#the nightmare we saw in the preview was creepy as hell and you’re telling me it’s only going to get worse AND be real? 😭😭😭

[nicoisastar]

just read the recent readriordan tsats post and 1) hypnos’ design is cool as hell and 2)

some of nico’s nightmares are gonna come to life???

[i-jus-wanna-writehappy]

As Old As Time [2/?]

Pairing: teen!Richie Tozier x black!fem!Reader

Warnings: cursing, hateful act towards reader racially

Author's Note: I love writing this piece, and I can't wait to get further into the story. I hope you enjoy this addition :)

Part 1

Masterlist  Black Girl Insert Series

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Stan groans as he looks at his watch for the tenth time, "Richie, it's 1:45! She isn't coming, can we just go do what we had originally planned?" Richie throws his head back in a dramatic groan, "Fine! Fine, you guys go, I'm gonna catch up in a minute." Richie begins pushing his bike towards the main road with a scowl on his face.

"Where are you going now?" Ben asks, voicing what they were all thinking. Richie doesn't look back at them as he answers, "I'm gonna go ask Y/N who the hell she thinks she is."

You're shimmying to the music coming from your radio as you place more of your clothes in your wardrobe when your mom knocks on your bedroom door. Holding the pile in one arm, struggling to keep the clothes from hitting the floor, you pull the door open with your newly free hand. Before you can say anything though, your mom is speaking, "There's some boy I've never seen before pounding on our door and yelling your name."

Silently cursing Richie - it has to be Richie, unless that Stan guy is here to try and push you around - you set the clothes on your bed and grumble all the way to the door.

As soon as you pull the door open, you're face to face with an aggravated Richie Tozier. "What the hell, Y/N!" Before he can curse anymore, you push him back onto the porch and follow him out, closing the door to hide him from your parent's prying eyes.

Once you're safe from any eavesdropping, you remove your hand from Richie's chest and wrinkle your eyebrows at him in question, "What the hell, you! What did I do? And how do you even know where I live?"

Shaking his head, Richie crams his hands in his pockets, "Listen doll, you're gonna have to actually show up for our dates if you ever expect to get in my pants." Richie feels his stomach flutter a bit when you snort a harsh laugh at the line and mentally reminds himself to ask Eddie if he has any meds for fluttering stomachs, because surely it isn't natural. "Really though, no shit, we waited for over an hour."

You can't help but rub your face as you respond, "Richie, I told you I would try to come out. I just moved in yesterday, I'm still unpacking." Richie sighs dramatically, throwing his head back before looking at you again, "Well, have you gotten any unpacking done?"

When you nod, Richie smiles widely, "Great! You can come down to that awful parade with us and be back home in time to put the rest of your stuff away." Instead of letting you answer, Richie grabs your hand and begins pulling you off your porch, "Whoa, Tozier! Give me a second. I still have to tell my parents I'm leaving." The boy groans, but he releases your hand to let you run back up your porch.

"Fuck, that took forever. Can we go now?" Richie pressures as you return with your notebook and pen in hand. Shaking your head in amusement, you begin following Richie down the sidewalk, "And, just so you know, the next time you pop up at my house and don't want my parents to kill us both, introduce yourself and try not to yell fuck or shit while banging the door down. I almost got slapped on both our behalf."

Richie laughs, throwing his arm over your shoulder and pulling you close, "Well, baby doll, I can't make any promises until you stop standing me up."

You and Richie stay this way until you get to the cinema. All of his friends are standing outside, seemingly waiting for the two of you. Once you reach them, Richie jostles your body beneath his arm, "Y/N, these losers are the Losers. Losers, this is Y/N, the reason we all waited in fiery heat for two hours."

A tall boy with a handsome face shakes his head, "I'm Bill." Nudging Richie's arm from your shoulders, you hold your hand out to Bill, "I only told Richie I would try to make it." From there, everyone else introduces themselves, all with easy to remember names. And heaven knows that when you saw Mike it took everything in you to not throw your arms around him. You were positive that there were no other black people in Derry, so his rich brown skin is a welcome surprise.

Once everyone else has finished talking to you, Richie throws his arm around your shoulder, pulling you to his left side and with his other arm, he pulls Eddie into his right side, "Are you losers ready to see the coolest thing you will ever witness?" Breaking away from you, Richie starts screeching in Eddie's ear and clawing at him, "Jurassic Park!"

Eddie's arms flail as he attempts to push Richie away from him and the sight makes you laugh. Mike notices you writing quickly in your notebook as you look from the page to Richie and Eddie, "So, are you a writer?" He asks, making sure to stand across from you so he doesn't seem as if he's trying to invade your privacy, a luxury you haven't gotten im Richie's company alone.

You nod as you finish your note and put your pen back in your pocket, "I like to think so. Derry and the people here have already proved to be more than enough inspiration." Mike laughs as you sigh dramatically, "Hopefully nothing too bad. The quarry is beautiful, I would definitely recommend getting some inspiration from there, even if you don't go with us."

Richie notices you and Mike talking and inserts himself in the conversation immediately, "Alright then, Mike. Leave all flirtatious banter up to me, that's my role here." The comment makes you roll your eyes as you gesture to the Jurassic Park poster on the door to the cinema, "Sure, Richie. Are you all going to see Jurassic Park before the parade?"

Ben nods, but before he can ask if you want to watch it with them, Richie throws his arm back over your shoulder, "Why? Worried you'll get scared, baby doll? If that's the case, we could always just sit in the back and make out the whole time." With a snort, you move Richie's arm and turn to face him, your hand shielding your eyes from the sun, "No, I already saw it, I'm gonna watch The Good Son the room over."

The boys all stop, their eyebrows raised, "The one with Macaulay Culkin?" Ben asks you with his face scrunched up. You smile widely and nod, "Yeah. I've been wanting to watch it, I love those kinds of movies." Eddie just shakes his head quickly and reaches into his fanny pack for a piece of gum, "I don't know why. That looks creepy. I hope I never have to watch it."

Everybody seems to agree, so you just chuckle and make your way into the cinema, "Okay then. I guess I'll see you guys on the other side." Richie feels his fingers twitching anxiously before making his decision, "Fuck." He mutters, as he makes his way beside you at the ticket booth, "Make that two for The fucking Good Son."

You can't help the chuckle that passes your mouth when Richie groans at having his money taken and trudges behind you to the candy counter. Once you're equipped with Twizzlers, slushies, popcorn, and Milk Duds, you and Richie find two seats in the room together, his leg bouncing the entire time.

"Come on, Tozier," You whisper as the trailers start, "What's the big deal?" Richie doesn't appreciate your teasing tone, though, scoffing as he wipes a hand full of popcorn grease onto his shorts, "I just don't like the idea of seeing sweet little Kevin McCallister creeping people out and killing kids. Fucking sue me."

Sighing dramatically, you rearrange your snacks in your lap so you can lean closer to Richie, "Look, Rich, if you get too scared, you can hold my hand. I'll keep it free, just in case." This seems to snap Richie from his fearful sulking as he sits up in his seat and turns to you with a shit eating grin on his face, "Jesus, Y/N, if you wanted to hold my hand, you could have just asked. You didn't have to force me to watch this creepy ass movie with you."

Richie is satisfied with your silence at his line when he sees you pull out your pen and scribble in your notebook quickly.

For the rest of the trailers, you sit quietly. You are stuffing your face, watching the terrifying scenes intently, but Richie has decided to make staring at you his incredibly valid reason for not watching the scary previews to movies he'll pretend won't give him nightmares for months. Your braids are pulled into a ponytail today, probably for unpacking. He wants to ask a thousand questions about your hair, but knows that even for a guy that can't keep his fucking mouth shut, that's something he doesn't yet have the privilege to do.

His eyes wander from your ponytail to your neck. The brown skin there is tantalizing. Richie nearly falls into a trance thinking of burying his face there for days, hours, seconds, an eternity. His emotions are effecting him so strongly that Richie is suddenly hit with the wonder of how any of the girls in town can resist Mike. Surely, for his attention to be so solitary, so focused, just on the beauty of your skin, it has to be magic. And if you have this magic, then doesn't Mike?

Richie finds he is actually about to vocalize his question, but your excited squeal notifies him that the movie has indeed started, and Richie's bravery tucks itself safely into the salmon pocket of his Hawaiian shirt. "Hey, doll, you know, my offer to suck face and ditch the movie still stands." Richie says, quite unable to not watch the screen, despite his anxious nerves.

When you just snort softly and grab Richie's hand in yours, he's glad, not only for his awful job of hiding his fear, but also your observant nature. Yeah, Richie still crouches low in his seat, but if you let him tell it, he's pretending to still be creeped out so he can keep your hand in his.

By the time the movie is over, Richie is sniffling hard and his hand is squeezing yours tightly. "That was fucking intense." Richie says, still not standing from your seats. The movie wasn't scary, so you know his hand isn't shaking from horror, but maybe some different kind of fear. "You ready to go to the parade with your friends, Richie?" He nods at your question, but still doesn't move. Instead, Richie turns his head to you with a look so different from his usual boyish one that you have to remember to write about it once he lets your hand go, "Can we just sit here for a minute?"

Richie pulls himself together after two minutes and when he looks to you again, all traces of fear, all traces of internal crisis are erased. "Let's go see if the guys are out." Richie says, standing and tugging at your conjoined hands gently. If he can pretend nothing happened, then so can you, for now.

"You know, Richie, the scary movie is off now. You can let my hand go." When you say this, Richie just lets out a quick laugh and stops walking so he can push his face close to yours, "Oh no, on the contrary, Y/N. I watched that scary movie with you, so whenever I see you, I'll be scared all over again. I will need to hold onto you, it's all up to you if it's your hand I'm holding, baby girl."

The cheeky comment is one of many you've heard from Richie, so you just shake your head and push him back, "Your friends aren't out here, go see how much time they still have left of Jurassic Park." When you release Richie's hand, his eyebrows jump up, "Okay, and where are you going?" He reaches for your hand again, but you slap his before it can reach you, "Settle down, Richie. I'm just gonna start walking to the ice cream parlor, okay? Hurry up and meet me, then you can hold my hand all you'd like."

Richie chuckles and tells you to walk slowly before racing to the ticket booth. It's a beautiful day, so you pull out your pen and take a quick note of Richie's shift of behavior in the theater while you meander down the sidewalk. You don't make it very far before Richie steps out and spots you just down the way, head down in your notebook.

He's about to tell you that the rest of the Losers will be approximately 45 minutes, but then time seems to slow when the car beside you slows down. Richie sees you look up, and he grudgingly thinks that maybe you know the guys, but when one throws a cup of pop out of the window and the other calls you the n-word, that thought is dismissed and his grudge is a pit of fiery anger in his stomach.

The guys drive off, but not without Richie rushing after the car, "What the fuck!" He yells after the guys, his hands raised high so they can convey a similar message. Getting his wits about himself, Richie rushes over to you, "Holy shit, Y/N, are you okay? Did they hit you?"

Fortunately, the douche bag had awful aim, so you missed the brunt of the hit, the cup exploding at your feet and spraying pop onto your bare legs and light grey shoes. Sighing heavily, you nod, "Yeah, just a little - do people pull shit like that all the time?" Your anger is evident and growing the longer you look at the soda on the pavement. "Let's go get you cleaned up, okay? We can go get you cleaned up, we can get ice cream, we can forget all about those stupid fucks."

Before you can deny for the option of following those guys and kicking their asses, Richie grabs your hand and pulls it gently, "Come on. The guys have almost another hour, and now you'll have an excuse to sneak me into your bathroom while you get undressed."

Richie effectively takes your mind off your frustrations as you snort and let him tug you along.

[laurenpandora]

Breakdown

So this weeks episode of Supernatural is creepy from the very beginning. Jars of organs and parts lined up on a table, a creepy af dude in some kinda mask.  Cheesy old music playing. Missing persons notes on the wall. A severed arm. It begins looking more like the film Hostel than a regular SPN episode.

Wendy Hanscum finds herself getting fuel at a creepy truck stop where everyone looks up as she walks in. I’ll be honest, this would be my cue to get the hell out of here. The creepy perv cashier is just the icing on this uncomfortable cake, telling her to smile more.. I really hate when people think they can just tell someone to smile. Honestly the whole situation would have me calling someone but maybe being creeped out repeatedly at night doesn’t panic other people as much? Of course, her car breaks down in the middle of nowhere and she’s alone and then unsurprisingly she gets attacked. This is exactly why you call the AA and wait inside the car.

Scenes of Depressed Sam. We can tell he’s not doing well because he doesn’t get out of bed at 6am. Obviously as we’ve known Sam for so long, we know that him not being out of bed until 10am is a big deal. It’s kinda mirroring Dean’s breakdown before Castiel came back. I think we’re assuming it’s because they lost Jack, and their hope of finding their Mother, and got Kaia killed. Dean seems to be coping with this a lot better though.

"I know it's not your normal thing but-" "Text us the address we're on our way" Of course they’re going to help Donna find her niece, even if it’s not a Case-case. Because it’s Donna. 

Dean meeting the real FBI. Awkward af. Of course Dean’s ability to make up a cover story on the fly, just comes natural to him after so many years. 

Dean says Donna is family and obviously that’s his pretext for being there, but we know it's also kinda true. Dean cares very deeply about those he considers family, and we know that “Family don’t end in blood” etc. The Sioux falls Family Reunion story by Donna, obviously her cover for the events of the Wayward Sisters episode, is clever and not entirely inaccurate. I find it interesting that both Dean and Donna have used ‘family’ here as a cover story for their hunting.

FBI guy calls the killer the Butterfly. Weirdest nickname ever not gonna lie. Did make me think of The Simpsons though..

"No one uses CB radios any more" So today I learned that Truckers still use CB radios. Someone in a group I am in on Facebook confirmed that this is true.

Dean calling out Sam for moping is all kinds of hypocritical. Telling Sam not to let it eat him up, yet a few episodes ago he was moping about Castiel being dead. Really does show how much better Dean is doing since they ‘got Cas back’, although obviously they are unaware that Asmodeus has him in Hell Jail.

The Creepy Serial Killer Lair is starting to remind me of the Saw films now, or at least something similar? I honestly can't imagine many things scarier than waiting to be killed by a psychopath.

So this is a point in the episode where we cut to an advert break and there was a film advertised called ‘Winchester’. I wonder how much they paid to have that advertised during Supernatural.

Back into the episode and we’re introduced to a creepy guy who of course is a Pastor. He was at the Truck stop, he had something of Wendys in his van. At this point it seems pretty straightforward, right? That it must have been him? Well actually this was the point in the episode where one of my facebook group guessed who the killer really was, but I’ll be honest, I was ready to convict the guy. The writers work hard to make you dislike him, he’s creepy, racist and rude.

Doug awkwardly asks Dean about Donna, Dean obviously not wanting to be like ‘yeah we all hunt monsters by the way’ just says to trust her. Truckstop Jesus answers their questions and now we have a new suspect: Marlon the Creepy Cashier.

After Donna logics the weird Pastor into talking, he admits to being a creepy bastard and a 'sinner', but then he seems genuinely panicked about being accused of murdering Wendy. They believe he didn’t take Wendy, so we do too.

"It's how we do things in the FBI" Dean beats Marlon the Cashier into spilling the beans, because that’s how you get things done when you are Dean Winchester. Marlon shows them the dark web site and the whole thing gets incredibly disturbing, I honestly felt quite uncomfortable here. ‘Takeout for monsters.’ yep, it has suddenly become 'their kinda thing'. This episode was beginning to feel a lot like a crime tv show than a typical episode, some kind of CSI: SPN thing. Someone told me that there was a similar episode of Criminal Minds. That’s not a show I watch so I can’t confirm this.

Sam can't hack the site so they need the legitimate FBI. This instantly made me think “I bet Charlie could have hacked it” and I made myself sad. :(

Once they have located the building where Wendy is trapped, they all split up, of course, because that never gets anyone killed.

Seriously though imagine dying to that cheesy music. It really just makes the whole thing worse. Poor Wendy waits to be cut up by the masked killer and this is the point where i would have just passed out with fear.

Marlon is a vampire. Probably should’ve known he was a monster by how much he enjoyed watching the victims getting chopped up, but then, there are some sick humans out there.. "I don’t think I’m ok” - Doug gets turned into a vampire, but of course we don’t panic because we know there is a cure, The recap at the beginning reminded us all in case we had forgotten. 

The FBI guy, Terrance Clegg, turns out to be the Butterfly guy  - seriously, he gave himself that tacky nickname. Honestly, never trust a Clegg. (UK government joke). His weird pig mask reminds me of something that I can’t quite place.

“Lets begin the auction.. for Sam Winchesters heart!” - At this point I half expected to see Becky Rosen at a laptop bidding XD

Sam has a gun pointed at his head before Dean shoots the guy, so for a split second we think that Sam has been killed. Sam probably thinks so too, and probably pissed himself. Nice timing Dean.

"I was a vampire?" "For a couple hours." Doug now cured of his vampirism, and has lost his Supernatural V Card. can you get a hallmark card for that? ‘Congratulations, you know about monsters!’. Maybe ‘I’m sorry for your loss’ might be more appropriate. “You kill monsters. You're a damn hero.” Hell yes she is. Poor Donna loses another Doug :(  He’s not strong like Donna. Sam just says let him go and does Dean’s usual ‘everyone ends up hurt or dead’ speech, whilst Dean comforts Donna, which seems wrong. What happened to Sensitive Sam?

Back in the car where they always have their talks, Dean calls out Sam for being tough on Donna. Sam kinda needs a slap, because seriously. He reckons he’s “not in a dark place”, yeah right Sam, you’re just so incredibly un-Sam-like for no reason. Sure.

And then comes the first mention of Cas all episode. Seriously why haven’t they noticed Castiel is missing?

This was a good episode, slightly disturbing but it was entertaining. I love episodes with Donna anyway and this one felt very important.

Previews of next week look pretty hilarious.

[lolmohammed667]

Um, Disneyland's Opening Day In 1955 Sounds Like It Was A Dystopian Hell

I GET MY MONEY FOR NOTHING AND MY CHICKS FOR FREE!

It was basically the Fyre Festival of 1955.

Disney Parks have a reputation for presenting themselves as perfect, flawless places where nothing could ever possibly go wrong.

Some less-than-amazing stuff has allegedly happened inside the parks, but by many accounts, Disney works realllll hard to make it all feel truly magical.

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But it turns out, Disneyland was decidedly not the happiest place on earth on its opening day, July 17, 1955*. In fact, it sounds like the kind of hellscape that would have made me angrier than if I got tricked into going on the Mad Tea Party.

I'm not exaggerating! An observer at the time called it a "fiasco the like of which I cannot recall in 30 years of show life."

*Technically, July 17 was the press preview and the 18th was opening day, but Disney generally recognizes the 17th as the official opening day.

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So what was so bad about it? For starters, the park just wasn't finished, plain and simple.

Only about 3/4 of the park was complete on the big day! Disneyland was the first-ever Disney park (Disney World didn't open until 1971), and its construction workers were apparently concerned that nothing would be ready by the July opening date and pushed for an extension, but the construction supervisor refused. Because of that, park visitors encountered a walkway in Tomorrowland that trailed off into a field of dirt, unfinished rides and attractions, and more.

Of course, the estimated 70 million people watching the live broadcast of opening day at home — hosted by none other than Ronald Reagan — had no idea any of this shit was going down.

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That also means that basically no rides were open.

Jonathan Carr, who was 9 years old when he attended opening day, told Cracked that his family, among many others, weren't told in advance that many rides wouldn't be open until the next month. "All day, people stood in lines for rides that were closed." And to think you probably once threw a fit because Peter Pan's Adventure had a 45-minute wait.

"You couldn't do anything. Anywhere you could sit was taken, rides had long lines, stores were filled," he added. "To me, it was like a mall parking lot during Christmas. Every space is filled, and there are endless cars either idling and waiting or circling around and hoping. That was Disneyland on the first day, but with nobody pulling out."

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Oh and, thanks to counterfeit tickets, double the number of invited guests showed up to the still-under-construction park.

You know the feeling when Disneyland feels so crowded that you wish you could hide inside the top of Space Mountain forever? Imagine that, times two. It was estimated that the park, once complete, would be able to hold 15,000 people, so Disney ordered that many invitations to be printed. Much to park workers' shock, "30,000 showed up because of counterfeit tickets and people who rushed the gate and all kinds of stuff," employee Marty Sklar later recalled. Carr said, "Three times in my journal, I wrote down something like, 'A Disney employee said they were not expecting this many people.'"

All those extra attendees created a seven-mile backup on the Santa Ana Freeway, and once they got to Anaheim, people were so anxious to get in that one (honestly genius) guy charged people $5 a head to climb up a ladder he propped up outside. Now that's what I call imagineering.

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When people did make it inside the gates, they were greeted by these nightmare-inducing Mickey and Minnie Mouse costumes.

Good luck sleeping tonight!

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The asphalt on Main Street, which had been poured that morning, was still so wet that women's heels sank into it and got stuck.

Pulling them out of the asphalt must've required Sword in the Stone-like strength. "It was spongy, but I thought it was supposed to be like that in case children fell down," Carr said. "I wrote down, 'There are black shoe marks all over from the ground. I think this is supposed to make it look like guests making their mark on the park.'" If only the truth was that fun and clever.

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The temperature got up to 100 degrees, which was made worse because there were no water fountains anywhere.

There was basically no way to cool off, especially because in 1955, air conditioning wasn't nearly as powerful as it is today. "There was an area where you were supposed to stand and get cooled off by air coming from a few rides," Carr said. "A Disneyland employee told this to us. But they were telling everyone. A nice breeze should have been coming, but so many people were there that there wasn't a temperature change." I'm literally sweating just reading this.

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On top of that, concession stands ran out of food and drinks by lunchtime.

In case huge crowds, broiling temperatures, no water, and people in creepy costumes weren't enough of a turnoff, Disneyland's opening day made everyone hangry, too. Carr remembers that "everybody got meaner as the day went on," and even saw two boys drink sugar syrup when the candy store ran out of sweets. "They ran out of candy, and parents could only buy that for their children. You didn't drink syrup or ingredients like that at that time unless something was wrong. It would be like drinking maple syrup from the bottle. But I saw it happen."

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People were peeing everywhere, and Disney was shockingly chill about it.

"I've told people I was there on the day it opened, and when they asked what it was like, the first thing I bring up is all the children peeing," Carr said. "My father wrote down, 'Main Street. The restroom lines are so long that there is another line for the new restroom parkgoers have created behind the official restroom.'"

The bathroom issue still wasn't solved the next day, so Disney was basically like, Whatever, paint the ground with your urine if you please. The open pee policy stood for a long time because it was easier than building new bathrooms. Today, though, dropping trou mid-Frontierland probably wouldn't be so warmly accepted.

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And to top it all off, Sleeping Beauty Castle caught on fire.

Have you ever peered up at the centerpiece of Disneyland and thought, That's nice, but it could really use some flames? Well, you're in luck! Thanks to a gas leak, Sleeping Beauty's Castle nearly went up completely in flames. Walt Disney would probably be horrified to know that a young park attendee like Carr saw the blaze firsthand. "I thought it was the show, but it was real," he said. "We were walking by when a fire peeked out of the window. It wasn't very big, but it was enough. A few employees said to go around. It was real."

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So there you have it! The next time you're moaning about the heat and humidity while waiting to ride the Matterhorn among one trillion choir groups on spring break, remember how good you have it.

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Um, Disneyland's Opening Day In 1955 Sounds Like It Was A Dystopian Hell

It was basically the Fyre Festival of 1955.

Disney Parks have a reputation for presenting themselves as perfect, flawless places where nothing could ever possibly go wrong.

Some less-than-amazing stuff has allegedly happened inside the parks, but by many accounts, Disney works realllll hard to make it all feel truly magical.

Dreamworks

But it turns out, Disneyland was decidedly not the happiest place on earth on its opening day, July 17, 1955*. In fact, it sounds like the kind of hellscape that would have made me angrier than if I got tricked into going on the Mad Tea Party.

I'm not exaggerating! An observer at the time called it a "fiasco the like of which I cannot recall in 30 years of show life."

*Technically, July 17 was the press preview and the 18th was opening day, but Disney generally recognizes the 17th as the official opening day.

Getty Images

So what was so bad about it? For starters, the park just wasn't finished, plain and simple.

Only about 3/4 of the park was complete on the big day! Disneyland was the first-ever Disney park (Disney World didn't open until 1971), and its construction workers were apparently concerned that nothing would be ready by the July opening date and pushed for an extension, but the construction supervisor refused. Because of that, park visitors encountered a walkway in Tomorrowland that trailed off into a field of dirt, unfinished rides and attractions, and more.

Of course, the estimated 70 million people watching the live broadcast of opening day at home — hosted by none other than Ronald Reagan — had no idea any of this shit was going down.

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That also means that basically no rides were open.

Jonathan Carr, who was 9 years old when he attended opening day, told Cracked that his family, among many others, weren't told in advance that many rides wouldn't be open until the next month. "All day, people stood in lines for rides that were closed." And to think you probably once threw a fit because Peter Pan's Adventure had a 45-minute wait.

"You couldn't do anything. Anywhere you could sit was taken, rides had long lines, stores were filled," he added. "To me, it was like a mall parking lot during Christmas. Every space is filled, and there are endless cars either idling and waiting or circling around and hoping. That was Disneyland on the first day, but with nobody pulling out."

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Oh and, thanks to counterfeit tickets, double the number of invited guests showed up to the still-under-construction park.

You know the feeling when Disneyland feels so crowded that you wish you could hide inside the top of Space Mountain forever? Imagine that, times two. It was estimated that the park, once complete, would be able to hold 15,000 people, so Disney ordered that many invitations to be printed. Much to park workers' shock, "30,000 showed up because of counterfeit tickets and people who rushed the gate and all kinds of stuff," employee Marty Sklar later recalled. Carr said, "Three times in my journal, I wrote down something like, 'A Disney employee said they were not expecting this many people.'"

All those extra attendees created a seven-mile backup on the Santa Ana Freeway, and once they got to Anaheim, people were so anxious to get in that one (honestly genius) guy charged people $5 a head to climb up a ladder he propped up outside. Now that's what I call imagineering.

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When people did make it inside the gates, they were greeted by these nightmare-inducing Mickey and Minnie Mouse costumes.

Good luck sleeping tonight!

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The asphalt on Main Street, which had been poured that morning, was still so wet that women's heels sank into it and got stuck.

Pulling them out of the asphalt must've required Sword in the Stone-like strength. "It was spongy, but I thought it was supposed to be like that in case children fell down," Carr said. "I wrote down, 'There are black shoe marks all over from the ground. I think this is supposed to make it look like guests making their mark on the park.'" If only the truth was that fun and clever.

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The temperature got up to 100 degrees, which was made worse because there were no water fountains anywhere.

There was basically no way to cool off, especially because in 1955, air conditioning wasn't nearly as powerful as it is today. "There was an area where you were supposed to stand and get cooled off by air coming from a few rides," Carr said. "A Disneyland employee told this to us. But they were telling everyone. A nice breeze should have been coming, but so many people were there that there wasn't a temperature change." I'm literally sweating just reading this.

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On top of that, concession stands ran out of food and drinks by lunchtime.

In case huge crowds, broiling temperatures, no water, and people in creepy costumes weren't enough of a turnoff, Disneyland's opening day made everyone hangry, too. Carr remembers that "everybody got meaner as the day went on," and even saw two boys drink sugar syrup when the candy store ran out of sweets. "They ran out of candy, and parents could only buy that for their children. You didn't drink syrup or ingredients like that at that time unless something was wrong. It would be like drinking maple syrup from the bottle. But I saw it happen."

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People were peeing everywhere, and Disney was shockingly chill about it.

"I've told people I was there on the day it opened, and when they asked what it was like, the first thing I bring up is all the children peeing," Carr said. "My father wrote down, 'Main Street. The restroom lines are so long that there is another line for the new restroom parkgoers have created behind the official restroom.'"

The bathroom issue still wasn't solved the next day, so Disney was basically like, Whatever, paint the ground with your urine if you please. The open pee policy stood for a long time because it was easier than building new bathrooms. Today, though, dropping trou mid-Frontierland probably wouldn't be so warmly accepted.

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And to top it all off, Sleeping Beauty Castle caught on fire.

Have you ever peered up at the centerpiece of Disneyland and thought, That's nice, but it could really use some flames? Well, you're in luck! Thanks to a gas leak, Sleeping Beauty's Castle nearly went up completely in flames. Walt Disney would probably be horrified to know that a young park attendee like Carr saw the blaze firsthand. "I thought it was the show, but it was real," he said. "We were walking by when a fire peeked out of the window. It wasn't very big, but it was enough. A few employees said to go around. It was real."

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So there you have it! The next time you're moaning about the heat and humidity while waiting to ride the Matterhorn among one trillion choir groups on spring break, remember how good you have it.

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Horsing around

After watching the Darksiders III trailer I’m surprised Gunfire Games didn’t take the opportunity to retcon out Vigil’s bizarre decision to rename Famine and Pestilence. Instead we are left with a game featuring that famed horse rider of the Apocalypse, Fury (the other one is Strife).

The series has always seemed weirdly reluctant to make full use of the cool premise of the Four Horsemen battling against Heaven and Hell. Darksiders II was set largely in a fairly generic fantasy world with the Apocalypse pushed into the background and Death portrayed as an elite warrior rather than the actual Grim Reaper.

I don’t know if they’re just worried about stirring up religious controversy, but I can’t help but feel the setting would be more interesting if it went deeper into the Book of Revelation inspirations. TGN Professor

GC: It’s almost certainly the religious aspect, particularly with regards to the American market. As you imply, we can’t help but feel they would’ve been better off making up their own fantasy universe from scratch.

Stuck in time

Hooray!

Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been playing through Darksiders, having enjoyed the sequel a few years ago. I was just thinking about what they could do for a third entry then saw the news about the new game which is great. Although watching the IGN reveal trailer I’m a little disappointed to see that the story doesn’t seem to have moved on at all.

Darksiders has you as War trying to clear your name. Darksiders II has you as Death in a concurrent story to the first game – trying to clear War’s name. The trailer for Darksiders III starts with War in chains, so it looks like his name is still not cleared yet?! Don’t tell me Fury now has to clear his name!

I was also thinking the format might have changed slightly. It’s probably a bit ambitions for a smaller studio (assuming Gunfire Games are smaller studio compared to a company like Bungie) but maybe they could have or will do something like a four-player co-op where you each play one of the horsemen and have to take on Destiny style raid dungeons. Anyway, can’t wait to hear a bit more info.

If Darksiders III does OK, it’s pretty certain we’ll eventually get a fourth staring Strife but let’s just hope it’s not all about clearing War’s name again! PsillyPseudonym (PsillySeudonym – gamertag)

GC: According to IGN it’s ‘set around the same time as the events of Darksiders II’, so we think you’re right. It certainly doesn’t look like War’s name has been cleared in the trailer.

Big impression

Can I just say what a wonderfully creepy game Little Nightmares is. I think walking through the dark with all the mannequins around toward the end was great/nerve racking!

But I’d also like to draw people’s attention to the PS Store, where, if like me, you were happy with the news of a third Darksiders game there is a bundle of both remastered games for £16. Which considering it’s £16 for the first one alone is pretty good! Liam

Furniture land

Thank god Bethesda chose to release a Prey demo, indeed. Wanted to write in to defend against Phil’s point. I was always planning on getting Prey based on the premise, alone but was probably going to wait for some sales first.

After playing the demo on hard difficulty I was not disappointed by the previews suggesting it was ‘a thinking man’s game’, which is undoubtedly a dig at the Call Of Duty crowd. It was a challenge of nerve and mind, like a cross between Garry’s Mod prop hunt and The Thing. I raised my wrench against any and all mugs and chairs. Playing with headphones on, even mop buckets I knew were black spiders made me touch cloth because of that damn music sting!

After multiple playthroughs of the demo I now have a good idea of what skill trees to level up (hacking seems like a very useful starting point) and have now pre-ordered the game (£40 on Amazon Prime). Really looking forward to exploring the rest of the game and I hope it’s not too short. And I’m really glad Bethesda decided to release a demo.

They got extra money out of me by doing so, as the demo convinced me to buy as soon as possible because it is so different from the majority of other first person shooters available now. I never got round to playing Dishonored 2, so I can’t comment how much of a clone Prey may be to it but I like Arkane and hope they do well. Beware the chair! Stretchy Grunt

The second year

I’m seriously beginning to wonder whether the Nintendo Switch could be a hit on the scale of the Wii. Every time we hear a new story about it the situation seems even more positive than before. And despite what it seemed like before launch I think the release schedule is working out pretty well, with Mario Kart 8 Deluxe clearly off to a great start and Splatoon 2 likely to do very well too. I’m not so sure about ARMS, but I’m beginning to think it won’t be ignored as others were predicting a few months ago.

But of course with E3 approaching it only makes me wonder more about what Nintendo has coming up next. Super Mario Odyssey should be the perfect way to end the year but what about after that? We know about literally nothing at the moment and they’ve already used up all their biggest franchises: Zelda, Mario Kart 8, and Super Mario. If Nintendo think they can follow that up with second-stringers like Pikmin and Kirby then I would’ve hoped they’d learned their lesson by now.

Maybe a new Metroid, since it’s been so long since we’ve had a proper one, but they need to keep with the new franchises. Splatoon worked out great and ARMS might do too. That’s what we need more of, not diminishing returns with a new Donkey Kong and a new Star Fox, until they get down to franchises not even their biggest fans care about. The Switch in 2017 seems to be working out great but it’s the Switch in 2018 I’m worried about now. Goose

You get what you pay for

Well, I just bought one of them retro game controllers from Argos with 200 games on it (you know the one where it’s in the shape of a joypad the size of a matchbox, priced at a tenner). However, I wasn’t expecting much for the price. Unfortunately, I will never know because my two-year-old LG 4K UHD smart telly hasn’t got the phono plugs to plug the game controller in so I can play it.

Now I not what you’re all going to say – why didn’t you go and get a converter to play the Damon thing? So off I went to my local Maplin store, only to be told it would cost me around £50 to buy a converter so I can see it on my screen. Or go and buy a new telly with the phono jacks already built into it. I wouldn’t mind but the whole gaming box only cost me a tenner in the first place.

So my question is how do other people manage to have all these other retro gaming devices like your new retro Ataris, Mega Drive, and the Nintendo gadgets to work on their tellies, because mines at least two-years-old now and surely any newer telly made after mine is just not compatible for these latest retro-crazed gaming devices to be played on due to the phono plugs. JAH

GC: We don’t know about the others but the NES Mini uses a HDMI cable. We assume you bought this, but it doesn’t seem to contain any real retro games – just a bunch of cheapo Flash games (there’s a PDF list here).

Oldest school

All this talk of remasters from gaz be rotten has got me thinking. I’d like to see much older games put onto games consoles, ones that were invented long before video games.

When I was growing up in Mevagissey many years ago my mates and I used to enjoy a jolly game of Poohsticks. I sure that some sort of video game could be made out of that.

Here’s hoping for some Inbox magic The Dark Fud

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Making the list

I have just finished playing Titanfall 2 and although it’s a great game, it doesn’t quite beat the other multiplayer shooters I’ve played in recent years.

My list goes in reverse order: 4. Titanfall 2 3. Overwatch 2. Star Wars: Battlefront (controversial!) 1. Splatoon (of course)

I’ve got a feeling not everyone will agree with that list. One thing I’ve noticed in all four games is the lack of emphasis or downright absence of a free-for-all mode. Titanfall 2 obviously has one, but the wait for a match was 10 times longer than the team modes – making it very unappealing to actually play. Free-for-all used to be the only game in town, with several different variants, but slowly it is being wiped out by team modes/games.

It seems a real shame as I am naturally a lone wolf player and free-for-all is a much more fitting mode for me to play. Not that I don’t enjoy team games at all, with Splatoon my favourite game ever, but I miss the more cutthroat and chaotic play of having everyone out to get you. Free-for-all is something I’d love to see as an option in Splatoon 2, I’m sure they could find a way to make it work. Ryan O’D PS: I know some would cry foul that they weren’t included already, but I hope they release new DLC tracks for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe.

Inbox also-rans

What’s everyone assuming Bethesda’s two new games at E3 are? Wolfenstein must be one of them, but what’s the other? The Evil Within 2 by the sound of the rumours I’d say. Ollie

Do you know what Link’s favourite song is? A Good Heart These Days Is Hard To Find by Feargal Sharkey. DMR

This week’s Hot Topic

The subject for this weekend’s Inbox was suggested by reader Steiner, who asks how much money do you spend on gaming a month?

Do you have a specific budget that you stick to, or some other kind of system to make sure you don’t spend too much at once? What do you do when multiple games come out at the same time? And do you try and have money in reserve for the launch of new consoles and other hardware?

What percentage of your games do you buy for full price and how much do you take advantage of sales? Do you resell your games or buy second-hand, and how are your habits changing as digital downloads become more prominent?

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