
Critics slam Disney adults but new book shows comfort and community behind craze
2025-09-27 22:36:34
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For some adults, their hobby is fictional football. For others, it’s Broadway offers, today’s trading or perhaps pickled.
But for another emotional group of Americans – with or without children on their own – Everything about Disney.
A recent article described as Disney fans, “The most hated online group”, often such a cash comes with viral tales, such as the Reddit 2022 publication of a couple who admitted that they were skipped at their wedding to pay the price of a 30 -minute appearance by Mickey and Mini Mouse.
The couple may not be alone in their dedication. Nearly 1500 husbands marry the Walt Disney world in Orlando, Florida, every year, according to the wedding planners.
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Some fans love Disney to death – literally.

Walt Disney World is a favorite background for sharing and wedding parties. (Gary Hershorn/Getty Emp)
In the new book “Disney for Adults: Explore (and falling in love) a magic sub -culture”, the author AJ Wolfe describes visitors who spread the ashes of loved ones on horseback riding like the haunted palace, despite the repeated warnings of Garden employees.
“They are making a last trip there before their death,” Wolf writes. “They buy even the jars the funeral engraved with pictures of Cinderella Castle in Disney.”
Adults from Disney talks about “converting” their loved ones to the fans because Disney is a type of church for them, according to Wolf, the founder of the Disney Food Blog.
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Wolf spoke with a tattoo artist in San Diego, which exclusively messes with the art associated with Disney, and two spouses who regularly flew from New York City to Disney world for one stay, and they spend the next day in the park before holding an evening trip.
“We go beyond our credit cards,” Wolf wrote about her community. “We prepare in the days so that we can go again and plan anxious about what we will do, eat, wear, and try it the next time we are published on social media on how life stops Between trips. “

Some cyclists will send the ashes of their loved ones on a haunted palace journey, according to the new Wolf book. (JEFF GRITHEN/MediaNews Group/Orange County Record)
It compares the excitement surrounding the new Disney movies with Biotamania in the 1960s.
Journalists covering the gardens have noticed more millennial and general generation since the epidemic, with post -working hours, food festivals and cocktails that meet the needs of the largest crowd.
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In 2023, Walt Disney World attracted about 48.8 million visitors, according to reports, and madness extends to Disneyland in California, as well as the gardens in Tokyo and Shanghai, and Disney Cruz worldwide.
Roy Schwartz, a New York -based pop historian and author, said part of Disney’s draw lies in her unparalleled reputation.
“Maybe Disney is Most of the iconic brand In entertainment, Schwartz told Fox News Digital. “It is the most closely related to classic, immortal and innocent stories and characters. This is very attractive for adults who are not children looking for a way to restore or maintain this feeling of joy and comfort.”
He added: “Disney is also the most unrelated quality – just compare the Disney Park with any other type – which raises more demanding adult standards.”
As Schwartz admits that part of loyalty is grown through the strategy of smart companies, he believes that many of it is organic. Adults are looking for society, identity and simple weddings, whether it is Disney, Taylor Swift, Crossfit Or political movements.

Experts say more adults are visiting Disney world without children in recent years. (Istock)
“Being excited about anything is great, but sometimes it becomes the thing that determines you,” he said. “I think in some cases, being a” Disney adults “sign in this square.
Wolf admits that adult Disney is buying what the company, which is worth billions of dollars, sells. The “scent” machines hidden in the gardens that pump the smells of apple pie, jasmine and roses in the air to lure the shoppers. “Everything in Disney is larger, brighter and more implanted with pictures, odors, feelings, flavors and sounds more than you have to address.”
Critics often reject Disney fans as people who refuse to grow, but Wolf describes Walt Disney world as a safe and predictable escape.
For her, Disney was still better than European, Alaska or Thai holidays after she became a mother. “They spoke English and used US dollars, and the transportation was simple and engineer for my child’s asthma was very available,” she wrote. “I had no concern about reading endless reviews in the hope that they would be honest, just to arrive in the middle of the night at a strange hotel in a foreign town with my child in the clouds and be special.”

Experts say Disney Vandum can be a healthy form of relieving tension for some adults. (Gary Hershorn/Getty Emp)
Experts agree that the appeal is less related to non -maturity and more with comfort, communication and fun.
“Sometimes we need to reconsider the childish spaces-such as Disney-in order to heal our inner child,” Dr. Robin Koslawitz, a clinical psychologist in New Jersey, told Fox News Digital.
Dr. Debra Kissen, CEO of Light on Creationy Learge Mintars in Chicago, agreed to describe Disney as a “key to handing over.”
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She said, “It provides safety, hygiene and logistics that can be predicted and a reliable emotional arc.” “Adults often use the space more deliberately as a mood reset, which is the rituals of husbands, Or a hobby. “ She noted that some dive into the Disney Marathon races, and the commemorative souvenirs or food festivals.
But Vandum can turn into a surplus.
Kissen recommends that he asks, “Is work, sleep, or relationships that suffer? Do you spend what is behind your capabilities or the costs of hiding you? Can you skip an event without distress?”

Some fans say that Disney Gardens offer comfort, society and escape. (Photo by Joseph Priziosu/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
She said: “If the answer is yes, then it is time to control the handrails-budgets, the frequency of the trip, or the” lack of “months or diversify your hobbies.”
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Schwartz, however, it is believed that criticism is often misplaced. “What are the days that do not inspire the intense reaction on the Internet?” He said. “It is very ridiculous and does not make sense to judge people for their harmless hobbies.”
“It is difficult to be adult,” he added. “It seems that it is more complicated and exhausted than ever … It is important to make way for simple joys in life, whether you have children or not.”
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