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WDW Withdrawals

StoneCutter589

StoneCutter589

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Original Poster
Since our honeymoon, my wife and I have taken an August trip to Disney World. This year, we won't be making our annual trip because we had our first child. This is a wonderful time for both of us, but we're both going through Disney withdrawals. After all, we've programmed ourselves to associate August with Disney. Any ideas about how to overcome the withdrawls. (Tentatively, we plan on taking our daughter, who will be 13 months old at the time, in August of 2017.)
 
Hakunamatata

Hakunamatata

Le Meh
StoneCutter589 said:
Since our honeymoon, my wife and I have taken an August trip to Disney World. This year, we won't be making our annual trip because we had our first child. This is a wonderful time for both of us, but we're both going through Disney withdrawals. After all, we've programmed ourselves to associate August with Disney. Any ideas about how to overcome the withdrawls. (Tentatively, we plan on taking our daughter, who will be 13 months old at the time, in August of 2017.)
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Focus on your new child which if I did my math correct will be born in July. Enjoy those first months. It's uphill from there.
 
JIMINYCR

JIMINYCR

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Scan through all your photos and videos from previous trips, keep visiting all the wonderful informative Disney sites, plan out your future dream trip with your new child, look through WDW MAGIC trip reports of others. Do what you can to keep the thrill of Disney in your hearts and minds. Surround your newborn with lots of Disney things. We had a 4 year stretch of non Disney years when DS was in high school, now that was murder.
 
Zipadeelady

Zipadeelady

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I agree with Jiminy. Start planning your next trip. Check out new resorts to stay at, make lists of all the things you haven't done yet. If your able get Reedy Creek Radio App. They've revamped and I'm in love with all the songs they play now! Since you have a new baby sit down and make a new itinerary that will work with Charlie (that's the name I've given your baby):D
 
DisneyPrincess5

DisneyPrincess5

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Congratulations! Ugh DWD (Disney Withdrawl Depression) is the pits. But at least you have a great reason to feel it. The time will fly!

We get through it by reading these boards, keeping up with news and highlights, watch YouTube and listen to music, talk about it all the time, study menus, live vicariously through family members who go, and talk about what we want to do in our next trip.
 
LongLiveTheKing

LongLiveTheKing

Well-Known Member
Watch Disney park documentaries on Youtube. There are TV specials as well (mostly travel channels and food stuff.), every 5 year official anniversary specials (One of these had Julie Andrews singing Wish Upon A Star and it was incredibly rad). Basically, the trick to this is to look at the suggested videos on the videos you see on this and put in Disney World/Land documentary in the Youtube search bar.

Haunted Mansion documentary

Pirates Of The Caribbean documentary

Expedition Everest construction special from before it was finished

Expedition Everest tour from an Imagineer

Unwrapped at Disney World

https://youtu.be/AOaxMB7neR8 Tokyo DisneySea documentary
 
Matt_Black

Matt_Black

Well-Known Member
LongLiveTheKing said:
If I'm thinking of the same game that I saw on Game Grumps, it really wasn't that good in addition to being incredibly sparse. But I mean, if it's free, might as well
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Well, I liked it well enough. Not as much as other games, but a darn sight more than Where's Waldo. Who in their right mind thought 8-bit graphics were a good milieu for a visual acuity game?!?
 
LongLiveTheKing

LongLiveTheKing

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Matt_Black said:
Well, I liked it well enough. Not as much as other games, but a darn sight more than Where's Waldo. Who in their right mind thought 8-bit graphics were a good milieu for a visual acuity game?!?
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I don't think the 8 bit was the problem. There are plenty of amaaaaazing NES games. Part of what seemed weird to me was that every ride was a different bare bones experience. If they had instead focused on one of their ride mechanics, (I think they should have made every level a side scroller and really polished up their Haunted Mansion engine) they wouldn't have had each ride have been this half baked thing.

It sucks that they haven't done a game like that since then because I bet it would have been better with a second go and so many games in 30 years to pull ideas from.
 
TXDisney

TXDisney

Well-Known Member
Currently going through the same withdrawals. We go every year as well. Our last trip was in December. But my wife and I have been trying for a kid, so we won't go again until she's pregnant and until the baby is born. Looking like December of 2017 might be our next trip.

I recommend start planning that trip in a year. Do some research and all to restaurants and new things.
 
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Mr -Tom - Morrow

New Member
It's hard! My wife and I last visited in August 2013 on our honeymoon. We then had our son and two years has passed since we last visited!
We are however returning in 22 days! It will be our sons second birthday whilst we are there.
It will be your time to visit again before you know it!
 
StoneCutter589

StoneCutter589

Active Member
Original Poster
Thank you everyone for the fun suggestions. If anything, not going this summer has allowed me to appreciate our past--and future--trips even more.
A lot of you suggest listening to music from the parks or watching videos. Ironically, I do this to psych myself up for a trip, so I think doing it now may just make things a tad worse...sort of like dangling a carrot in front of mule.
 

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