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[Aggie_Ama]

I love Disneyworld! We went just a couple years ago in a slow week after Thanksgiving with my parents. The youngest of the 4 of us was 26! We had a great time but I guess we are simple folk. There was Christmas decorations, my favorite holiday and short lines. Because my favorite ride as a child was Dumbo, we all rode it! I also love the zoo, the aquarium, museums, historical sites, outdoor sculpture gradens and parks. I usually get Pixar movies from my MIL, I love them.

My Mammaw still calls it an icebox, why correct a 92 year old woman? She has the best stories to tell about real ice boxes and an amazing vinyl collection put complains the record player broke.

[Crankin]

I like the zoo, historical sites, and botanical gardens, also. But, they are *real* places, not some corporate entity's idea of what my *fantasy* is. I don't like rides, my DH and one of my kids have motion sickness, and yes, I've been called a fun hater. My DH took my kids to Sea World when they were young, while my mom and I went on a shopping spree and out to lunch (they live in San Diego). And Epcot is just a recreation of what Disney thinks those places really are. I got a really bad feeling when I was there, like this is America's view point of the rest of the world? I can't really explain it. Theme parks are not an American phenomena, but it is just hard for to understand the intrigue they hold for anyone.
The best example of all of this I can give is that on that trip we took to Orlando in the 90's, my husband and I went out for a nice dinner at a Cuban restaurant that had been recommended by the hotel. It was in that planned community that Disney built... I can't remember the name of it. Anyway, after dinner, we went out and walked along the "main street." We both got this terrible, sickening feeling, and we left pretty quickly. It was like they tried to recreate a real town, with a real town center; in the word's of the promotional literature we had read it said something like "this is the way life used to be, when people knew their neighbors, shopped at local stores, etc, etc." At the same time both DH and I said, "it's like they tried to recreate Concord center (or really many other New England towns) with this fake stuff." And I am sure there are plenty of other places where this still exists, for real.
Just my opinion, but it was a scary feeling.

[crazycanuck]

My family went to disneyland wayyyyyyy back in the late 70's. I don't like theme parks, rides & will def never go back to disneyland etc. Then again, I don't like disney films as they're booooring & the social aspect of disney bothers me....I'm not interested in big budget animation films & certainly don't want to watch a film by a company selling " happy world" stories..

I would much rather watch a foriegn film (hopefully this year's Perth film fest has an Iranian film as they're so cool!).

I do enjoy museums, galleries & beaches.