The Disney Crowd
 

Anybody remember the chat site, similar to Flyertalk, that attracts all those "peculiar" people whose greatest thrill in life is their vacations at Disney.

Somebody posted a link to it on the Continental forum a few months ago. The situations you read there are HHYSTERICAL.

There are several

www.mouseplanet.com
www.laughingplace.com



[This message has been edited by wingless (edited 07-08-2003).]

You can also go to http://www.disboards.com

Then there's this one.

What's wrong with liking Disney?? Its a fun place to go, especially with kids.

Not knocking Disney.

It's the people who fly there, into MCO from all over.

A lot of these people fly once a year and make life at airports and inside the airplanes a living hell for us Road Warriors. They whine about everything in the airplane.

As to some of the comments I've read on disboards.com, let me tell you!!! There are some out there who are not excercising their wonderful gift of a brain.

That's not very nice. If you don't like Disney, fine. Why would you insult people who surf on that board?

If you have to ask...

Disney is the best....

Nothing against Disney but some of these people seem to spend ALL their free time there. Many posts include a laundry list of references to stays, such as:

Offsite - 88
CBR - 89 & 90
PO - 91
OKW-92,OKW-93,OKW-96, OKW-97 2X'S,OKW-98 2X's
OKW-99 2X'S,OKW-00 2X's OKW-01 2x, OKW-02 2x AKL-02 1x,OKW-03 2X
Jamaica-SandalsInn 98&00


That OKW must be some great place. Don't recognize the code. I'd rather collect countries and NOT by simply walking around a big lake at Epcot.

I know what you mean. What kind of person would have an unusual hobby that entails:

- Learning as much as possible about a particular industry or vendor.
- Spending an inordinate amount of time communicating with other such persons on a bulletin board dedicated to that topic.
- Being extrememly picky about the service provided by the vendor.
- Engaging in endless speculation as possible upcoming changes and the reasons for recent changes.
- Knowing more about the vendor than many of its employees.
- Having their friends and co-workers think ill of them for having such a strange hobby.

Yea, those Disney fans are an odd bunch indeed! :-)

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Passporter

This is another cool Disney planning site.

I post on www.disboards.com as well. I don't recommend trying to teach these people about airlines. It is an exercise is futility. They book tickets 14 months in advance and freak out if the time changes by an hour. The people who post do have great info though on the hotels and food in the area.

If you are planning a trip to WDW you should consider coming during the Food and Wine Festival with other FlyerTalkers.
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum95/HTML/003449.html

- Learning as much as possible about a particular industry or vendor.
(Aviation, Airlines)
- Spending an inordinate amount of time communicating with other such persons on a bulletin board dedicated to that topic.
(Flyertalk, A.net)
- Being extrememly picky about the service provided by the vendor.
(Nope, I won't take them for the 31" pitch, gimme the 32")
- Engaging in endless speculation as possible upcoming changes and the reasons for recent changes.
(Is Emirates adding Vienna???) huh? huh?
- Knowing more about the vendor than many of its employees.
(A lot of people here can boast that, maybe not me)
- Having their friends and co-workers think ill of them for having such a strange hobby.
(possibly.)

http://www.flyertalk.com/travel/fttr...um/biggrin.gif was thinking the same thing!

edited to add: I guess what makes me think less about Disney or Vegas is that I believe that people go year after year to the same location. While it is America and if that makes you happy go for it, but there is soooo much more in this world.

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[This message has been edited by Sweet Willie (edited 07-09-2003).]

I know exactly what you are saying. I see it everyday that I work.

Not doing anything next week? Come meet Disney fans of all types!

http://laughingplace.com/Info-ID-NFF...Convention.asp

You'll also get to meet those that create the magic. Current creatives, and Disney Legends.

OOOHHH! This should be an enlightening experience.

How about this, we combine all these Disney fans in the convention and put them in a room with the TSA's.

Let's see who runs out first.

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Do not sit in the back.

Or take photographs of food served by that vendor!

(now this was funny.... http://www.flyertalk.com/travel/fttr...orum/smile.gif)

I surfed over to disboards and checked out the airline threads and had a good smile. Imagine an airline changing its schedule for December 2003 already; or that they change schedules every 6 months so watch out; or what does a L or U fare code mean(this w/o mention of the airline). But I think I would be thought to be clueless on that BB asking newbie questions about WDW, which btw I like, as do my kids.

I may check out the FT WDW gathering if I can do it because good food and good wine and talking FT would be fun. BTW, I am not obsessed, I only know a lot about US and AA and HI and oh---nevermind. http://www.flyertalk.com/travel/fttr...orum/smile.gif

Although I am a HUGE fan of Disney World having gone there for the last three years for Spring Break, some of the people there and at MCO and the flights to there are kinda not with it. All in all I don't mind the Disney freaks, its just part of the experiance.

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OKW (Old Key West) is a timeshare property, so it makes perfect sense that people would return to it over and over.

I went to WDW once...and loved it!

What? Loved that you only went once? http://www.flyertalk.com/travel/fttravel_forum/wink.gif

I try to be nice to my Orlando addict friends. I am amazed that they think we are extravagant taking a family trip to Europe every year.

Since they are dropping $20 here and there all day long it quickly becomes the same cost as a trip to Europe.

Disney groupies? I don't quite understand this. I respect Disney and think they do a great job for what they are, but Disney is the last place on earth that I would turn to when traveling!

Second Prize: Two weeks in Orlando!
First Prize: One week in Orlando!