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To want that Disney pop up off mumsnet?

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MilaMae · 16/02/2011 11:50

It just popped up in my face. The fridge magnet thing upset me a tad.

We're all struggling at the moment,worried about jobs etc. I've got about as much chance of winning the lottery as taking my dc to Disney. My kids continuously nag about it,I continuously say dream on.

I don't feel I have to take them,I just want to. There are enough marketing pressures re kids I come on here to converse with mums not to be made to feel sad.

I think it's a bit insensitive at the moment at a time when many of us shouldn't/can't dream of spending £2K on a dream holiday.

I thought Mumsnet was better than that,a little disappointed.

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MmeLindt · 16/02/2011 13:25

Kreecher
What? Don't understand, what is going on?

kreecherlivesupstairs · 16/02/2011 13:32

mme, the people next door live their lives ina highly emotional way. Always rowing and shouting etc. Today there was a really loud crash and screaming. The neighbours on the other side are related somehow and they came and knocked on my door to ask me to phone the police. I did, the police came and went away. The noise continued and while I was having a fag, one cat was thrown from the back door followed by another.
Tis very entertaining (if a bit worrying) our new life in Antwerp.

DuplicitousBitch · 16/02/2011 13:33

did the hot policeman turn up?

EleanorJosie · 16/02/2011 13:35

What pop-up?

Lemonsole · 16/02/2011 13:45

It's a theme park. It's over-priced. It's really not that desirable. You could camp at a lovely UK site on the coast for less than the cost of a weekend in their surburban Parisian hell-hole.

You've fallen hook, line and sinker for their ad strategy, which has always aimed to emotionally blackmail parents into believing the guff that loving your child = taking them to the expensive, over-rated merchandising machine that is Disneyland.

You'll get over it. And so will they.

My kids will never go there with our money (they are 4 and 6) but, guess what: as our house is not full of Disney-related plastic tat, they haven't been primed over the years into thinking that is anything aspirational. And guess what: it's not even on their radar.

I really do find Disney to be one of the most sinister corporations on the planet.

EleanorJosie · 16/02/2011 13:45

I don't find Disney "dodgy". Some of their (older) films may "perpetuate gender stereotypes" but those stereotypes existed in the stories of Snow White, Cinderella etc they are portraying in the films when they were written/passed around by the oral storytelling traditions. Most of their modern films have more 'modern' female characters. I find their female characters very positive on the whole. There aren't many Disney films I don't like and I probably can't say that of any other studio.

Lemonsole · 16/02/2011 13:49

It's not the films, EleanorJosie: it's the merchandising and "adopt us as your lifestyle" ethos that goes along with them. It's made very hard to simply watch a Disney film and to leave it at that.

The whole blardy Princesses guff was a way to get better sales out of their older, traditional films.

EleanorJosie · 16/02/2011 14:06

Well, they are a massive corporation who want to sell stuff and make even more money. There are a lot of them about and a lot more sinister than Disney. Personally I like their films and some of their merchandise, and I've loved their films since I saw Snow White at age 4. As a kid Disneyland/world in the US was a distant dream but Disneyland Paris is almost as accessible as Alton Towers and not that much further away for us.

twirlymum · 16/02/2011 14:18

You can get some really good deals for Disneyland Paris occasionally, I think under 12's stay and play free until April?

georgeorwell · 16/02/2011 14:32

have just lost the will to live after twirlymum's post

flippinggorgeous · 16/02/2011 14:32

Last year we were fortunate enough to do Disney (Paris) and Legoland with our DDs, both equally enjoyable.

This year we have less disposable income (don't we all?) so will go camping. The children are really excited as we always have just as much fun in a tent/on a beach as we do at any theme park.

twirlymum · 16/02/2011 14:34

sorry george I'm really sad too, as we won't be going this year (were lucky enough to go last summer).

We were naughty years ago, and took DD out of school on a Friday, got a much cheaper deal.

MmeLindt · 16/02/2011 14:45

LOL at Twirlymum. I think you need to go back and read George's first post on the thread.

Lemonsole · 16/02/2011 15:41

@ EleanorJosie: you see, that is the very point: if it's closer/ as close as Alton Towers, then who cares? it's just another theme park. What is being challenged here is the (I think) misconception that a trip there marks the zenith of childhood. If it does, then that represents a culturally impoverished childhood, imho. Give me a week in a field in a tent over a weekend there, any day.

I'm always hacked off by friends taking their children out of school on a Friday to get a cheaper deal as though that fact that they are going to Disney makes it somehow more accessible than sloping off a day early to go to Legoland. The "oh but we're going to Disney" card is played on the assumption that we will all be as impressed by their weekend break choices as they are, and Now Know That They Really Love Their Children.

The OP shows how ingrained this attitude has become. Why on earth should anyone feel guilty because they can't afford/ don't one to prioritise one particular theme park?

twirlymum · 16/02/2011 16:15

Oops George you are a bad mother, and I hope your children aspire to be princesses

I took DD out of school on a Friday when she was in reception, I wouldn't do it now she is older.

someday my prince will come

twirlymum · 16/02/2011 16:16

And it's not just another theme park. It has parades.

georgeorwell · 16/02/2011 16:56

twirl yeah i hope my boy aspires to be a princess too......

so note to self: read thread through from start b4 rushing to put yer two penneth in else you'll look v silly.

and bad mother is who inflicts a cheesy, cynical disney weekend on their kids.

MmeLindt · 16/02/2011 17:40

Aw, George. Don't be such a grump. Twirlymum posted a funny response.

It was not cheesy, it was magical.

twirlymum · 16/02/2011 19:14

DH was very much like you George.

I persuaded him to come with us for DC's sake, he is now saving so we can all go back. He loved it.

Magical is a great word to describe it.

LadyOfTheManor · 16/02/2011 19:17

Could be worse you could have the scary Boden women grinning at you on EVERY SINGLE BASTARD PAGE.

charley24 · 16/02/2011 19:53

If you can find a disney holiday for 2k then tell me how, we are going this year and paid 3 times that for a family of 4 !!!!

I have waited 36 years to do Disney USA and I have worked so hard, I remember when eldest DD was born and we had nothing, and now she is 11 the dream can come true.

I admit tho it's hard when it's in your face and your kids dream of going....because I was one of those kids, my parents could never afford it. I figure we will only do it once, hence the high price as we are doing the works, but many sacrifices have been made and many years of saving (kids saving bday/xmas monies too for their spends).

Other years we have camped, caravan, days out - take a picnic and walk in woods etc but have hammered the overtime and ebayed like crazy for such a long time for this holiday.

If you want to do something anything is possible, even saving a few pounds a week will add up, it may take years (like it has us) but you can get there x

MmeLindt · 16/02/2011 20:10

Charley
You are going to Florida though, aren't you? Think most of the posters on this thread were talking Paris.

twirlymum · 16/02/2011 20:29

We went to Paris last August for under £1000 (not including spending money).
There are four of us, and we went for three days.

mindtheagegap · 16/02/2011 20:43

Disney is my idea of a nightmare - not a dream. You'd have to take me kicking and screaming. Needless to say I did not take DS and he never asked to go either - we always avoided disney tat and once he hit a certain age he was glad we didn't go somewhere so naf. He's off backpacking to India shortly (proud mummy!)We won't be taking our baby DD either. Nothing to do with money - just got FAR better taste

twirlymum · 16/02/2011 21:08

mindthegap How can you be so sure your DD wouldn't love it?

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