Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer >>>^ And check again!<<< Oh, goodness. I give up. It's been a weekend... LOL.
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer >>>With apologies to Rebecca Black.... Disney, Disney. Gotta have some more Disney. I don't have enough souvenirs gotta go get some more Disney. Disney, Disney. I need to spend more time there. Put on my mouse ears and my trading pins. I have nothing else to do with my life. Disney, Disney...<<<< Thank you, Manny. My ears/brain/eyes are bleeding. (and I'm laughing...)
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer >>>>Mental Illness? I thought that was already a club called D23?<<<< I have never agreed with you more. Well said. VERY well said. Can't stand the D23 club or it's mentality. Throwing away your money to be a "special" fanboi... terrible.
Originally Posted By leobloom >> I don't care if you spend 23 hours a day on the boards, stopping only for potty breaks and a bowl of Cheerios. << I don't even stop for those things, but most of you already knew that.
Originally Posted By leobloom >> Can't stand the D23 club or it's mentality. << Admit it. You're just jealous because you don't have the Limited Edition D23 Sherman Brothers trading pin (their eyes wink and glow in the dark and everything). Mine's #1,782 of 3000. Just keep clutching your MouseGear Figment plush and crying to your mass-produced CD of "Wishes." Pshh. You've got quite a ways to go if you want to be a REAL MAGICAL Disney-certified fan.
Originally Posted By ChiMike So if I have an original 1982 Figment plush in great condition, where do I fall in between D23 and EE?
Originally Posted By SeventyOne <Yep. That's my point. You can be a Miami Heat freak, but there's only so much you can do when the season is over.> While I agree with the essential hypothesis of this thread--hard-core Disney fans have some form of mental illness--I also think it's easier to pick on Disney fans. I've known sports fans who follow their team 365--why else has the NFL draft turned into a live spectacle--wear team attire almost exclusively, and spend hours obsessing over stats. But that sort of fandom gets a pass--it reminds me of an article on the AV Club, how it's "acceptable" for 35-year-old men to watch comic book movies, but we'd mock a 35-year-old woman who listens to Justin Beiber. Why is one teen obsession "cool" while the other isn't?
Originally Posted By ChiMike >>While I agree with the essential hypothesis of this thread--hard-core Disney fans have some form of mental illness--I also think it's easier to pick on Disney fans. I've known sports fans who follow their team 365--why else has the NFL draft turned into a live spectacle--wear team attire almost exclusively, and spend hours obsessing over stats. But that sort of fandom gets a pass--it reminds me of an article on the AV Club, how it's "acceptable" for 35-year-old men to watch comic book movies, but we'd mock a 35-year-old woman who listens to Justin Beiber. Why is one teen obsession "cool" while the other isn't?<< Great point 71
Originally Posted By SeventyOne Spirit, when you first teased this thread (I think in the Social Media thread), you mentioned you thought a lot of this stemmed from lonely people and people coming out of bad relationships. As a LBV local, I think that explains a lot of it, at least around here. People move to Orlando because they associate it with happier times--seeking a permanent vacation in some way. Obviously, things aren't going great back north for them to want to do this, romantic failures being one of the major causes. Once here, reality sets in--the economy isn't great, it's a very transient town, a certain cynical outlook that comes from working long customer service hours pervades. I think a lot of people respond by throwing themselves into Disney, perhaps because there's not much else. I saw a lot of this in the Adventurers Club--surely the epicenter of this illness--locals who had been down here a year or two and still had nowhere else to go where they felt comfortable.
Originally Posted By leobloom >> But that sort of fandom gets a pass--it reminds me of an article on the AV Club, how it's "acceptable" for 35-year-old men to watch comic book movies, but we'd mock a 35-year-old woman who listens to Justin Beiber. Why is one teen obsession "cool" while the other isn't? << Whoa, whoa. Both of these groups deserve ridicule. Relentlessly. I'm so sick of comic book movies. Even the supposedly good ones are really quite forgettable*, unless you watch them over and over again, like an obsessive Disney fan watching "Oliver and Company" on replay. *The Dark Knight's an exception.
Originally Posted By leobloom >> Spirit, when you first teased this thread (I think in the Social Media thread), you mentioned you thought a lot of this stemmed from lonely people and people coming out of bad relationships. As a LBV local, I think that explains a lot of it, at least around here. People move to Orlando because they associate it with happier times--seeking a permanent vacation in some way. Obviously, things aren't going great back north for them to want to do this, romantic failures being one of the major causes. Once here, reality sets in--the economy isn't great, it's a very transient town, a certain cynical outlook that comes from working long customer service hours pervades. I think a lot of people respond by throwing themselves into Disney, perhaps because there's not much else. I saw a lot of this in the Adventurers Club--surely the epicenter of this illness--locals who had been down here a year or two and still had nowhere else to go where they felt comfortable. << Very true, based on what I've observed. Not to mention you gotta work as many hours as humanly possible if you want to make ends meet -- so if you're a CM who is one step above welfare, you're better off spending as much of your waking time as you can working around the property, picking up extra shifts. Hard to have a life apart from Disney if you're working there for your primary income.
Originally Posted By SeventyOne >>Whoa, whoa. Both of these groups deserve ridicule. Relentlessly.<< May deserve it, but you have to admit, they don't get it. Thor, Green Lantern, X-Men and Capt. America will probably be in the top 20 movies of the year--Transformers, based on a comic book based on a toy!--will probably be #1, unless the movie based on the kids book beats it. There is no social stigma in seeing a comic book movie on Friday night; probably more the opposite. >Not to mention you gotta work as many hours as humanly possible if you want to make ends meet -- so if you're a CM who is one step above welfare, you're better off spending as much of your waking time as you can working around the property, picking up extra shifts. Hard to have a life apart from Disney if you're working there for your primary income.< True. But goes for everyone, even non-CMs. In greater LBV (for lack of a better term for this area), you don't bump into guys you went to high school with, or see your old next-door neighbor at the grocery store. Add in the transient nature here--after 3 years you may as well be a local--and that makes it hard to make friends or even friendly acquaintances.
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer >>>Admit it. You're just jealous because you don't have the Limited Edition D23 Sherman Brothers trading pin (their eyes wink and glow in the dark and everything). Mine's #1,782 of 3000. Just keep clutching your MouseGear Figment plush and crying to your mass-produced CD of "Wishes." Pshh. You've got quite a ways to go if you want to be a REAL MAGICAL Disney-certified fan.<<<< IT TEARS ME UP! I CAN'T SLEEP AT NIGHT! I have high tension! I can't remember the last time I bought a pin...
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer >>>So if I have an original 1982 Figment plush in great condition, where do I fall in between D23 and EE?<<< A cool person. Like me. Who also has one. Because he inherited it from his Dad who was there in 1982. LOL
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer >>>Spirit, when you first teased this thread (I think in the Social Media thread), you mentioned you thought a lot of this stemmed from lonely people and people coming out of bad relationships. As a LBV local, I think that explains a lot of it, at least around here. People move to Orlando because they associate it with happier times--seeking a permanent vacation in some way. Obviously, things aren't going great back north for them to want to do this, romantic failures being one of the major causes. <<<< All of Florida is like this. You have all he retirement villas, all of the urban areas, and then TONS and TONS of people like that. Really disturbing. You can't be on a permanent vacation. the fun wears off. And then it just gets worse. And that's exactly why I want to move to a REAL city...
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer >>>*The Dark Knight's an exception.<<< No, no it's not... ...But that's a different story...
Originally Posted By ChiMike >>A cool person. Like me. Who also has one. Because he inherited it from his Dad who was there in 1982. LOL<< Got it! Leo said Mousegear, so I had to qualify it. Mine is a Centorium Authentic.
