BRUTAL New Commercial!

Phonedave

Phonedave

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I guess you could put me in the "too cool" camp. I went with my family when I was 14 or so. 5 or so years later my grandfather took my family to WDW. Him, my parents, my younger brother. I was offered the trip, but I had much cooler college things to do.

Our kids are 20, 18, and 14 (all girls) and they get very upset when my wife and I go without them. They may act like they don't want to go, but when it comes down to brass tacks, they are all on board.
 
ThunderRebel

ThunderRebel

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DuckTalesWooHoo1987 said:
So today I'm just sitting here watching football like a big, tough, dude that I am. THEN I get TOTALLY sucker punched by this new ad that Disney has apparently just released. I was just curious if anyone else had seen it and what they thought about it. I'm definitely dreading the day when the kids think they're "too cool" or "too big" for Disneyworld but we go all the time and maybe they won't go through that phase but to all you parents who have maybe dealt with that phase is it as bad as it looks and do you ever wish you could just freeze time with your kids there? This commercial will really make you wish you could!

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Disney World TV Spot, 'Meeting Cinderella'

While his daughter prepares to head off for college, a father reminisces on simpler times as he watches a home video of her much younger self sharing an embrace with Cinderella at Disney World. As tears run down his face, Dad attempts to lighten the mood by jokingly insisting that he won't even...
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We didn't take our two kids until they were 7 and 9. Since then we've been as a family of four 4 times - the most recent in 2017 when they were almost 17 and 15. It's still our favorite place for a family vacation. We did NYC twice for the Broadway shows, museums, shopping, and must-dos (Empire State Bldg, One World Trade, Statue of Liberty). But the kids said "it wasn't Disney World." We also took them to Boston to learn some history, but they got bored really fast on the Freedom Trail. Disney is the one place where no one gets bored and there's plenty to do from food to rides to entertainment. For my son's senior trip after high school graduation, he and two friends chose to go to Disney World - not to party on some beach (like I did). I booked their ADRs and fast passes and they had a blast! My 15-year-old daughter and I went on a trip to celebrate finishing her first year of high school. Long story short - don't fret - Disney is still fun and still a choice destination even as they grow up.
 
Cmdr_Crimson

Cmdr_Crimson

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eliza61nyc said:
lol, don't worry if they are anything like my brood, they never outgrow their love. My kids literally had a meltdown the first time they found out we were going to the world by themselves and I think they were 18, 20 and 22. ;)

One of my favorite all time commercials is an apple christmas commercial of 2018. same type of emotion. what I thought was sheer genius is that they never say the products name.



As @Goofyernmost said, its a different dynamic when the kids are small but I have to say I'm loving these trips also as a family of adults.
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There's a Universal Orlando ad with the same similarity to that......They tried....It's just...Eh..
 
Goofyernmost

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danitaytay said:
I can promise you, we don't all grow up too quickly! I'm almost 22 and still beg my parents to take me to experience the magic over and over again. When I'm at Disney it's the only time I truly feel like I can be a kid again.
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That's the way I felt for years and years. In the early years I went with my wife and kids. Over the years my reasons for going changed. For a while I was the owner of an assisted living type set up and I escorted to WDW, some of the people that lived there and worked at a local sheltered workshop. That was an amazing set up and their job was assembling Ice Cream containers for Ben & Jerry's. Kind of a very charitable thing that B & J was doing for the community. As my children aged into High School they would fly into Orlando while we were there to accompany us. Later, when they were gone and married I went sometimes with them, but mostly I went solo. I did that to kind of catch lightning in a bottle a second time, but I finally had to admit that it fun but not the same. Now I go because I am trying to put off the days of shawl and rocking chair for as long as I can. Because of that I want to go to a place that always made me feel good. Mentally though, I still have the same feelings of youth when I am there even if I do get dirty looks from people thinking I'm just fat and lazy for using a scooter to get around in what is probably a futile effort to delay the rocking chair. That is the one thing that goes a long way to dampening my search for my youth.
 
Goofyernmost

Goofyernmost

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AndyS2992 said:
Doesn't do anything for me, then again I'm not a parent lol
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I am a parent and it does very little because the only thing she did was text that it was a good vacation. The rest of the time she was just looking at her phone. As a parent there was a remedy for that and it is called growing a pair and telling your child that it is not acceptable to be on the phone or take it away.

Now for the second one, that you haven't seen yet. It is the one where the phone activity was creating a collage of the trip that she later projected on a screen for the family and they all loved her again. That one was nice, but nothing close to the emotional magic that Disney knows how to weave.
 
Goofyque'

Goofyque'

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Our family never missed a beat. 3 sons, all went with us til they got married,, then they joined us with the spouses (One even proposed on Main Street!) and now the grands all come too. The overseas family has also made sure we saw Tokyo Disney and Shanghai with them. Glad we have remained a Disney Family through it all. (BTW, my dad took me to DL when I was 2. I blame him entirely ;))
 
Kenny Hensley

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My older daughter took her first steps at WDW, walking to Mickey at the Toontown meet and greet. We’ve been every year, except when her sister was born in 1999. Older daughter is now a CM, first at Safaris, then Fantasyland, and now a trainer at Skyliner.
We used part of our last trip in October for this:
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Going to be grandparents next year, and the tradition will continue.

Long story too long, the ad got me in all the feels.
 
Just A Big Kid

Just A Big Kid

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Yep that got me.. lol Took our daughter for her first time in 2000. Now she is grown and seeing the magic in my grandson's eyes is priceless.. still miss my little girl though.. ugh..
 
DuckTalesWooHoo1987

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Just A Big Kid said:
Yep that got me.. lol Took our daughter for her first time in 2000. Now she is grown and seeing the magic in my grandson's eyes is priceless.. still miss my little girl though.. ugh..
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I firmly believe the day that I have to say "her mother and I do" will be one of the worst days of my life. I've told myself that I'm gonna say "only her mother does because I absolutely can not".
 
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bh_trade

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My "little" girl will be 20 next month and I am up early this morning to take her to the airport so she can head back to school which is 1300 miles away. Those few times each year we get to see her are so precious; yes, that commercial tugs at my heart :cry:
 
Goofyernmost

Goofyernmost

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I have very fond memories of my "little" girls as they grew, became adults and found some other person that occupied all their attention. It is a little sad, but with a little effort it is possible to create a whole new type of relationship with those grown up versions of our "little" girls. When it comes to Grandchildren on occasion we can feel that same parental joy (yes, there are times of joy as a parent although it doesn't always seem apparent), so like I was saying, we can feel that same way, but it is for much shorter intervals. They are the fond memories for our children to experience. As they used to joke... just don't get to close to you grandkids, because they have their own set of parents. You are cared about, but mostly just a source of Birthday and Christmas presents. ;)

I am close to both my little/big girls, but in such a different way. I know they care about and love me, but they no longer run to sit on my lap when I come home. (probably mostly because I don't live with them... yet.) However, I ain't getting any younger so that day might come again. As much as i'd like to be with them, I don't want it to be because I need to be taken care of instead of just cared about. Life do get more complicated as time goes on.

What I am saying in way to many words, if they can leave and take care of themselves safely and completely then we, as parents have done our job and although we miss them we can know that we did our job well and have raised what once were tiny humans that are now self sufficient, strong and ready to deal with life. It is almost magical to watch how they mature. Parenting is never really done. Mine are in their mid 40's now and still call me when a problem comes up that they think I can help them with. It all starts with the words... Dad, can I ask you a question? And believe me you never get tired of hearing them call you Dad. Finest three letter word ever invented.
 
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macefamily

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My daughter (23) will never outgrow Disney. She participated in the College Program and her name is on our DVC lease. My two boys who are (21) and (18) could care less about Disneyworld. They're good for maybe a once every two years trip now. I remember pushing a stroller around the parks, now I'm sitting in Trader Sams slinging back mixed drinks with my wife and daughter. How times change....
 

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