To think that adults who love Disney are immature?

[WildLemonLurker]

I don’t get the obsession with Disney among grown adults. AIBU to think that being so into children’s movies and merchandise is immature?

You let them hug all the characters. You take them on the rides created with them in mind. You let them scramble around the elaborate playgrounds. You sit in eateries and relax because the place is meant for them, and anyone who harrumphs because your child is being a child is in the wring and you have every right to be there.

Define small

i took my 2.5 yr old and 4.5 year old to Florida, and it is a memory I’ll always treasure. I’d say 85% of the rides are for people 102 cm and over, so a 4.5 year old can go on 85% of things. You can do rider switch for the rest of single rider

2.5 year old I’d say maybe 70% of things in Florida. And the vast majority in Disney land paris. I find that park is for younger children. Mine went there at 3.5 and 1.5- whale of a time. People were stopping us all up mainstreet saying how much fun the youngest was having

Can you actually do that though? Wouldn't they wander off?

Maybe I'm imagining big rollercoasters and they don't have those at the Disney parks.

Yes, thankfully! That particular poster's posts are awful, vile, nonsensical, and dreadful. Full of bile - and hideous and ludicrous inaccuracies! Glad the majority of their comments are gone.

Yup!

I think, in the time of the twilight zone and total weirdness the world is, if you find pleasure in something innocent then fill your boots.

👏 Agree 100%!

They have some rollercoasters, not universal big though but they do have some and then some other VR rides that wouldnt be suitable for young kids and tbh left me feeling quite woozy.

we did single rider queues if we wanted to do them, but we were more than happy with the 102 cm rollercoasters

I think choosing your interests based on how you appear to others above what you actually enjoy is immature.

Thanks for that @MartinCrieffsLemon

Weird to use it then when speaking with an adult. But maybe that’s what Disney folk do!

Yep! Let's have more original threads people PLEASE!

the "happily child free" posters will be along in a minute to start slagging off parents.... oh and don't forget the private schools shouldn't have to pay tax whinge brigade too, we need more of those!

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Not really when this thread is by someone snobbishly turning their nose up and putting down someone’s else’s preference… can’t see the parallel there? Perhaps it’s time to go back to school

Not a huge Disney fan but flipping love Harry Potter and will gladly reread the books, watch the films and take the quiz like I'm 14 years old again. I'm not sure why people get so weird about Disney.

No one criticises men for liking 22 blokes kick a ball about and get all sad/moody when their team loses (which seems weird to me but each to their own!)

Indeed. Football is just playing with a ball,

Yeah this. Someone mentioned this further back. Grown men (and some grown women) cry like babies if their favourite bunch of men kicking a ball around a field for 90 minutes don't win their 'game.' Indeed some are obsessed to the point of devoting their whole lives to it, whilst buying loads of memorabilia of their 'team,' and often spending 1000s of £££ a year on it. And sometimes travelling around the world, and as you say, getting 'moody' and 'sad,' and even angry and aggressive, if things don't go their way/their team loses.

Why is this not laughed at, and ridiculed, and mocked? Why is it only Disney, Harry Potter, and Sci-fi and cult TV & film fans (and gamers) that get bashed and berated - and have shade thrown over them?! Pisses me off! You never get the Disney/Sci fi/cult TV & film fans, and gamers bashing people who are obsessed with sport.

People need to live and let live and stop bashing and berating people who like different things to them. It's pathetic and nasty and makes them look like a judgy arrogant twat. No-one gives a shit what you think, and no-one is going to stop liking what they like because YOU think it's childish, or immature. 🙄 Just grow up FFS!

Well, Disney is a huge organisation. Do I like Disney animations? Some. Do I like Star Wars (now owned by Disney)? Hell yeah, since I was a young kid. I also love Marvel movies and TV (some of them) also owned by Disney. I would like to visit a Disney Park, mainly because of the previous two Disney properties. Do I love Disney, nope not in the slightest. Everyone is different and you're entitled to your opinion, but I disagree 😁

Surely everybody judges others internally on various things. Important things and trivial things. Eg I hate personalised numberplates. So what?

Most people would never put somebody down in real life for their Disney interests. Or at least I hope not.

I don’t think it is the end of the world if some people find it strange that some adults walk around with Mickey Mouse ears on. There will be plenty of stuff I do that somebody might quietly judge. It really doesn’t bother me.

I love the Alien films, and they are now owned by Disney. I guess that makes me immature.

Ditto Star Wars!

Child free poster here. We have recently discovered Shaun the Sheep, and also watching The Clangers. Both absolutely brilliant. Brought up on Disney films, the old classic ones, anything beyond The Aristocats we consider new🤣 Might be a bit old for Disneyland though now, unless we can borrow a little niece or nephew.

You really shouldn’t be working with vulnerable families. I find it very unfortunate that you do.

I can enjoy watching disney films with my kids but it's mainly the old ones and for nostalgia. I think the latest disney apart from perhaps inside out have been terrible anyway

But I do find it a bit odd when grown adults are wearing loads of disney stuff or into all the disney tat but then I find in general there seems to be a childish trends in fashion too at the moment, grown adults collecting squishmallows, taking giant sippy cups wherever they go etc. Its not my cup of tea at all but each to their own some people will look at what I choose to wear/do and wonder what the heck I'm thinking I'm sure. Leave people be we all have our own quirks and likes or dislikes.

I think I love you a little bit!