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Santa Cruz 2014.

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welcome to my puddle of water themed birthday

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DISNEY PARKS : ↳ TRON Lightcycle / Run

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Cosmic Rewind is not better than Tron what is everyone talking about

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I am a theme park fan, but have no interest in Disney. If I share things relating to Disney, it is only of the future world pavilions I am interested in. (That no longer exist)

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Rockit is an Autobot

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people will hear "show me your worst hear me out" and show a conventionally attractive character, or a celebrity.

mine are rollercoasters.

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i mean, imo, being at all a train nerd is also like this. a lot of times you'll be the only person on the train who's there because you're a train enthusiast. but also, you'd be surprised how many people go to rail museums who aren't train enthusiasts. which is great! more people should go to museums for things outside their normal bubble. there's also plenty of people where only one party member is a rail nerd, and the rest of the group is there to be supportive. like parents bringing a kid to the musuem.

avgeeks and air nerds are also like this. there's kind of a higher ratio of plane nerds at plane museums, but there's also plenty of people in the general public who just stopped by.

the more direct comparison to attending a specific event for the hobby would be going to like, ACE coastercons. i haven't done that as an attendee, but i worked one last summer, including ERT! but during the day, the ACE people were still a pretty small percentage of the guests in the park, so... there's that i guess. (they were mostly lovely, btw!)

I had a thought while in Orlando last week and I want to say I am absolutely NOT trying to be derisive or elitist when I say this:

As someone who participates in/ is adjacent to a lot of different hobbies, it's kind of a uniquely weird experience to be a theme park hobbyist. Theme parks are something that's so widely accessible despite the hobby itself being pretty niche. So my friend and I, both hardcore theme park fans, were having a pretty intense special-interest experience at the parks while the vast majority of other people there were just having a fun time.

It just hit me because most other hobbies aren't like that. Like, if you went to a model train convention, you would expect just about everyone there to be at least moderately familiar with the details of model trains. At all the TCG tournaments my husband goes to, everyone there is really into the game. And so on. But if you're a Theme Park Person and you go to a theme park, you're going to be sharing space with a lot of people who just want to take pictures with Mickey, or who think it would be cool to go on the Harry Potter ride.

Again, not knocking on the general public or making judgments about who deserves to be there. I wonder what other hobbies have this kind of thing. Maybe car hobbyists feel like this at car dealerships.

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Thinking abt this ad in particular

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He then gave me a 3D printed Carousel Columbia like some sort of Great America Parks fae creature

A guest approached me after a performance while I was still in character and asked me if Kingda Ka is a flat ride now

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A guest approached me after a performance while I was still in character and asked me if Kingda Ka is a flat ride now

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First credit of the year on a sketchy ass little dragon wagon in front of the local mall, filmed an illegal POV and the ride operator laughed and gave me a thumbs up 

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At the end of the tunnel , life is like a roller coaster. You just need to learn to fly and catch the colorful waves. 🎢🎠🎡🌈#poetryporn check out the details of the text and the picture 😉🌞 (at Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk)

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I think all networking should be done via gay touhou stuff

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>"70's"

you cannot be selling a hat for $500 while this wrong