reddening's thread of DISNEY PARKS gossip

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

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