Why do Disney vacationers seem uniquely subjected to social vitriol?

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Anonymous wrote:I think if you took away all their photos and social media the luster would be gone for them. They seem to want to be this way for online bragging rights?

It would be an amazing social experiment to black box anyone having an experience. You get to have the experience, but no recording. Still happy?

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I think this is a huge part of it. Camera phones + SM have changed a lot of things, and Disney parks are a flashpoint.

And to be fair it's not just Disney. I'm the poster who's been to the Netherlands a lot for work and family and the number of people who go into Mauritshuis just to get in a line to take a picture with Girl with a Pearl Earring and then leave is pretty sad. I'm not sure they even look at the painting.

I also think Disney is trading in nostalgia from being better when people were kids, so they get the warm fuzzies. I remember just how amazing that puppet parade they had at EPCOT was. So they're trading off nostalgia for adults while not actually building those fundamental experiences with today's kids.

What are these puppets you keep talking about?

The millennium puppet parade. I grew up in Orlando and back then Disney had a lot of opportunities to go for free (my choir and band performed a lot and they'd give us free tickets). My younger sibling got to dance with the puppets.

When I worked at Disney we also had a roving talking robot in our section (a guy dressed as a tourist was secretly controlling it from a few feet away).

Back then was like 30 years ago. No wonder you seem so out of touch.

A) Again, I kept season status going for quite a while when I visited home and B) I still know people who work there because some of my work friends stayed on.

You’re the fool who was insisting that you had to book restaurants “6 months in advance!” Again and again. You know nothing.

Good lord, it was absolutely true for certain things for a while (Be Our Guest when it first opened?). Being pedantic isn't cute.

I mean if you want to see why people hate Disney adults, this right here. We got harassed by people like this all the time.

Please. You aren’t getting “harassed.” Stop with the exaggeration.

People pointed out your knowledge of Disney is WAY out of date.

If people find value in going to Disney, then good for them. Why are you so obsessed with “Disney adults”? Clearly you haven’t been there for a while, so just let them be.

I don't think it's exaggerating. DP

If that poster didn’t want to be “harassed” they shouldn’t have kept posting the same nonsense about their experience 15-30 years ago.

Because comparing the decline of the parks over 30 years isn't a legitimate take? You can have gone 30 years ago and gone recently.

And the people on this thread insisting posters who don't take their kids to Disney aren't treating their kids as kids is bizarre. You guys come across as almost cultist.

It's just a theme park guys.

But when you continually post incorrect things you just look like a moron. Not one admission that “huh, maybe things changed and I didn’t realize” It was foot stomping that “well that’s how it was 15 years ago!”. Showing about as much maturity as the Disney adults they are deriding.

Dude, a throw away line saying restaurant reservations used to have to be made 6 months in advance wasn't inaccurate and it's weird AF you're obsessing over this.

"You got one detail wrong so you're wrong Disney hasn't fallen in quality and I'll obsessively bring that up" makes you look insane. It's a theme park.

Agree with you that Disney Parks have absolutely fallen in quality, especially when compared to price. Our trips are becoming fewer.

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Anonymous wrote:We are annual WDW visitors (with DVC). We started taking our kids there because it was an easy trip where kid behavior was tolerated, and as kids grew, they could enjoy some degree of independence. Some of the PPs are correct that the Disney Bounding adults are difficult. An example... we took our grandson to the MK Halloween Party in an adorable Donald Duck costume and he wanted to meet Donald, but the line was 1.5 hours long, with the vast majority being 20-somethings. If only Disney would reserve certain times for little kids or have multiples of some characters, etc. I don't want to deny them their fun, but their sheer numbers and passion/exuberance sometimes do make things hard for families.

That’s just corporate greed. Selling too many party tickets. The problem is Disney. Not the other people who paid the same thing to attend that you did. Your grandson is not more deserving of meeting Donald than a 20-something.

Disney is for anyone. It’s not “for kids.”

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Anonymous wrote:We are annual WDW visitors (with DVC). We started taking our kids there because it was an easy trip where kid behavior was tolerated, and as kids grew, they could enjoy some degree of independence. Some of the PPs are correct that the Disney Bounding adults are difficult. An example... we took our grandson to the MK Halloween Party in an adorable Donald Duck costume and he wanted to meet Donald, but the line was 1.5 hours long, with the vast majority being 20-somethings. If only Disney would reserve certain times for little kids or have multiples of some characters, etc. I don't want to deny them their fun, but their sheer numbers and passion/exuberance sometimes do make things hard for families.

Disney is for anyone. It’s not “for kids.”

No, it is for kids, pathetic adults have glommed onto Disney as part of their identity.

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Anonymous wrote:We are annual WDW visitors (with DVC). We started taking our kids there because it was an easy trip where kid behavior was tolerated, and as kids grew, they could enjoy some degree of independence. Some of the PPs are correct that the Disney Bounding adults are difficult. An example... we took our grandson to the MK Halloween Party in an adorable Donald Duck costume and he wanted to meet Donald, but the line was 1.5 hours long, with the vast majority being 20-somethings. If only Disney would reserve certain times for little kids or have multiples of some characters, etc. I don't want to deny them their fun, but their sheer numbers and passion/exuberance sometimes do make things hard for families.

Disney is for anyone. It’s not “for kids.”

No, it is for kids, pathetic adults have glommed onto Disney as part of their identity.

Nope.

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Anonymous wrote:We are annual WDW visitors (with DVC). We started taking our kids there because it was an easy trip where kid behavior was tolerated, and as kids grew, they could enjoy some degree of independence. Some of the PPs are correct that the Disney Bounding adults are difficult. An example... we took our grandson to the MK Halloween Party in an adorable Donald Duck costume and he wanted to meet Donald, but the line was 1.5 hours long, with the vast majority being 20-somethings. If only Disney would reserve certain times for little kids or have multiples of some characters, etc. I don't want to deny them their fun, but their sheer numbers and passion/exuberance sometimes do make things hard for families.

Disney is for anyone. It’s not “for kids.”

No, it is for kids, pathetic adults have glommed onto Disney as part of their identity.

Nope.

Why does a grown adult want to meet another adult in a costume pretending to be a cartoon character? My kids are only barely interested in meeting characters. I definitely wouldn’t stand in line by myself. Last time we had to stand in line behind two grown men who wanted to meet Moana. I felt bad for Moana having to meet these two creepers.

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Anonymous wrote:We are annual WDW visitors (with DVC). We started taking our kids there because it was an easy trip where kid behavior was tolerated, and as kids grew, they could enjoy some degree of independence. Some of the PPs are correct that the Disney Bounding adults are difficult. An example... we took our grandson to the MK Halloween Party in an adorable Donald Duck costume and he wanted to meet Donald, but the line was 1.5 hours long, with the vast majority being 20-somethings. If only Disney would reserve certain times for little kids or have multiples of some characters, etc. I don't want to deny them their fun, but their sheer numbers and passion/exuberance sometimes do make things hard for families.

Disney is for anyone. It’s not “for kids.”

No, it is for kids, pathetic adults have glommed onto Disney as part of their identity.

Nope.

Why does a grown adult want to meet another adult in a costume pretending to be a cartoon character? My kids are only barely interested in meeting characters. I definitely wouldn’t stand in line by myself. Last time we had to stand in line behind two grown men who wanted to meet Moana. I felt bad for Moana having to meet these two creepers.

You don’t need to understand. Their ticket cost more than your kid’s did.

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Anonymous wrote:We are annual WDW visitors (with DVC). We started taking our kids there because it was an easy trip where kid behavior was tolerated, and as kids grew, they could enjoy some degree of independence. Some of the PPs are correct that the Disney Bounding adults are difficult. An example... we took our grandson to the MK Halloween Party in an adorable Donald Duck costume and he wanted to meet Donald, but the line was 1.5 hours long, with the vast majority being 20-somethings. If only Disney would reserve certain times for little kids or have multiples of some characters, etc. I don't want to deny them their fun, but their sheer numbers and passion/exuberance sometimes do make things hard for families.

Disney is for anyone. It’s not “for kids.”

No, it is for kids, pathetic adults have glommed onto Disney as part of their identity.

Nope.

Why does a grown adult want to meet another adult in a costume pretending to be a cartoon character? My kids are only barely interested in meeting characters. I definitely wouldn’t stand in line by myself. Last time we had to stand in line behind two grown men who wanted to meet Moana. I felt bad for Moana having to meet these two creepers.

You don’t need to understand. Their ticket cost more than your kid’s did.

I’m quite sure my family of 5 dropped far more than those creepy losers did during our stay.

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Anonymous wrote:We are annual WDW visitors (with DVC). We started taking our kids there because it was an easy trip where kid behavior was tolerated, and as kids grew, they could enjoy some degree of independence. Some of the PPs are correct that the Disney Bounding adults are difficult. An example... we took our grandson to the MK Halloween Party in an adorable Donald Duck costume and he wanted to meet Donald, but the line was 1.5 hours long, with the vast majority being 20-somethings. If only Disney would reserve certain times for little kids or have multiples of some characters, etc. I don't want to deny them their fun, but their sheer numbers and passion/exuberance sometimes do make things hard for families.

Disney is for anyone. It’s not “for kids.”

No, it is for kids, pathetic adults have glommed onto Disney as part of their identity.

Nope.

Why does a grown adult want to meet another adult in a costume pretending to be a cartoon character? My kids are only barely interested in meeting characters. I definitely wouldn’t stand in line by myself. Last time we had to stand in line behind two grown men who wanted to meet Moana. I felt bad for Moana having to meet these two creepers.

You don’t need to understand. Their ticket cost more than your kid’s did.

I’m quite sure my family of 5 dropped far more than those creepy losers did during our stay.

Stay mad. Keep name-calling. It will
change nothing. They are just as allowed to stand in line as you are.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We are annual WDW visitors (with DVC). We started taking our kids there because it was an easy trip where kid behavior was tolerated, and as kids grew, they could enjoy some degree of independence. Some of the PPs are correct that the Disney Bounding adults are difficult. An example... we took our grandson to the MK Halloween Party in an adorable Donald Duck costume and he wanted to meet Donald, but the line was 1.5 hours long, with the vast majority being 20-somethings. If only Disney would reserve certain times for little kids or have multiples of some characters, etc. I don't want to deny them their fun, but their sheer numbers and passion/exuberance sometimes do make things hard for families.

Hmmm…it sounds like you, the adult, wanted the picture of your grandson in the adorable Donald Duck costume next to Donald. Your grandson would have probably preferred to play, go on rides or eat rather than be dressed up by Grandma like a duck.

Seems like Ralphie’s bunny pajamas in A Christmas Story

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Anonymous wrote:We are annual WDW visitors (with DVC). We started taking our kids there because it was an easy trip where kid behavior was tolerated, and as kids grew, they could enjoy some degree of independence. Some of the PPs are correct that the Disney Bounding adults are difficult. An example... we took our grandson to the MK Halloween Party in an adorable Donald Duck costume and he wanted to meet Donald, but the line was 1.5 hours long, with the vast majority being 20-somethings. If only Disney would reserve certain times for little kids or have multiples of some characters, etc. I don't want to deny them their fun, but their sheer numbers and passion/exuberance sometimes do make things hard for families.

Disney is for anyone. It’s not “for kids.”

No, it is for kids, pathetic adults have glommed onto Disney as part of their identity.

Nope.

Why does a grown adult want to meet another adult in a costume pretending to be a cartoon character? My kids are only barely interested in meeting characters. I definitely wouldn’t stand in line by myself. Last time we had to stand in line behind two grown men who wanted to meet Moana. I felt bad for Moana having to meet these two creepers.

You don’t need to understand. Their ticket cost more than your kid’s did.

I’m quite sure my family of 5 dropped far more than those creepy losers did during our stay.

Stay mad. Keep name-calling. It will
change nothing. They are just as allowed to stand in line as you are.

I didn’t say they weren’t allowed. I said they were creepy men. If you do that you will be judged.

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Anonymous wrote:We are annual WDW visitors (with DVC). We started taking our kids there because it was an easy trip where kid behavior was tolerated, and as kids grew, they could enjoy some degree of independence. Some of the PPs are correct that the Disney Bounding adults are difficult. An example... we took our grandson to the MK Halloween Party in an adorable Donald Duck costume and he wanted to meet Donald, but the line was 1.5 hours long, with the vast majority being 20-somethings. If only Disney would reserve certain times for little kids or have multiples of some characters, etc. I don't want to deny them their fun, but their sheer numbers and passion/exuberance sometimes do make things hard for families.

Disney is for anyone. It’s not “for kids.”

No, it is for kids, pathetic adults have glommed onto Disney as part of their identity.

Nope.

Why does a grown adult want to meet another adult in a costume pretending to be a cartoon character? My kids are only barely interested in meeting characters. I definitely wouldn’t stand in line by myself. Last time we had to stand in line behind two grown men who wanted to meet Moana. I felt bad for Moana having to meet these two creepers.

You don’t need to understand. Their ticket cost more than your kid’s did.

I’m quite sure my family of 5 dropped far more than those creepy losers did during our stay.

Stay mad. Keep name-calling. It will
change nothing. They are just as allowed to stand in line as you are.

I didn’t say they weren’t allowed. I said they were creepy men. If you do that you will be judged.

A PP was saying her grandson should get his own line for Donald Duck with no adults allowed.

Nope. That’s not how Disney works. No matter whom you feel compelled to “judge.”

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Anonymous wrote:We are annual WDW visitors (with DVC). We started taking our kids there because it was an easy trip where kid behavior was tolerated, and as kids grew, they could enjoy some degree of independence. Some of the PPs are correct that the Disney Bounding adults are difficult. An example... we took our grandson to the MK Halloween Party in an adorable Donald Duck costume and he wanted to meet Donald, but the line was 1.5 hours long, with the vast majority being 20-somethings. If only Disney would reserve certain times for little kids or have multiples of some characters, etc. I don't want to deny them their fun, but their sheer numbers and passion/exuberance sometimes do make things hard for families.

Disney is for anyone. It’s not “for kids.”

No, it is for kids, pathetic adults have glommed onto Disney as part of their identity.

Nope.

Why does a grown adult want to meet another adult in a costume pretending to be a cartoon character? My kids are only barely interested in meeting characters. I definitely wouldn’t stand in line by myself. Last time we had to stand in line behind two grown men who wanted to meet Moana. I felt bad for Moana having to meet these two creepers.

You don’t need to understand. Their ticket cost more than your kid’s did.

I’m quite sure my family of 5 dropped far more than those creepy losers did during our stay.

Stay mad. Keep name-calling. It will
change nothing. They are just as allowed to stand in line as you are.

I didn’t say they weren’t allowed. I said they were creepy men. If you do that you will be judged.

A PP was saying her grandson should get his own line for Donald Duck with no adults allowed.

Nope. That’s not how Disney works. No matter whom you feel compelled to “judge.”

I can judge all day. And Disney did give all these stunted adults the middle finger when they discontinued the DAS program for all but some kids. Those people were abusing the passes and got cut off and boy, how they howled. Disney knows which visitors pay the bills.

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Anonymous wrote:We are annual WDW visitors (with DVC). We started taking our kids there because it was an easy trip where kid behavior was tolerated, and as kids grew, they could enjoy some degree of independence. Some of the PPs are correct that the Disney Bounding adults are difficult. An example... we took our grandson to the MK Halloween Party in an adorable Donald Duck costume and he wanted to meet Donald, but the line was 1.5 hours long, with the vast majority being 20-somethings. If only Disney would reserve certain times for little kids or have multiples of some characters, etc. I don't want to deny them their fun, but their sheer numbers and passion/exuberance sometimes do make things hard for families.

Disney is for anyone. It’s not “for kids.”

No, it is for kids, pathetic adults have glommed onto Disney as part of their identity.

Nope.

Why does a grown adult want to meet another adult in a costume pretending to be a cartoon character? My kids are only barely interested in meeting characters. I definitely wouldn’t stand in line by myself. Last time we had to stand in line behind two grown men who wanted to meet Moana. I felt bad for Moana having to meet these two creepers.

You don’t need to understand. Their ticket cost more than your kid’s did.

I’m quite sure my family of 5 dropped far more than those creepy losers did during our stay.

Stay mad. Keep name-calling. It will
change nothing. They are just as allowed to stand in line as you are.

I didn’t say they weren’t allowed. I said they were creepy men. If you do that you will be judged.

A PP was saying her grandson should get his own line for Donald Duck with no adults allowed.

Nope. That’s not how Disney works. No matter whom you feel compelled to “judge.”

I can judge all day. And Disney did give all these stunted adults the middle finger when they discontinued the DAS program for all but some kids. Those people were abusing the passes and got cut off and boy, how they howled. Disney knows which visitors pay the bills.

Never said you couldn’t judge. That’s clearly all you do. But those adults are not doing anything wrong or breaking any rules per Disney and little Larlo will need to wait for Donald Duck with them and everyone else. Deal with it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We are annual WDW visitors (with DVC). We started taking our kids there because it was an easy trip where kid behavior was tolerated, and as kids grew, they could enjoy some degree of independence. Some of the PPs are correct that the Disney Bounding adults are difficult. An example... we took our grandson to the MK Halloween Party in an adorable Donald Duck costume and he wanted to meet Donald, but the line was 1.5 hours long, with the vast majority being 20-somethings. If only Disney would reserve certain times for little kids or have multiples of some characters, etc. I don't want to deny them their fun, but their sheer numbers and passion/exuberance sometimes do make things hard for families.

Disney is for anyone. It’s not “for kids.”

No, it is for kids, pathetic adults have glommed onto Disney as part of their identity.

Nope.

Why does a grown adult want to meet another adult in a costume pretending to be a cartoon character? My kids are only barely interested in meeting characters. I definitely wouldn’t stand in line by myself. Last time we had to stand in line behind two grown men who wanted to meet Moana. I felt bad for Moana having to meet these two creepers.

You don’t need to understand. Their ticket cost more than your kid’s did.

I’m quite sure my family of 5 dropped far more than those creepy losers did during our stay.

Stay mad. Keep name-calling. It will
change nothing. They are just as allowed to stand in line as you are.

I didn’t say they weren’t allowed. I said they were creepy men. If you do that you will be judged.

A PP was saying her grandson should get his own line for Donald Duck with no adults allowed.

Nope. That’s not how Disney works. No matter whom you feel compelled to “judge.”

I can judge all day. And Disney did give all these stunted adults the middle finger when they discontinued the DAS program for all but some kids. Those people were abusing the passes and got cut off and boy, how they howled. Disney knows which visitors pay the bills.

Never said you couldn’t judge. That’s clearly all you do. But those adults are not doing anything wrong or breaking any rules per Disney and little Larlo will need to wait for Donald Duck with them and everyone else. Deal with it.

I don’t deal at all since we do the Premier Pass. We just happened to pass by Moana and it looked like no line except for the creepy dorks. Even my kids wondered what those guys were up to. Hope they weren’t inappropriate with poor Moana.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We are annual WDW visitors (with DVC). We started taking our kids there because it was an easy trip where kid behavior was tolerated, and as kids grew, they could enjoy some degree of independence. Some of the PPs are correct that the Disney Bounding adults are difficult. An example... we took our grandson to the MK Halloween Party in an adorable Donald Duck costume and he wanted to meet Donald, but the line was 1.5 hours long, with the vast majority being 20-somethings. If only Disney would reserve certain times for little kids or have multiples of some characters, etc. I don't want to deny them their fun, but their sheer numbers and passion/exuberance sometimes do make things hard for families.

Disney is for anyone. It’s not “for kids.”

No, it is for kids, pathetic adults have glommed onto Disney as part of their identity.

Nope.

Why does a grown adult want to meet another adult in a costume pretending to be a cartoon character? My kids are only barely interested in meeting characters. I definitely wouldn’t stand in line by myself. Last time we had to stand in line behind two grown men who wanted to meet Moana. I felt bad for Moana having to meet these two creepers.

You don’t need to understand. Their ticket cost more than your kid’s did.

I’m quite sure my family of 5 dropped far more than those creepy losers did during our stay.

Stay mad. Keep name-calling. It will
change nothing. They are just as allowed to stand in line as you are.

I didn’t say they weren’t allowed. I said they were creepy men. If you do that you will be judged.

A PP was saying her grandson should get his own line for Donald Duck with no adults allowed.

Nope. That’s not how Disney works. No matter whom you feel compelled to “judge.”

I can judge all day. And Disney did give all these stunted adults the middle finger when they discontinued the DAS program for all but some kids. Those people were abusing the passes and got cut off and boy, how they howled. Disney knows which visitors pay the bills.

Never said you couldn’t judge. That’s clearly all you do. But those adults are not doing anything wrong or breaking any rules per Disney and little Larlo will need to wait for Donald Duck with them and everyone else. Deal with it.

I don’t deal at all since we do the Premier Pass. We just happened to pass by Moana and it looked like no line except for the creepy dorks. Even my kids wondered what those guys were up to. Hope they weren’t inappropriate with poor Moana.

You seem very unkind and unfriendly. I’m sorry for whoever hurt you.