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[Californian Elitist]

Well there are those folks of course...I'm speaking more of the prominent Disney twitter personalities that are there every day, because it's their job of course. Unless you think they have special needs as well.

Ooooohhh, I see what you're talking about. Yeah, they're another story. I don't understand how they can be in the parks so many times a week, either. I remember last year, I ended up going to the parks three times in a row to spend time with some friends from out of town and hang out with another friend of mine who also had an AP. By the third day, I had had enough. It was driving me crazy.

 

[Stevek]

Ooooohhh, I see what you're talking about. Yeah, they're another story. I don't understand how they can be in the parks so many times a week, either. I remember last year, I ended up going to the parks three times in a row to spend time with some friends from out of town and hang out with another friend of mine who also had an AP. By the third day, I had had enough. It was driving me crazy.

Don't get me wrong, I (like most of us nutjobs here) love the parks and have been going for 43 years...yeah, I'm that old. But like you, I can only take it in small doses because I've been there so many times over the years (and the crowds and the prices). For some, it really has become their social life. Their friendships/relationships, their very existence and a wedding for one case I know of, completely revolve around the parks. I can see spending multiple days at a resort (we did 9 days in WDW back in 2010) as part of a vacation but not 5+ days a week, every week, like some. I mean, over 1000 visits to Disneyland? Really? How does anyone enjoy it at that point?

 

[Nemo14]

Take this for what it's worth… I heard a new rumor suggesting there may be another generation of magic band to come down the pipe.

Oooooooo ..... magical!!!!

 

[Californian Elitist]

Don't get me wrong, I (like most of us nutjobs here) love the parks and have been going for 43 years...yeah, I'm that old. But like you, I can only take it in small doses because I've been there so many times over the years (and the crowds and the prices). For some, it really has become their social life. Their friendships/relationships and a wedding for one case I know of, completely revolve around the parks. I can see spending multiple days at a resort (we did 9 days in WDW back in 2010) as part of a vacation but not 5+ days a week, every week, like some. I mean, over 1000 visits to Disneyland? Really? How does anyone enjoy it at that point?

Exactly, we've been too many times. At the same time, you have those that have been many times, but can still visit a consistent amount of times a month and even a week. I just can't do it. I think it's because when my siblings and I were children, my mom took us to Disneyland for one day per trip. We never went back the next day, we always did something else, like go to the beach or Hollywood or wherever else. That's what I'm used to. This going back everyday for multiple days... I can't handle it. Like you, I just can't enjoy it. I know I've been to Disneyland many times, but no way in hell am I close to a thousand visits. I haven't even been a hundred times. I've been maybe fifty times, MAYBE.

 

[PhotoDave219]

Improvements of size? stronger sensors? more sensors?

I have no details on this. Maybe something that actively broadcasts your location? IDFK.

 

[PhotoDave219]

Well there are those folks of course...I'm speaking more of the prominent Disney twitter personalities that are there every day, because it's their job of course. Unless you think they have special needs as well.

If you read the story, this is someone who is a schoolteacher and on summer vacation.

Crazy? Eh. No worse than some people in the community.

 

[Nemo14]

If you read the story, this is someone who is a schoolteacher.

That would explain the insanity part.

 

[Stevek]

If you read the story, this is someone who is a schoolteacher and on summer vacation.

Crazy? Eh. No worse than some people in the community.

I was actually referring to a couple of Disneyland folks but I guess it works either way to be honest. Crazy, maybe as some people in the community are borderline (if not slightly over) crazy. If I were a school teacher, I could think of much better ways to spend my much needed vacation than standing at a metal barricade for 3 weeks. But to each his (or her) own.

 

[Furiated]

Vegetarian? Maybe you could just eat the pickle?

Haha nope, not a vegetarian. And I hear they make a good chicken sandwich. But their CEO has ensured that I'll never want to go and find out.

 

[GiveMeTheMusic]

Exactly, we've been too many times. At the same time, you have those that have been many times, but can still visit a consistent amount of times a month and even a week. I just can't do it. I think it's because when my siblings and I were children, my mom took us to Disneyland for one day per trip. We never went back the next day, we always did something else, like go to the beach or Hollywood or wherever else. That's what I'm used to. This going back everyday for multiple days... I can't handle it. Like you, I just can't enjoy it. I know I've been to Disneyland many times, but no way in hell am I close to a thousand visits. I haven't even been a hundred times. I've been maybe fifty times, MAYBE.

There's a guy who has been to DLR every day for the past two years or something - it started in 2012 when he lost his job, and he hasn't quit. Every. Day. He now has a website and tries to get media invites to events. I'll see if I can dig it up.

EDIT: Found it. Not a site, just twitter/instagram. https://twitter.com/Disney366

 

[wdisney9000]

I was actually referring to a couple of Disneyland folks but I guess it works either way to be honest. Crazy, maybe as some people in the community are borderline (if not slightly over) crazy. If I were a school teacher, I could think of much better ways to spend my much needed vacation than standing at a metal barricade for 3 weeks. But to each his (or her) own.

Considering teachers are probly constantly worried about a gun wielding student opening fire on the entire school, standing at the metal barricades may not be so bad.

In fairness to the students, there are crazy teachers who will report/suspend them if they chew their pop-tart into the shape of a gun. (anyone see that story, wow!)

 

[Nemo14]

Considering teachers are probly constantly worried about a gun wielding student opening fire on the entire school, standing at the metal barricades may not be so bad.

In fairness to the students, there are crazy teachers who will report/suspend them if they chew their pop-tart into the shape of a gun. (anyone see that story, wow!)

Speaking as a retired teacher, yes, we are indeed insane. Carry on.

 

[Stevek]

Exactly, we've been too many times. At the same time, you have those that have been many times, but can still visit a consistent amount of times a month and even a week. I just can't do it. I think it's because when my siblings and I were children, my mom took us to Disneyland for one day per trip. We never went back the next day, we always did something else, like go to the beach or Hollywood or wherever else. That's what I'm used to. This going back everyday for multiple days... I can't handle it. Like you, I just can't enjoy it. I know I've been to Disneyland many times, but no way in hell am I close to a thousand visits. I haven't even been a hundred times. I've been maybe fifty times, MAYBE.

We were the same way. My aunt & grandma would come out from Arkansas and we'd visit Disneyland 1x (2 if we were lucky) every year and then visits Knott's, the Queen Mary, the beach, etc.

In 40+ years, I've been to DL over 200 times which quite honestly sounds pretty fanatical when you say it. My old office was literally 1 mile north of the park (I looked into DL from my 9th floor office) and during the last 12 years having an AP, my wife would meet me at the office on a Friday night and we'd take the girls for a couple of hours. Our psycho stretch was during the 50th where we probably visited 30+ times in 2 years (and we did Disney World). Over the past 3 years, we've slowed down significantly. Between burnout and far more important things in life taking over, we've been lucky to visit 5-10 times a year which in the AP world, is pretty tame.

For probably the last 5 years, we've really gone through what I'd term as burnout or complacency. Visits just don't have that impact...I see it most in my daughters who used to look forward to visits as being something special. Now, not so much which is a bummer. Visits to Disneyland should always be special and not something that we just do because it's there. After our AP's expire in Feb 2015, we're going to take a good long break from the resort...probably for many years. Not because of the prices but because I want that sense of excitement and enjoyment that's been diminished for awhile.

 

[Stevek]

There's a guy who has been to DLR every day for the past two years or something - it started in 2012 when he lost his job, and he hasn't quit. Every. Day. He now has a website and tries to get media invites to events. I'll see if I can dig it up.

EDIT: Found it. Not a site, just twitter/instagram. https://twitter.com/Disney366

Does he have a job now? If not, I can certainly understand why. And as an prospective employer, if I got wind of this I'd never hire the guy.

 

[Californian Elitist]

There's a guy who has been to DLR every day for the past two years or something - it started in 2012 when he lost his job, and he hasn't quit. Every. Day. He now has a website and tries to get media invites to events. I'll see if I can dig it up.

EDIT: Found it. Not a site, just twitter/instagram. https://twitter.com/Disney366

Dear lord... Wow. Ironic that this person began visiting DLR everyday, AFTER they lost their job.

 

[DocMcHulk]

So...... about that Dubai Disneyland mini-park stuff....

 

[cw1982]

Considering teachers are probly constantly worried about a gun wielding student opening fire on the entire school, standing at the metal barricades may not be so bad.

In fairness to the students, there are crazy teachers who will report/suspend them if they chew their pop-tart into the shape of a gun. (anyone see that story, wow!)

Hah! In all fairness, I've worked in schools where something like a pop-tart shaped gun would easily lead to conversations between students that would become very threatening. You'd be amazed how little sense some of these kids have. My favorite was a teen who threatened to get his whole family to be at my car waiting when I left for the evening and then informed me that he wasn't "trying to f*** with" me as the resource officer escorted him out of my class... All because I wouldn't drop what I was doing and give him his ISS work.

Granted, the kid and situation I'm talking about is very different from what you are referring to with the pop-tart incident. There are people of all ages who clearly lack common sense.

As a teacher, I can see coming up with any mindless way to escape town for as long as possible while we can lol... but even I can't see standing around in one area for three weeks when I could be relaxing elsewhere.

 

[Mike S]

There's a guy who has been to DLR every day for the past two years or something - it started in 2012 when he lost his job, and he hasn't quit. Every. Day. He now has a website and tries to get media invites to events. I'll see if I can dig it up.

EDIT: Found it. Not a site, just twitter/instagram. https://twitter.com/Disney366

Probably the most extreme case of pixie dust overdose I've ever seen

 

[Californian Elitist]

We were the same way. My aunt & grandma would come out from Arkansas and we'd visit Disneyland 1x (2 if we were lucky) every year and then visits Knott's, the Queen Mary, the beach, etc.

In 40+ years, I've been to DL over 200 times which quite honestly sounds pretty fanatical when you say it. My old office was literally 1 mile north of the park (I looked into DL from my 9th floor office) and during the last 12 years having an AP, my wife would meet me at the office on a Friday night and we'd take the girls for a couple of hours. Our psycho stretch was during the 50th where we probably visited 30+ times in 2 years (and we did Disney World). Over the past 3 years, we've slowed down significantly. Between burnout and far more important things in life taking over, we've been lucky to visit 5-10 times a year which in the AP world, is pretty tame.

For probably the last 5 years, we've really gone through what I'd term as burnout or complacency. Visits just don't have that impact...I see it most in my daughters who used to look forward to visits as being something special. Now, not so much which is a bummer. Visits to Disneyland should always be special and not something that we just do because it's there. After our AP's expire in Feb 2015, we're going to take a good long break from the resort...probably for many years. Not because of the prices but because I want that sense of excitement and enjoyment that's been diminished for awhile.

I remember going to Knott's, too, as a kid. I loved the Western area of the park.

Two hundred times or more is actually not bad, considering your age. Let's say you've gone two hundred times over the course of forty years... That equates to just five times per year, roughly one trip every other month per year. That's doable. You had an excuse during the 50th, that was a really big celebration haha.

I think it's completely fine that you've slowed down your visits. I've done the same for the most part, though I do plan on being there next year for the 60th. I haven't been to San Francisco in close to a decade, so I want to make a trip there soon, as well as some other places.

 

[devoy1701]

We were the same way. My aunt & grandma would come out from Arkansas and we'd visit Disneyland 1x (2 if we were lucky) every year and then visits Knott's, the Queen Mary, the beach, etc.

In 40+ years, I've been to DL over 200 times which quite honestly sounds pretty fanatical when you say it. My old office was literally 1 mile north of the park (I looked into DL from my 9th floor office) and during the last 12 years having an AP, my wife would meet me at the office on a Friday night and we'd take the girls for a couple of hours. Our psycho stretch was during the 50th where we probably visited 30+ times in 2 years (and we did Disney World). Over the past 3 years, we've slowed down significantly. Between burnout and far more important things in life taking over, we've been lucky to visit 5-10 times a year which in the AP world, is pretty tame.

For probably the last 5 years, we've really gone through what I'd term as burnout or complacency. Visits just don't have that impact...I see it most in my daughters who used to look forward to visits as being something special. Now, not so much which is a bummer. Visits to Disneyland should always be special and not something that we just do because it's there. After our AP's expire in Feb 2015, we're going to take a good long break from the resort...probably for many years. Not because of the prices but because I want that sense of excitement and enjoyment that's been diminished for awhile.

That was my wife and I a few years back with WDW....during our 5 year stretch of being APers, we were racking up 40+ days in the parks each year...multiple long weekend trips, 2 long trips a year, and plenty of day visits. We used to come home from work, decide we wanted a hot dog from Casey's and be at the parks in 40 mins. I think we had our price per turnstyle click down to like $10.00 a turn or something like that. We definitely reached burnout...though the lack of new attractions and seasonal offerings helped with that. We decided not to renew our passes back in 2012. We took a trip to Disneyland in March of last year, but besides that, it's been almost 3 years since we've been to WDW. Our son will be 11 months old in December, I think that'll be our first trip back.