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* [[Complaining About Shows You Don't Watch|Complaining About Attractions That Haven't Opened Yet]]: An expansion to Animal Kingdom has been announced, featuring attractions adapted from the polarizing, non-Disney-owned ''[[Avatar (film)|Avatar]]''. Fans do NOT seem pleased.
* [[Crack is Cheaper]]: Beyond the expenses one would normally expect for a theme park/resort vacation, the Disney parks feature a notorious amount of specialized, often collectible merchandise (hence the ''Foxtrot'' joke about [[Souvenir Land]] at the expy Fun-Fun Universe) and "experiences" (i.e., princess makeovers, character dining, behind-the-scenes tours) that cost even more.
* [[Creator's Pet]]: Duffy the Disney Bear. Imagine a character who isn't connected to any of the [[Disney Animated Canon]] and/or [[Pixar]] films. Hey, [[Ensemble Darkhorse|Figment]], [[Phineas and Ferb]], and [[Pirates of the Caribbean|Captain Jack Sparrow]] are well liked, right? Well, the problem is, this character isn't FROM any of the rides, shows, or live-action movies. He exists solely [[Merchandise-Driven|to sell merchandise]], [[Tastes Like Diabetes]], and yet has more presence in the parks than [[Ensemble Darkhorse|Darkhorses]] like [[Tangled|Flynn Rider]], [[DuckTales (1987)|Scrooge McDuck]], and [[Brother Chuck]]ed characters like [[Hercules (1997 film)
** This is mostly a result of Duffy being a [[Cash Cow Franchise]] in the Tokyo parks with desperate efforts to re-create the success abroad without realizing the cultural differences.
* [[Dork Age]]: Disneyland had one in the mid-1990s through 2003 when it was run by Paul Pressler, a man who thought people came to the parks for shopping and dining, cutting off a lot of the upkeep budget, closing down classic yet expensive to maintain rides (like the Submarines, Skyway and Motorboats), an ugly [[Real Is Brown|rusty colored]] redo of Tomorrowland and the poor replacement of the Main Street Electrical Parade with Light Magic. This was also the era in which California Adventure opened...
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