Alcohol in Fantasyland?

[mom2rtk]

I think they should make alcohol available in the Magic Kingdom, but sell the right to buy it as an upgrade to your ticket for around $80 to $100 per ticket. Or maybe make it available only to those staying at a deluxe resort.

 

[chartle]

I think they should make alcohol available in the Magic Kingdom, but sell the right to buy it as an upgrade to your ticket for around $80 to $100 per ticket. Or maybe make it available only to those staying at a deluxe resort.

You're bad.

 

[kaligal]

What, dead and with your head encased in carbonite?

What about family restaurants? Family parks? Family homes?


Your opinion -- thanks for sharing.


Thank God. I prefer to drink in an amusement park. A DISNEY park, to be precise.


Somehow, I don't think so. Seriously, if I can be Frank for a moment...

You DO know that Walt ordered Club 33 set up in Disneyland, don't you?

Of course I knew that. Duh.

You like to drink in the parks. Good for you.

This is not that big a deal. If you want to fight about it, you'll need to find someone insane enough to want to fight about your drinking.

 

[MYD714]

By anyone confused by the use of the word "tavern" in the title "Gaston's Tavern", allow me to clear up a few other misnomers for you.

-The Haunted Mansion isn't haunted.
-The Hall of Presidents is actually a theater, not a hallway.
-Splash, Big Thunder, and Space are not actual mountains or even approximations thereof.

Disney World is basically one big scam. Sorry.

almost spit my drink out onto my computer

And even having been there a couple times previously, I didn't even really realize they don't serve alcohol at MK until I saw a repeat of that episode of "Roseanne" where the Connors go to Disney World, they do the slow-motion run set to "When You Wish Upon A Star" as the family enters MK at rope-drop...then Aunt Jackie tells Dan they don't serve alcohol in MK...and he does the slow-motion run again (once again set to "When You Wish Upon A Star") right back out of the park so he can go to Epcot and have a beer.
"Roseanne" clip - The Connors enter The Happiest Place On Earth
(The YouTube clip above must be from the DVD release where they had to substitute music they didn't have the rights to, since "When You Wish Upon A Star" isn't the song playing when they run into the park)

LOVE these episodes

 

[JRGAR]

The fact is, Disney is not going to open the first public alcohol vender in Fantasy land. IF and notice the caps... IF Disney decides to make MK like the rest of the parks they will probably do it slowly. Perhaps start selling it in certain sit down restaurants and then gradually opening it up to more and more locations. Before you know it it's in several locations and most didn't even notice.

It would be stupid to redesign Fantasyland the most "kid" place in Disney World with a real tavern selling alcohol. Arguements either way mean nothing. It's just not going to happen that way.

 

[larryz]

I think they should make alcohol available in the Magic Kingdom, but sell the right to buy it as an upgrade to your ticket for around $80 to $100 per ticket. Or maybe make it available only to those staying at a deluxe resort.

Perhaps they should give out DrinkPasses™ where you can only buy an alcoholic beverage between two times printed on the DP...? And then they could have a double-secret policy of letting people buy their drinks any time that day, after the window opens...

 

[minnie mum]

Seriously, if I can be Frank for a moment...

You DO know that Walt ordered Club 33 set up in Disneyland, don't you?

You can be Frank for as long as you like. But Surely you jest...

 

[FlightlessDuck]

Let's have a seance! It's the only way to know for sure.

 

[heyitsmejosh]

You wouldn't happen to be young, would you?

not really i'm 30 so i guess kinda young... that being said when drinks are 9 bucks a piece i am way less likely to be motivated to drink enough to get drunk...

 

[chartle]

You can be Frank for as long as you like. But Surely you jest...

Stop calling me Shirley

I think I've forgotten what we have been arguing about and what side I'm on.

 

[Wadecool]

Let's have a seance! It's the only way to know for sure.

Grab a jackhammer, then head on over to POTC and get to digging.

 

[kaphil]

Well, I may just be a drunk magnet but the last two times I've been at Epcot during the food and wine festival we've felt uncomfortable around some of the guests because of their drinking. Maybe a group of drunk women loudly sexually harassing the college program busboy while our family ate dinner was unusual but it was still sad. We did see security escorting a couple of people out that were trying to start a fight, their language was way too rough for kids. The topper was when a drunk lady fell on a child and then called the mother a name, her friends actually laughed. Maybe that's why MK should be alcohol-free, so little girls dressed like princesses can avoid being flattened by crazy fools.

 

[larryz]

Maybe a group of drunk women loudly sexually harassing the college program busboy while our family ate dinner was unusual but it was still sad.

Do you have to pay extra for drunk sexual harassment?

 

[JoshuaShaw]

While I'm fine with leaving the MK dry, there seems to be a logical disconnect in some of the dry-supporters arguments.

1.) Keep MK dry because kids shouldn't be surrounded by a crowd of drunken louts (who, depending on who you ask, will assault children). It's a family park.

2.) So what if MK doesn't serve alcohol, you can get it at the other three parks!

So by that logic, not only are EPCOT, Hollywood Studios, and AK not family parks, but they're being overrun with carousing alcoholics. I'll reiterate, I'm fine with MK being dry, but you can't denounce it for one park and promote it for the others. At best it's illogical, at worst it's intellectually dishonest.

 

[ftballfan7]

I have read the entire thread and have come to a conclusion: I need a drink!

 

[look1angel]

I have read the entire thread and have come to a conclusion: I need a drink!

 

[look1angel]

I have read the entire thread and have come to a conclusion: I need a drink!

I'm way ahead of you, I started the thread!

 

[DisneyEater]

You all can take the Magic Kingdom Pub Crawl for a great time.

 

[cm8]

I have read the entire thread and have come to a conclusion: I need a drink!

I'll drink to that