For context, I *am* one of those adults visiting without kids. Most of my park time is me, 55m, visiting some Disney park somewhere in the world solo.
You can be too much into MLP?!
I would love to be sold on it. In fact, when I’m at WDW in a few weeks, I can check out the features that you and others suggest paying attention to (though I’ll be staying elsewhere).I feel the need to sell you on it now, but since this is the differing opinions thread, I guess I should let it go… (But have you considered how the height creates a dramatic, sweeping upward view? Have you stayed there during winter it really doesn’t count if you haven’t stayed by the fireside during winter hey what about that character totem pole…)
Wow, I never knew it was possible to sling so much bull fertilizer in my life. What it really boils down to is that some people enjoy the simpler things in their quest for entertainment and others desire more complex albeit, in my opinion, less enjoyable forms of entertainment.
I have gone solo to WDW, Disneyland and Disneyland Paris as person in his 60's. I wasn't trying to be young or to fool anyone into thinking I was, what I was doing was visiting a park where both children and adults could enjoy the experience together even if one of those (children) happens to be missing. I've been to a war, was married for almost three decades, raised two children successfully into adulthood, ran my own business, managed others. I don't have to do anything to prove who or what I am and no one is going to make me doubt myself based on some silly, unrelated judgement. Life would be so much better if people could just accept things as the are on the surface and not try to make everything any of us do, into some form of Psychological assessment.
I had to defend being a disney fan back in 2009 when someone actually said it was only for kids and I had to explain to them that what I love about Disney is not the stuff they marketed and that was in 2009. Since then, the infantilization and dumbing down of the brand has only gotten worse to the point where I can't blame people today for thinking it's "Just for Kids".
I don't disagree with you there. I still think the current script for Spaceship Earth is openly insulting to guests intelligence and it has been in use since 2007.
That was the best version. Sadly the current version which is the worst version has now surpassed it as longest running version of the attraction and it doesn't even have a real ending
Same here. My mother went on the original attraction with her mother at the 1964 World’s Fair, and recalls her mother remarking how it was the most beautiful experience. Sadly, her mother would die a few years later suddenly (about a decade before I was born) but every time I experience it with my mom (and now my own kids) I can’t help but reflect on the multigenerational experience that attraction has given to my family.Same.
I have a strong connection to the song, based in my early childhood. It was the first attraction we visited on our first trip to Disneyland, in the summer of ‘68. At the time, I was 5 years old and had 2 younger bros (lil’ sis’ wouldn’t come along ‘til ‘75).
Our Mother used to break out singing the song (not belting it out) from time to time, including while putting us to bed at night. She’s still with us at age 86 (as well as Pop at age 92).
Anyway, the song dose not bug me in the least, and never has…it makes me smile…!!!
Maybe that is why I'm upset at the changes they have made (being a Disney adult) since I hate that they put in Frozen for example. I would have rather that they kept Norway the way it was. More for adults. I guess you could also say the same about the rat ride in France. I never saw the movies. I don't care about the movies. I have no reason to see the movies. So these rides as they are mean nothing to me.
