Oh Disneyland, You Price Gouging B****...

Well we all know that Disneyland, although the happiest place on earth, is also the MOST EXPENSIVE.  

Conversation A:

Me: omgosh.  never again

Mark: the public service announcement?
Me: no, i finished watching that like 45 minutes ago

I should mention that I was watching "The Secret Life Of The American Teenager" (waay too long of a title for a tv show, if you ask me.) on ABC

 Family.  Normally I steer clear of ABC Family because it's the second coming of The Disney Channel and we all know that Disney is just a huge money hungry corporation...which leads me back to the topic at hand...

Me: so i bought a popcorn bucket thing at Disneyland coz it had pirates on it...haha

Yes, we all know about my obsession with pirates.  Not surprising.  Oh, I should also mention 

that this was an AIM conversation.  Continue...

Mark: wtf? ok

Me: so it's like $5.50
Mark: DAYUMN
Me: i just made popcorn and only 1 bag fit in it and it was overflowing
Mark: all that 4 some small cardboard w/ a pirate logo on it?
Me: no, a plastic bucket. ><
Mark: ummm missin the point here kid
Me: point being
Mark: it's still 5.50 4 a piece of plastic w/ art on it
Me: yeah, $5.50 for a plastic bucket full of popcorn which only holds one microwave bag of popcorn
Mark: go0d deal? i don't think so
Me: well i like the bucket
Me: but that's expensive!

Yes.  Those price gouging bastards sell about the same amount of popcorn in a microwave bag, inside a pretty bucket for like 50 Million times the price!

But then again, I like their popcorn better than even the movie theatres.  They must sprinkle it with Pixie Dust.

Oh Disneyland, you may be the happiest place on earth but you are a cruel, cruel mistress who loves to inflict deadly pain upon my wallet.

CURSE YOU!

-Leah

Disneyland perplexes me...

So me and Rachel went to Disneyland (YAY!) twice last week, and we still cannot figure out why there is a Sweeney Todd diorama inside one of the gift shops.

Even stranger still is that he looks like a twisted version of Commodore James Norrington (A.k.a Jack Davenport.)

Oh Disney.  Why are you so confusing?

-Solia

The Happiest Place on Earth?

So now that I live in Irvine, my parents seem to think that I know everything that's happening in the Magic Kingdom.  Needless to say I've been in rehearsals for the last seven weeks so I haven't been to disney since I first got down there.  They said some ride was going to be shut down for the next year, and I didn't know what it was (it's a small world), so I figured I needed to do a little investigating and this is what I came across.

Dearly Departed - On Disneyland Rides!

The 999 ghosts at Disneyland’s Haunted Mansion have apparently found room for a few more residents, according to master mouse sleuth Al Lutz at MiceAge.

Disneyland visitors have routinely scattered cremated human remains throughout the haunted house ride since the late 1990s with the most recent incident occurring in the past month, MiceAge reported.

Haunted Mansion ride operators, trained to handle the delicate situation, have caught visitors via surveillance camera dumping ashes from the doom buggy vehicles but have virtually no authority to stop the bizarre ritual, Lutz said. Disneyland security and Anaheim police can do little beyond identify the powder trails as human remains. The offending mourners often slip out the ride exit and disappear into the park.

The macabre last rites force the closure of the ride for hours while custodians clean up the gritty ash and bone fragments with specially filtered vacuums. Oftentimes the last vestiges aren’t found until after the park closes and the lights are turned on inside the dark ride.

I was joking to myself while reading thinking that if I was going to be scattered anywhere in Disneyland it would be in Pirates of the Caribbean.  I thought that was pretty funny, but then...

And the Haunted Mansion isn’t the only affected attraction. An impromptu funeral ceremony shut down Pirates of the Caribbean just last week while crews cleaned ashes from the Captain’s Quarters scene in the caverns section of the water ride, Lutz said.

Disneyland has yet to comment.
— Brady MacDonald / Los Angeles Times Staff Writer

(http://travel.latimes.com/daily-deal-blog/?p=999)

Woo hoo.  Now I'm never going to think about the Haunted Mansion the same way again, and I'm going to be watching out for ash clouds and bone fragments.

-Leah