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Original poster

to not understand grown adults squealing with excitement over Disneyland?

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GwendolineMaryLacey · 05/05/2011 08:58

I just don't understand it. Perfectly lovely, sane, normal people. I have FB friends who are as described above, yet are making themselves sick with excitement, counting down the hours and not sleeping because they are off to spend a fortune standing in queues for hours to see an oversized stuffed mouse with a bored student inside or some silly woman dressed as a 'princess'. They are squealing about booking meals with these creatures fgs.

I can understand the children being excited but the children in this case are three and couldn't give a toss! The fuss is all about the adults.

Explain it to me please!

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cumbria81 · 05/05/2011 10:30

YANBU. I think anyone over the age of 6 who owns/enjoys anything Disney-related should be shot, especially overweight adults in pooh bear attire.

I have never been to Disneyland but I've been to Alton Towers and thought it was weird and twee enough.

wordfactory · 05/05/2011 10:40

cumbria I had to physically stop myself from buying a Pochahonas nightie (with fringing on the sleeves) because DH said he would never have sex with me in it.

In my defence I am not fat.

BiscuitNibbler · 05/05/2011 10:56

I was very Hmm when my DH suggested Disneyworld for a holiday - pre DD we used to take it turns to choose our annual holiday. I grudgingly went (usually prefer cities and sights) and was blown away.

I'm not a squealer, but I loved everything about it, and when we went earlier this year when DD was almost 2 it was incredible to see it through her eyes and I was inwardly squealing with delight. So much so that we're planning on going again later in the year for my birthday. I can't think of a better place for a family holiday.

If you had told me 5 years ago I would have visited Disneyworld twice and be excited to go again I would have laughed in your face. But I was wrong. It is an amazing place. And I agree with those of you who love Tower of Terror!

Go out of season and you avoid the queues - I haven't waited more than 15 minutes for any ride. There is good food too, you just need to look at all the options, not just head for the nearest burger hut.

The parks are all very different and not at all comparable to anything in the UK or Europe. The Magic Kingdom is very Disneyfied, but the rest of the parks are far from it. Everything is just perfect, and all the people who work there are brilliant at maintaining the atmosphere.

If you haven't been you cannot know what it is like - it is nothing like I imagined. TBH a lot of the negative comments on here sound like sour grapes to me. My only concession to the negative opinions - I can't understand adults without children who queue up to meet the characters and get their autographs. Now that is madness.

2rebecca · 05/05/2011 10:58

If you have primary school age kids though you are limited to school holidays. We went in Scottish summer hold before the English kids broke up but there was still queuing. You can take preschool kids but they wouldn't be able to go on alot of the rides so we waited until school age.

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GwendolineMaryLacey · 05/05/2011 11:04

Why does it sound like sour grapes? Because other people don't enjoy what you do? This was supposed to be a lighthearted thread but that's the second time that's been said and it's beginning to wind me up. People can't have a differing opinion without it being jealousy?

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lubberlich · 05/05/2011 11:16

I don't squeal and get overexcited for my benefit. But I do like to crank up the excitement of things for my 4yr old who has no siblings to share stuff with.
Yes it is all bollocks but it is for kids - and I can either be the mother with a face like a smacked arse who endures it or I can try and get into the swing of the thing.
I hate the whole Disney machine (I LOATHE the shops) - but my boy loves it and it makes him happy so what I think and feel is really irrelevant.

FluffyMummy123 · 05/05/2011 11:17

disney land is pretty shit
i liked the other parks though

we saw ADULTS dressed in sweatshirts at the airport( UK) with disney names on

they were twats

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GwendolineMaryLacey · 05/05/2011 11:18

I did omit from my OP that I openly sobbed my way through the live show of In the Night Garden last summer because DD (2.6 at the time) was sooo excited and spellbound. I mean tears running down my face sobbing Blush I forgot about that...!

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FoxyRevenger · 05/05/2011 11:24

OP I so agree!!

It's as annoying as grown woman who have Hello Kitty stuff/cutesy stuffed animal backpacks/show off about reading Harry Potter.

Boak.

LittleOneMum · 05/05/2011 11:27

No, no, no, OP. What you meant to say is that there is something very sad about grown ups who wear Disney clothing!

stands back

waits for flaming

BiscuitNibbler · 05/05/2011 11:28

Gwendoline - I said sour grapes because it does sound like jealousy in a lot of these posts.

You said that I am only suggesting jealousy because "other people don't like what you're doing" but the whole point of your OP is that you don't like what other people are doing.

I don't understand why someone would go potholing but I am happy to accept that it makes them happy and wouldn't try and belittle their choice or try to stop them doing it.

I also wouldn't make assumptions about what it entails or what it is like or what they eat whilst doing it because I have never done it.

What other reason can there be but jealousy for such vitriol against someone else's holiday choice?

Ragwort · 05/05/2011 11:30

Totally agree with Op.
I did go to Disneyland California as a young teenager and enjoyed it; we took DS to Paris when he was 5 & he loved it; I was bored stiff most of the time (although quite enjoyed watching the parade Blush). We did suggest going to Florida this year as DS is 10 but luckily he didn't seem that keen. Grin.

Foxy - so agree with you re: Harry Potter - but that will probably make us unpopular Grin.

FoxyRevenger · 05/05/2011 11:31

Biscuit I don't think it's the actual choice of destination, it's the childish excitement that's so grating.

Grown woman jumping up and down clapping their hands at the thought of a sweaty man in a Donald Duck costume...

I could understand if they were doing if for the children, but to be so over the top about fictional stuff annoys me.

Apologies OP if that's not what you meant.

FoxyRevenger · 05/05/2011 11:33

Ragwort I know. Had a massive fight on another forum about this years ago

Grin
FluffyMummy123 · 05/05/2011 11:34

i was pretty excited to see some dressed up bear.
i know
sad
but you had to be there

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GwendolineMaryLacey · 05/05/2011 11:35

If you read the thread properly Biscuitnibbler all I said was that I don't understand it. I specifically said I wasn't criticising, I just asked for someone to explain what makes adults jump up and down and burst into tears over it.

If you're so sensitive about your holiday choices then maybe you should steer clear. After all, I didn't get my knickers in a knot because someone said that iPhones were shit and that they hated my beloved Cornwall.

yes, Foxy, that's exactly what I was driving at.

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SarahBumBarer · 05/05/2011 11:38

YAB totally miserable Grin

DS is 9 months old and if his reaction to a puppet show on bank holiday weekend was anything to go by (my enjoyment was purely from watching him) then I too will be very excited to see how he reacts to Disneyland in a few years time. And if at 9 months he can smile with delight at a puppet show I will be quite disappointed in his development if by 3 years old he does not get quite substantial enjoyment out of Disneyland.

Humbug!

wornoutbutstillwonderful · 05/05/2011 11:39

I'm not all that fussed about Disneyland but have been twice with the dc, last time was this year, I was told I was going to lose my ds3 when I was 25 weeks he was born at 32 weeks, at 3 years old he was standing next to buzz lightyear looking up and saying wow with a look of pure awe and amazement. That little look for me mean't the world and unfortunately I had to go and have myself 5 mins away from everyone to sob my heart out I don't know why my silly hormones decided to play up at that moment but I do know that moment in Disney will be one I remember.

HecateQueenOfTheNight · 05/05/2011 11:39

but sarah, she wasn't talking about children's excitement.

She was talking about grown women squealing with excitement.

Quenelle · 05/05/2011 11:43

Foxy and Ragworth, I'm with you two about grown adults and Harry Potter.

BiscuitNibbler · 05/05/2011 11:45

I'm not at all sensitive about my holiday choices, Gwendoline , what a strange thing to say. You are posting on IABU but expect me to "steer clear" because I disagree with you?

Stop taking things so personally. I said that a lot of (not all) negative posts smacked of sour grapes.

I don't squeal, I don't jump up and down, but yes, I get very excited about a holiday that my whole family will enjoy. There aren't many places you can go where everyone's intention is to make the holidaymaker have a good time. The whole place makes you suspend your disbelief.

I've travelled all over the world on holiday, and have only been to Disney fairly recently. I didn't think it would be my sort of thing, but I was wrong. I don't want to only go to Disney for the rest of my life. I'm going to Cornwall next month and I'm just as excited. I just don't understand the vitriol coming from some people (not all) about somewhere they've never been.

SpringHeeledJack · 05/05/2011 11:51

something odd- I am v v sniffy about Disneyland, and would sooner dig my eyes out with a Spork than go

that said, have just been to de Efteling, sort of By Mistake- the kids liked it, but me and dp fucking loved it and have been planning our next trip with a park map and watching videos of it on You Tube

Blush

...to me, though, this is sort of acceptable, because altho it is bollocks, it is eurobollocks, rather than being Disneybollocks

AIBU?

SpringHeeledJack · 05/05/2011 11:53

apparently the Efteling Imagineer (Shock) and the EuroDisney Imagineer actually hang out together

I want to go out with them

Malificence · 05/05/2011 11:59

I guess none of you Disney-haters are Dibbers then? It was my very first foray into internet fora.
We've been going to Disneyworld since 1996, it never gets old.
If you've never been to Orlando, you just won't get it.

We've even been sans kids, just me and DH, stayed onsite and it was fab.
DD is 21 and wants to come with us again the next time we go.

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