To not get Disney?

[Fridaysgirl]

I'm talking about adults here, not kids.

Why do grown men and women feel the need to wear Minnie ears, buy mugs, bags and T shirts of Disney related stuff?

And why in god's name would you pay £££££s to go and gawp and an artificial pink princess castle when you could pay far less to see something real? Or cuddle a Minnie/Mickey Mouse (or should I say a stranger dressed up)?

Please can someone explain all this to me?

• @tryingtobebetterallthetime* you keep living by your user name, try not to let self righteous, argumentative pricks bring you down. People who say they dont get it do 'get it' they just don't like it . That's fine. But say that, instead of pretending you don't understand the appeal. The appeal is very obvious even if it's not your taste .

We went many, many years ago, pre-kids (so long ago that at the end of our hotel drive there was a billboard on an empty piece of land, proclaiming that the land had been acquired by MGM). We loved it and always planned to take our dcs. Sadly, the nearest we got was Paris, but how we are grandparents and if the opportunity arose for us to go with them to Disney World, we'd be off like a shot.
I get that some people don't like it. There are lots of things I don't like it don't 'get'. But I don't start a thread about them to try to boost my sense of self-superiority.

@Mookie81 I agree people ‘get it’. ‘It’ has been explained many times, by victims of abuse no less, and they’re still being called ‘creepy’. It’s fine not to like something but to start a thread about it and call people in general and specifically victims of abuse ‘creepy’ is something I don’t ‘get’.

There’s been a few posts by people who ‘don’t get it’ which seem to be describing people who are victims of abuse or people with mental health problems as well and disparaging them. It’s just all turned quite nasty.

They’re just films, toys and some rides at the end of the day, some people like them, some don’t. If someone can get some joy out of something, let them, there’s not enough of it in the world.

I really question the critical thinking of skills of people who “don’t understand”. I mean is it really rocket science?!

I’ve been six times to various Disney parks all before having children and don’t regret if for a second. I wouldn’t even call myself a fanatic.

Other people spend hundreds on football season tickets which wouldn’t interest me.

Everyone is different.

I'm an ex-archaeologist and museum curator. I have also worked in antiques centres and art galleries. I love real, ancient castles and other tangential high brow pursuits.

But you know where I'd go first if I won the lottery tomorrow?

Disneyworld Florida. Fucking love that too.

Is that allowed?

I don’t get it either but each to their own.

Personally I am not too bothered by Disney films and merchandise but I would love to go to Disneyland!! It is a theme park, and looks to be done really well. We will go.... One day haha

The threads started on here where people claim not to 'get' something are normally ridiculous (this one included). There have been numerous over the years - Disney, Pandora, designer clothes, wearing make up, not wearing make up, cruises, shaving etc etc etc.

They're normally started by someone who thinks they are just that little bit above the thing that they don't 'get'. So much so that they're just baffled that anyone else would like said thing. They couldn't possible just, you know, like something different to them. Oh no ...

Oh I love Disney, been loads, Disney cruises, the lot.

Maybe I should start a thread asking people to explain why they don't love it, make them explain themselves 🤷‍♀️

Teacher22 what a shitty, patronising view.

Surely it is a matter of class and education? Someone whose idea of enjoyable is reading ‘Middlemarch’ isn’t going to relish pretending a sweaty student wrapped in Lycra imitating a giant mouse is a pleasure

You sound a bit thick to be fair.

• @Unihorn* agreed, but I've already had my rant, I hand you the baton .

• @JacquesHammer* seems to have caught it .

Sorry I @ people, wont happen again.

Mookie81

Meh, just find that wide-eyed faux naïveté utterly insufferable.

I kind of think it says a lot about you as a person if you need to denigrate things others find enjoyable to make yourself feel better.

I’d blow Teacher’s tiny mind - last time I went to DLP I took Wuthering Heights and The Pursuit of Love to read. In French

I celebrated my straight As at A Level in WDW with my best friend just before I went off to university. How dare I!

I took the kids when they were under 8. They loved it, I was non fussed. I saw hundreds of adults really enjoying themselves and just thought 'good for them'

While it isn't really for me, I don't judge those who enjoy it. Just as I don't judge car fanatics or people who go to horse shows every weekend. People like different things, that's ok.

I just need to point out that its DisneyWORLD in Florida (with a blue/grey castle) and DisneyLAND in Paris (with a pink castle).

If we're being pedantic then Disneyland is in California. (Also a pink Castle)

Disneyland Paris is France.

Further to the pedantry, it is WALT Disney World in Florida.

Wow- this got nasty!

I was picked up for saying I found it sinister. The poster who picked on that particular part of my post forgot to read the rest of it 🤷‍♀️.

We’re all different. My happy places are West Wales and Madeira- I don’t expect many others to make those exact choices for places to escape to. It doesn’t make my reasons for feeling happy there any less valid.

If you love Disney, as my DD does, then go. Just because I’d rather one of her carers (who also enjoy Disney) took her, doesn’t make me joyless- she’ll get a lot more out of the trip with a fellow enthusiast (and I can plod up hills and look at the sea whilst she’s there) .

I'm quite well travelled but took our DC this year to Disneyland and I must admit, I was quite wowed by it all! Even as an adult I was really impressed the whole place was beautiful! I'm still very much a fan of 'authentic' holidays such as exploring different countries but I was really impressed and we are taking DC back next year for a week!

I have a work colleague who is obsessed with Disney which feels a bit creepy (imo!) but each to their own!

@Starlive23. Genuine question, why do you find it 'creepy'?

I'm not into Disney at all, but I find murderers and peeping toms creepy. It's such a massive leap to someone liking Disney, for me.

I don't know really @Ben I think it's more that she's an awful person, I think if she was genuinely lovely and Disney obsessed it would sit better with me, so not so much the problem with Disney, more the co-worker herself and the Disney thing just makes it worse somehow!

Just to derail a bit. Anyone been to Efteling? One of my bugbears about Disney is the corporate sell sell sell, Efteling seems to be more around traditional fairytales (and is cheaper).

I’m 35 and I have Pokémon stuff.

It was part of my childhood and something I love. Why should ditch it just because of my age?