Going to Walt Disney World is the BEST! Amazing attractions, entertainment, and food, all set at the Most Magical Place on Earth.
But is there such a thing as going TOO MUCH?! Here are 21 signs you may be a tad obsessed with visiting WDW.
1. You Have a MagicBand Tanline
Or a sock tanline from your favorite park shoes.
2. You Know All the Lyrics to “Grim Grinning Ghosts“
Or “Yo-Ho A Pirate’s Life for Me.” Or “Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow.”
3. You Have a Favorite Rock N’ Roller Coaster Limo
Each limo not only has a different license plate such as “2FAST4U” but has a different Aerosmith soundtrack for your speedy trip down the highway! My personal favorite is the “Love in an Elevator/Walk This Way” medley. (Clearly, I go to Disney World too much!)
4. You Have a Favorite Bathroom
Sure the Tangled Restrooms might be the prettiest, but I am talking about having a favorite bathroom that’s less thematic. One that’s your best-kept secret, and usually quiet and clean. Basically, if you have a bathroom preference in Walt Disney World — you probably go too much.
5. You Own an Excessive Collection of Disney Refillable Mugs
They make great to-go cups, even at home!
6. You Have an Excessive Collection of Disney Mugs in General
If your house is like mine, when you open the cabinet you’re greeted by Mickey, Buzz, Minnie, Goofy, and R2-D2! Disney comes out with so many adorable mugs, it can be hard to resist.
7. You Know Bartenders by Name…
…and they recognize you too!
8. You Have More Photos of the Castle on Your Phone than Your Family
To be fair, the castle photographs well.
9. You Usually Skip Any Queue Longer than 15 Minutes
You know you’ll be back soon, so why wait?
10. You Go to the Parks and Don’t Ride a Single Thing
You’re perfectly happy strolling through the parks and just enjoying the atmosphere. Maybe you’ll grab a bite or see some “Streetmosphere” or maybe you’ll sip on a favorite cocktail and wander around the Flower and Garden Festival topiaries. Who knows!?
11. You Know All the Monorail Colors
…and you probably have a favorite. (The colors are red, orange, yellow, blue, green, peach, black, silver, gold, lime, teal, and coral.)
12. You Know Where the Cameras Are on Every Ride
…and you pose each time!
Click HERE For Some On-Ride Photo Posing Ideas!
13. Your Laundry is Sorted into Lights, Darks, and Disney Shirts
With so many fun varieties, your T-shirt drawer looks like the wardrobe of a Mousketeer! But you always know you’ll get to wear it again soon, so you go ahead and grab the shirt.
14. You Have Matching Ears for All of These Shirts
Purchasing rules apply here too: you know you’ll be back soon to wear them, so why not?
15. You Know the Best Seats on the Rides
You know to request the back on Big Thunder Mountain Railroad for a wilder ride and that the left side of Splash Mountain typically gets less wet. No matter what — you know where to sit!
16. You Casually Use Acronyms Like ADR…
…and your friends give you confused looks! Same goes for TOT, MDE, DHS, FOP, and many, many more.
Check out our list of Abbreviations and Acronyms you need to know here!
17. You Notice if Anything Tiny Goes Wrong in a Show
Did Maleficent Dragon actually catch fire in Festival of Fantasy Parade? Yep, we (and everyone else) noticed that. But really, you probably also notice the tinier details like Mickey’s sparklers not working in Fantasmic!
18. You Get Overly Competitive on Toy Story Mania
You’ve ridden Toy Story Mania (and Buzz Lightyear Space Ranger Spin) so many times, it’s more than just an attraction — it’s some serious competition! You bet your family and friends on who will win, and you constantly try and up your score to outdo yourself — and others. (Psst: read our hints on how to up your score here.)
19. You Tell People to “Have a Magical Day”
It’s just second-nature now!
20. You Know the Choreography to the Main Street Trolley Show
Same with Festival of Fantasy and every other show!
21. You Know There’s No Such Thing as “Too Much”
No matter what you know there is no such thing as visiting Walt Disney World too much!!
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You try to find hidden Mickeys in everything.
Popcorn bucket collection
While we don’t go a whole lot, maybe every other year or so–I have accumulated quite a few of the Disney Resort Mugs. To the point I said to my wife that maybe we might want to part with some of the older ones (she kind of looked at me like I had two heads).
The bathrooms is funny though because I have a knack for finding out where the best bathrooms are. One tip is always look for the out of the way ones. Back in corners or behind other things. I don’t go enough to know where every bathroom is (Molly’s videos have tipped me off to a couple I didn’t even know existed), but usually I can find a couple not many seem to know about. If it’s in an obvious location, suffice it to say it’s er, well used and busy. I avoid those unless, well, I can’t.
You loose your vision and can still find hidden mickeys and give tours of the parks to first timers
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I’m right about 16 out of 21….nice work Molly!!!
For me personally there is no such thing as going to Disney way too much.
When you immediately recognize new merchandise in the shops
Funny but true.
I have favorite bathrooms at each park I use under “special circumstances.”
I throw all old mugs away and only keep the newest.
I actually have seen the same bartender at a resort over and over again. Don’t remember his name though.
We do skip rides with waits longer than 20 min.
My kids have pretty much figured out the exact moment for ride photos.
We are ultra competitive on Toy Story Mania and Buzz at MK.
Your first share- TMI
I know this is a lighthearted article, and I’m ok with that. I enjoy the articles here and can enjoy a self deprecating laugh with the best of them. But, there are a lot of people with a real clinical addiction to Disney. I was as close as you can get to one for about 8 years. The thing that finally began to brake my addiction was moving from Florida and losing the cheap tickets and deals. It finally reached a point that I could no longer lie to myself and say “I can afford this. And “ it’s just a fun hobby.” It was an unhealthy obsession. And yes, I have many good memories, but I also think of all of the money I wasted and all the dozens and dozens of times I dragged my family to WDW when they would have preferred to be doing something else. And I have seen first hand others with even worse addictions. I’ve witnessed one couple almost split up because one lived and died for all things WDW and the other had tired of the scene and the expense and was ready to move on. I also know of another family that almost split over the purchase of a DVC because the other knew that meant endless trips to WDW. And I see here, on this site daily, people that have all the classic clinical signs of an addiction. Disney is a great place to visit, but it can easily become an obsession that is not good for your wallet or your mental health. So enjoy, but be careful.
This is absolute fact. I am a single hairstylists and last year alone I drove the 8 hours to get there 6 times. There is something about the obsessive planning that draws me in. I typically don’t find myself too interested in the things that the general population finds interesting so it’s still a mystery to me why I have an obsession with Disney. Most people think it’s all things Disney but for me it’s not the movies etc…it’s ONLY the parks. It’s a very strange relationship too. When I am planning, I absolutely love it, but while I’m there, there is almost a sense of disappointment. Maybe because it’s almost over? I find myself thinking, “okay I don’t have to do this again for a long time” and at the time I am exhausted and I mean it, but I always find myself booking that next trip. I sound like a conspiracy theorist, but there HAS to be something subliminal going on. I mean we already know that Disney uses smells and such to lure you to certain areas so it’s not a far stretch to think that Stacy and her countdown is evil lol. Anyway, I can definitely vouch for unhealthy obsession because I’ve taken everyone I know to Disney at some point, whether they really showed that much interest or not, and I have most definitely let the important things around my house go unfixed in order to get there. Only recently have I come to terms with the fact that I simply can’t go, regardless of my obsession. The price is way above my pay grade. I’ve always had it in the back of my mind that it doesn’t really sound like fun unless there is a Disney park involved. Oh to help give credit to my theory, I have an ex boyfriend that I forced into going with me back in 2009, he had not been since he was a child and didn’t remember anything about it. I ran into him recently and he told me, “You know I’ve gone to Disney every year since I went with you!” He didn’t even seem that impressed with the place when we were there. Crazy.