Originally Posted By beamerdog >>. Whenever (and I've mentioned this before on LP I think) I mention SeanYoda & I going to WDW my mom is all "AGAIN??!!!"<< smeeko, this is an interesting point. If you had a favorite vacation destination like, let's say, St. Lucia, would she say, "Again???!!!". No, most people would say, "Oh how nice. Will you be staying at the same hotel?" No one ever asks me where I'm staying or what will you be doing. They just give me this little weird smirk.
Originally Posted By x Pirate_Princess x I hover between Mouseketeer 1st Class and Truly Obsessed. While I can't go multiple times per month (it's happened, but not often) everything about the movies, memorizing, and feeling personally snubbed are all true!!
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo Hmmmm, I don't fit in any of these really. I am obsessed at one level in a feel compelled to read everything I can about the parks, my House is disney themed, we spend a fortune to visit the parks around the globe, and we have every DVD and VHS release. As well as other collections. Almost all my clothers (even some work articles are Disney). But sadly my obsession is waning. I feel the company has fallen far IMHO - movies, park offerings, everything. And it is very upsetting. My trip to DL next year is really my last attempt to see if I can rekindle the passion. But saying that, my Disney Mountain book arrived this week and I devoured it with glee.
Originally Posted By JazzCat Mouseketeer 1st class. If I lived near Disneyland I'd be going all the time. I've got over 30 Disney shirts and an entire room devoted to Disney. The only reason I'm not obsessed is because I do go other places besides a Disney park.
Originally Posted By t1lersm0m I don't fit on the given scale. I only make it to a park once a year or once every two years, but I love Disney movies and DIsney merchandise. If given the choice, I love Disney vacations, but also enjoy going other places.
Originally Posted By lesmisfan "5: TRULY OBSESSED: I visit the parks multiple times in any given month. If I could, I'd want to stay and never leave. I have memorized the spiels for every ride. I never consider vacation destinations other than a Disney park. I think and talk about Disney all the time. I rush to see every new Disney movie or animated feature and I have a vast collection of Disney merchandise. Visiting a Disney park is attractive to me because it makes me forget about real life and allows me to avoid things that are troubling me, so I go often. If someone says something negative about a particular Disney park, attraction, movie or the company itself, I feel personally stung by this" OMG!!! this is me down to a tea!!! at first a used to go once a year with family to disneyland, then had a wonderful visit to disney world back in 1996 and had a blast after that i had to get my hands on anything about disney or disney history, read various walt disney books, couldn't get enough of any of the movies, started reading and studying the disney secrets and hidden micky sites, then my sister got a job at disneyland and started going almost once a month, she quit and realized crap i cant go back to going once a year, talked my family into getting passes, we would go quite a few times a month without getting sick of it. then after five years did the disney college program and eventually landed a job at the disneyland resort and i am still there loving it a year later. I care deeply for the company and it kills me when the leaders of the company make really bad decisions and if someone talks bad about anything disney i do feel it is my duty to defend disney. I am deeply into the disney history, traditions,etc. My role model is walt disney and think about what he MIGHT have wanted me to do as a cast member and it has never led me astray. I have been with the company officailly for two years, one year at the disneyland resort working attractions and just got my fourth attraction which is grizzley river rapids!!! I am going to be putting in an application for trainer as soon as they set the appplications out again. and then we'll see were that takes me.
Originally Posted By vbdad55 <My trip to DL next year is really my last attempt to see if I can rekindle the passion. But saying that, my Disney Mountain book arrived this week and I devoured it with glee.< nice try to break away -- now repeat after me: "my name is davewasbaloo and I am a Disneyholic " !
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan I'm a MILD MOUSKETEER + I like a lot of Disney stuff, especially Disneyland. But I have a lot of other places I would like to travel to, other interests as well. I enjoy looking at the shops and stuff, but if I buy merchandise, generally it's a gift for someone else. Disneyland will always hold a special place in my heart. I love taking people there, especially kids (and kids at heart). In my youth, I could certainly qualify as Truly Obsessed, but not anymore.
Originally Posted By trekkeruss To add to what I wrote earlier, I am definitely addicted to the internet, and LP in particular. I don't want to know how much time I devote to the boards reading, sharing, and debating about Disney and so on!
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo Lol VBDAD, I am an addict. Like our pal Russ, too much time spent in cyberspace discussing Disney (and my best friends are now people met through Disney discussion boards!). So obsessed is still there. Toony - could your shopping experiences not be because you have lost interest, but rather Disney has minimised the production of quality merchandise? I put down my lower expenditure down to that.
Originally Posted By Liberty Belle I would put myself as a Mouseketeer 1st Class. While I don't get to the parks as often as I'd like, I get there on average once every two years which is pretty good for someone on the other side of the world! Also, I love the movies, music and merchandise. Sometimes I wish I loved the merchandise a bit less ... I have a Disney Room and every other room in the house has at least a slight Disney touch. I'd love to see more of the world, but I keep having to go back to the Disney parks I just hope my passion continues, I think it would be so sad to lose it!
Originally Posted By DisneyKell : MOUSKETEER 1ST CLASS This is me. My husband is driven a little crazy over it. We live up in Northern Ca. and dont get to go as much as I like. but I plan for months and months, and as soon as our trip is over I am planning for the next one. or even before. haha Like now. We are going for Thanksgiving, and I am already planning for my birthday in May. We are turning our bedroom into a Disney room. My daughters room is full of Princess and our larger framed Vacation trip DL pictures. I buy every piece of disney clothing I find that is with in reason of price. ( you know gotta save for our trips. haha) yeah I do love me some Disney!
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan Toony - could your shopping experiences not be because you have lost interest, but rather Disney has minimised the production of quality merchandise? I put down my lower expenditure down to that.<< That could be it. Used to be The Disney Store carried some cool stuff for adults, some Disney stuff that could qualify as business casual even. It's harder to find that stuff, and I'm not a catalog shopper. Also, there is some neat stuff for sale at the parks, but very little in my price range. The high end stuff is neat, but I don't have the space (nor the budget) for anything like the big figs or the replicas of the castle, Main Street, etc. Much of the clothing for sale at the park is rather generic stuff. Or they'll go crazy with Pirates stuff every place. I'm a purist in that I think that the merchandise out to be at least somewhat themed to the land in which it's sold. Too often, the very same generic Disneyland stuff is available in every shop. So, yes, that's part of it. But perhaps part of it is me -- it used to be more unusual to see Disney clothing and stuff around. Now it's ever-present, everywhere. Maybe I have just reached the saturation point and my interest in that stuff is waning? I find that generally speaking, no matter where I go, I'm spending a lot less on souvenirs of all types. Maybe it's just the age I'm at, I dunno...
Originally Posted By BlueDevilSF I embody elements from a couple of these. My DL visits have been annually, not monthly, and I have a great interest in the movies. I try to keep alive the Disney I knew as a kid, whether it's the memories of seeing double features at the movies or all those Sunday nights in front of the television watching "The Wonderful World of Disney" and longing to see Disneyland. For that reason I think I'm becoming less and less interested in the new changes with the park and the company as a whole. It's kind of hard to articulate this, but I feel a strong sense of nostalgia for a time and a place I've never been.
Originally Posted By ophellia I don't know where I fit in...I saw the Realtor I worked with when I moved to Wa from Ca and she asked how I was doing so far from DL...I had told her it was the hardest thing about leaving Ca, would be being away from DL...when in Ca I went weekly, now I go yearly...but I think I love DL even more...people I know often buy me Disney things, when I really just want DISNEYLAND related things...I like most Disney movies(my dog is named Mulan)...but mostly I just love DL related things and being at DL...
Originally Posted By friendofdd >>>Maybe it's just the age I'm at, I dunno...<<< It definitely is, old boy. >>>It's kind of hard to articulate this, but I feel a strong sense of nostalgia for a time and a place I've never been.<<< Walt's dream was for you, then.
Originally Posted By JenniBarra I am very much a diehard Disney enthusiast, though location does not enable me to visit Disney parks as much as I would like. (Though if I lived in So Cal or Orlando, I'm sure things would be different!) It is pretty much a lifelong love, since my first trip at just shy of three years old. Thanks to various Character Warehouses, I have an extensive wardrobe of Disney clothing now. Once a month, I get together with other local enthusiasts and, thus far, have attended two conventions. I have vanity plates on my car that reference Disney, along with other decoration. While I watch many of the movies and have a very large collection of Disney related music, it's Disneyland that's my first and primary Disney interest. To me, it feels like my second home, and I now have a really terrific extended family through my friendships with other diehard fans.
