WDW In Everyday Speech

[JRatManda]

We use 'rope drop' as well! It just stuck! It's a verb to us.
We also do the reverse and tell our daughter 'No one here is calling you 'Princess' when she starts acting a tad bit diva-ish!

 

[MacDalt]

I always use the term 'Fantasmic!' when something is great, instead of plain ol' fantastic.

 

[CinderellasKastle]

I tend to refer to employees everywhere (grocery stores, bank, restaurants) as cast members.

 

[Jfsag123]

We often talk about "plussing" things when we're trying to improve them.

Like others have said, I regularly over use rope dropping and CM's.

If something special happens, I have referred to it as getting pixie dusted.

 

[Oswin]

Due to overhearing so many other guests asking when the 3pm parade was when we were growing up, me and my sisters always say "Yeah, and when's the 3pm parade??" when someone asks a silly question and one of us have to answer it. We also always say "there's always my way..." like from the haunted mansion when one of us really wants the others to do something our way. We also call all vomit accidents (we all work at our local six flags - there's a lot of them in our lives) protein spills, point with the cast member point, and refer to all amusement park employees as cast members and all customers as guests. My boyfriend is a "friend of" the Flash and Batman where we work - I stole that terminology from Disney cms too. We also are guilty of calling the local train station "the neighborhood TTC". And every time someone in the family is telling a story that is going on with no point one of us will always interject by singing Big Al's Blood song from the Country Bears. We have a lot more but these are the ones we use the most!

 

[AtlantaDisneyDreamer]

When someone has a stroke of good luck (or something positive happen to them) in our family I refer to it as "Pixie Dust."

When I put my kids to bed at night I occasionally say, "There's a great big beautiful tomorrow coming up!" and when it is a beautiful day outside I sometimes say, "It's a Zip a Dee Doo Dah Day!"

Like others, I also find myself saying ADR and Cast Members in places other than Disney.

Oh! When I stand in the hall outside of my classroom (I teach high school literature), I will occasionally wave dramatically at the passing students and say, "Have a magical day!" Usually I am inspired to do this the day before a school break.

 

[Shellyb84]

I always think of Disney buses whenever I see MARTA buses, and the monorail whenever I see the train.

 

[mikepizzo]

I use the terms "good show" and "bad show" all the time. Same with "on stage" and "back stage".

More generally, I like to adopt the "Disney thinking" in regards to customer service, even when I'm not working. Just being a good person and doing the right thing. Going out of my way to help people that need it, etc.

 

[JimmyV]

I remembered another one. In any airport where there is a rail system that takes you from one terminal to another (like Orlando, Miami, Dallas or Denver), that rail system is never called by its proper name. They are, and always will be: People Movers.

 

[Angel Ariel]

What words, ideas or concepts that originated in WDW (or DLR) have crept into your everyday language? For example, in our family, when we want to describe a really heavy rain storm, it is always referred to as "Tiki Room Rain". We instantly know what is meant. And no matter what state we are in, if we are approaching a toll booth and there is a lane that accepts transponders, it is always referred to as the Fast Pass Lane. How about you?

Any time we see switchback queues someplace, they're called "Disneys"...that started sometime when I was young and is still going strong.

 

[TXStormtrooper]

We use Pixie Dust, Rope Drop and Cast Member, too!

 

[BarbieGal457]

I too refer to any type of toll lane that has an automated system as Fast Pass, like our E-Z Pass lanes in PA/NJ. I refer to all theme park employees as Cast Members too!

At my work, I have to welcome clients when they arrive for their meetings and I always use the "Disney point" to show them where the bathroom is! When we have been in line for things, specifically my iPhone 5, they told us "the mall won't let us stay open past 9:30 so you will all get a ticket to return tomorrow and we'll hold your phones." My boyfriend was ready to leave the line and I grabbed him and said "No! It's the Disney ride rule - when the ride breaks down you do not leave the line, you let everyone else leave and end up right at the front for when it goes back up!" Sooooo many people left the iPhone line that we moved up at least 25-30 spots and I had my iPhone within about 10 minutes. Right as we walked out of the store, the man came back out and said the mall did in fact grant them staing open until midnight and we though about how many people left so quickly when if they waited around just a bit more (the mall was still open to the public at that point too) they could've gotten their phones.

Sorry for the long winded story but the "Disney ride rule" always seems to be the best carry-over WDW thing for me!

 

[RedAngie]

I refer to the line cutting system at ANY theme park as "Fast Pass."

 

[rastahomie]

Ok...not offically Disney-speak...but something we overheard at Disney. In January we were on a bus to Epcot with a lovely British family that was evidently running late for a dinner reservation. They were very worried about it and talking about how they were really going to have to "leg it" if they wanted to make it on time. When they got off the bus, they were off and running, with the dad in the lead yelling back over his shoulder to the rest o them, "Leg it! Leg it!" We thought it was hysterical for some reason, and now that's what we say when we have to hurry or we need someone else to hurry. "Leg it!" And, of course, we always say it with a proper British accent.

Mrs. Homie and I were sitting in the Fantasmic ampitheater, and in front of us was this British family. The little girl - who was about 7 or 8 - turned to us and, in a thick Cockney accent, asked, " 'Ave you 'ad your tea?" We looked at her confused, and she asked again, " 'Ave you 'ad your tea?" My wife, with much compassion and contrition, told the little girl, "I'm very sorry, I don't understand what you're saying." The girl's mom turned and said, in a very genteel accent, "She's asking if you've had your supper, love." Then my wife was like, "Oh yes! we had a delicious supper at...." and we had a lovely conversation about our days at the park.

Now, from time to time, when one of us wants to ask if the other is hungry, we'll say " 'Ave you 'ad your tea?"

 

[soniam]

I remembered another one. In any airport where there is a rail system that takes you from one terminal to another (like Orlando, Miami, Dallas or Denver), that rail system is never called by its proper name. They are, and always will be: People Movers.

Yes, but the MCO train is always the faux monorail for me now Actually, the one in Dallas, even the original one, has been referred to as the people mover as long as I can remember, even by people that have never been to Disney. The original one resembled the PeopleMover a lot more though.

 

[Disnsyncey]

I always think of Disney buses whenever I see MARTA buses, and the monorail whenever I see the train.

But the MARTA announcer saying "airport train, doors open on the left" doesn't sound as magical!

The first day as a CM, about the Disney point, I though "that's dumb" and then I tried using my whole hand and I said "umm that looks even stupider" and I switched to the point and haven't looked back since.....hahaha

 

[EricInPA]

I find myself adding (quietly to my annoyed family members) "and take small children by the hand" to any instructions at a ball game or other park.

 

[hoffman1]

We no longer have "fast food." We have "counter service."

 

[Hannahinwonderland]

Just thought of other one; when I see people get on the subway or the bus without paying attention, I always want to tell them what I did at the Jungle Cruise, "Watch your head, watch your step".

 

[Mikie]

Doors at stores open AutoMagically for us