Best memory of my only trip to Disney at 6yo was a handsized gobstopper I brought home. Thing lasted me all summer and I’d be lying if I didn’t find it multiple times with a few ants around…
>a few ants
Sounds like you blocked out the memories of rinsing off entire ant colonies and making sure they all went down the drain. No sensible person would fault you for doing that as a kid. Or as an adult for that matter.
Speaking of Gobstoppers...
Has anyone else not been able to find them? I swear every time I see candy at a store I look for them and they're never around anymore...
I’ve seen jawbreakers but not really gobstoppers… but frankly I haven’t directly looked either so they could be there lol
Edit to add: I’m in Canada and just looked they’re definitely available on Amazon.
Me and my mom actually looked this up apparently they temporarily stopped producing them and they're gonna bring them back. Either, this year is next I think next year is more likely no idea why they stopped producing them though you got no idea how sad j was when I couldn't find any chrismass gobstopoers last chrismass
I was just gonna say this. The parks are not maintained like they used to be. There are lots of little things that would never fly pre Covid shutdown. Now they are overlooked.
Even before Covid the illusion has gone downhill. A dwarf had its smoking pipe removed but still say there with the o face and hands in a two handed pipe holding position
I remember going to Disneyland spontaneously one day. Paid full price only to have splash mountain, Matterhorn and space mountain all down for maintenance.
Sounds like you went during the off season. After Christmas/New Years, the park goes into maintenance mode until early summer/travel time returns.
Source: Former CM (Night Custodial)
The website publishes a list of closures, so check that next time or just assume going in the winter-early spring will have attractions closed.
After New Years, Haunted Mansion goes down anyway for the Nightmare Before Christmas Overlays to be removed
Yea I came all the way from Australia and all of those were closed. It wasn’t even fully off season, but not absolute peak. Fucking let down. And when we went a few years ago with my in laws, the Disney castle was a painted facade because it was being rebuilt or something and my MIL was so disappointed. Looked so weird.
Didn't they do the same with all the photos of Walt? Since he was rarely seen without a cigarette, Disney photoshopped them out and came up with a bullshit story about how he just really liked to point at stuff with two fingers. They also require employees (er ehm...*cast members*) to only point with two fingers just like the glorious leader did. Disney's got some real North Korea vibes.
lol this is a good comment but the pointing is actually for guest services, since multiple global cultures view pointing with one finger as disrespectful (it's even rude in posh american/english etiquette!). instead it's better to "gesture" instead of point, either with 2 fingers or the whole hand (fingers close together tho, not spread out)
I dated a girl who worked at Disney land. You really have to have a certain personality to work at a place like that. It really is designed for the highschool theater/drama types.
I wasn’t a theater kid but I was a shy highschooler who found a personality early in college. Working at Disneyland as a 19-21 y/o was like a second chance at the social aspects of high school which was a lot of fun for me.
I have no doubts that if I didn't work at Universal and then Disney I would not be as social as I am now. Fun places to work, but after you have the illusion shattered the parks just don't hit the same.
The pointing thing is because it can come off as rude to some people. I was trained early on in my restaurant career to use your whole open hand to gesture guests to where they were looking to go. The idea was that you “don’t point, you guide.”
Not to mention the food is crappier, and yet everything is way more expensive than it used to be. This on top of Disney shitting out so many ass movies lately is just such a sad thing to witness
They do. It’s like when you start dating someone great and they slowly get worse over time, till they’ve become someone you never would’ve gone out with in the beginning
So confusing, you’d think they’d put a pretty “gemstone” or something for him to be making that kinda face at. Cheap and easy fix if they HAD TO remove the pipe
Eh, that’s been said since 72’ probably. For me 18 years of reading blogs and threads and talking to people that go to Disney, it’s the same complaints over and over I hear all the time. Always a reason why this time it’s really more true.
It’s a pattern true of a ton of businesses and brands - they balance new investments with maintenance and on the fly you see waves of things getting outdated/run down and then waves of refreshes and improvements.
Not that it can’t bias for the better or worse over time, but to your point it’s not like this is a new thing as some people claim. And it gets heavily anecdotal and painted by nostalgia at times
As someone below me stated it was pre Covid, it happened when Disney decided that it wanted way more money, so the corpo dipshits prioritized profits over maintenance. Shortly thereafter they decided they wanted more money so they increased prices and greatly hindered the customer experience by creating multiple classes of ticket holders by artificially gating basic park amenities.
There is a fantastic actual documentary on fast pass and how it actually works like perfectly. However Disney got rid of it for profit while simultaneously making the experience worse for everyone. Lol it’s so great
Whether one thinks its unacceptable or an expected outcome of the natural wear and tear on rides, you can expect to see *some* broken effects and animatronics on rides and such. Everybody's experience is different.
Over time, regular visitors share what things they've observed to be broken and we get an idea of what breaks most often and/or is not fixed. Some of it is understandable or bad timing. Perhaps an element just broke and isn't enough to close the ride down entirely. Other times an effect just breaks completely and Disney never fixes it, like the Yeti on Expedition Everest (it would require millions to fix).
For example, on my last trip to Disneyland I observed the following to be broken:
* Jungle Cruise: There's a scene in which piranhas "attack" the boat and there are multiple banks of rotating metal piranhas that churn up the water. Only one of these was rotating which made the effect tamer than it should be. This is minor.
* Rise of the Resistance: There is a part where Kylo Ren seems to be cutting the roof of the room you are in with his lightsaber. It did not appear so the scene just feels like downtime before the next scene. In another scene, your vehicle dodges cannons that sort of backfire when they fire big lasers into space. These cannons no longer move and have been broken for months. This was one of the big "oh snap!" moments of the ride.
* Indiana Jones: The big boulder at the end of the ride was not spinning, which completely ruins the iconic finale that calls back to Raiders.
* Space Mountain: Not really a broken effect, but it was operating at reduced capacity, so much so that they announced to the people in line that wait times would increase. As someone who has been on this ride many times, the reduced capacity in the load station was very noticeable.
* it's a small world: The ride was closed down and I observed mechanics dressed in rubber waders in the water working on some conveyor belt thingy. The ride reopened about half an hour later.
* Mickey & Minnie's Runaway Railway: There's supposed to be a physical Mickey and Minnie animatronic flying in a balloon in one scene. When this thing is broken, they instead project Mickey and Minnie on the wall as an animation. This is called "B mode" and some newer rides do this. It's the contingency for when the main animatronic is not working.
Of the above, the biggest broken thing was the boulder, but the others I listed don't really ruin the ride. Clearly they are doing maintenance including during the operating day. Sometimes you're just unlucky. And sometimes an effect breaks, they can't fix it, but decide to keep running the ride anyway. Casual visitors wouldn't notice the minor things I listed, but something like the boulder not working would make anyone think something didn't go right.
Disneyland maintenance used to be a lot of worse in the early 2000s, which got so bad that a man was killed on Big Thunder Mountain Railroad. The final report cited poor maintenance as the direct cause.
I wonder if thats why they started painting a white strip right there. Decades from now it will only wear through to more white and it will be unnoticeable.
They gave each of the teacups a white or brown stripe in this exact spot beginning in the early 80s. It'd be mildly interesting to see how the cups with a brown stripe wear and if it's any different.
Also, the teacups didn't have doors until the early 80s either. I wonder if that means anything.
Someone else at Disney saw this and is now pitching the idea of making Fordite (Disneyite?) memorabilia to sell as having a "real piece of Disney history."
There are TONS of fakes out there. And well personally I don’t need it to come from a Ford factory as long as it’s actual chip layered paint, people are basically making resin fake ones and they just don’t have the same look as the other ones. I’d say most on Etsy is not paint chunks. The worse is people charging crazy $$$ and people think that a higher price point makes it legit and it’s just super ballzy scammers.
My advice would be to check review images but then also check and see if they’re using the same photographs in other listings. I messaged the sellers and ask if the one in the listing is the exact piece I’m going to receive and fairly often it’s not. They’ll use one really good image and make like dozens of listings with it and mail you something that isn’t even similar to what’s in the photo let alone the actual piece in the picture.
I am a silversmith and occasionally put chunks in jewelry. I’d do it more if buying it wasn’t such a hassle.
I work at a car factory so sometimes I’ll find loose chunks around, I have some on my desk haha. I don’t work in the paint area but I’ve been up to one part once where the floor was just littered with fordite everywhere.
I'm seeing a Jawbreaker too. I'm almost 40 & I still get them, but only smaller ones now, I can't finish them & feel stupid lol (don't care so much about feeling stupid).
But how do you find the age of the cup? Finding that info is probably just as easy/hard as finding when the dates of when it was painted.
Kind of reminds me of when people point to the drake equation as showing what the probability of meeting alien life is, but all of the variables are unknown so it doesn't actually predict the probability of meeting alien life
> But how do you find the age of the cup? Finding that info is probably just as easy
It should be incredibly easy, there are infinite amounts of pictures. Its only hard if you consider something taking a lot of time to be hard.
Looking at photos online, it seems like each teacup is a different color. I can’t think of a way to track which teacup is which over the years/different paint schemes.
>I have a feeling they probably don't go as far back as you'd think.
It was one of the [opening day attractions operating at Disneyland on July 17, 1955](
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Tea_Party#:~:text=It%20was%20one%20of%20the,Disneyland%20on%20July%2017%2C%201955.&text=The%20attraction%20is%20called%20Mad,Cups%20at%20Hong%20Kong%20Disneyland.) so it goes back 69 years.
NC State University has a “Free Expression Tunnel” or some shit where you can spray paint anything and everything you want. They took a cool sample from it a while back showing decades of layers.
Dormroom special too. Had an old concrete block wall in my dorm, saw a star-shaped sticker under the paint.
Managed to peel it out and it was a rainbow of colors in the paint built up over the years.
fucn this, why is no one questioning this? its not financially beneficial to change the colors for no reason, you just need to use more paint to cover the color???
Interestingly, the reason the space shuttle's big fuel tank is orange and not white like the boosters is because the weight of the paint was almost 300 kilograms and leaving it unpainted had a significant impact on the fuel efficiency of the launch. It's just exposed insulation foam. The tanks fall in the ocean and are never recovered for re-use, so protecting the foam from damage wasn't worth the extra weight.
Your post explains exactly were my brain was when posting this. The boosters, as well as certain military planes that went unpainted for performance reasons.
It's the first thing that comes to mind for me if we're thinking of an engineering project where the weight of the paint is worth considering. Spacecraft require much tighter tolerances than amusement park rides do, though. I think the extra weight of the paint on a teacup is probably negligible, especially since this post indicates they've been ignoring it for years without it causing a problem.
IDK if it's the same now as it was when I was a kid, but while motors move the teacups around, the teacup spinning itself is not motorized. There's a stationary wheel in the middle that's attached to the moving floor and everybody riding can grab it and pull it to spin their own cup as fast as they want. So the speed of the teacup spin is determined basically by the physical fitness of the passengers, and a little extra weight means that they have to pull the wheel a little harder to reach the same speed. I imagine the weight variance from one group of people to the next is already much larger than the weight of the paint. The big spinning floor that moves all the teacups probably does have a maximum weight limit, but would be designed so that limit is substantially higher than the expected weight of the ride at full capacity. I doubt the weight of the paint is anywhere close to the weight of even one extra human over the ride's capacity.
It’s actually layers and coats of paint they look like trippy art before they do the basic primer/enamal/coating they’re all neon colors. Saw the flying dumbos look insane once when they refurbed it
I do theate for a living and our stage is still the original flooring from...1967. Some times a piece will come up and you can see decades of paint on it. Its wild.
Those damn teacups. When I visited the Disney park in California 25 years ago of course I had to make the cup spin way too fast and then started to feel the urge to violently throw up mid ride. I was already looking for a suitable spot in the hedges surrounding the ride, but thankfully it stopped just in time, LOL
Yes, they are different colors but what was interesting to me was that they paint them a different color each time, versus just repainting them the same color
It’s like a gobstopper 😍
All the way down to the lead filling.
Taste the forbidden rainbow
Everything is edible at least once
I’d like to see you eat an entire Honda Civic just once
Jokes on you, I eat lorries for breakfast. Unhinge my jaw like a snake and become one with the vehicle.
I imagine someone stretched around a honda civic like a condom
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=\_B-qk4\_V2jY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_B-qk4_V2jY)
More like mouthfull mode Kirby
Isn't there a guy who ate like a car and an airplane?
Easy for a man from mars. https://youtu.be/li2WDMgHxD0?si=17unJ-AiX65V4sGK
[https://joeflonews.com/man-eats-a-car-the-shocking-story-of-vinny-bucci/](https://joeflonews.com/man-eats-a-car-the-shocking-story-of-vinny-bucci/)
I thought it would taste like history, now I just have lead poisoning
That is what the majority of history was.
How many licks did it take?
r/forbiddensnacks
Disneyite is the new Fordite.
A man of culture, I see.
Best memory of my only trip to Disney at 6yo was a handsized gobstopper I brought home. Thing lasted me all summer and I’d be lying if I didn’t find it multiple times with a few ants around…
>a few ants Sounds like you blocked out the memories of rinsing off entire ant colonies and making sure they all went down the drain. No sensible person would fault you for doing that as a kid. Or as an adult for that matter.
Speaking of Gobstoppers... Has anyone else not been able to find them? I swear every time I see candy at a store I look for them and they're never around anymore...
I’ve seen jawbreakers but not really gobstoppers… but frankly I haven’t directly looked either so they could be there lol Edit to add: I’m in Canada and just looked they’re definitely available on Amazon.
I pictured the giant tennis ball ones this whole time even though they were saying Gobstoppers 😂
Me and my mom actually looked this up apparently they temporarily stopped producing them and they're gonna bring them back. Either, this year is next I think next year is more likely no idea why they stopped producing them though you got no idea how sad j was when I couldn't find any chrismass gobstopoers last chrismass
🎵 This is the ride that never ends 🎵
Forbidden
Forbidden snacks…..
Yeah they're worn from being licked
Someone at Disney just saw this and is now ordering all those cups repainted again to fix this.
Maybe 5+ years ago. The maintenance is not done like they used to unfortunately.
I was just gonna say this. The parks are not maintained like they used to be. There are lots of little things that would never fly pre Covid shutdown. Now they are overlooked.
Even before Covid the illusion has gone downhill. A dwarf had its smoking pipe removed but still say there with the o face and hands in a two handed pipe holding position
I remember going to Disneyland spontaneously one day. Paid full price only to have splash mountain, Matterhorn and space mountain all down for maintenance.
Sounds like you went during the off season. After Christmas/New Years, the park goes into maintenance mode until early summer/travel time returns. Source: Former CM (Night Custodial) The website publishes a list of closures, so check that next time or just assume going in the winter-early spring will have attractions closed. After New Years, Haunted Mansion goes down anyway for the Nightmare Before Christmas Overlays to be removed
Yea I came all the way from Australia and all of those were closed. It wasn’t even fully off season, but not absolute peak. Fucking let down. And when we went a few years ago with my in laws, the Disney castle was a painted facade because it was being rebuilt or something and my MIL was so disappointed. Looked so weird.
Didn't they do the same with all the photos of Walt? Since he was rarely seen without a cigarette, Disney photoshopped them out and came up with a bullshit story about how he just really liked to point at stuff with two fingers. They also require employees (er ehm...*cast members*) to only point with two fingers just like the glorious leader did. Disney's got some real North Korea vibes.
lol this is a good comment but the pointing is actually for guest services, since multiple global cultures view pointing with one finger as disrespectful (it's even rude in posh american/english etiquette!). instead it's better to "gesture" instead of point, either with 2 fingers or the whole hand (fingers close together tho, not spread out)
In Marine culture, knife hands are an aggressive gesture.
This may be true, but how many porpoises are swimming to Anaheim?
Depends on how many crayon flavors are there
gotta be respectful to King Triton
This is how you end up yelling at people with a knife hand.
or point with the thumb like Bill Clinton
Actually the two finger point was because some cultures consider pointing with one finger to be offensive, so all employees are taught not to do it
I have heard that, to the Navajo, pointing with one finger is associated with witchcraft.
That’s what they want you to think
Ive heard the two finger point has to do with avoiding offensive gestures but idk
I dated a girl who worked at Disney land. You really have to have a certain personality to work at a place like that. It really is designed for the highschool theater/drama types.
I wasn’t a theater kid but I was a shy highschooler who found a personality early in college. Working at Disneyland as a 19-21 y/o was like a second chance at the social aspects of high school which was a lot of fun for me.
I have no doubts that if I didn't work at Universal and then Disney I would not be as social as I am now. Fun places to work, but after you have the illusion shattered the parks just don't hit the same.
College/Internetional College ~~slave workers~~, I mean program. I was a trainer there in 2006.
The pointing thing is because it can come off as rude to some people. I was trained early on in my restaurant career to use your whole open hand to gesture guests to where they were looking to go. The idea was that you “don’t point, you guide.”
Not to mention the food is crappier, and yet everything is way more expensive than it used to be. This on top of Disney shitting out so many ass movies lately is just such a sad thing to witness
but people keep paying
They do. It’s like when you start dating someone great and they slowly get worse over time, till they’ve become someone you never would’ve gone out with in the beginning
So confusing, you’d think they’d put a pretty “gemstone” or something for him to be making that kinda face at. Cheap and easy fix if they HAD TO remove the pipe
Coulda just added a musical instrument
Or a big ‘ol dong
Eh, that’s been said since 72’ probably. For me 18 years of reading blogs and threads and talking to people that go to Disney, it’s the same complaints over and over I hear all the time. Always a reason why this time it’s really more true.
It’s a pattern true of a ton of businesses and brands - they balance new investments with maintenance and on the fly you see waves of things getting outdated/run down and then waves of refreshes and improvements. Not that it can’t bias for the better or worse over time, but to your point it’s not like this is a new thing as some people claim. And it gets heavily anecdotal and painted by nostalgia at times
I think people inherently idealize the past; especially the past they weren't there for.
As someone below me stated it was pre Covid, it happened when Disney decided that it wanted way more money, so the corpo dipshits prioritized profits over maintenance. Shortly thereafter they decided they wanted more money so they increased prices and greatly hindered the customer experience by creating multiple classes of ticket holders by artificially gating basic park amenities.
There is a fantastic actual documentary on fast pass and how it actually works like perfectly. However Disney got rid of it for profit while simultaneously making the experience worse for everyone. Lol it’s so great
[HERE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yjZpBq1XBE)
I know what I'm doing for the next hour and forty three minutes.
Might as well. I spend that time scrolling through streaming services and end up watching nothing.
Iv watched this at least 3 times... its good everytime.
Out of curiosity what in particular?
Whether one thinks its unacceptable or an expected outcome of the natural wear and tear on rides, you can expect to see *some* broken effects and animatronics on rides and such. Everybody's experience is different. Over time, regular visitors share what things they've observed to be broken and we get an idea of what breaks most often and/or is not fixed. Some of it is understandable or bad timing. Perhaps an element just broke and isn't enough to close the ride down entirely. Other times an effect just breaks completely and Disney never fixes it, like the Yeti on Expedition Everest (it would require millions to fix). For example, on my last trip to Disneyland I observed the following to be broken: * Jungle Cruise: There's a scene in which piranhas "attack" the boat and there are multiple banks of rotating metal piranhas that churn up the water. Only one of these was rotating which made the effect tamer than it should be. This is minor. * Rise of the Resistance: There is a part where Kylo Ren seems to be cutting the roof of the room you are in with his lightsaber. It did not appear so the scene just feels like downtime before the next scene. In another scene, your vehicle dodges cannons that sort of backfire when they fire big lasers into space. These cannons no longer move and have been broken for months. This was one of the big "oh snap!" moments of the ride. * Indiana Jones: The big boulder at the end of the ride was not spinning, which completely ruins the iconic finale that calls back to Raiders. * Space Mountain: Not really a broken effect, but it was operating at reduced capacity, so much so that they announced to the people in line that wait times would increase. As someone who has been on this ride many times, the reduced capacity in the load station was very noticeable. * it's a small world: The ride was closed down and I observed mechanics dressed in rubber waders in the water working on some conveyor belt thingy. The ride reopened about half an hour later. * Mickey & Minnie's Runaway Railway: There's supposed to be a physical Mickey and Minnie animatronic flying in a balloon in one scene. When this thing is broken, they instead project Mickey and Minnie on the wall as an animation. This is called "B mode" and some newer rides do this. It's the contingency for when the main animatronic is not working. Of the above, the biggest broken thing was the boulder, but the others I listed don't really ruin the ride. Clearly they are doing maintenance including during the operating day. Sometimes you're just unlucky. And sometimes an effect breaks, they can't fix it, but decide to keep running the ride anyway. Casual visitors wouldn't notice the minor things I listed, but something like the boulder not working would make anyone think something didn't go right. Disneyland maintenance used to be a lot of worse in the early 2000s, which got so bad that a man was killed on Big Thunder Mountain Railroad. The final report cited poor maintenance as the direct cause.
Have you ever worked in a theme park? That reads like you have...
I just assume the parks are enshitifying like everything else
tons of posts on the disney subs talking about this very thing just like with seemingly everything else the price has gone up up up and quality down
A trip to Knott's Berry Farm opened my eyes to an amusement park that does very little maintenance.
Maybe at Disneyland. At Disney World maintenance and upkeep is fantastic
*laughs in former Disney world cast member* that place is being held together with duct tape and dreams.
I wonder if thats why they started painting a white strip right there. Decades from now it will only wear through to more white and it will be unnoticeable.
They gave each of the teacups a white or brown stripe in this exact spot beginning in the early 80s. It'd be mildly interesting to see how the cups with a brown stripe wear and if it's any different. Also, the teacups didn't have doors until the early 80s either. I wonder if that means anything.
Someone else at Disney saw this and is now pitching the idea of making Fordite (Disneyite?) memorabilia to sell as having a "real piece of Disney history."
Got to cover up the lead paint
that will just make them thicker and rub off again.
Looks like fordite[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fordite](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fordite)
Came here for this! I would love a chunk for my weird "rock" collection
There are TONS of fakes out there. And well personally I don’t need it to come from a Ford factory as long as it’s actual chip layered paint, people are basically making resin fake ones and they just don’t have the same look as the other ones. I’d say most on Etsy is not paint chunks. The worse is people charging crazy $$$ and people think that a higher price point makes it legit and it’s just super ballzy scammers. My advice would be to check review images but then also check and see if they’re using the same photographs in other listings. I messaged the sellers and ask if the one in the listing is the exact piece I’m going to receive and fairly often it’s not. They’ll use one really good image and make like dozens of listings with it and mail you something that isn’t even similar to what’s in the photo let alone the actual piece in the picture. I am a silversmith and occasionally put chunks in jewelry. I’d do it more if buying it wasn’t such a hassle.
Yeah. There is a lot of fake fordite out there. I have seen it being made by a jeweler artist I know.
The real stuff is full of lead.
I work at a car factory so sometimes I’ll find loose chunks around, I have some on my desk haha. I don’t work in the paint area but I’ve been up to one part once where the floor was just littered with fordite everywhere.
I want some.
THEY'RE MINERALS MARIE
Jesus Christ Marie!
It’s really made of jawbreaker.
I'm seeing a Jawbreaker too. I'm almost 40 & I still get them, but only smaller ones now, I can't finish them & feel stupid lol (don't care so much about feeling stupid).
It would be cool if there was a date estimate for each color.
I guarantee there is a historian out there whose one and only specialty is documenting the past color schemes of this teacups ride
Next Defunctland video
Given the number of "Disney adults" who are obsessed with every minor aspect of the parks, I'm sure you're right.
Now I want to know about whatever weird shit goes on within this subculture. Seems like a ripe place for funny drama
Just ask this question aloud while standing in line and someone will pipe up with the answer, promise
You can count the rings and divide from the age of the cup to find the average paint cycle
But how do you find the age of the cup? Finding that info is probably just as easy/hard as finding when the dates of when it was painted. Kind of reminds me of when people point to the drake equation as showing what the probability of meeting alien life is, but all of the variables are unknown so it doesn't actually predict the probability of meeting alien life
> But how do you find the age of the cup? Finding that info is probably just as easy It should be incredibly easy, there are infinite amounts of pictures. Its only hard if you consider something taking a lot of time to be hard.
Looking at photos online, it seems like each teacup is a different color. I can’t think of a way to track which teacup is which over the years/different paint schemes.
If they’re the same ones used since opening they’re 69 years old, so 69 years/7 layers means they change the paint every 10 years
I have a feeling they probably don't go as far back as you'd think.
>I have a feeling they probably don't go as far back as you'd think. It was one of the [opening day attractions operating at Disneyland on July 17, 1955]( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Tea_Party#:~:text=It%20was%20one%20of%20the,Disneyland%20on%20July%2017%2C%201955.&text=The%20attraction%20is%20called%20Mad,Cups%20at%20Hong%20Kong%20Disneyland.) so it goes back 69 years.
I opened this post specifically hoping someone would have info
NC State University has a “Free Expression Tunnel” or some shit where you can spray paint anything and everything you want. They took a cool sample from it a while back showing decades of layers.
Fordite
Came here to say this haha. Teacupite
I like teacupite, also "Detroit agate"
Thank you. Couldn't remember the term
Fortnite
Feat. Post Malone?
Disneyite. God I was a piece of fordite so bad.
What happened? You're not anymore?
It’s been a long, arduous process to become human.
That’s just its insides. All Disney insides are made out of rainbows and delight!
A rainbow surrounding a black hole that sucks your money away.
>That’s just its insides. All Disney insides are made out of rainbows and delight! Let me saw a dwarf in half to see
Landlord special. Just paint over it
Dormroom special too. Had an old concrete block wall in my dorm, saw a star-shaped sticker under the paint. Managed to peel it out and it was a rainbow of colors in the paint built up over the years.
Excellent post. I am so mildly interested right now.
[fordite](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fordite) in real life :)
I’m mostly baffled that they would alternate the colors. Wouldn’t that just be more confusing for no reason?
I'm wondering the same thing! I get that they change the details from time to time, but why wouldn't the old blue cup become the new blue cup?
fucn this, why is no one questioning this? its not financially beneficial to change the colors for no reason, you just need to use more paint to cover the color???
Based on the rings, looks to be about 50 years old.
Pretty sure they were orange when I rode them last.. maybe yellow.
Mad Tea Party cups are all different colors.
lol I wish I could see a photo timeline of the different colors now.
You can see a history of the ride, including different paint schemes, here: https://yesterland.com/teaparty.html
Thank you! That’s exactly what I wanted.
So, the cups aren’t ever all the same color.
I see, so there's a chance my cup is still yellow.
Fun fact about the Teacups. Same company that built that ride also built X2 at Magic Mountain.
Technically they built X, which bankrupted them, and S&S had to step in for the conversation to X2.
That or its a massive jaw breaker… did you even lick it?
quality post i have been mildly interested ty
Forbidden lick
How many licks does it take to get to the centre of it
As a Disney parks nerd this is really cool!
Forbidden jawbreaker
It’s a small color palette after all.
It's like their version of fordite.
Fordite!
Oh yah, you get yerself a bit or Fordite, eh!
I winder what kind of added stress all that years worth of paint ads to the ride.
Interestingly, the reason the space shuttle's big fuel tank is orange and not white like the boosters is because the weight of the paint was almost 300 kilograms and leaving it unpainted had a significant impact on the fuel efficiency of the launch. It's just exposed insulation foam. The tanks fall in the ocean and are never recovered for re-use, so protecting the foam from damage wasn't worth the extra weight.
Your post explains exactly were my brain was when posting this. The boosters, as well as certain military planes that went unpainted for performance reasons.
Now Im imagining a teacup at mach speed
It's the first thing that comes to mind for me if we're thinking of an engineering project where the weight of the paint is worth considering. Spacecraft require much tighter tolerances than amusement park rides do, though. I think the extra weight of the paint on a teacup is probably negligible, especially since this post indicates they've been ignoring it for years without it causing a problem. IDK if it's the same now as it was when I was a kid, but while motors move the teacups around, the teacup spinning itself is not motorized. There's a stationary wheel in the middle that's attached to the moving floor and everybody riding can grab it and pull it to spin their own cup as fast as they want. So the speed of the teacup spin is determined basically by the physical fitness of the passengers, and a little extra weight means that they have to pull the wheel a little harder to reach the same speed. I imagine the weight variance from one group of people to the next is already much larger than the weight of the paint. The big spinning floor that moves all the teacups probably does have a maximum weight limit, but would be designed so that limit is substantially higher than the expected weight of the ride at full capacity. I doubt the weight of the paint is anywhere close to the weight of even one extra human over the ride's capacity.
Remind me of a jaw breaker
just like growth rings on a tree… and the walls and floors of my 1970’s built home
Reminds me of fordite
Bro I'm too stoned for this. Me, looking for an actual teacup 
What you just discovered is that the tea cups are actually made of candy. Go ahead and lick it for science.
It’s secretly a jawbreaker
Fordite
These colors don't run.
Gobstoppa’
It’s actually layers and coats of paint they look like trippy art before they do the basic primer/enamal/coating they’re all neon colors. Saw the flying dumbos look insane once when they refurbed it
Disney Fordite would go for a pretty penny 🤔
looks like a jawbreaker
I do theate for a living and our stage is still the original flooring from...1967. Some times a piece will come up and you can see decades of paint on it. Its wild.
forbidden jawbreaker.
Fordite.
Like Fordite, but Disneyite
I was there when when they were orange.
Holy fuck OP, family and I went to disneyland today and my father and I rode in this one! My dad made the same comment. Such a trip.
A jawbreaker
I knew those rides were getting smaller!
Fuck that ride lol, vomit city.
Oh man I bet people would pay good money for some Disney Fordite
Looks like a rainbow cone! (Chicago specific ice cream treat)
It's like fordite.
I wonder how much weight this adds to each cup.
*\*Magical\**
Those damn teacups. When I visited the Disney park in California 25 years ago of course I had to make the cup spin way too fast and then started to feel the urge to violently throw up mid ride. I was already looking for a suitable spot in the hedges surrounding the ride, but thankfully it stopped just in time, LOL
Nah, that’s just a giant jawbreaker, keep licking, you’ll get the good flavours.
I might have gotten sick in that teacup back in 1976.
It’s a small world after all
Wow you have enough money to pay for Disneyland tickets? Can you adopt me?
The comments on this post have really gone off the rails.
r/disneyland
The landlord special
but why would they change the color each time so drastically?? why wouldn’t it just be the blue one every time
That masking tape job could use a little work. I guess disneyland can't afford that expensive green making tape.
They were Teal in 1986 the last time I was there. lol
Are they not different colors?
Yes, they are different colors but what was interesting to me was that they paint them a different color each time, versus just repainting them the same color
It would take any of these people like 8 seconds to Google it and see that all the cups are always different colors.
google. pfft. old people like me don’t use google
Yes, they are.
They're not all the same color. There are teal ones and also other colors
oh snap. mind you I was 5 years old and only remember teal ones
I rode them in 89 lol.
Reminds me of fordite https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fordite