wow, next year. Sort of dreading it.
Btw, I know someone who grew up in Celebration!
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 00:48 (twelve years ago) link
i want to go right now tbh
― dave cool, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 01:09 (twelve years ago) link
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7169/6737015339_d0ab639f63_z.jpg
― ⚓ (gr8080), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 01:28 (twelve years ago) link
wonder if Disneyland is still the Orange County goth hangout... back in the late 90s they used to all get passes and hang out in large groups around Tomorrowland, of all places. at one point there was even a Fox News Special Report on the 'goth gangs' down at Disneyland featuring a lot of my friends.
come to think of it, Disney might have created an anti-goth dresscode eventually to deal with it
― Chris S, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 03:03 (twelve years ago) link
1956http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5145/5634788951_9b789979d4_z.jpg
― Full Frontal Newtity (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 16:51 (twelve years ago) link
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― Full Frontal Newtity (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 16:52 (twelve years ago) link
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― Full Frontal Newtity (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 16:53 (twelve years ago) link
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― Full Frontal Newtity (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 16:54 (twelve years ago) link
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― Full Frontal Newtity (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 16:55 (twelve years ago) link
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― Full Frontal Newtity (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 16:56 (twelve years ago) link
The semi-legendary "Home of Tomorrow" (sponsored by GE iirc?)http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5225/5840042754_e95619b851_z.jpg
http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5221/5839494559_dc947378e6_z.jpg
― Full Frontal Newtity (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 16:57 (twelve years ago) link
<3 these
― Aerosol, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 16:57 (twelve years ago) link
the Mark Twain (is this still there...?)http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5196/5840043022_69175fdf75_z.jpg
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3156/5839494745_4c97766c84_z.jpg
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― Full Frontal Newtity (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 16:58 (twelve years ago) link
that's it for now...
very curious about what was sold in the "Intimate Apparel" store on Main Street in 1956
― Full Frontal Newtity (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 17:02 (twelve years ago) link
Disneyland is absolutely still a goth hangout. In fact, I believe they've pulled in more stuff around Nightmare Before Christmas just to appeal to that particular demo.
I'm going in March for two days. Will be my first time checking out California Adventure? Any advice?
We are hoping to stay at the Grand Californian, which should be super awesome.
― Moodles, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 17:04 (twelve years ago) link
My son's going to lose his mind at getting to ride the Indiana Jones ride for the first time.
In related news, we vistited the Walt Disney Family Museum in San Francisco back in November and the best part was the amazing room devoted to Disneyland.
― Moodles, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 17:05 (twelve years ago) link
Grand Californian is pretty beautiful (for Disney) and actually reflects the Yosemite aesthestic super well.
― gnome (remy bean), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 17:07 (twelve years ago) link
My wife works for Disney (corporate, not the park), but we go to the park and Fastpass it often. We also always go for the employee Xmas party, which is supposedly when the park is closed to everyone but employees and their families, but it is so crowded, it could be any other night at the park.
My wife gets to see a lot of cool behind the scenes stuff though. She held the original Fuzzball puppet from Captain Eo and had a tour of Walt's park apartment - above the fire station on Main Street and still kept as if he was about to walk through the door-original kitchenware, linens and all that.
― Cane it for the original white tees (admrl), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 17:30 (twelve years ago) link
these are so good
― Mordy, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 17:36 (twelve years ago) link
those pics are great! it's really interesting to see the difference between the original fantasyland theming and the kind of style they have now -- it all looks so open and bright, almost like a carnival. you mentioned earlier shakey that disneyland seems to shut out the outside world, and i think the current fantasyland is a perfect example of that, with all the trees and tall facades making the whole thing feel like an insular little town:
http://i39.tinypic.com/30ae2vs.jpg
― ban opinions (reddening), Thursday, 26 January 2012 00:08 (twelve years ago) link
also MORE DISNEY GOSSIP regarding this alice in wonderland pic:
after 40+ years of having the little cars trundle along the outside roof of the ride like this, OSHA finally made them put fences around the whole thing this year. now it looks like this:
http://i44.tinypic.com/fyevyh.jpg
― ban opinions (reddening), Thursday, 26 January 2012 00:14 (twelve years ago) link
I should have some more from the 70s up at some point, just need to set up my new scanner
― Full Frontal Newtity (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 26 January 2012 00:16 (twelve years ago) link
these are all courtesy of my grandfather's slide collection btw
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l2qfiwqyQB1qb3a81o1_500.jpg
― Mordy, Thursday, 26 January 2012 03:47 (twelve years ago) link
Goth Disney is still a big deal: http://www.batsday.net/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bats_Day_in_the_Fun_Park
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Thursday, 26 January 2012 04:00 (twelve years ago) link
Bats Day in the Park
― Aerosol, Thursday, 26 January 2012 04:07 (twelve years ago) link
drudgesiren.gif guess who brought his manic grin and messianic offspring to the park today?
http://p.twimg.com/AkDVMAeCMAA99WC.jpg
― ban opinions (reddening), Thursday, 26 January 2012 06:56 (twelve years ago) link
comforts me somehow to know that Goth Disney is still happening
― Chris S, Thursday, 26 January 2012 08:06 (twelve years ago) link
http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lx38t90Wmq1r9ssaho1_500.jpg
walt disney invites u to take the creepy robot tour
― ban opinions (reddening), Friday, 27 January 2012 23:01 (twelve years ago) link
also AS SEEN ON PITCHFORK disney creates, hastily pulls joy division-inspired t-shirt from parks:
http://cdn.pitchfork.com/news/45229/3e26f295.jpeg
― ban opinions (reddening), Friday, 27 January 2012 23:07 (twelve years ago) link
someone will have bootleg ones on eBay within a month.
― ⚓ (gr8080), Friday, 27 January 2012 23:57 (twelve years ago) link
this morning i heard a radio interview w/ the author of this book, 'the dark side of disney,' which is basically a WDW travel guide that tells you where you can have sex in the park, how to sneak in drugs, etc.:
http://www.amazon.com/Dark-Side-Disney-ebook/dp/B005FXZOMG
kind of weirded me out to see this thread on new answers and that it had nothing to do w/ the book
― markarles (some dude), Saturday, 28 January 2012 01:35 (twelve years ago) link
http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxlaxb6pgR1r1pz1eo1_500.jpg
― Mordy, Monday, 30 January 2012 23:08 (twelve years ago) link