Originally Posted By Dznygrl Not to hijack this thread by bringing it on topic or anything, but.... I never used to use the term 'Disney' until I started hanging out on a WDW-centric message board with thousands of east coasters. I do use it sometimes now, but ONLY when I'm talking about ALL Disney parks in general and not any specific resort. Such as, "I'm always so happy whenever I'm at Disney." But Disneyland is still Disneyland and Disney World is still Disney World. I would never say, "I'm going to Disney for a few days." I would be more specific.
Originally Posted By DlandDug I would say "I'm going to Disney" when I'm driving up the hill at Forest Lawn in Glendale. I'm only sayin'...
Originally Posted By alexbook >>What about We are goingto the "Mouse house" or the "House of Mouse" I can't stand that. ugh!<< I noticed that the OC Weekly calls the nightclub in Anaheim's DTD, "The Mouse House of Blues."
Originally Posted By SuperDry I've heard the term "The Mouse" used to refer to Disney corporate and its business decisions, including its management of the parks and resorts. In my experience, it's more of an east coast thing. Example: "Did you hear that The Mouse decided against building a fifth park at WDW?"
Originally Posted By friarthe SuperDry - I have Californian friends who call corporate "the Mouse" too. The bitter, MiceAge following ones. DlandDoug - That's got to be the funniest (and truest) thing I've seen on these boards.
Originally Posted By Sweeper "Disney" drives me crazy when people say it. Unfortunately all of the social media will make this term more popular. And with DCA it isn't just Disneyland anymore. And nobody will say Disneyland Resort when "Disney" is faster. And I think that is just "sick"---the original meaning.
Originally Posted By BellesLibrarian I'm an East Coaster so I say "Disney" so people sort of assume I mean WDW and not that I am going (yet again -- LOL) to California. People out here cannot understand that we get as good a fair flying cross country that we get flying to Florida (gotta love the competitive NYC to LA route for cheap fares). Plus our hotel is cheaper, our AP is cheaper, our car rental and food prices are comperable. DL feels like home in away that WDW just does not. That said, when we are in the hotel room we talk about going to "the Park." I was so afraid our (the 3 year old) would mistake going to "the park" when we were home with going to "the Park" when we were in California, but she realized the park here is a place with grass and swings and not with Princesses and Mickey Mouse.
Originally Posted By alexbook I just noticed that the "Kingdom Keepers" (published by Disney Editions) books use "Disney" to refer to WDW in their subtitles: "Disney after Dark," "Disney at Dawn," and "Disney in Shadow." I guess that makes the usage official, in a way.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 On the recent "give a day, get a day" promotions, at least on the one with James Denton, he says "the free day to Disney doesn't hurt either." Now, you can choose either DLR or WDW, so it was shorthand. Still, it bothered me. He could have said "the free day to a Disney park doesn't hurt either." But no, he just said "Disney." And this is obviously an official promo, so maybe they're just embracing it now. I wish they wouldn't. I like the distinctions.
Originally Posted By crapshoot Thankfully, Disney has got it correct on their own website . . . Disneyland Park also Disney's California Adventure Park Downtown Disney District Disney's Grand Californian Hotel Disneyland Hotel Disney's Paradise Pier Hotel
Originally Posted By SuperDry Or, how about this one? This one probably only affects people in the central or eastern part of the US: You tell people that you're going to Disneyland, but they interpret that as meaning WDW. I don't know if they hear "Disney" and they're hard-wired to think WDW since that's the only resort they've been to, or if they actually would use the term Disneyland to refer to WDW or the MK. In either event, it's annoying. It's almost as if I have to say "Disneyland in California" in order for people to understand what I'm talking about. I even once had someone ask, "Oh, the one in California is still there?" They knew that that was the location of the first park, but were apparently unsure if it was still open.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros Try growing up in North Carolina and going to USC. Not that one, the one in California. No, not UCLA, USC. It got a little old explaining it to people. Even when I said University of Southern California, I still got confused looks from people. : /
Originally Posted By SuperDry USC - is that the one that was on 90210? No, that was California University - pardon me.
Originally Posted By CuriouserConstance USC, is that the school that got their butts beat by U of Oregon?
Originally Posted By mousermerf Used my premier pass at Coke Corner (I almost called it Casey's) for the discount (it now scans and comes up as the Club 33 discount automatically) and the CM asked me if that got me into both parks.. and said "Well, they don't really have a Florida Adventure out there do they..?" And I replied, not mocking.. "Umm.. no.. just Epcot.." It was a little bit of a silly conversation.
Originally Posted By CuriouserConstance Well I'm proud you took the plunge and had a human interaction Mousermerf.
Originally Posted By SuperDry So they're now scanning AP's at DL in order to apply the discount? When did this start? Back a few years ago when I had an AP, I always wondered why they didn't do this. There was a huge wealth of information on the value of each AP guest in terms of food and merchandise purchasing throughout the year just waiting to be collected.
Originally Posted By mousermerf They've been scanning them as long as I've had an AP at DLR, so at least since last November. Last time I checked I couldn't access the AP website at DLR or WDW though with my premier pass codes. Le sigh. Lets hope there's no AP previews I need to sign up for online. The Club 33 discount seems to be their work around.
