Are they bored!?

[orlando 6]

We've been to WDW 5 times now and
I don't think that I will ever be bored and if I was I'd stop going! But I've noticed something. I reckon that most visitors must be multiple returnees because so many look as though they are on auto pilot or just plain bored. Take the Lion King Show as an example. There's me whooping it up, cheering etc (I love that show )the majority of the audience can barely manage a half hearted clap. That's one example of many. So many people look like zombies wanderering round the parks. No interest in the wonderful, colurful sights.

If visitors have "seen it all before" why keep going back?...Habit...?

 

[Rhaine78]

We've been to WDW 5 times now and
I don't think that I will ever be bored and if I was I'd stop going! But I've noticed something. I reckon that most visitors must be multiple returnees because so many look as though they are on auto pilot or just plain bored. Take the Lion King Show as an example. There's me whooping it up, cheering etc (I love that show )the majority of the audience can barely manage a half hearted clap. That's one example of many. So many people look like zombies wanderering round the parks. No interest in the wonderful, colurful sights.

If visitors have "seen it all before" why keep going back?...Habit...?

What makes you think that these are return visitors tho? Could be first timers that just don't get it.. and don't know what fun means? Just my take on it.

2 more sleeps til the honeymoon!

 

[orlando 6]

OK...but I just couldn't imagine anyone not getting it but that they'd got it and then got over it

 

[hogwartsdropout]

I love the Lion King show but I must admit I am far too shy to make the animal noises and cheer etc. The most I'll do is clap.

 

[Missec]

We've been to WDW 5 times now and
I don't think that I will ever be bored and if I was I'd stop going! But I've noticed something. I reckon that most visitors must be multiple returnees because so many look as though they are on auto pilot or just plain bored. Take the Lion King Show as an example. There's me whooping it up, cheering etc (I love that show )the majority of the audience can barely manage a half hearted clap. That's one example of many. So many people look like zombies wanderering round the parks. No interest in the wonderful, colurful sights.

If visitors have "seen it all before" why keep going back?...Habit...?

I would say its more like, they are exausted. Some have just gotton there (jet leg), some have been there for a week, some even a month.

 

[makinorlando]

Sometimes I think those visiting for the first time are overwhelmed by what they are experiencing.

I love FOTLK, but I am a rather quiet observer myself. Not everyone expresses emotions in the same way - some are more exuberant than others.

 

[jonestavern]

We felt very lonely in the Biergarten when we were only one of 4 tables in the whole place swaying & getting into it! Think makinorlando is right on the money!
I sometimes think folks are too TV oriented: they just like to watch & forget to participate
Don't get me wrong, this fat lady ain't riding a stick pony at WCC, but I sure as heck will enjoy Pooh dancing at CP!
Hmm..might do the stick pony if the staff awards me a full day golden FP!

Jean

 

[The Mick]

I sometimes think folks are too TV oriented: they just like to watch & forget to participate

I think this is very valid. A lot of people don't like to participate these days, they'd rather just be entertained. Which is too bad, it takes a little away from the show when the audience doesn't participate the way they could.

 

[civileng68]

OK...but I just couldn't imagine anyone not getting it but that they'd got it and then got over it

Just returned from a trip with a first timer and he didn't get it at all. In fact his statement aftewards was "I probably won't be going back".

Now, I go about every two months and have to admit I do get a little bored with just going and wanting to ride everything.

Sometimes we enjoy it more by going and just going into the parks at night and just relaxing all day.

 

[PlutosFriend]

We felt very lonely in the Biergarten when we were only one of 4 tables in the whole place swaying & getting into it! Think makinorlando is right on the money!
I sometimes think folks are too TV oriented: they just like to watch & forget to participate
Don't get me wrong, this fat lady ain't riding a stick pony at WCC, but I sure as heck will enjoy Pooh dancing at CP!
Hmm..might do the stick pony if the staff awards me a full day golden FP!

Jean

I am one who will get into the action and my husband sits there like a bump on a log. It isn't that he isn't happy or enjoying himself, he just isn't fun like me

 

[AStamm]

What makes you think that these are return visitors tho? Could be first timers that just don't get it.. and don't know what fun means? Just my take on it.

2 more sleeps til the honeymoon!

Congratulations on your wedding and honeymoon at Disney. How I wish I knew just how much DH and I would fall in love with Disney--it would have been a fairy tale place for our honeymoon, but we only discovered the magic three years ago.

 

[Princess~Fun]

I would say its more like, they are exausted. Some have just gotton there (jet leg), some have been there for a week, some even a month.

Yea somewhat what I was thinking. I mean of course sometimes people get grumpy or exhausted or tired.

 

[Piglet4Ever]

For the amount of money it costs going to WDW (we just paid credit card off from trip last month ) I don't think people would be going to the world multiple times if they didn't love it. Unless they are nuts . You may have been seeing folks that were towards the end of their trips and just plain tired, or folks that just don't get the magic and probbaly won't be back again. I know that when we were there Nov 8-14 everyone I saw seemed to be having a great time, and we were leading the way

 

[MyGoofy26]

For the amount of money it costs going to WDW (we just paid credit card off from trip last month ) I don't think people would be going to the world multiple times if they didn't love it. Unless they are nuts .

I have a fomer friend that goes just to compete with me and try and outdo me And yes. Nuts.


Back to the original topic. . . I don't get into things the way you're talking OP. But that's my personality, not a testament to how much fun I'm having. I prefer to be "invisible" - I don't like to draw attention to myself and jumping up, yelling and dancing doesn't allow for that. I'd be so ridiculously far from my comfort zone if I ever had to be front and center for any of those shows that THAT would make me not enjoy it. I prefer to focus all my attention on the details and smiling and clapping rather than to make a scene. . . not saying everyone who does get into it is making a scene, but if I were to do it, that's how I'd feel.

 

[Rhaine78]

Congratulations on your wedding and honeymoon at Disney. How I wish I knew just how much DH and I would fall in love with Disney--it would have been a fairy tale place for our honeymoon, but we only discovered the magic three years ago.

Thanks so much! We went our first time (my first time ever) to WDW in Nov/04 and I just love the place. He was there the year prior for his brother's wedding. I would have loved to have gotten married there, but getting engaged, married and going on a 18 day WDW honeymoon, it just wasn't feesible. We had a very small wedding here at home with 15 guests total. It was beautiful.. and I would rather spend more time in my 2nd home! LOL! This will be our last trip there for a while tho. We would like to work on starting a family in about a next year or so.. then we'll return. Anyhoo.. I'm justa ramblin' away..

2 more sleeps!

 

[disnut8]

OP - I don't think they are bored necessarily. Some people just don't get into aspects of Disney World. For example, most people rave about Fantasmic. My husband went to it for the first and only time on a solo trip. He was not thrilled with it at all. But that same man has to see Sounds Dangerous every time we're at MGM. We'll sit for hours watching Off Kilter. There are people who *gasp!* don't like them.

If we go to something that I've been on dozens of times, I look to see someone who possibly is experiencing it for the first time. Last month, we went on the Great Movie Ride again. This woman a few rows ahead of us rode through that thing with her mouth hanging open. I swear she got whiplash from swivling her head around to look at everything. For every bored person, there are alot more excited people.

 

[emma'smom]

We'll for the Lion King- I speak from experience that we really enjoyed it...but sat like bumps because we had just stood in line for 60 minutes in the heat and were just thrilled to finally be seated in air conditioning!!

 

[kaybird]

Too Funny- We even have a family term for it, called the "Day 5 look". We see it most on the buses, you can see the eager and bright and sometimes confused looks on people day 1-3, Confindent on day 4, and about day 5 or 6, the exhaustion sets in from spending day 4 doing all the things that you have learned the ropes of.

 

[disneymama73]

I am one who will get into the action and my husband sits there like a bump on a log. It isn't that he isn't happy or enjoying himself, he just isn't fun like me

Same here! And he looks at me like I have two heads.

 

[SuperTink]

Clapping is a requisite for my children, whether they feel like it or not. I was taught that clapping is a thank you for the performers. I consider it the polite response.