Day 333: For Everyone

We all know I love Tangled. I love that movie like I love everything Disney...well, ok, more like I love Disney World and Once Upon a Time. It's in that high category of things I super love. So of course I have the movie here with me at college. I'm pretty sure I couldn't last without it (I think I've watched it twice since coming to college...).

But the other day Megan asked me if I had it home with me. She didn't have her own copy of it and her dad had seen the beginning part of it on ABC recently and wanted to watch the whole movie. Of course, I didn't have it, but a quick trip to shopko quickly fixed her problem.

When she asked me if I had it or not though we had a discussion about how we think it's awesome that Disney can make a movie that literally everyone wants to watch. Something that little kids love, us teenagers adore and will still interest our parents and other adults. That's not something everyone can accomplish, but yet it continues to be something Disney does time and time again.

I've probably blogged about this before actually, but I just had to bring that story up, about how her dad wanted to watch it. I thought it was awesome and kind of funny all at the same time. I actually spent most of the day working around our house (I'm actually writing this on December 3rd because I've just been so darn busy). We were making Christmas Cookies and setting up the Christmas tree and stuff. I filmed a bunch of it so there should be a new video up on my YouTube channel for that soon! =)

 

It's one of the last days of Frumpstagram, and today's prompt is "SHOPPING!" Obviously, because it is Black Friday, after all. So that works. I was going through my pictures and although I really wanted to do a picture of one of the actual stores, I couldn't find any before Facebook crashed. So I grabbed this picture instead, because my Han Solo in Carbonate was something I bought, and this picture just looks awesome...and it's in a store, at Disney. So it works.



Here's today's Disney History: 1934: Macy's Christmas Parade (later to be called the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade) features the first set of Disney balloons. Joining Mickey Mouse for the stroll down Broadway in New York City are Pluto, the Big Bad Wolf, and one of the Three Little Pigs, constructed by the Goodyear Rubber Company, Mickey measures over 50 feet tall.

Have a magical day!

Day 104: Just for Kids?

I've been thinking a lot lately about Disney being just for kids. I think a lot of it comes from those around me commenting on such things, but it's still been in my mind.

You see, last week I had three people tell me that they wouldn't want to go to Disney World as an adult, and that there isn't anything to do there that would keep their interest for more than a few days. The one comment was unprompted  the other was brought on by talk of our high school band trip that will hopefully be occurring in 2014. Our trip would be 5-6 days, and our director was talking about having all this other stuff to do, in which I commented that you wouldn't really have time to do anything other than Disney on a trip of that length. There's so much to do there and there really isn't enough time to do it if you only have two days at the parks. There are four parks, plus time at a water park, and Downtown Disney, complete with that new bowling alley I can't wait to explore in July. I can see taking a day out of a trip that length to go to somewhere else, but there is easily plenty to entertain a group of teenagers for more than two days.

Then this morning I read and article about "Disney Skeptics," and how there really is a problem with aging and never going to Disney. Some of my friends never thought much about Disney until they met me, but can now explain the difference between Disney World and Disneyland, What the Mickey Mouse Club is, and what their favorite attraction might be if they visited. We talk endlessly (or at least I do), about things we want to do when we do go to Disney...but I know there are still doubts in their minds. They haven't seen what I've seen...and my word can only go so far.

On the WDWRadio Blog, Kendall Foreman has been doing a wonderful job of giving descriptions for every Disney Doubt, and I couldn't not share her posts. It's amazing to see just how much is overlooked even by frequent guests as myself, and just how much Disney can apply to the taste of every single person. There truly is something for everyone, and I suggest reading her articles! Here's the link to the first one!

So, I suggest that everyone should go to Disney World in their lives, and not to get sidetracked by the idea that everything is for kids. I might do some further posts in this area in the future, but we've got months to go to see about that. It certainly is a very interesting topic! What are your feelings? Is Disney mainly for kids, or is there something worth heading back every year for adults too?

Here's today's Disney History: 1969: At the 41st Academy Awards, Disney's animated Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day wins an Oscar (short subjects, Cartoon). Walt Disney holds the record for number of Academy Award nominations during his lifetime (with fifty-nine) and number awarded Oscars (twenty-six). This evening's win is his 26th and last as the film was in production prior to Walt's death in December 1966.