finally watched the defunctland video about the disneyland fastpass system. that shit is evil. - ThreadSky

katie.bzky.team • 14 days ago

finally watched the defunctland video about the disneyland fastpass system. that shit is evil.

Reposted from Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief

also the "lightning lane" shit is TOTAL BULLSHIT

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isilven.bsky.social•13 days ago

The twist reveal with Shapeland still has me shook years after

katie.bzky.team•13 days ago

i seriously started howling

isilven.bsky.social•13 days ago

I SLAMMED pause and my partner and I just kinda yelled for a bit. A lot of "YOU ABSOLUTE MAD LAD WHAT THE FUCK" Still want a Shapeland shirt so bad

modesevengraphics.bsky.social•12 days ago

The Shapeland reveal is an absolute all-timer flex. It feels like magician yanking away a curtain and shouting "THE PRESTIGE!!!" at you.

katie.bzky.team•12 days ago

it was everything

isilven.bsky.social•12 days ago

He needs one more with a devastatingly good twist. We need a Kevin Perjurer Made Me Yell Trilogy.

crashbanzai.bsky.social•14 days ago

I miss going to Disney but they are such fucking assholes now I can't imagine ever going again
Plus that shit is in Floridastan

katie.bzky.team•14 days ago

california

crashbanzai.bsky.social•14 days ago

(I've only ever been to the FL one, and often forget the other.)

vivid-crustacean.bsky.social•14 days ago

its such a good watch. jenny nicholson videos too (like all of them)

jovialstarfish.bsky.social•14 days ago

I loooooove jenny she is my favorite.

irishsteel.bsky.social•14 days ago

the fuckin Stat Wars Hotel 💀

katie.bzky.team•14 days ago

okay i'll watch it

irishsteel.bsky.social•14 days ago

it's a really good watch, all of her stuff is top-notch for a girl in her room with a camera

gabjet.bsky.social•13 days ago

One of the best in the business of "I don't care what you think you want to hear about, I'm gonna tell you about my special interests and you're gonna fucking like it".

xhumed.bsky.social•13 days ago

That was a hell of a documentary about something I didn't know I cared about, but in hindsight I should have realised I was the target audience all along.

katie.bzky.team•13 days ago

truly

xhumed.bsky.social•13 days ago

I mean, I'm British, it's about queuing, I'm autistic, I care about fairness, it's about unfair queuing practices...

lukasisaskunk.bsky.social•14 days ago

Incredibly detailed and calculated evil

marshallg0402.bsky.social•12 days ago

That video is a core memory of mine. It broke the illusion for me permanently

chaxinitus.bsky.social•12 days ago

I think the Disney Theme video was the first Defunct video I actually checked out, and that one had the "BTW we pavlov'd your kids to adore fish a year before Nemo was announced so they'd been clamoring for it"

Shit's goddamn fucked beyond belief

katie.bzky.team•12 days ago

THAT ONE WAS CRAZY

vaginstall.bsky.social•12 days ago

Thinking about how I was able to go to during the time between parks reopening at only partial capacity and paid line skipping wasn't yet implemented, all standby wait lines. Genuinely one of the best theme parks experiences I've ever had, and will probably never happen again.

vaginstall.bsky.social•12 days ago

The most frustrating part is that I am the EXACT target audience for a dark ride heavy park, I'd get a seasons pass to something like that, but I don't think I'd ever go back to disney due to the mix of price gouging, near/at capacity crowds, & disney generally being an awful fucking corporation.

sl33peragent.bsky.social•14 days ago

my mom was a disney world person and we were well-off enough to go every couple of years for my whole childhood and i can 100% confirm that the overall experience has gotten so much more expensive and overall mildly worse

sl33peragent.bsky.social•14 days ago

i actually showed her the defunctland video and she spent the entire thing pointing at the TV yelling I FUCKING KNEW IT

katie.bzky.team•14 days ago

lol

iceveins412.bsky.social•14 days ago

That video fucks, didn’t think a video about theme park queuing would have a twist

supo.bsky.social•14 days ago

The whole channel rules, the man knows his craft

iceveins412.bsky.social•14 days ago

Oh yeah as someone who doesn’t really pay attention to the details at theme park (the only one I have any memories of besides Disneyland is a small one in Coeur d'Alene) he makes me care a lot about theme parks for like 20 minutes to 2 hours

katie.bzky.team•14 days ago

when he revealed the secret i was screaming

isilven.bsky.social•13 days ago

The only twist that hits harder is the twist in "Who Wrote The Disney Channel Bump?" I can't express th emotional journey nor the noises I made.

katie.bzky.team•13 days ago

oh i haven't seen that one yet

supo.bsky.social•12 days ago

I had no sentimental attachment to that commercial jingle at all but I absolutely cried watching that video. I think he could make a video about paint drying and it would somehow wreck me emotionally.

forbiddenqt.bsky.social•12 days ago

Legitimately one of the most memorable twists I've seen in a piece of media, I have no idea why but I think about it all the time

katie.bzky.team•12 days ago

my neighbors must think i'm insane

iceveins412.bsky.social•14 days ago

I yelled “HOLY SHIT!” out loud

katie.bzky.team•14 days ago

jtp.bsky.social•12 days ago

is it possible to sum up the secret twist in like, a sentence or 2 cuz i wanna know but i dont wanna watch a 4 hour video about it

katie.bzky.team•12 days ago

it's not 4 hours it's 2 and it's thrilling

bosh.worstpossible.world•12 days ago

yes but the net effect of the reveal really only works if you watch the thing in its entirety

vivid-crustacean.bsky.social•12 days ago

skill issue? do people still say that

wowcoolrobot.bsky.social•12 days ago

it's basically that they the did so much overcomplicating and reservations that the new rules is pay extra to go into the REAL line otherwise wait in the fake line that won't let you ever get in the ride

and everyone hates it but people still pay to go there so who cares

mx-peacekeeper.bsky.social•12 days ago

Okay, I got to see this.

gothfashion.info•14 days ago

I can't believe I just spent like 2 and a half hours watching that but... I did!

thx3188.bsky.social•13 days ago

i always just stuck to my "go left in crowds" rule (if the line splits, go left; when you first enter the park, head to the attractions on the left side) and it always just worked out because people are silly animals and always go right for some reason

works at all amusement parks & busy places

sabertoothedpie.bsky.social•14 days ago

My aunt worked for abc and got free fast passes and it ruined Disney world for me as a kid. I could never go back without them

iceveins412.bsky.social•14 days ago

Yeah no I had family friends that worked at Disneyland so we went a few times and always got told the in and outs of whatever the systems were. Even then by the last time I went it hit real “this just seems like a hassle” territory

sabertoothedpie.bsky.social•14 days ago

In this case 10 yo me got handed free passes and it was cool

iceveins412.bsky.social•14 days ago

Might’ve happened to us, I just barely remember my childhood in general

sabertoothedpie.bsky.social•14 days ago

unfortunately I remember far too much

mintopia.net•12 days ago

I have a "I rode the Triangle at Shapeland" t-shirt. I like to think of it as a nice little shibboleth for those who know.

sorblaze.bsky.social•14 days ago

Oh hell yeah, that was a good one

zillidan.bsky.social•14 days ago

It is bullshit, as someone that used to scam the paper system to go on ride after ride after ride

mikeyalexander.bsky.social•14 days ago

Before they implemented those things, and before they started having so many people in the parks each day, Disney queues were actively studied by social scientists & engineers from around the world because nobody else could move so many visitors so quickly.

But then management changed…

isilven.bsky.social•12 days ago

literally i have used their research in my own studies lol

iceveins412.bsky.social•14 days ago

Did you consider that the quarterly profits must keep going up forever?

mikeyalexander.bsky.social•14 days ago

They were, but the new guy didn’t think they were going “line goes up” fast enough. So he made a

[checks notes]

fast pass

for them.

lino.io•14 days ago

it's really crazy how they just loathe their customers. i wonder how they do any business now, given their beyond outrageous pricing.

iceveins412.bsky.social•14 days ago

Spent decades and untold amounts of money ingraining themselves in popular culture

iceveins412.bsky.social•14 days ago

Something that struck a cord with me in the Star Wars hotel video essay is the observation that the people going to expensive disney properties aren’t rich people with money to burn, it’s middle class people taking on debt to give their kids a “once in a lifetime vacation” https://youtu.be/T0CpOYZZZW4

katie.bzky.team•14 days ago

i get that one in my recommended so often is it heat

montresaurusrex.bsky.social•14 days ago

It’s pretty great. Jenny’s engaging and meticulous

isilven.bsky.social•13 days ago

It's so fire that there's literal closets to roast to death inside of in case of a fire

sadmoths.bsky.social•14 days ago

yeah, it's four hours of shit like "and then they built a diner show theater where a quarter of the audience can't see the stage" and "none of the activites worked, so you just had to stand around untill activity time was over"

sadmoths.bsky.social•14 days ago

it's so absorbing that it doesn't feel like it's that long a video either. i did watch it in like two parts though

gabjet.bsky.social•13 days ago

the fucking sleep deprivation sticks out to me most about that video. They planned out events so densely that getting proper sleep and hydration were both basically impossible. At a hotel. insane

dzeeszed.bsky.social•14 days ago

Because of this video, someone made a Halloween costume of a pillar that blocks your view in the restaurant. So yeah, it captures the imagination a little.

katie.bzky.team•13 days ago

OH MY GOD WHAT PLEASE LINK ME

iceveins412.bsky.social•14 days ago

It’s also great, acts as a microcosm of current Disney. It doesn’t have one big twist, but rather one thousand “why the hell did anyone think that was a good idea?”s. Like that place was enshitified from birth in so many different ways it is mind bending considering the price tag

iceveins412.bsky.social•14 days ago

Disneyland, -world, etc are being enshitified but all that has to be tacked onto a perfectly functional foundation. The Star Wars hotel was constructed with all the corners already cut

lino.io•13 days ago

What the fuck did i just watch? Holy shit. Whats their next innovation? Forced labor, but you pay for it?

lino.io•14 days ago

Certainly a sign of financial literacy. But IMHO that makes the bad customer experience even worse.

iceveins412.bsky.social•14 days ago

iirc (haven’t watched that video in a while) the context behind the observation was internet people going “who cares if it’s a bad experience, only rich idiots are going to star wars hotel” when in reality it was working people trying to provide memories for their kids

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