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Post by NastyWoman on Aug 11, 2017 16:10:16 GMT -5
Check them out from the library. Puts holds on anything you want. Watch them when they show up. Free. You guys can't do that where you are? That works for older kids or adults who only want to watch a movie once or twice. But for some horrific, ungodly, awful reason younger kids want to watch their favorites over and over and over and over. It's sad and wrong and makes you want to strangle the little boogers, but it seems pretty common amongst them so you can at least comfort yourself that yours isn't defective. it's like a little internal umbillical cord stump, that takes about a decade (a century?) or so to fall off.
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Post by Lizard Queen on Aug 11, 2017 16:16:08 GMT -5
hopefully I'm there when you try to use them. He's right. They've long since honored any ticket without an expiration...and it's why in the late 90s, give or take, every Disney ticket got an expiration and they started making those multi-day passes expire within a certain time after the first use. So yea, you can take one of those E passes from back when they charged per ride and get in for free. Hell you can do it with the crappier tickets too. At least it was still policy a few years ago and I haven't heard any different. An xbf and I bought some of those back in the 90's. My DH and I used up the last day on them about 5 years ago. I'm proud of myself for still knowing where to find them, and not letting them going to waste!
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Post by justme on Aug 11, 2017 16:21:13 GMT -5
He's right. They've long since honored any ticket without an expiration...and it's why in the late 90s, give or take, every Disney ticket got an expiration and they started making those multi-day passes expire within a certain time after the first use. So yea, you can take one of those E passes from back when they charged per ride and get in for free. Hell you can do it with the crappier tickets too. At least it was still policy a few years ago and I haven't heard any different. Somewhere in my house are 2 free passes I earned when I worked for Disney one year. Unless my XH has them. I got them in 1994. Maybe I'll just let my 3 kids fight over them when they're grown My parents have quite a few of the old a, b, c, e passes sitting in their house. I think when I was a lot younger they were worth more as memorabilia than tickets. Not sure if that's changed? But there they sit as I'm about to renew my annual pass so I have no need for them.
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Post by tallguy on Aug 11, 2017 16:30:39 GMT -5
Yeah, but you can pretty easily work around it. Check them out for two weeks and watch as many times as they want. If it is on hold for someone else, immediately place another hold. If not, renew it for two more weeks. Keep a rotation of several movies going. Better than paying exorbitant prices for just one. When you find one cheap enough somewhere that they like enough, then buy it if you wish. Or not. Lol. I paid WAY too much money in overdue fines for 2 Mickey Mouse videos that we repeatedly borrowed and we're late returning before I bought the damn things online for a "family" Christmas gift. I'm pretty sure I paid about $20 for the set of 4 videos and a tied on 5th video and about $40 in fines. Not my proudest financial memory... Yeah, but you really can't blame us for that. The theory is sound. It was the execution that failed.
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Post by Pants on Aug 11, 2017 17:28:11 GMT -5
Before I had kids, I hadn't spent a lot of time around young children, so some things were a bit of a surprise. As far as the movie thing goes, a few years before my son was born I distinctly remember a close friend describing how if her 3 year old watched (don't remember which Disney film, maybe 101 Dalmations?) one more time, she was going to have to kill herself. The friend and her husband were very intelligent and I remember how surprised and sad I was for them... you know, having a special needs child like that. I hoped that their child wasn't profoundly impaired and would one day be able to at least live independently.*** Yeah, karma got me on that one. And a few others... *** Edited to add - for those of you who haven't spent much time around small kids - it's really, really normal for all small kids to watch things they like multiple times. Some will only watch a few things and they want to watch them over and over and over. Doesn't mean there's a thing wrong with them. In fact, the opposite is true; means they're normal. I was the idiot here. OMG I snorted. Love, Someone who is currently watching Trolls for the 5,673rd time
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Post by NoNamePerson on Aug 11, 2017 18:01:34 GMT -5
Y'all got off easy. Back in the dark ages I think of the money spent on sending kiddo to see Star Wars for more times than I can remember. I wish it had been on VHS/DVD back then. Because of having to pay to see movies over and over I am eating cat food in my retirement.
Star Wars The Outlaw Josey Wells Animal House
and a few others I have forgotten on purpose.
I think he had a name plate on seat at theaters
Thank goodness I didn't have to go, could drop him and friends off but if I put it in phil5185 script I would probably have acquired a few more millions
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Post by TheOtherMe on Aug 11, 2017 19:04:37 GMT -5
My Disney stock was a good investment.
My sister says the same thing. I don't have kids. My sister, BIL, niece and nephew1 came to visit. They brought Strawberry Shortcake on VHS. They were staying with me. Whenever we were at my house, my niece was watching Strawberry Shortcake. It was worse when I watched my great niece. She liked to watch Here Comes Santa Claus several times a day all year round.
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Post by steph08 on Aug 11, 2017 20:38:59 GMT -5
I must have the only three-year-old that won't watch more than 30 seconds of tv at a time.
It's a blessing and a curse...
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Post by NoNamePerson on Aug 11, 2017 20:57:23 GMT -5
I must have the only three-year-old that won't watch more than 30 seconds of tv at a time. It's a blessing and a curse... My son was like that. My friends gave their kids a bowl of cereal and sat them down to watch cartoons on Saturday morning. Noooooooo my son had to go outside and play or swing from the ceiling fan. But I came to realize later it must be genetic since I have the attention span of a gnat when it comes to TV.
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Post by quince on Aug 11, 2017 21:16:10 GMT -5
Little mermaid is $21 for blu-ray on amazon. Platinum edition DVD is $15.
I want to look into disney's streaming service not for movies, but for children's programming, because we don't do cable. I generally buy movies that come with digital copies because it's easier than putting a disc in.
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Post by Ryan on Aug 11, 2017 22:37:12 GMT -5
I don't really get the whole "vault" thing. When we were going to Disney, I started looking around for movies like Cinderella, beauty and the beast, Aladdin, little mermaid, etc. I think at the time, only little mermaid was out of the vault. My kids were kinda prime age for this stuff, like 4-7. I ended up buying it on eBay or something, so Disney basically just lost the sale. When people want to buy something, they want to buy it now. What the h*ll is with this stupid vault?
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Post by Tiny on Aug 11, 2017 23:36:37 GMT -5
I'd guess that the Diamond/Platninum re-issued DVDs might have the original movie somehow "improved" with better sound or image (for today's modern TVs and sound systems). I bet they also have more stuff and maybe more than one DVD included. So, games for the kids, interviews, "the making of" etc. All I wanted was a simple 'My Totoro' dvd and all I could find (at the time) was an updated release... the movie plus a bunch of other stuff with some sort of 'offer' to 'unlock' the wonders of Disney by getting to the internet.. whatever. It cost a lot more than I expected... but I really wanted to own the movie and I didn't think the Studio Ghibli movies were the "hot" titles in Disney's collection and so it be a now or never kinda purchase. . I get why Disney does what it the re-releases . It's a great way to keep making money on the older products. I second looking for used copies of older releases of the movies (on dvd) on line and at garage/yard sales, etc... I'm pretty sure there are MILLIONs of used movies since MILLIONS of them were sold (each time a new 'updated release' comes out.)
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2017 3:20:52 GMT -5
My granddaughter is going to be VERY annoyed if Netflix drops "Finding Dory". They don't visit often enough for me to justify paying a monthly fee for Disney programming (and we don't want her in front of the screen all the time, anyway). I guess I can figure out how to get the DVD player talking to the TV, which I haven't needed to do yet, and have DS and DDIL bring her DVDs with them when they visit. Fortunately, DS and DDIL are even more frugal than I am.
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Post by andi9899 on Aug 12, 2017 12:55:00 GMT -5
You saved me with The Lion King too - you're the best! Can you do my shopping for me now? Please and thank you.
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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on Aug 12, 2017 15:13:13 GMT -5
That works for older kids or adults who only want to watch a movie once or twice. But for some horrific, ungodly, awful reason younger kids want to watch their favorites over and over and over and over. It's sad and wrong and makes you want to strangle the little boogers, but it seems pretty common amongst them so you can at least comfort yourself that yours isn't defective. it's like a little internal umbillical cord stump, that takes about a decade (a century?) or so to fall off. Why is this? When I was recovering from surgery at my parents, my 2 and 3 year old nephews alternated between The Jungle Book and a pig movie (I can't remember the name, it was that bad!). I was a captive audience on crutches with limited places I could go, and was about to scream after about 4 days of this.
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Post by Wisconsin Beth on Aug 12, 2017 15:48:33 GMT -5
it's like a little internal umbillical cord stump, that takes about a decade (a century?) or so to fall off. Why is this? When I was recovering from surgery at my parents, my 2 and 3 year old nephews alternated between The Jungle Book and a pig movie (I can't remember the name, it was that bad!). I was a captive audience on crutches with limited places I could go, and was about to scream after about 4 days of this. Babe? Charlotte's Web?
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Post by MJ2.0 on Aug 12, 2017 15:53:13 GMT -5
Babe was pretty awful.
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Post by milee on Aug 12, 2017 16:21:10 GMT -5
it's like a little internal umbillical cord stump, that takes about a decade (a century?) or so to fall off. Why is this? When I was recovering from surgery at my parents, my 2 and 3 year old nephews alternated between The Jungle Book and a pig movie (I can't remember the name, it was that bad!). I was a captive audience on crutches with limited places I could go, and was about to scream after about 4 days of this. I don't know. But it's one of the bad parts of parenting. The problem is that no matter how great a movie or book is, after multiple repetitions, it's just grating. So much of parenting requires either huge amounts of patience or dead brain cells... if you don't have infinite amounts of patience you start to pray for death or at least dead brain cells.
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Post by MJ2.0 on Aug 12, 2017 16:48:56 GMT -5
When DS was doing that, I'd just start washing dishes or something so I didn't have to hear/watch it.
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Post by alabamagal on Aug 12, 2017 17:05:43 GMT -5
You saved me with The Lion King too - you're the best! Can you do my shopping for me now? Please and thank you. When a close friend of mine had her first kid in she was not up on all the Disney movies. She put a lot of thought into the girls name and chose something from Shakespeare - Ariel. She hated when everyone would think she was named after Little Mermaid.
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Post by NastyWoman on Aug 12, 2017 18:26:53 GMT -5
it's like a little internal umbillical cord stump, that takes about a decade (a century?) or so to fall off. Why is this? When I was recovering from surgery at my parents, my 2 and 3 year old nephews alternated between The Jungle Book and a pig movie (I can't remember the name, it was that bad!). I was a captive audience on crutches with limited places I could go, and was about to scream after about 4 days of this. Inventing "science" where none exists: maybe that is because it is internal, so it can't fall off. Instead it has to dissolve, which takes a looooong, looooong time. Be it as it may adults have very few defenses against it. It is this , or , or (where are the zombies when I need them)
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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on Aug 12, 2017 18:53:53 GMT -5
This was it! Is there a crappy country song sung in it?
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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on Aug 12, 2017 18:54:57 GMT -5
Why is this? When I was recovering from surgery at my parents, my 2 and 3 year old nephews alternated between The Jungle Book and a pig movie (I can't remember the name, it was that bad!). I was a captive audience on crutches with limited places I could go, and was about to scream after about 4 days of this. Inventing "science" where none exists: maybe that is because it is internal, so it can't fall off. Instead it has to dissolve, which takes a looooong, looooong time. Be it as it may adults have very few defenses against it. It is this , or , or (where are the zombies when I need them) I used copious amounts of Vicodin.....it didn't help.
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Post by lurkyloo on Aug 13, 2017 12:03:36 GMT -5
I have everything pre-Pocahontas on VHS, because Disney was already pulling this in the VCR days. I should really get a VHS-to-DVD converter.
I appreciate the convenience of digital, but I feel a little squicky that Amazon knows exactly what I watch/read and how long I spend on each page.
Meanwhile, we limit DS' exposure to screen time, because everyone guilts you to hell and back about it esp with a hyperactive kid. Practically speaking, he usually watches max and ruby, curious george, and blue's clues with some Sesame Street and Frozen thrown in. And then I feel guilty because he has no idea who/what Star Wars, Batman, TMNT etc are. I. Can't. Win.
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Post by Wisconsin Beth on Aug 13, 2017 12:22:21 GMT -5
I really liked Kipper when the kids were younger. It was slow and boring, which was my point.
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Post by zibazinski on Aug 14, 2017 7:12:01 GMT -5
Laughing about naming a kid Ariel. I had a student named Ayla. Shades of her mom being a Jean Auel fan with the Clan of Cave Bear.
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Post by t-dog on Aug 14, 2017 18:36:28 GMT -5
We still have paper tickets from visiting the park in 1977. They say they are good forever, so I am waiting for them to hit a daily entry fee of $200 and then use them! At the rate of rising entry prices, it might be 2024! They will work. A few years ago we went to Disney World and my aunt pulled out 4 passes from more than a decade earlier when her family had to cut their vacation short because Grandma got sick (so they had to return to NY). The ticket window employees were befuddled on how to handle them but a manager was called and we were allowed to use them. The manager did tell my aunt that they might be worth more as a collectors item if she wanted to hold on to them. She didn't and we had a great day in the park (My DS's first Florida Disney visit)
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Post by Value Buy on Aug 15, 2017 9:50:56 GMT -5
I posted on another Disney thread in the past about this. We took children and grandchildren to Disney about n years ago. We were going to use them at the time, and the ticket attendant told us, we could use them if we want to, but he thought they might be worth more than the daily entrance fee due to their age. He told us it was up to us whether to use them that day. We decided not to. He suggested checking Disney themed sites for values. We never did.
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Post by justme on Aug 15, 2017 12:13:39 GMT -5
This made me look. There's actually some old tickets on ebay for like $20. Cheap way to go to Disney!
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Post by HoneyBBQ on Aug 15, 2017 14:37:58 GMT -5
The little Mermaid for a boy? Nah Really? Why? better a boy than a girl! Actually, I just hate the little mermaid. Sorry.
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