to fucking hate that guilt inducing advert with the excited children going to disney?

[PyrotechnicsAtYourCervix]

I could never afford to take mine so could never give them that amazing, exciting, happy feeling which appears to be the best thing you could ever give your children. I am a failure as a parent.

Thanks Disney you Bastards.

I've always refused to take my children to Disney, which incorporates a lot of really cynical marketing aimed at children.

That advert is designed to guilt parents, it's sickeningly obvious!

Oh Disney is shit
I refuse to feel guilted
Luckily going there isn't something that's normal round here - I don't know anyone who's taken their children.

Lots of people hate that advert. I have seen a number of thread like this so it obviously hits a nerve.

Advertising at its very best hey

I have been to Disney Paris. Only because my child was terminally ill though. We got taken by the London Cabbies in a great long convoy which was fab. So I have mixed memories and feelings.

Its a great place but no more fun than Lego land or any of those other places.

And the people in costumes are attracted like bloody magnets to any child in a wheelchair. DD was whispering frantically to me 'get them off me mum' after a couple of hours

I would literally open a vein to get my DS there. His autism, however, means that even Paris is out of the question.

If the 'magic' begins the 'moment you tell them' then be prepared for anxiety type meltdowns, hitting, kicking, spitting, tears, the whole compendium of overload behaviours.

Guess they don't want that in their advert, hey

What annoys me about that advertisement is the way the children squeal and scream to express 'pleasure' at the idea of going. Just reminds me of X Factor etc. That is not the way to behave when you are pleased with something. I would not take my children to the US never mind Disneyworks because that's where the creaming element came from (and they eat too much).

I always wanted to go but my parents would never have entertained it even if it was free!

I might take mine when they are old enough because DH and I secretly want to go.

Go and check out thread on worlds most expensive cup of tea in chat (was on Friday I think) If need help on why it's not a good idea to go.

I went to Disney loads as a child, and I loved it and have many happy memories from my trips. Still don't feel guilty that I can't take DSs though, because it's just a theme park. Great, but not the be all and end all. Going doesn't automatically make you parent of the year.

I'd feel guilty if I couldn't put food in the table, not because I can't afford Disneyland.

Having said that YANBU, I fucking hate the advert.

Ihate I hare the advert as it's so very clearly aimed at getting kids to think it's the place to go. And when the woman says "disneyland,
Florida, America*

That advert is awful. It is so unsubtely designed to push certain buttons in both parents and children - most adverts don't lay it on so thick!!!

So I think YANBU to respond emotionally to an ad in a way that disney has paid £££ to get you to respond. But YABU if you are allowing yourself to continue feeling like that rather than telling yourself it's just as ad.

Have been to disneyland Paris a few times and seriously dd likes a trip to park (and preferred peppa pig world). Older dsc have enjoyed other things more

And there is nothing magic about queues, shonky expensive horrid food or general tawdry nature of it. For all the love of Mickey or whatever Disney thing kids like there is nothing that really makes you think it's a special experience - all seems a bit like crap panto. Rides also no better (and a lot worse in terms of upkeep) than other theme parks.

Ah I love it. Cant wait to go.

Disney is my idea of hell and as such have always been upfront that I have no desire to go there, (although not really needed to voice this opinion as it is not a subject of conversation in our household). My children have never expressed a wish to go there - so the marketing advert is obv wasted on my kids .

I feel no guilt in not taking them - if they want to go they will have plenty of opportunities later.

Yes colken very true about peculiar reaction of children which presupposes a.they know what disneyland, florida, america is b. that it is what they want more than anything in the world now and forever c. that these spontaneous reactions of over-joy are normal (not in this part of england they're not )

So there.

stripeybumpinthenight That is my most used expression. Usually in relation to something the DCs are up to. I have a very grated carrot most days.

Pious I totally clocked that pushy boasty mother too.

I've never been to Disneyland either... I was in the Disney store yesterday and they wanted me to donate to GOSH in the form of paying for my DS to get a Christmas letter from Mickey Mouse? Although I would happily donate to GOSH I really didn't like the idea of Mickey Mouse sending the Christmas letter, it should be from Santa! I'm going to do the NSPCC letter from Santa instead.

Never been, and never remember wanting to as a child either.

I have been to Disney as a child and it was great, but it isn't my best/happiest childhood memory or even my most memorable childhood holiday, so don't feel as though your kids are missing out on some life validating experience.

i love disneyland, even without the kids its still lovely

The one I am desperate to go to is The Magical World of Harry Potter

Will probably drag DS there when he has no interest in it at all just so I can indulge my childhood fantasies. If we can ever afford it, that is. If we can't then I will just save and save and go on my own when I'm 96.

I don't like the Disney product. (I do like Pixar.)
I didn't much like it as a child and I like it even less now.
For one thing I dislike the portrayal of females in Disney as a whole.