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You can get a second Fastpass if you approach the fifteen-minute window of the first -- at least in WDW.

whoa, neat!

1 day in Magic Kingdom
1 day in Animal Kingdom & Epcot (together)
1 day at Sea World

Sound good? I would skip Sea World but girlfriend is a big coaster fiend, and I don't think I can get away w/o going to another park outside Disney. I don't like coasters terribly much, so I figure Sea World might be kind of fun when she's whipping around upside down.

if you have a smartphone, i believe there's an app that shows you the wait times for all the rides. there's one for disneyland at least, i'm sure wdw has one too.

Confession: ten trips to WDW since '98, still haven't visited Animal Kingdom.

I would go for Universal Studios for your coaster needs.

Is Disneyland a completely different beast than WDW? We are tentatively considering a West Coast trip and loved WDW so much that Disneyland is under consideration.

Animal Kingdom is great. Not sure about feasibility of doing AK + Epcot on the same day, though. Epcot is my fave park. Also you're going to miss MGM? Tower of Terror is classic. Other good stuff (like 3D Muppet Movie! Star Wars ride!) worth doing there too.

Is Disneyland a completely different beast than WDW?

yes. it's much smaller for one thing.

I would go to MGM instead of Sea World and ride Tower of Terror and Aerosmith roller coaster which are both thrillier rides than most of WDW attractions.

also it's way older, there's stuff there from the 50s

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There's no comparison: WDW is immersive. You can hang out in a Disney hotel playing golf, swimming, eating, and hanging with bros and not step foot in a park.

even the drive into the Magic Kingdom represents a triumph of Walt Disney learning from the mistakes of Disneyland. You drive further and further north until you're forced to park at the Transportation and Ticket Center, and even then you still can't see the park until you're on the monorail or ferry boat.

mistakes!

Also you're going to miss MGM? Tower of Terror is classic.

Isn't MGM now called Disney Hollywood Studios? Is that the same thing? We've done Muppets and Star Wars in California, so really we'd only be going for Tower of Terror.

I like the idea of Epcot, but a lot of what I've read says it's very out of date, and I don't want to invest myself in too much hoakum.

I remember it so fondly from the '87, I'm worried it won't hold up

Disney regretted the development around the Disneyland park.

Epoct is by far the best park! It's the one with all the restaurants, and you can Drink Around the World.

I've never been to WDW but yeah it seems much closer to, like, an actual functioning city or resort town than Disneyland, which is very much an amusement park.

I am also very fond of Disneyland's original inspiration (which is even smaller in scale), Children's Fairyland in Oakland.

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some parts of epcot are out of date (like the technology pavilion, the growing grain pavilion, and the communications throughout history pavilion) but they're out of date in an incredibly sincere optimistic way about the future of humanity and the promise of technology. it's a very renewing experience!

Hollywood Studios is the one to miss if you can't do them all, but I had the most fun on the Toy Story Midway Mania ride there, and my coaster-loving other half loved the Rock'n'Rollercoaster.

End your Animal Kingdom/Epcot day at Epcot for the IllumiNations show, do Animal Kingdom in the morning.

Epcot is really the only thing I am curious about at WDW

Yeah. Future World doesn't feel dowdy.

Epcot is the one park in which I feel no pressure to ride anything. You can walk with a beer and soak it in.

Okay, we'll do Epcot. Only thing: neither of us drink. Will it still be fun? We can afford three days at theme parks. We both want to do Animal Kingdom (suckers for giraffes), and obv. Magic Kingdom. Epcot would be our third day, just want to make sure it's a good call, and that we're not gonna regret skipping Sea World and/or Universal Studios.

Cheers all, I realised it was smaller and older, is it just that it's not so Disneyfied? We stayed offsite in Orlando, but visited a park about 10 out of our 14 days. This would just be because we're there and wouldn't be the major point of our trip.

if anything it's MORE Disneyfied

basically every ride/feature is tied to a specific Disney film or property

Ah, cool. I think I meant how WDW is so immersive with hotels and transport and whathaveyou, I sort of feel Disneyland seems more pop in then pop out again as opposed to being swallowed up in the whole culture of it. I may have this all wrong in my head.

yeah, i think the fact that it's older + smaller actually makes it ideal for a "just popping by" trip. also the new cars land is going to open this summer, presumably with new rides that haven't made it to wdw yet? i heard one of the new rides is going to be like the old flying saucer ride and i am psyyyyyyyched

I dunno when yr in Disneyland you are IN Disneyland, the outside world sort of ceases to exist, there are no signs of it. in my humble opinion anyway.

rumor: Ratatouille ride at Parc Disneyland Paris coming soon

I highly recommend Disney lovers make a trip to Disneyland Paris. you're gonna think: I came all the way out here & you're expecting me to do something American? but the park's a masterpiece of design, even among the other Disney parks: compact & intricate, & yet you don't see e.g. Space Mountain when you're walking through other parts of the park (unless you climb something to see it). It doesn't feel as huge as the FLA parks, but it is; it's just more tightly woven.

plus it's fun to compare tourists from e.g. Spain & Italy to those from e.g. Missouri & Ohio.

next month i'm going to disneyland for the first time. i've never done any disney thing, never wanted to, but i'm being taken there by a person who is a big fan from childhood. i'm excited to do the lame stuff, like see the singing parrots and the hall of presidents or whatever it is.

in the tiki tiki tiki tiki tiki room

LOVE THAT SHIT

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.

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.

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.

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big fan of this tumblr: http://vintagedisneyparks.tumblr.com/

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

ahhhh old school disneyland characters were TERRIFYING!

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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!

i want to go right now tbh

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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

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Yes! My BIL is an exec producer at Disney Pictures and offered us 40% off for Disney Hotels (there's 3 at DL) and the cheapest was $590/night with that discount.

But think of the giant stuffed animals who will come say hi in the middle of your dinner.

Fortunately there are a million places to stay between Anaheim and Los Angeles. There's a reason why the Disney parking lot is so huge.

It's funny, I had some friends who were deep into the "Disney is the antichrist and our children must never be exposed to it" zone and I learned to tolerate and respect their position, even though it seemed like dramatic goth posturing and I wanted to roll my eyes at it. I think my growth experience has been more learning to accept what other people hate than what they like tbh

― ding us a dong, you're the gamelan (Noodle Vague),

I don't like Disney characters, love Walt Disney World. My best friend is getting married there next April.

― hungover beet poo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, July 12, 2025 5:21 AM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Well, that's.... um

― Mark G, Saturday, July 12, 2025 8:08 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

It's fun, with little of the forced jollity we're used to.

Whiney's a fan too: reddening's thread of DISNEY PARKS gossip

― hungover beet poo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, July 12, 2025 8:19 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

If we're rolling into this sidetrack then yeah, I'm not a committed Disneyite but those parks fully commit to a bit and it's kind of glorious

― ding us a dong, you're the gamelan (Noodle Vague), Saturday, July 12, 2025 8:30 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

As someone who can’t live without the ‘Little April Showers’ sequence in Bambi or the enchanted dinnerware numbers in Beauty and the Beast, i think Disney’s hygienic fascism and fusion of Euro-fetish with supernaturally rich and alluring color have done a great deal to promote the association of whiteness racial purity with safety. Can’t fault the haters too much.

― doe on a hill (Deflatormouse), Saturday, July 12, 2025 9:03 AM (forty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Disney in its neolib fashion has gone a long way to redress that deserved criticism, I gather, from the number of Black and brown heroes and heroines since the late '90s (my youngest niece sure loved her Tiana doll).

― hungover beet poo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, July 12, 2025 9:07 AM (forty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Also: a considerable number of WDW employees in the Orlando area are gay boricuas.

― hungover beet poo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, July 12, 2025 9:08 AM (forty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

"disney people" are horrible monsters without personality imo. i don't think i'll ever forget the time i went to disneyland as a 13yo and finally registered that the place was miserable instead of wonderful. but i don't have kids and i'll never need to revise this opinion

― ivy., Saturday, July 12, 2025 9:17 AM (thirty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah my only visit to DL was when I was a 15yo sarcasm demon. back in 1994 the normalness was overwhelming and horrifying. no idea what I'd think now tbf (still possessed by sarcasm so prob similar)

― rob, Saturday, July 12, 2025 9:32 AM (fifteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

LOL, the worlds happiest prison

― doe on a hill (Deflatormouse), Saturday, July 12, 2025 9:35 AM (thirteen minutes ago)

My only actual experience with Disney theme parks was Eurodisney, which I gather is still universally seen as the crap one, and yeah it was a miserable experience - I think my parents timed it just a year or two too late so that I was growing out of my Disney interests at the time. I remember it being strangely unpopulated with characters (only met the strange duo of Goofy and Friar Tuck) and just general bad vibes.

That being said I have found this thread engrossing and can totally get the appeal of a fully artificial environment as some sort of immersive art experience (wish I could put that better because actual things billing themselves as immersive experiences are always the pits ime), tho I suspect I'll keep my interest vicarious instead of actually going anytime soon.

Re: racial representation in Disney, remains to be seen whether they'll go back on that now that diversity isn't cool in the corporate world anymore.

I do really like some things about Disney! I think in the list your favorite movie genres thread i wrote “talking animals and animate objects”
I didn’t take Aladdin as much of a compliment, and that’s what i was thinking of re: your previous posts. since then Moana might be the only one i’ve seen? Yeah, i think they got a bit better.

― doe on a hill (Deflatormouse), Saturday, July 12, 2025 9:58 AM (twenty-six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Sorry, i missed the migration
I’m not a hater, Disney had a big influence on my life in both positive and negative ways, the polarity is pretty extreme i would say, ‘animate objects/Aladdin’ sums it up

The idea of dragging a sulking teenager to Disney World as punishment is fucking hilarious tho

I’ll stand by Encanto being one of the best kids’ because she was films of the decade.

Apparently there have been three deaths at Disney World in the last 10 days, two of them suicides.