Disney adults

Yeah, I think I can't participate in Mumsnet much longer as the levels of offense-taking and critical thinking are inversely proportionate and not in a good way.

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Disney brings joy and pleasure to many. Who are you to tell people what they should like?

My God, people get very defensive about this. Admittedly, I've only skimmed the thread but I don't think anyone has actually proposed banning childless adults from Disneyland or is petitioning for them to stop selling Tinkerbell pyjamas in adult sizes?

I think everyone is aware that it's a free country, and that you can spend your time and money on whatever you want, and other people can still find your choices utterly bizarre. I quite like Star Trek, which wasn't considered very cool even when I was a child. My uni flatmate used to take the piss out of me quite a bit for watching it, as I did her for the amount of reality TV shite she got through. And neither of us cared, because we didn't see the other as the arbiter of what we could enjoy.

"Let people enjoy things" is a fairly vapid response to this stuff. No one's stopping them doing/buying/watching Disney stuff by calling them weird or childish online.

We weren’t Disney adults until we took the kids. Now we absolutely love it. Going next week to Disneyland Paris and cannot wait.

Why is it ok for adults with kids to wear matching Disney jumpers and ears but not adults without kids?

You are quoting someone who deliberately misquoted me to try to make me seem unkind.

I actually said I might 'laugh to their face' not 'in their face', and only 'depending on the relationship', which I later defined as someone like my sister or an old friend.

I would never laugh 'at' anyone's hobby, or their t-shirt if it would be rude. Equally, I am happy for close friends to take the piss out of my penchant for ancient cooking programmes or dog memes. We don't all have to like the same things and it's ok to personally think Disney is all a bit homogeneous and vom.

We all judge others, the trick is not to say it or show it.

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I judge adults who judge other adults for their interests.

Would you rather know an adult who had a Mickey t-shirt or one who laughed in your face at your hobbies?

Ah, that's so sweet! Yes, that is what makes Disney different to other theme parks.

Yes, quick recovery thanks. An encounter with a very tough steak. In hospital Sunday, back on Thunder Mountain on Monday 😁

Judgy judgy.

Each to their own.
I just don't feel the attraction to something so sanitised (and basically everything about it is to make money).
But I also judge adults that read Harry Potter books.

We’ve decided not to go again until they change the queueing system. As much as I love the Disney Magic I’m not going to pay all that money and not know that I will be able to go on the rides I want to. And I don’t want to stay at a cramped Disney Hotel either.

I always assumed it was a comfort thing. I do enjoy a Disney movie (Moana soundtrack made me cry the other day) but I don’t like Disney world, Disney + or Disney store tat.

However, I used to watch the Harry Potter movies back to back repeatedly in my 20s, and that was definitely a comfort thing.

A few years later it was Stranger Things (again a comfort thing).

Isn’t that like anything though? honestly it’s not for me but can’t get wound up about it. I find it weird when people love horror!

Yup, Guardians all the way 🙌 🙌 Blooming love that ride!

This 100%.

You don't have to go to a park to enjoy Disney though. You can relate to a film, enjoy a character, read the books etc.

Not bothered about Disney adults but I find it hard to marry up “Disney is for everyone” with the high prices in their parks and their ridiculous queueing systems.

Yes, this is exactly it. When my daughter was little we went to MK for the first time. There was a very happy man in maybe his 60’s who was sweeping and whistling. He looked at my dd with her little Rapunzel t-shirt on, sat down and said ’Oh, I see you are here to see the other princesses, well the castle is that way. Have a magical day!’ And I know it’s fake and all, but it was still in such a genuine and nice way. My dd looked at her dad with the biggest smile and said ’dad, he thought I was a princess!’ I mean, it’s the little things that make memories..

I hope you got well quickly?

Really? I’m not that into Disney but I still get it. Fun, colourful, safe and nostalgic. I get why people love it. Different but like Harry Potter , bad hallmark movies or drinking hot chocolate or anything else that is and fun and escapist.

Yes @stardii it’s awful. Disney in the context of adults wearing clothes with characters and having those awful ornaments etc.
watching a film from Disney is probably ok. But there are adults who are wayyyyy to into it. And it’s quite immature people I know that have done this. I know them, not friends with them. We have nothing in common and the Disney thing is a turn off on so many levels.

@babyhighlandcow I know what you mean about the cast members in Paris v Florida. I was in DLP this weekend and was amused by an ice-cream seller, in response to another guest asking where the nearest cash machine was, just shrug and say 'I don't know'. I commented to DH that a WDW cast member would NEVER respond that way.

Having said that, we needed the Concierge whilst there as I was hospitalised, and they were SO helpful then.. I felt that the cast members in Paris were more genuine - they were not going to go out of their way for stupid queries, but when they could see it was important they came through!

I don’t care about adults being into Disney. Do
find the idealising of it as the epitome of fun and happiness as the strange thing though. This quote sums it up for me because the ‘hard facts’ that created America are for me colonialism, slavery and the massacre and subsequent oppression of of the indigenous people. Not Disneyworld and the consumerist franchise. It’s just that false juxtaposition.