reddening's thread of DISNEY PARKS gossip

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.

― Mordy, Tuesday, January 24, 2012 10:46 AM (3 hours ago)

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

1956
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1958
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The semi-legendary "Home of Tomorrow" (sponsored by GE iirc?)
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<3 these

the Mark Twain (is this still there...?)
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that's it for now...

very curious about what was sold in the "Intimate Apparel" store on Main Street in 1956

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.

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.

Grand Californian is pretty beautiful (for Disney) and actually reflects the Yosemite aesthestic super well.

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.

these are so good

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:

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also MORE DISNEY GOSSIP regarding this alice in wonderland pic:

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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:

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I should have some more from the 70s up at some point, just need to set up my new scanner

these are all courtesy of my grandfather's slide collection btw

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Goth Disney is still a big deal: http://www.batsday.net/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bats_Day_in_the_Fun_Park

Bats Day in the Park

drudgesiren.gif guess who brought his manic grin and messianic offspring to the park today?

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comforts me somehow to know that Goth Disney is still happening

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walt disney invites u to take the creepy robot tour

also AS SEEN ON PITCHFORK disney creates, hastily pulls joy division-inspired t-shirt from parks:

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someone will have bootleg ones on eBay within a month.

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

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I did mushrooms when I went to disneyland during spring break in like 1999-2000.. just so happened it was also raver day so the park was full of drugged out club kids wearing the most ridiculous outfits you've ever seen. was one of the best days of my life.