reddening's thread of DISNEY PARKS gossip

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some parts of epcot are out of date (like the technology pavilion, the growing grain pavilion, and the communications throughout history pavilion) but they're out of date in an incredibly sincere optimistic way about the future of humanity and the promise of technology.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

― 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

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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