Adults over 40 who are obsessed with going to Disney World/Disneyland……. Why?

Your friends will be thrilled. An all new Disney park-Abu Dhabi opening early 2030’s. Tariffs may have other plans.

Disney adults are freaks.

Im with R2 . I never met one that wasnt .

I’m judging: these are stunted people.

I had an annual pass for several years a few years ago and would make four trips a year to Disney World (I'm in my 60s). I grew tired of it and dropped the annual pass because Disney World became too expensive in everything. I'm doing other kinds of travel now.

Spending money to go to France or Asia and using part of the trip to go to a foreign Disney park would be unthinkable to me. There's so much real stuff to see in the foreign countries.

It's really simple. They had shitty childhoods and are making up for lost time.

Cars Land at Disney's California Adventure...one of the best places to be

...when the sun starts to set and those neon lights in Radiator Springs kick on 🤩 Ask a cast member when the neon lighting “ceremony” is and don’t miss it!! 🏎🏎🏎✨✨

For some adults who love Disney, it's like a religion

NPR publishes a defense of Disney adults

Adults obsessed with Disney

What is their damage?

LGBTQ community is pissed Disney would choose UAE. They hate gays-

A guy I dated for a couple years 25 years ago is such a Disney fag. He and his husband just got back from two weeks in Tokyo and Hong Kong. They stayed at Disney hotels on the properties and, from what I can tell on Facebook, never ventured off property except transportation to and from the airports. They posted daily pics of the rides they went on (same as Disneyland) and the food and drinks (pizza, chicken strips, Mickey waffles, etc.). The Disney aspect was a big “ick” for me back then. I cannot fathom why two 60-somethings from LA squander a lot of money to do shit like this. A few years ago, their Paris trip was also Disney with, apparently, a bus tour around the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre. I’d bet my house they didn’t step foot in a museum in Paris.

When I was kid in the 1970s, Disney World Magic Kingdom would hire really good looking cast members for the public facing jobs. As a gay youngster, that made an impression on me. When they opened a second park, Epcot, the quality went down somewhat because they had to hire more local people and had to dip into the less aesthetically pleasing pool. Still, for most of my adult life, they had pretty good looking male cast members. After Covid and with the expansion of the Universal parks, the cast members aren't so good looking anymore. That's another major reason I have stopped going.

I used to be cynical as fuck and judge these cunts. But as I’m getting older who am I to judge. I drink a beer about 3 days average, ruining my liver, and I suffer from functional depression and have done vices in the past to medicate that depression. Let people be happy.

Jenny Nicholson is just a few years away from this.

Yes, with all the sad, aging circuit “boys,” meth heads, bathhouse-breeder sluts and other walking hate crimes, let’s pile on the gays who likely have the most innocent hobby that hurts no one and doesn’t require a shot of penicillin to function afterward.

Your judgmental misery - a classic DL pastime - would be funny if it wasn’t so hypocritical and pathetic. Most of you can’t even afford a weekend a at a low-end guesthouse in Fort Lauderdale much less ridiculously overpriced Disney. This tired old critique is low-hanging fruit for broke, lonely losers.

Museums in Paris? Oh, my sides. Most of you go into debt for a a Target run. Thanks for the laugh 🤣.

I live in NYC, travel abroad quite often, and don’t care all that much about the Disney movies or own even one piece of memorabilia. However, I do love Walt Disney World and, quite honestly, would probably go once a year if it were more convenient. I can’t fully explain it. It just comforts me, even with its many negatives (stupidly expensive, crowded, Florida).

[quote] A guy I dated for a couple years 25 years ago is such a Disney fag. He and his husband just got back from two weeks in Tokyo and Hong Kong.

And you went to Panda Express by yourself.

Guess who has the better life.

Grown adults doing shit that is designed for children is always creepy and stunted.

Coding. Gotta be A-Gays who do martinis on Friday nights, gym everyday, brunch on Sundays, big trips every few months, bling, EVs, and supporting all performative liberal causes including related boycotts. Always with clockwork precision. Gay sheep. I’ve never understood the gay collective obsession with the Disney parks, or Disney’s silly products and characters. Learn to be more original, fellow gays!

Good God, r15: what a hysterical overreaction.

Obviously this is a very, VERY sore subject for you.

It's the only place in the US you can go and not see homeless people.

I think it’s weird too, but I know adults go almost solely to ride the coasters and scary rides. Adrenaline junkies.

My friend is a law firm partner who works long hours. She likes to go to Disneyland because she can turn her brain off for a day.

The other thing weird is it’s always Disneyland, not any other park in SoCal. They get yearly passes.

It has something to do psychologically with the emphasis on order and cleanliness at Disney World/Disneyland.

I thought DL had already reached a consensus on Disney Adults.

They're survivors of childhood sexual abuse, every last one of them.

Some of the design elements of theme parks like Disneyland/DisneyWorld/Epcot are absolutely brilliant. How they've decided to package different world places or real/fantasy times in relatively small spaces can be a master class. Allowing traffic to flow from area to area while managing the entire park via tunnels below is also remarkable. And some of the rides are tongue-in-cheek funny.

For Disney specifically, it's interesting to see how parks in different lands adjust the basic style and theme to match the local culture. Disneyland Tokyo is very different from Disneyland Paris.

My boyfriend and I go if we're in a location near a park. But we skip the hotels and food/restaurants. That's where the fantasy ends for us.

Disney hasn't been just for kids in decades. There are adult oriented stuff. And roller coasters will always attract adults.

We will see a huge spike in this as millennials, the Peter Pan generation, age.

^^^^Yet another ancient fuck who doesn't realize that the oldest millennials are 44, still taking about the generation as if they're teens

I don't get it either. Perhaps they want to regress to childhood? I'm in my sixties and I've only been to Disney World three times. When I was 18, then 30, and then 44. I might make one more visit , but it won't be a big loss if I don't. The first time it was great, the second time it was good, the third time it was fine. I see each of my subsequent visits as having diminishing returns.

The word is Nostalgia. I had a boss who took his young family to Disneyland the first year-1955.

To me there’s a difference between LA based folks who go to Disneyland often as a pricey day-trip and most everyone else who has to fly to Orlando or CA and drop10k for a week in the parks & hotels. Once or twice in your life is plenty - then use that money to see other things.

It's weird human behavior, I don't get it.