Anyone here that used to hate Disneyworld?

fam

fam

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I have to admit I utterly hated disneyworld before I had kids. I hated the commercialism, how expensive it was, the whoring out of their characters and merchandising, the lack of real roller coasters (I live an hour away from cedar point). The inlaws would take us and i'd be in hell for the week becoming the dedicated baby stroller pusher...but after taking the kids a couple times...it started growing on me after watching\recording how my kids loved it...and after taking the kids to myrtle beach and spending about the same to do nothing but sit on a beach and have no real entertainment...It got me going back under my own will.

Anyone else in the same boat? Surely not all of you popped out of your mothers womb with disney ears on (could scratch things on the way out).
 
plaz10

plaz10

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I was scared of it - if that counts. My first trip...I was absolutely terrified of almost everything. I liked being in the parks and meeting characters and such but rides? Besides Spaceship Earth...I hated everything. It wasn't until 10th grade that I started actually riding the fun rides and now I fall more in love each trip!
 
RedDad

RedDad

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I wouldn't say "hate", but I didn't care for it until we took our oldest DD on our first family trip. I used to shake my head at our friends who would take their kids out of school and go several times a year. A few years later I was doing to the same thing!
 
real mad hatter

real mad hatter

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Ive an old saying " How can you hate something if you've never tried it." When our DS was much younger he would look at some new food we were trying to get him to eat.His reply " Dont like it dad " :eek: Whit!!! You haven't tasted it yet. So this theory is called " Once bitten,twice shy " So now turn the clock to 2003.Sitting on a beach on our last day of a 3 week vacation on a Greek island.My son ( then 5 ) says to me," Dad,can we go to Disney world next year " ? My reply " Dont fancy it son". Well the end of the story is he got his wish,and so did I. And in 2004 we went our first trip to WDW. It was the start of a relationship that is still going strong.We all love this magical place and have only hated it 5 times.Thats when our cases are packed for home.:(
 
ExtinctJenn

ExtinctJenn

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fam said:
Anyone else in the same boat? Surely not all of you popped out of your mothers womb with disney ears on (could scratch things on the way out).
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I was pretty darn close... my mother was a Disney nut and my grandparents spent their summers in Orlando (and liked it so much they ended up retiring there and living literally 2 miles from the rear entrance to DtD). My first trip was in 1983 (I had just turned 6) and honestly I think my parents would've taken me there earlier if they could've. As far back as I remember I have loved Disney. I got frustrated with it during the Eisner years but never quite hated it. Luckily most of those years I missed (there was a 10-yr span where I didn't go). I will say however that once my son was born my love of it forever changed and became so much more. Seeing it through a child's eyes will get you every time!
 
Toveck

Toveck

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I admit that I hated it, I hated what I perceived as the commercialism of it and didn't see the point. Living north of Pittsburgh, I had Kennywood, Cedar Point, Geauga Lake, Waldameer and growing up Idora Park, so I didn't see any reason for going that far for an "amusement park".

Even when I got married and had kids, I still resisted. Finally my wife had enough and booked a trip. My daughters were 5 and 7. I was still not happy and we drove down and I complained the whole way. We finally arrived and I walked into the Magic Kingdom and saw the castle and something melted in me. My wife likes to say that like the Grinch, my heart grew 3 sizes that day.

By the time we were ready to head home, I was already planning my next trip! I was and still to this day am sorry I waited so long to take my kids. I missed out on so much of seeing them experience it at a younger age.

Now we have been there 8 times since 2007 and I'm so totally hooked. In fact, we have a baby on the way due this June and I'm counting the days until we take him for his first trip!
 
Britt

Britt

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*sigh* I admit that I thought it was 'just' an amusement park. And "Who on EARTH would spend so much, or travel so far? I mean, we have a Six Flags-Elich Gardens right here!". lol And then I had kids.

And something just comes over you. Your kids suck all your brains out and make you do stupid things, like make you spend thousands of dollars on an "amusement park"...and you LOVE it. You WILLINGLY spend that money...and are happy to do so. I swear...if we had never had kids, I dont know if the pull would be the same ;) (it would be. lol Who am I kidding).

And now I get as excited, if not more, about going. I seriously stay up at night going "EEEEEE" in my head the night before.....LMAO
 
openendedsky

openendedsky

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Toveck said:
Now we have been there 8 times since 2007 and I'm so totally hooked. In fact, we have a baby on the way due this June and I'm counting the days until we take him for his first trip!
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Love your avatar!

And as a kid, I loved it, but I never really had this insatiable urge to constantly go. In my teenage years I had APs to Busch Gardens or USF/IOA, and was pretty much "over" Disney. I went again for single day to MK on my spring break, my junior year of high school, and hated it, mostly because of crowds. I think I even told my mom that I didn't care much if I ever went back. Here I am now, with a PAP and going at least once every ten days.
 
DaddyDisneyMan

DaddyDisneyMan

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My wife didn't understand the whole "Disney" thing until we brought her last year for her 1st Disney experience with our 2 little boys. Needless to say, we are heading back again next month and my DW is loosely throwing around the idea of NEXT years trip. Pretty crazy considering she wasn't all that thrilled with the idea last year. With me being a WDW nut ball this only makes me smile from ear to ear.
 
lazyboy97o

lazyboy97o

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If people are only enjoying Disney's parks due to vicarious enjoyment, then they are failing in their original purpose.

And it's Disneyland (one word) and Walt Disney World (separate words).
 
ExtinctJenn

ExtinctJenn

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I think a big part of it has to do with whether or not you are born into it (so-to-speak). I think part of the reason I can't remember a time (ever) that I didn't get it was because my family started going before I was born and started taking me when I was so young. I felt like I grew up with it... very specifically EPCOT actually (because it was brand new my first trip and I was immediately sucked into the edutainment of it all). It was just a natural progression to take my own trips when I was old enough and take my own child once I had him. If I had come into it from the complete outside I too probably wouldn't have "gotten" it until I stepped onto Mainstreet.
 

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