- To all who come to this happy place.
(group laughing)
- Welcome.
Disneyland is your land.
Here age relives fond memories of the past,
and here you may savor the challenge and promise
of the future. (group laughing)
Disneyland is dedicated to the ideals, the dreams,
and the hard facts that have created America
with the hope that it will be a source of joy
and inspiration to all the world.
(group clapping)
(sparkling sound effect)
(carnival music)
- Hi. - Hello everyone.
- Hello. - Hi, friends. Hi folks.
- Okay, based off of looks, I just wanna point out
the amazing Disney Bound here.
- I think I just wanna go ahead and start out
by asking you to come right over here.
- Yes, that's valid.
- Visually, I've just never seen so many pins before.
(sparkling sound effect) - That's true.
- Hey, champ.
- Maybe just come right here.
- You wear Disney every day?
- Every day of my life, yeah. Never comes off.
She should move up further.
You more like bubbly, outgoing.
So I think, like maybe.
- You look like you're on your honeymoon.
- Right? Right here, yeah.
- I am just gonna go down here, I feel like.
Because I'm just wearing all black.
- I'm just in a t-shirt and a hat though.
And you have the bracelet too.
- Oh.
- Ooh, yeah.
- Okay, I guess I'll stay. I guess.
- Perhaps I should move to the end,
since I am in the least Disney garb.
- But it's a spirit jersey. It's a classic.
- Yeah, I feel like you have a lot of knowledge,
I'm looking at you, I think you have a lot more knowledge
than you're putting on. So, I think you should go.
- My Disney adult is more of a personality thing I think.
Like I don't visually, I don't know.
- I feel like there's different types of Disney adults,
and there's some who like have the total aesthetic,
and the collections. - The hoarder.
- And then there's those who have just the magic,
and the personality.
- [Michael] Yeah, that's the happiness of Disney.
- And that's so you.
- I still feel like I should move down like one or two.
- You wanna switch with me? - You guys wanna switch?
- Sure, yeah.
- Okay, we'll switch.
- Maybe I'll switch with you too.
(group laughing) - Are you sure?
- Yeah, yeah. - Okay.
- All right, we're locking it in?
- Yeah. - Locked in.
- Locking it in. - Locked in.
- They looked at me, saw my pins and my tattoos,
and they threw me at the top.
I'm like, whoa, that was surprising.
Most of my life, people looked at me,
and just see a guy with tattoos,
and with a beard, and everything.
You wouldn't think oh this guys
listens to princess music on the way to work every day,
or works out to "Once Upon a Time" in the gym,
or anything like that.
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(upbeat music)
- Yes, this is my very first pair of ears, in 1995.
My mother kept this, my nickname is Tiger.
My entire family calls me that,
they don't call me Michael, they call me Tiger.
And then of course, the loud and proud,
obviously the Disneyland Championship.
So, I literally carry this every time I go.
- You made that?
- I designed it.
I even had a young boy, he followed me for about 30 minutes
'cause he was terrified to go up to me.
- Aww.
- Like, dude here, take it dude.
Just pose with it. He's like, "mom I'm the champ!"
- So the the metal detectors don't go off?
- There was always one security guard named Robert,
he knows me.
- He's like, "yeah."
- He's like, "oh, the Champ you go on champ,"
appreciate you.
- This is Pluto from Tokyo.
Pluto is my absolute favorite, in case,
(group laughing)
you couldn't tell.
And this is my club 33 pin.
- That's cool. - Wow.
- And I got to go one time in, so I splurged on a pin.
- I grew up going to Tokyo Disney.
These are first year tickets from 1983.
I didn't, it's not mine.
I was not born in 1983.
- All right, so mine are my Vera Wang ears.
(group laughing)
- Gorgeous.
- I didn't even know they made those.
- Yes, yes. It's very limited.
Because of my Disney content creator path,
I was able to purchase these,
and it just really means a lot because,
we didn't have a lot of money growing up,
and we weren't able to afford Disney trips.
So me being able to purchase this pair of ears
was like a really, really big deal.
- So the first one I have is my annual pass from 2008.
(Grace laughing)
There's a little photo of me as like a little baby on it.
(group laughing and awing)
And then the second thing,
my biggest connection with Disney
is definitely my relationship with my mom.
We always spent like Mother's Day there and all that stuff.
This is just one, of the three or four I have
of all the charms that she bought me
every single time we went together.
- Okay, so, this little guy right here
he's supposedly from Japan, 1960s roughly.
He also squeaks for some reason.
- (Michael laughing) I love it.
- So like these are supposed to be his legs, but yeah.
- I love that.
- When you spread it like that I don't know.
(group laughing)
- These are his feet, I guess.
- So I brought my favorite movie, the Little Mermaid.
This is the first VHS tape that my mom got me.
I used to watch it like on repeat
like every every single day for a couple hours.
- [Interviewer] Did you guys want to rearrange yourselves
based off of those possessions?
- You're fine. - You stay
- Yeah. - You're the champ.
- This thing is throwing me off.
- I'm so sorry. The only way you can search this up
is through reverse Google image search.
Like that's how obscure.
- Okay, you should move, you should move,
you should move.
- Okay. - Come on.
- I still think we should switch.
- Really?
- Yes.
- Yeah, I think so. - A thousand percent, yes.
- You said Tokyo was your OG park, right?
- Yes. - Right, right.
- You said Tokyo was you OG.
- I think so, yeah.
- [Interviewer] All right, we good here?
(upbeat piano music)
- Favorite Disney Park or experience you guys have been to?
- Dapper Day.
- Oh, Dapper Day is so much fun.
- Going in the Grad Night,
just in the park with thousands of kids here.
- You're lucky, my school was banned from Disneyland.
I had to go to Six Flags over there.
(sad music) (group laughing)
- I'm so sorry.
- Okay, so the park's opening, you're there,
like what are the first five rides you go to?
If you're going to, if you're going to Disneyland.
- If it's just me and my wife,
then we'll hit Space Mountain, Star Tours, Indiana Jones
Galaxy's Edge, come back to Matterhorn,
which is the whole plan.
- Hot, hot take, but I don't really do Rope Drop.
- I don't either. - No, too crazy.
- Cause it's just too many people, too crazy.
- You know that scene in Lion King, the one where we don't,
the one that we don't wanna talk about.
And the wildebeest are just. - Yes.
- Yes, that's literally what it's like
- That's people at Rope Drop.
- I lost a parent to Rope Drop.
(group laughing)
- Oh no.
- How much do you guys spend
on a typical day at a Disney park?
- Well, I'm a college student, so like at maximum 30 bucks.
- [Michael] 30 bucks. - Yeah.
- I have a shopping problem. Yes, I'm in debt.
But that's okay, I'm in Disney debt,
and that's happy debt, so.
- I'm debating switching you.
- Switch, okay. - Switch.
- Yeah, I splurge on the food and I'm.
- All right, lets switch, let's switch.
- I spend like maybe 60, 70 bucks.
- Get over here, get over here, come on.
(group laughing)
- They're making me feel so cheap right now.
(group laughing)
- I know, I feel so poor over here.
- Disney on a budget, that's all it is.
(group laughing) Disney on a budget.
- Yay.
- [Interviewer] Do you guys wanna get into
what Disney means to you guys?
- It started from when I was a kid watching the movies,
because we couldn't afford to go to the parks as much.
So I would watch a lot of Disney movies,
and Little Mermaid was my first introduction to Disney.
- The pure joy of everybody.
You can go literally anywhere in the world,
and you say Disney or Mickey Mouse,
and someone knows what you're talking about.
- Exactly.
- There really is something there for everyone at the park.
For me, kind of all my social circles
kind of relate to Disney. Like all my friends,
we have Magic Key passes and everything.
I mean, it's called the Happiest Place on Earth.
- It's like, it's a source of happiness.
It's like, I don't have to think about like,
student loan debt or, (Katelyn laughing)
I can just like forget about everything,
and then just like go back to like happy nostalgic times
when I've been there with my friends,
or like family members who might not be here anymore.
- Yeah. - Mm-hmm.
- Stuff like.
We used to go with my great-grandma,
especially when they had cookie decorating at the park.
So we'd go during Christmas time,
and then we'd go with my dad a lot too.
And, but it's nice to like, to go there,
and then like sort of like, oh hey, this is what,
this was his favorite ride.
This was, this was my great-grandmother's favorite food,
and stuff like that.
And like kind of like relive, relive that.
And then just kind of imagine how they would
think of like how the park has changed since,
since then.
- You will see me every single time crying at Fantasmic.
Every firework show.
- [Rozy] Me too.
- And like the connection, like I said with my mom,
we have like little tattoos, matching tattoos,
of the Neverland stars together.
- I'm gonna, you're gonna go over here.
(group laughing)
- I grew up in Japan and Disney is like,
the first exposure to western movies for Asian kids,
I would say. So every, you know,
every Japanese kid knows about Disney movies.
And I also, I don't know if we can get into this,
but I feel like in defense of Disney adults,
a lot of hobbies are rooted in childhood.
People collect comic books and like build model railroads.
I don't know why Disney adults get a bad rep
for enjoying nostalgia,
and trying to go back to a simpler time in childhood.
- I really don't understand how someone crying
when they see Cinderella's Castle,
how that's hurting anybody.
But I guess it's "cringe,"
because we're older and people think Disney's for kids.
People have to do what makes them happy,
And I think that's the problem with society now,
is we're so trained to do what people think we should do.
And I just think it's just important
to stay true to yourself.
- There's such a stigma.
- There's such a stigma. - Yeah.
- They're just like crapping on everybody else's happiness.
It's just like, let people be happy for what they like.
- Yeah.
- Yeah, like we're not hurting anyone.
- Yeah. (group laughing)
- For the stigma honestly,
is people that think we don't take things seriously.
We still want to be a kid.
We want to goof around, which is to be honest, kind of true.
But at a time, once it's time to go for real,
in the real life, and work, pay bills, do what we gotta do.
We'll flip that switch real quick.
Then again, when it's time to fun.
We'll, that switch will be fun.
It's fun to be weird. It's boring to be normal.
- And like I feel like there's always niches,
and that's the beautiful thing about the human race,
is that there's so many different hobbies
for everyone to enjoy.
- Yeah. - So, like why is that?
- [Jack] It's a fandom.
- I'm happy to be part of a community,
that's very in touch with their inner-child,
and happy to be a big-kid no matter what.
There's just something that the family legacy
resonates in all of us.
That we're all kind of part of this big family
when we go to Disneyland.
- [Michael] Absolutely. - It's such a place of escape.
To all who come to this happy place!
- Welcome. Disneyland is your land.
- [Group In Unison] Here age relives fond memories
of the past, and here youth may savor the challenge
and promise of the future.
Disneyland is dedicated to the ideals, the dreams,
and the hard facts that have created America.
With the hope that it will be a source of joy
and inspiration to all the world.
- Yeah. (crew clapping)
- I like, they won on that.
(group laughing)
- I was like, oh, I don't know this.
I don't know if I belong here (Anna laughing).
- Has anyone worked at Disney?
- Okay, yeah. - Yeah.
- [Grace] Yeah, as they should.
- [Anna] That's right.
- Can you guys talk a little bit about
some of you have brought up like,
the money aspect of Disney.
- Oh. - Oh God.
- It's sad, but Disney is kind of
the wealthy people's vacation now.
- Yeah.
- And it's not very accessible to people.
- There is such an immense privilege,
I think all of us have, to be able,
just to go to the park once, let alone multiple times.
I mean, I have a relative who waited
like 70 years of her life just to be able to go to Disney.
That was like her one dream and she finally got to go.
And it was the most special thing.
I hope people don't take it for granted,
you know what I mean?
- [Michael] Absolutely. - Yeah.
- Disney used to be, oh, well growing up my,
my dad never told me this, but he would literally go broke
and work double shifts for us to go to Disneyland.
And I didn't know, I was a kid.
I was like, oh yeah, he's my inspiration to work two jobs,
to take my girls to Disneyland.
Let them have the experience I did.
My oldest daughter is named Aurora after Sleeping Beauty.
And my youngest is named Ariel after Little Mermaid.
And those are the love of my life.
I absolutely adore them.
And every time we go to Disneyland,
my oldest, "dad, that's my castle."
Absolutely, princess, that is your castle.
Or if we go to California Adventures,
she sees Little Mermaid, "daddy, that's me."
Absolutely, princess, that is you 100%.
So I, I love my little girls with all my heart.
- I actually do have a quick question, if that's okay.
How many different parks have you guys gone to?
- I've done all four Disney World, the California ones,
and Tokyo Disney, Tokyo Disney Sea.
- Four Disney World Parks, Blizzard Beach,
Cali Ad, and Disneyland.
- Okay, two, next.
(group laughing)
I've only been to California Adventure and Disneyland.
- Also two.
- Okay, cool.
- Is it the same thing, California Adventure.
- Mm-hmm. - Okay, cool, two.
- All four Disney World parks, DCA, Disneyland,
Typhoon Lagoon.
- Same as you, except Typhoon Lagoon.
- Yeah, same thing: all Disney World, Blizzard Beach,
and then of course the two in California. So, seven.
- Oh yeah, do the cruises count?
- I think so. - Yeah, yeah.
- That's an experience. - That's an experience.
- Then yeah, that's three cruises added.
- And you had a cruise too, right?
- Yeah.
We're gonna go down here.
(group laughing)
- Go up, go up, go up.
(group laughing)
- Okay. - Yeah.
- Okay, yeah. How do you guys feel about this?
- Yeah - Yeah.
- She's thinking.
(Grace laughing)
- I feel, no, this is good.
(group laughing)
- You sure? - You sure?
- You sure? - Locking in?
- Yeah.
- Okay. - Okay.
- Locking it in now.
(upbeat music)
- In seventh, we have Anna, 34 times.
- Oh. - Oh.
- I'm shocked.
- Yeah.
- In sixth, Jack, 50 times.
- Oh my gosh.
- In fifth, Rozy, 185 times.
- Oh, nice.
- What is happening?
- In fourth, Grace, 270 times.
- Aww.
- In third, Michael, 900 times.
- What?
- Oh my goodness.
- But the champ.
- In second, Kaylee, 2000 times.
- 2000?
- Bro.
And in first, Caitlin, 5,000 times.
- What?
- How do you count that? - Are you serious?
- I'm kind of struggling counting mine.
- Okay, this always happens on ranking,
It's like what?
- How do you count that?
- Literally
- With the help of my parents.
(group laughing)
- Wow.
- This is not what I was expecting.
- I need to go to Disney more.
- Not what I was expecting at all.
- Dang. - Cheers to you.
- But yeah, we would go. (group clapping)
- We bow down to you. - Yup.
- Wow.
(tense music)
- We would go like, after school,
when I'm supposed to be in school.
- Right.
- For dinner and a few rides,
for lunch and a few rides, during the summer.
- Yeah, and if Disney wasn't in my life,
I don't think I'd be as positive of a person, honestly.
So, I think, that's where a lot of
my happiness and positivity comes from.
I didn't expect to be over here.
(group laughing)
- Literally, with five thousand.
- You didn't? You didn't?
(group laughing and yelling)
- So you guys have been a ton too, like.
What was it, 2000, or something?
- Probably, yeah, about 2000.
Well, because I started working there when I was 18,
and it was just, the people that I worked with
we became a big family.
I think it doesn't matter how many times you've been
to Disneyland, I think a Disney adult
is someone who's not afraid to have magic
that exists within them.
- So I live in Orlando.
I just moved there last year.
- Did you go there for content creation?
Yeah, I moved there for content creation.
- Are you friends with Mr. Morrow?
- I am.
(Anna screams)
I love Nate, yeah.
- I love him.
Can we text him later?
Yes, we can, yes.
- See this is the thing about Disney though.
It's like, it's a small world after all.
- Yes. - Yes, exactly.