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By the mid-2000s, I had at least one friend with a Disney cultist family. Especially the mother. Their whole dynamic was really weird in hindsight, and it’s hard not to see the distilled consumerism as part and parcel.
Point is, I suspect there were rabid Disney moms in the decades before that.
Since I moved to Texas, I’ve been back to Disney exactly twice, both times for band events. It was alright. That’s with a per diem allowance and no desire for merch. I haven’t gone since I was paying my own way; if I’d been spending the kind of money it takes to get a family or even a couple through that gauntlet, I’d have hoped for a lot more magic.
(Except for expedition Everest, which is a great roller coaster and environment at any age. Fight me.)
How much of that is down to the park, and how much on my own age? Kids definitely get something very different out of it than their parents. The money, of course, but also the situational awareness and the suspension of disbelief. To be a Disney mom, you’ve got to stay under.
For more on the philosophy of Disney as a whole-family park, I recommend Defunctland’s video on a certain non-Disney dark ride. No, seriously. The philosophy behind Dreamworld Australia, discussed in the first few minutes of the video, perfectly captures how a Disney is supposed to work. And the rest of the video explains how it gets distorted beyond imagining.
When the narrator started talking about the Wiggles I had to check the Wikipedia to make sure I wasn't watching a mockumentary. Turns out, Australia is stranger than I could've imagined.
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