The ironic part is… the fake birds, fake snow, no-annoying-animals policy, poor housing, all of it… it sounds like the qualities of a town owned by the main antagonist of a Disney movie. I’m not even kidding.
To be honest this reflects Disney as a whole: plastic, no authenticity, cares more about making you believe you're in a fantasy instead of making the fantasy come true.
Wasnt there a Mickey mouse short basically about this very thing? Mickey has a rickety house that makes noise, its very unique. He moves to this sanitized, samey neighborhood and is guided into his new house by his robot assistant. The robot is very restrictive and practically insane, and all the "perfection" was something Mickey couldn't take. He escapes to his old house and learns to love the quirks
@@Dipped1234 I mean, this comment makes it sound creepy. But the reason Walt Disney wanted EPCOT to be a real functional city was because he wanted to create a utopia-like city of tomorrow. That's why EPCOT stands for "Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow." But Walt and the team very quickly scrapped it because they realized how impossible a utopia would be, since you can't control how people will live in their own homes. So they turned it into a futuristic park instead ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@@mitochondriaisalsothelungs5986 well, yeah Disney continued working on the idea of Epcot until his death… he definitely wanted it to be a utopia. People just thought it was a horrible idea
The "D" in Disney stands for "dystopia". Like, straight out of a novel, as if anyone who was born and raised in Celebration would be in for a rude awakening when they saw the outside world. And of course it had to be in Florida, because why tf not?
Giving personalized assessments for grades rather than standardized letter grades is a good idea, but it would make way more sense with smaller class sizes of 5-10. Not larger classes of 100.
you can't get too personal in a class of 100. I like the projects part too - but throwing out the textbook seems like a bad idea. You need the foundation and reference - or there's just nothing to work with.
This town feels like something you would see in a post-apocalyptic setting, where the characters stumble upon a safe haven completely detached from the outside world, only to find that it's a creepy social bubble created by aristocrats trying to live/preserve their old lives.
So people who are living in a Disney like town where there's no diversity, and just feels fake and people ended up having paranoia of seeing hidden Mickeys
Man it’s full of NPC stuff too, like artificial bird ambience, I wouldn’t be surprised if all the residence turned out to just be sentient holograms, and Nextbots just roaming around too
Funny story, when I was 8, my mom, grandma and I got lost in Celebration and everyone kept smiling at us and waving each time we passed. It was legit the weirdest thing I've ever seen.
So what you're telling me someone at Disney saw the game "We Happy Few" and decided "Yknow what we should do that too" This is scarily dystopian and controlled it genuinely feels like the plot of a horror movie
Bruh that’s because it practically is lol. Vault city from fallout 2 is this near utopia seeming society but once you get there the restrictions are so harsh it ends up being one of the most hostile feeling towns in the game
The artificiality and uniformity of this town make it feel like a real-life version of Thneedville from _The Lorax_ (2012) for some reason. Also, you're insanely good at _Cuphead._
Sounds more like Vault City in Fallout 2. Endeavouring, yet artificial, isolated, and exclusive. A caste system forms from blood. The initial inhabitants and their descendants form an upper class, and non-native inhabitants are discriminated against and treated with disdain.
A similar town is in North Korea, it's called Kijong Dong. Over there, even buildings are fake, they are just huge empty concrete shells with most of them having windows painted on them. It was located near the South Korean border to trick people there into thinking that there are much better living conditions on the north, as the town had electricity in it, something that every other village in that region didn't have (the buildings that had real windows would light up at night). According to official information, 500 families live there, but actually it's a ghost town.
Big difference pal, is every building in Celebration is real and not a facade. I've been copious times, believe me or not, I promise I'm not in a disney cult.
@@WitchKing-Of-AngmarI think they know that, they said EVEN the buildings are fake over there, meaning they know for celebration, the buildings are real.
Also isn't this literally the plot of that series A Place Called Perfect?? A town where everything's fake and everyone has to follow crazy strict rules to keep their town perfect and follow a corporation's every command? Good ass book but what the hell
@@tootbender6935 i feel like this would actually happen in a shrek film if they ever get the rights to add mickey mouse in their movies lmao (especially at the earliest years of dreamworks)
@@king_poyo64 I'd just place a bunch of Dreamworks stuff like HTTYD, Kung Fu Panda, Shrek(And Puss In Boots), etc and Illumination stuff like Minions, Sing, Secret Life Of Pets, Super Mario Bros, etc all over the place to troll them 😂
Reminds of that ed edd eddy episode when they trick the cul de sac kids to still thinking its summer by putting an gaint heating system and painting the trees green when its fall
As a Floridian, yeah. Celebration is reaaaaal weird. I live in Central Florida, and every time I have to pass through there, it's like a forest going silent when a predator's around. But as a town. When I heard Disney is trying to do this sort of thing again in California, I laughed my ass off, because how could they possibly forget how well that went LAST time?
You know just as well as me that disney barely owns this area, quite literally just a normal town with normal middle aged people, and great shops, side apartments, and a really neat neighborhood. For shame
Being someone who lived near celebration, it felt so alien even compared to other high standard areas in Florida, though I never went to the elementary I did go to the highschool Going there it was really easy to tell apart students who live outside of celebration, the majority of celebration felt like a club you were never gonna be part of because only in the town do they announce their own events besides the very big ones like the exotic car shows and Christmas light shows, though from what I have heard there was still a rampant cocaine problem that still was around in the town, but drugs aside the people there are still very weird besides the handful few I’ve made friends with I would love to hear any questions if any one has any
@@yeethittter1285 practically everyone knew each other despite the size of the place, it’s a very tightly knit community which is odd compared to everywhere else in Florida because of how big towns are As well as an odd feeling of classism, people who live there can tell your not from around, reactions vary from a simple smile and wave to sometimes weird looks
This is very interesting, thank you for sharing! Any idea how businesses and towns in or around them turned out, or just anything else that comes to mind?
I’m wondering how it felt going to the high school, since it was mentioned that the way things were taught were very “experimental”, what was that like?
It is such a perfect plot for a horror book tbh A family moves in, they are ready to deal with a ton of weird rules and regulations of a town, but then... One day, the Homeowner association revised the rules. They open the book and search for the new rules. Page 55. Pets. Any pet which is determined to be a nuisance by Homeowners association shall be removed. So far, nothing have changed... huh? Page 56. Children Any child which is determined to be a nuisance by Homeowners association shall be removed.
THERE'S ACTUALLY A BOOK WITH A SIMILAR PLOT! but instead of having a rule for removing annoying children, the owners of the town simply make the parents forget about their kid, LITERALLY, THEY JUST SIMPLY MAKE THEN FORGET THEY HAD A KID IN THE FIRST PLACE. The kid is there, but they cannot be seen by their parents (if I understood the plot correctly) It's called a place called perfect
The plot is literally already there, what with the teacher abusing kids, one of the kids growing up fucked up and killing him, and the other dude going insane and killing his family
Of COURSE Disney would have an HOA. Also, it feels kinda dystopian that you can get your pet removed for literally any reason.... But they play bird noises out of trees.
It's got Orwellian newspeak, very strict regulations, imported leaves, fake snow, elevator music, and birdsong-on-loop audio. Throw in some inflatable trees, and you've got the 1984/The Lorax movie crossover no-one asked for.
Oh yeah I remember going here. There was this super weird vibe all around, like it was the kind of town where a serial killer would live. It just made me so incredibly uncomfortable and I have no idea why. My dad liked it though. He said he would move there if he could. I don't know why he'd want that but oh well.
The two separate sentences makes me chuckle at the possibility that your dad might live well alongside serial killers, or that he has the tendencies to be one. A joke btw
And I thought Euro Disneyland failing was just as bad. The town had some Midsommer or Bioshock-like vibes, and it ended up as a dystopian nightmare than serene paradise. If Yesterworld were to discuss Celebration after Savantics, he might use Dark World from KH 0.2's OST when discussing this disaster.
funny how you mentioned Bioshock, because I could only think of Bioshock Infinite's Columbia the whole way through the video. the aggressively white neighborhood, the fake weather stuff like the snow and leaves, the houses and properties being picturesque, and they even got a weird-ass religious crime in there to boot. Disney just straight-up made Columbia LOL
GKTWV is an inherently better idea and only partners with Disney, not run by it, and it’s a nonprofit organization Google shows it as more of a vacation than a home The website says it was developed by a Holocaust survivor named Henri Landwirth
@@rezandrarizkyirianto-1933 It's already made. Not by Disney, but by Halas and Batchelor. Disney wouldn't even think about making horrible dystopian films like that like I wouldn't think about changing my dream job at Disney.
Imagine being a young child in a story living town. Celebration is already bad enough but if you were stuck in a town filled with fake it would probably be hell once you leave the town and are shoved into a place where the world isn't a plastic landscape. As they say, Im a barbie girl, in a barbie world.
I’m kind of surprised the HOA allowed any political signage at all. As cult-like as Disney is, I half expected the acknowledgment of _any_ authority other than Mickey to be declared taboo.
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So the school didn't have a musical segments each recess?
Is it illegal to watch anything not made by Disney? Imagine just watching Puss in Boots and all of a sudden, the Celebration PD breaks down your door and takes you to the jail under cinderella's castle, where you are charged for your crimes against Mickey Mouse.
This was kind of what walt wanted Epcot to be originally, a whole ass city he had control over, I think somewhere I read he would’ve wanted to basically kick people out of his Epcot once they got too old to work
I’m a former resident who moved in in the Disney fallout in the late 00’s and I have to say that I never knew celebration was a Disney town. I always thought the proximity to Disney springs and world was a coincidence. I also never knew about those strange rules because, to my knowledge, none of them were taken seriously, plus the tree speakers were only in the town square (and yes there were birds who would gather in quite large numbers to eat pizza crusts), and the false snow and leaves were also mainly in the square. Great video about my little known town!
It all remindes me of Chained to the Rythm by Katy and the music video. So comfortable we're livin' in a bubble, buuble. So comfortable we cannot see the trouble, trouble
The bird speakers are particularly insensitive. The Disney people didn't stop for a second to think about how birds could react to that. They may perceive it as a permanent invader of their territory and leave. They may perceive it as a potential mate and miss breeding with an actual one, or be lured into a dangerous area and be struck by traffic or easily predated. This act may have seriously harmed many species in the area.
Welcome to Celebration, such a perfect town Here we have some rules, let us lay them down Don't make waves, stay in line And we'll get along fine Celebration’s a perfect place Keep your feet off the grass Shine your shoes, wipe your… Face Celebration, Celebration Celebration’s a perfect place
I actually grew up in celebration it’s a beautiful town and even though the HOA sucks but I went through both the k-8 school and the high school. I used to walk to both schools and my parents house is in really good shape. My parents never had to get a hidden Mickey on their house. The HOA a super strict but other than that the town is really nice.
I grew up in a community that is eerily similar to this one. White wealthy adults wanting to play house. It was awful. They would focus on petty issues like what color your house was or how you parked on the street. All while they swept anything serious under the rug to maintain the facade. I think this attitude might just come with the idea of wanting to make a perfect community. It's simply cannot exist and we need to accept the imperfections so that we can address them properly.
Thank you for bringing this to our attention! I didn't realize just how deep this went, honestly it just sounds like one mad social experiment, especially for the school.
My BFF lived in Celebration for a little while in the late '00s while her sister was in and out of the hospital. From what she's told me, it sounds like a nice place. Additionally, we grew up in the Ft. Lauderdale area, but she moved away in 2017, and, while visiting me last summer, she compared my hometown to Celebration and enthused about how green it was. Thus, I always thought of it as a little utopia to give sick kids an easier time and nothing more. I'm going to show her this video and see what she thinks. Update: I just called her and asked if she ever got a cult-like feeling from celebration and she immediately answered, "YES" complained about the weird vibes, and even called it "dystopian". She thinks the disturbing feeling came from the town being _too_ perfect. I then proceeded to show her the video, and, at the part discussing the HOA, she once again compared it to the town we grew up together in, as it also has a very strict HOA.
The real bird must be confused hearing the fake ones repeating their songs over and over again. Poor things... They must be thinking that their being haunted by ghost birdies
We have some cafes that play a bird sounds all year long. It's soooo strange. At winter or fall especially. I don't know why they are doing it. Also, one of those cafes is in the center of the city. There are almost no trees.
I say this: perfection = chaos. Why? There must be an equal amount of chaos and ordinary. When trying to make everything ordinary and perfect chaos soon has to find its place. So it finds it and ruins perfection. It’s a tale as old as time. Extinction must happen for new life and evolution. So you can never simply have perfection. It doesn’t exist. It can’t by nature exist.
actually driven through celebration before and it is definitely way different than the surrounding orlando area. very pretty but it does have a big dystopian feel to it which is pretty unsettling. a fun place to drive through when bored though ig.
This is literally what Walt Disney planned for his Experimental Community Prototype of Tomorrow (EPCOT). They literally completed Walt Disney's dumbest idea
“Let’s make a town with birds singing in the trees, but instead of making a good environment for birds and building them birdhouses and feeders, let’s just have speakers making bird sounds”
Bro I had a friend who had just moved from Florida last year and told me she was from a place called celebration in Florida and now I just don't even know what to say i am just speechless💀
Disney made loads of sequels. They generally weren't released in theatres, and there was more separation between sequels and original movies, but still. The Lion King 2: Simba's Pride The Rescuers Down Under The Lion King 1.5 (this one's actually quite funny from what I've heard) Tarzan 2 Aladdin 2 Aladdin 3 Cinderella 2 Cinderella 3 (this one's pretty good from what I've heard)
That Disney had long died with Walt. Anyway Disney was never an original content maker in the first place so there's nothing noteworthy except for the passion and technology they developed along with the growth of the company. The products were borrowed and reformed from true originals in local folklores and fairy tales around the world. You're better off looking for those stories from the people born in those places than Disney as a business company alone.
The reason why they make the live-action remakes is because, if they don't make a new film, their copyright on the old one will run out. Which I think is just kind of paranoid and soulless tbh
Welcome to Duloc Such a perfect town Here we have some rules Let us lay them down Don't make waves Stay in line And we'll get along fine. Duloc is a perfect place. Please keep off of the grass Shine your shoes Wipe your... Face. Duloc is, Duloc is, Duloc is a perfect place!
