So I have this friend....she's in her early 20s and she just went to Florida for her very first time. She has grown up with Disney movies, shows, etc. I gave her some tips for her trip to Orlando.
She was on a very tight schedule. She went to SeaWorld, Universal Studios (did not have time for IoA) and the MK.
She found SeaWorld to be intriguing. She liked the idea of LEARNING and HAVING FUN at the SAME TIME. She enjoyed DISCOVERING things to see and do at SeaWorld.
She went to Universal Studios and enjoyed THRILL RIDES, but felt awkward at the jumbled mess of the studios. Jimmy Netron to ET...she said "how random is that?!" I completely agree. Universal has such an odd range of tv's and movies, it's like a 1999 mish mash with a touch of the 70s.
So then she went to the MK for her first time. She enjoyed the trip to it. The landscaping and scenery...the monorail, the hotels, and ferry etc.
Main Street she said was just nothing more than a shopping mall. I COMPLETELY AGREE. Gone is the unique features of it that truly made it a unique land. Now its just a straightaway of stores that lead you to the castle.
She loved space mountain, yet is not the type of person to care about the condition of the ride. She never rid the TTA or the CoP because they had bad advertising and did not "pop out" at her like the signs for stitch and monsters which amazingly as a first timer she said "what does that have to do with tomorrow or sci-fi?"
This is where I got pwned on things.....she thought Pirates of the Carribean was made AFTER the first movie. She only carred about seeing Johnny and nothing else in the ride. She felt Liberty Square was out of place. She never did country bears, she only did splash and thunder in fronteirland. Never went on the jungle cruise.
The magic pwns me, because the magic I enjoyed and took pride in on what Walt Disney did for Disneyland and what was in the MK in its early years has become so tied to "little kids and pixie dust" that Disney=I MUST ENJOY MYSELF OR ELSE.
Disneyland was a physical dream of walt disney's mind IMO. A place where people could LEARN and FIND SOMETHING OFF THE BEATEN PATH.
The same goes for the MK in its early years.
So wow, the MK has pwned me.....this current magic since the late 90s has made most first timers caring less about finding unique or itneresting things and more on PRINCESSES AND PIRATES AND COMERCIALISM OH MY!
Disney 1: Expo_Seeker: 0
She was on a very tight schedule. She went to SeaWorld, Universal Studios (did not have time for IoA) and the MK.
She found SeaWorld to be intriguing. She liked the idea of LEARNING and HAVING FUN at the SAME TIME. She enjoyed DISCOVERING things to see and do at SeaWorld.
She went to Universal Studios and enjoyed THRILL RIDES, but felt awkward at the jumbled mess of the studios. Jimmy Netron to ET...she said "how random is that?!" I completely agree. Universal has such an odd range of tv's and movies, it's like a 1999 mish mash with a touch of the 70s.
So then she went to the MK for her first time. She enjoyed the trip to it. The landscaping and scenery...the monorail, the hotels, and ferry etc.
Main Street she said was just nothing more than a shopping mall. I COMPLETELY AGREE. Gone is the unique features of it that truly made it a unique land. Now its just a straightaway of stores that lead you to the castle.
She loved space mountain, yet is not the type of person to care about the condition of the ride. She never rid the TTA or the CoP because they had bad advertising and did not "pop out" at her like the signs for stitch and monsters which amazingly as a first timer she said "what does that have to do with tomorrow or sci-fi?"
This is where I got pwned on things.....she thought Pirates of the Carribean was made AFTER the first movie. She only carred about seeing Johnny and nothing else in the ride. She felt Liberty Square was out of place. She never did country bears, she only did splash and thunder in fronteirland. Never went on the jungle cruise.
The magic pwns me, because the magic I enjoyed and took pride in on what Walt Disney did for Disneyland and what was in the MK in its early years has become so tied to "little kids and pixie dust" that Disney=I MUST ENJOY MYSELF OR ELSE.
Disneyland was a physical dream of walt disney's mind IMO. A place where people could LEARN and FIND SOMETHING OFF THE BEATEN PATH.
The same goes for the MK in its early years.
So wow, the MK has pwned me.....this current magic since the late 90s has made most first timers caring less about finding unique or itneresting things and more on PRINCESSES AND PIRATES AND COMERCIALISM OH MY!
Disney 1: Expo_Seeker: 0
