Comments on: The Dark Side of Disney

By: Victoria

Victoria — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 05:09:02 +0000

I consider my mother to have died at the Magic Kingdom. Though she was taken to the hospital, we were told immediately that she had died. We had just gotten into the park and she needed to sit down. She had a heart attack and collapsed to the ground. They did the paddles right there. Really horrific. I remember looking into her eyes and knowing she was gone. I was offered juice. I declined. It seemed like forever before the ambulance came. We were given 4 free tickets. I was 17, she was 54 and it was 4 days before my high school graduation, back in 1993.

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By: Jaques

Jaques — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 07:48:03 +0000

Nazis had BROWn uniforms, morons!
But maybe its the american disney nazi. or army nazi.
whatever!°

By: Disney Doofus

Disney Doofus — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:45:51 +0000

Not sure that the Nazi character in the background is sinister - it would be a little more sinister if Disney managed to completely dislocate itself from history without the odd rebel being able to insert a little bit of gritty context into the Disney tapestry.

By: Visionaerie

Visionaerie — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 04:59:55 +0000

Not too long ago, I read that Adolf Hitler had actually drawn one (or more) of the Seven Dwarfs (Dwarves). I think they even had one of them with his signature. I do like some of the Disney productions but we should never be afraid to look for the truth. I just wish that Disney would release that great movie / series, 'Dr. Syn Alias The Scarecrow' -- which was very pro-freedom and starred the incredible Patrick McGoohan. We should also be at least a bit curious when Disney proteges like Miley Cyrus start doing pole dances! You might also want to check out the observations of a talk show host named Freeman, who is on Oracle Broadcasting. I believe he said that Disney is actually a contraction (Dis-ney); the Dis=Hades and the Ney=Nymph. So supposedly Disney signifies "Nymph Chaser." Keep exploring the possibilities!

By: Hilda

Hilda — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 20:16:09 +0000

Hey, let me say this... I still get watery eyed when I think about our trip this December to Disney. Which we do EVERY YEAR and will continue. Disney is a magical place for your soul and heart but remember folks, real magic does not exist. We can not prevent the unpreventable. $hit happens and its all the peoples fault! buckle up! drink plenty of water and hold your child's hand. It's Disney! I've known all these horrible things since i was little even the "walt disney frozen in the pirates ride". i still ride them like i was a little kid. finding new things (not bad) all the hidden mickeys! come on people, stop being so stupid. In December we will open a piggy bank that we made especially for Disney, saving everything $10 and under for a year. this gives my son the dreams and hopes I had growing up anticipating the end of the year. thanks mom and dad for my first trip in 1990. will never forget that day.

By: demonick

demonick — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 12:26:03 +0000

My mate got caught wearing Mickey Mouse's head and copulating with Snow White on a Disney cruise. He was kicked off and apparently it was up there with one of the most extreme Disney sackings they had to deal with. I believe photo's were taken and Minnie never got over the shock. Pluto was nowhere to be seen but someone had to be holding the camera!!

By: batobalani

batobalani — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 05:29:54 +0000

maybe if uve seen those, they did not think of it as having a malice or anything, maybe they were rong, but yea, whatver... they also make graphic mistakes you know.

By: Becs

Becs — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 20:09:45 +0000

Oh, just read Carl Hiassen's Native Tongue. It'll tell you all the Disney dirt and more.

By: Dirty Joe

Dirty Joe — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:21:19 +0000

It's not just Disney, folks. Ever watch Nickelodeon with your kids? There's something in there for everyone! I say yay, gotta keep the adults entertained too...

By: Eli

Eli — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:44:58 +0000

I find it both amusing and disturbing to read so many of these comments, with people finding conspiracies, hidden sexual innuendo, porn, and everything else in Disney stuff. It reminds me of the satirical song "Smut" by Tom Lehrer...

"All books can be indecent books
Though recent books are bolder,
For filth, I'm glad to say, is in
The mind of the beholder.
When correctly viewed,
Everything is lewd."

Let's face it... if someone's looking for it, anything longer than it is tall can be a phallic symbol, and anything taller than it is long is a vertical phallic symbol... It's sort of like a Rorschach inkblot test, where we see things that tell someone a lot more about us than about the person who made the ink blot.

Hence, for someone who's inclined to view it that way, they'll see Disneyland as a secret bordello where deaths occur daily and are quickly covered up and where the minds of all visitors are subverted by hidden images and sounds. Those people live in a frightening world where everyone is out to get them and no one can be trusted, and it's not a healthy or pleasant way to live.

By: Jessi

Jessi — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 02:55:27 +0000

I watched the three Disney movies with the famous hidden messages in them.. The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, and The Lion King in a pyshcology(sp) high school class where we proved this things to be in the movies. So to the people shrinking back in horror and denial.. sorry it's there.

Now don't get me wrong; I love Disney movies.

By: GMacD

GMacD — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:31:05 +0000

I can see Andrew Lloyd Webber doing a musical of the tragedies that happened under the stars of these "magical lands" .

By: Julie

Julie — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:52:55 +0000

Is it just me or does the Nazi look like he is, er... choking the chicken?!!!

By: Hezzy

Hezzy — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:46:11 +0000

If you're interested...

There was a sterotypical black character in Fantasia called 'Sunflower'. Feel free to google it. They removed her in the 60's due to it being controversial.

I found it really interesting that Disney denied her ever being in the original...since it was a representation of black people at the time...and it was the '30s!

Totally agree with them taking her out though...although it's awfully done with crazy zooming in!!

By: Frau

Frau — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 20:59:26 +0000

@ Joe Soap - I am really not sure where you are trying to go with that.
All I was doing was pointing out that Disney hired a Luftwaffe interrogator. nothing more - nothing less.

By: algomeysa

algomeysa — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 13:58:51 +0000

A friend of mine is a big Disney buff, and one time she was giving me a tour of Disneyland and knew all these places with "dark" lore. For example, here some woman had been killed by the Tom Sawyer riverboat when a rope snapped. Or here was the spot where, if you stood by this fence when Tinkerbell slid down the rope from the castle, you could hear the "wommp!" when she dropped to the mattress. Ok, that's not really a dark thing, but it was an interesting bit of trivia. Also, in the Haunted Mansion, there's place where there's a spiderweb covering part of the glass where they project the ghosts, and it's not there in the Disneyworld version. The reason it was put there was, somebody fired a gun from the ghost-car and cracked the glass, and it would have been hugely expensive to replace the glass, so they put up the spiderweb to cover the bullet-hole. Also, supposedly when they were testing the log flume ride, it kept decapitating the dummies until they made adjustments. Then of course there's the place with Walt Disney's private apartment. I guess that doesn't count as a "dark" area. It was a little creepy to hear the revised Tiki Birds routine with Phil Hartman's voice, soon after he died. I don't know it that has been replaced or put back to the original. On another tagent, just today a monorail driver at Disneyworld was killed.

By: cap

cap — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 04:10:48 +0000

watch wat you say disney is probaby watching this site because i used to play this game called club penguin and peps would make lies to just have something to say on the enternet about the game. soon the disney bought the game for a lot of money then they took all the lies and made them true and they banned the people that started them. my point is disney is watching and they dont want people in thiere shit.they have THE POWER to have use all killed man

By: Key

Key — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:56:55 +0000

I knew there was a good reason I liked The Rescuers as a kid.

By: Joe Soap

Joe Soap — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 07:14:18 +0000

About Hanns-Joachim Gottlob Scharff: Just remember, that your very own Government okayed WATER BOARDING! They allow all sorts of torturous interrogation. You still follow that evil with your good little american patriotism.

By: Susan

Susan — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:52:02 +0000

There was also a honey moon couple, where one of them was killed when the gondola fell.

By: liliana

liliana — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:38:38 +0000

I can't believe all the stupidity thats mentioned here. Look around people there are worse things happening in our cities n towns. Accidents happen no place is safe nor perfect its not going to be. Everyone that works there if they get trained its up to each individual to be responsible, hard working, n do thier job good like in any job. They can't be checking on everybody there's hundreds of people in that park each day. Why don't people look at the good things always looking at the negative the wrong. Its cartoons the park they make kids belive have dreams. Look at the cartoons on TV spongebob for example it has alot of double meaning but the kids dont know that.WDW is a coorporation of course it wants to make money if you owned ur own business thats what u would want. Relax people its going to be ok don't listen to all the crap u here.

By: Maribel

Maribel — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:54:45 +0000

Let's all remember Walt Disney's goal was to inspire creativity and offer the public a place where it can possibly be one of the Happiest Places On Earth, especially for kids with innocent imaginations. There always a few bad apples in every work place, Disney is not excluded. I Love Disney Parks,the price is always worth the smiles and memories my kids receive.

By: Gable

Gable — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:41:29 +0000

I can't believe how gullible some of you people are. "OH NO DISNEY IS EVIL MY CHILDHOOD IS RUINED FOREVER" "IGNORANCE IS BLISS" Oh, get the hell over it. You're an adult. You've seen worse. It's really not a big friggin' deal.

By: Fous

Fous — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:37:18 +0000

Also, you'll notice the death of most of these people wasn't the park's fault.

By: Fous

Fous — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:34:01 +0000

Whether ALL of these facts or true are not-- it will remain unknown.

But before you publish a blog, dear author, you need to research, not pull rumors from off the net.

By: Davejohnwright

Davejohnwright — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:43:50 +0000

Alright seriously disney is a corporation, there main concerns are A=money and B=public appearance. So of course there gonna use A to cover up anything that could jepordize B, simple as that.
And I agree disney makes good movies for children. I grew up watching disney movies as most eveeryone in the free world has. But the fact of the matter is they cant screen through thier employees to find every twisted artist, alot of us with twisted minds live incognito with the rest of you, just try and spot us all out of a crowd, HAHAHA, joking, kinda. And twisted minds are gonna do twisted stuff and chuckle about it later.
So enough of this "oh no disney is a wonderful corporation, they wouldnt do that" because the fact of the matter is, it is not within thier control. But dont stress over it either, these kinds of things will most often go right over a kids head, and if not it isnt a big deal. I can remember the things said around the schoolyard when I was a kid 100x worse than anything I've seen here today.
peace

By: Connie

Connie — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:20:35 +0000

You know, I work at Walt Disney World and have for the last 8+ years. I've been a trainer for 5 years, and its not true they don't train you. Yes they do...YOU JUST DON'T LISTEN! I find all kinds of sinister things every day. you know...little boys dressed up like a pirate....ooooscary. And then there's those little girls all done up like princesses...sooooo perverted
Cone on people grow up. I am scared by all of you who are looking for weird stuff involving the dreams of little kids.
I, myself remember my trip to Disneyland 50 years ago. It was one of the most wonderful memories that I had when my mom died very young. Its all about dreams, people. About lifting the hopes and fantasies of little kids who won't live to come back.
Shame on all you strange people who want strange things where they don't exist.

By: Petite Poi

Petite Poi — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:23:14 +0000

I have to agree, those "knees" of the priest in Little Mermaid are awfully high and move quite unnaturally. I wonder how much Snopes got paid by Disney to say that.

That being said, I still love Disney movies.

By: seefish3

seefish3 — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:48:01 +0000

"Dark side of Disney", huh? So there's a bright side? Not when you're being gouged for a fifty year old cartoon re-release. Then its "back to the vaults" until the next gen gets hyped into it. Just another arm of the "Coalition of Greedy White Guys."