my father was a musician at disneyland on-and-off from the early eighties to ~2004, so my sisters and i spent a lot of time there + had a bunch of people in our peer group who worked there. i've probably told this story on ilx before, but i took a college creative writing course with one of the guys who played Goofy; he was very tall and strange and every story he submitted had something to do with infant and/or child murder.
― ban opinions (reddening), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 21:24 (twelve years ago) link
moral of the story: stay away from Goofy
― Full Frontal Newtity (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 21:26 (twelve years ago) link
garsh
― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 21:28 (twelve years ago) link
i haven't seen that guy in 10 years but there's an ~85% chance he currently posts to reddit
― ban opinions (reddening), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 21:31 (twelve years ago) link
rip skyway ride
― Aerosol, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 21:33 (twelve years ago) link
in ref to those pics obv
unfortunately can't get to my 50s-60s photos, waiting for flickr to unlock/renew my account arrgh
― Full Frontal Newtity (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 21:34 (twelve years ago) link
http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltt5kzPqxh1qbh9d4o1_500.jpg
also RIP: creepy waving dolls inside Sleeping Beauty's Castle
― ban opinions (reddening), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 21:37 (twelve years ago) link
i miss you, disneyland :(
― chaki, Tuesday, February 12, 2008
― Aerosol, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 21:38 (twelve years ago) link
ohhh just realized you can see Monstro the whale in the background of Shakey's first pic! <3
also i covet the shirt the girl in the lower left corner is wearing
― ban opinions (reddening), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 21:47 (twelve years ago) link
so.... gossip?
― Mordy, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 21:55 (twelve years ago) link
here is some gossip for you: last week, Disneyland quietly hooked up the Roger Rabbit's Cartoon Spin Fastpass system to the park-wide network of Fastpasses! for the last decade you could go get a Fastpass for the ride and it wouldn't count against your limited Fastpass total, because it wasn't hooked up to the main network. now you have to either waste a good Fastpass on Roger Rabbit or wait in line, which is of course fascist bullshit.
― ban opinions (reddening), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 22:09 (twelve years ago) link
this is an outrage
― Full Frontal Newtity (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 22:14 (twelve years ago) link
oh man, i abused the fuck out of the fastpass last time i went cause i was there with my whole family and a bunch of peeps didn't want to ride the fastpass rides so i just grabbed fastpasses with all their tickets and had like five fastpasses at one time
― Mordy, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 22:45 (twelve years ago) link
how do the fastpasses work?
― Full Frontal Newtity (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 22:46 (twelve years ago) link
instead of waiting in line you go to a machine for the line and swipe your ticket and get a fastpass. the fastpass has a time on it and if you come back at that time you basically get automatic admission to the ride. but you can only have like 1 (or 2?) at a time
― Mordy, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 22:49 (twelve years ago) link
iirc
yeah, i think it goes: you get a fastpass with a return time on it, and then you can't get another one until it's that return time. however, if the return time is way later in the day, you can get another one two hours after you picked up the first one.
― ban opinions (reddening), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 22:55 (twelve years ago) link
I am going to WDW in April. I am very excited. What are your pro tips, ILX friends?
― gnome (remy bean), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 22:55 (twelve years ago) link
use your fastpass.
find hidden mickeys.
get autograph book + have characters sign it
get the secret character phone number and call in to stalk, uh, hunt down, uh, find your fave characters.
― Mordy, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 22:56 (twelve years ago) link
playing drinking around the world where you drink at every country in epcot world pavilion. ride the troll ride.
― Mordy, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 22:57 (twelve years ago) link
ride the troll ride. 4chanstorm
You can get a second Fastpass if you approach the fifteen-minute window of the first -- at least in WDW.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 22:58 (twelve years ago) link
whoa, neat!
1 day in Magic Kingdom1 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.
― gnome (remy bean), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 22:59 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― ban opinions (reddening), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 23:01 (twelve years ago) link
Confession: ten trips to WDW since '98, still haven't visited Animal Kingdom.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 23:01 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― ailsa, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 23:04 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Mordy, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 23:04 (twelve years ago) link
Is Disneyland a completely different beast than WDW?
yes. it's much smaller for one thing.
― Full Frontal Newtity (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 23:05 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Mordy, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 23:05 (twelve years ago) link
also it's way older, there's stuff there from the 50s
xp
― Full Frontal Newtity (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 23:06 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 23:06 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 23:07 (twelve years ago) link
mistakes!
― Full Frontal Newtity (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 23:08 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― gnome (remy bean), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 23:08 (twelve years ago) link
I remember it so fondly from the '87, I'm worried it won't hold up
Disney regretted the development around the Disneyland park.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 23:08 (twelve years ago) link
Epoct is by far the best park! It's the one with all the restaurants, and you can Drink Around the World.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 23:09 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Full Frontal Newtity (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 23:09 (twelve years ago) link
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!
― Mordy, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 23:10 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― ailsa, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 23:10 (twelve years ago) link
Epcot is really the only thing I am curious about at WDW
― Full Frontal Newtity (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 23:11 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah. Future World doesn't feel dowdy.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 23:11 (twelve years ago) link
Epcot is the one park in which I feel no pressure to ride anything. You can walk with a beer and soak it in.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 23:13 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― gnome (remy bean), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 23:13 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― ailsa, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 23:14 (twelve years ago) link
if anything it's MORE Disneyfied
― Full Frontal Newtity (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 23:16 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― ailsa, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 23:19 (twelve years ago) link
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
― ban opinions (reddening), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 23:20 (twelve years ago) link
Wow. I'd buy a ticket right now ... were it not for the potentially deadly pandemic overwhelmingly spread among groups and specifically affecting Florida right now, which is why there are no crowds. But no crowds! I'd buy a ticket right now ... were it not for ...
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 4 August 2020 21:30 (three years ago) link
The Disney pandemic experience pic.twitter.com/yJYo6MeZJc— Wagatwe Wanjuki 🇰🇪 🇧🇸 (@wagatwe) December 1, 2020
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 22:50 (three years ago) link
I have a friend who took their family to Shanghai Disneyland yesterday and took a lot of IG stories. First things I noticed: no masks, maybe slightly reduced capacity but there looked like pretty long lines for the Tron ride, they were able to cram the whole park in a day.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 23:51 (three years ago) link
That park has been reopened since May 11th!!!
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 23:53 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3OnQ1CTkkM
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 2 January 2021 21:08 (three years ago) link
this is art
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Sunday, 3 January 2021 22:00 (three years ago) link
Jungle Cruise about to be less racist
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2021-01-25/disneyland-plotting-long-overdue-changes-to-the-jungle-cruise
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 25 January 2021 22:40 (three years ago) link
https://www.tiktok.com/@metaphoricallychallenged/video/6901315384029351174
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Friday, 5 March 2021 21:15 (three years ago) link
https://www.tiktok.com/@showmelovejete/video/6940050692551822598
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Friday, 2 April 2021 22:10 (three years ago) link
Just licking toads to see what happens
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Saturday, 3 April 2021 02:12 (three years ago) link
https://apnews.com/article/business-lifestyle-entertainment-travel-arts-and-entertainment-071c80ae6c0dabe6e1afbc3b59240131
This is cool
― licorice in the front, pizza in the rear (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 1 October 2021 15:43 (two years ago) link
Rolly Crump has passed. Man, the impact!
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2023-03-13/rolly-crump-dead-disneyland-designer
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 13 March 2023 20:25 (one year ago) link
Those who know, know.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/10/dining/disneyland-disney-world-restaurants-food.html
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 10 April 2023 17:24 (one year ago) link
Separately I am delighted to realize that whatever else with Gawker at least their 'Best Restaurant' series with Rich Juzwiak and Caity Weaver is still up as a subdomain and therefore their extensive grading of nearly everything possible in Epcot is too:
https://bestrestaurant.gawker.com/the-best-restaurant-in-the-world-is-disneys-epcot-them-1700655297
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 10 April 2023 17:26 (one year ago) link
(Though it looks like the links from that overall page aren't working, but if you go to https://bestrestaurant.gawker.com/ itself they seem to be. And so, the key one for Alfred remains:
https://bestrestaurant.gawker.com/shot-sake-margarita-slush-the-best-drinking-around-1699537518
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 10 April 2023 17:27 (one year ago) link
Also, separately, maybe I need to finally go to Disney World?
https://www.foodandwine.com/disney-wine-bar-george-7371523
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 11 April 2023 03:24 (one year ago) link
It's fine? The food, that is.
― the very juice and sperm of kindness. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 11 April 2023 04:45 (one year ago) link
I once had a dole whip at the grand rapids john ball zoo that was so good because I didn't pay $120 for the opportunity.
― Cinta Kaz is comin' to town (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 11 April 2023 05:57 (one year ago) link
.@RobertIger to the state of Florida: FAFO“Disney pulls plug on $1 billion development in Florida” via @NYTimes https://t.co/FEr9UgBM9p#FlaPol— Peter Schorsch (@PeterSchorschFL) May 18, 2023
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 18 May 2023 18:46 (eleven months ago) link
They're also closing the immersive Star Wars hotel, which is one of the only contemporary Star Wars things that sounds remotely interesting
― young sussy (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 18 May 2023 19:52 (eleven months ago) link
Wow, didn't last long
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Thursday, 18 May 2023 20:05 (eleven months ago) link
I don't really gaf about Star Wars, but I really love the idea of an immersive hotel, and would absolutely love to stay in an immersive hotel for two days.
Galaxy Cruiser seems absolutely in tune with the age of Sleep No More, escape rooms, Meow Wolf, Instagram "museums," etc.
Unfortunately it ALSO seemed in tune with a US economy that increasingly only seems to cater to the needs and wants of the wealthy. Disney stuff was never CHEAP but it always seemed like the type of thing a family like the Griswolds could save up for and enjoy. I did 8 days @ Disney World with my wife in 2014. We stayed at a midprice hotel and still balled out one night at Victoria & Alberts. It was, again, not cheap, but not prohibitively expensive: something I could def do on a music writer's salary
These days it really seems like the whole thing is just made to milk Disney Adults with the ability and desire to drop $4k on a weekend.
― young sussy (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 18 May 2023 20:28 (eleven months ago) link
The idea for this sounded neat, but I heard nothing positive about it when it opened, and it seemed insanely expensive even for a Disney property, which are all overpriced. But still, I would have thought they'd figure out a way to make it work given the massive popularity of SW stuff.
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Thursday, 18 May 2023 20:33 (eleven months ago) link
A relatively low occupancy, luxury priced "immersive" (do the toilets look like RSD2?) experience has got to be about as precarious a concept as some super pricey fine-dining spots (many of which are struggling). Expensive is one thing, expensive and a pain in the ass is another.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 18 May 2023 21:15 (eleven months ago) link
stayed at a midprice hotel and still balled out one night at Victoria & Alberts.
My guy.
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 18 May 2023 21:17 (eleven months ago) link
I wanna say I went on your recco, but I'm not sure
― young sussy (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 18 May 2023 23:05 (eleven months ago) link
also shout out to Victoria & Alberts who hooked me up with 100% Japanese waygu beef, which apparently has only been available in America for 10 weeks
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Sunday, April 13, 2014 12:09 PM (nine years ago) bookmarkflaglink
...which is a fairytale straight out of Fantasyland lol. Sorry Whiney.
Were you living in NYC at the time? There's a few spots in midtown that have been importing 100% wagyu (then known as Kobe beef) since the '80s.
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 18 May 2023 23:24 (eleven months ago) link
All I know is that it was really fuckin good.
― young sussy (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 18 May 2023 23:25 (eleven months ago) link
No doubt!
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 18 May 2023 23:43 (eleven months ago) link
Best restaurant in Florida.
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 18 May 2023 23:45 (eleven months ago) link