Bats Day 2006 -- Sunday, Aug. 20

[lizziebith]

Is anyone going? Come on -- a hot day, while wearing all black, out in the crowded park -- what's not to love? :cool:

[Gemini Cricket]

I hope people don't combust on that day...

But I think most come out at night...

Hee hee...

[BarTopDancer]

If I don't have to work. Which I probably will. :(

[Not Afraid]

We haven't even discussed it. I'm going through a stage where I don't want to attend any "events" at Disneyland. I'm missing Gay Day this year and I have little or no desire to attend Bats Day. I want my post 9/11 empty Disneyland back.

I'll think about it.

[Isaac]

I've got my clothes picked out. :)

[innerSpaceman]

I'm going. Though I was disenchanted with both "G' Days last year, I think I like the simplicity of Goth Day better and can enjoy it more with just a slight change in the program.

The day basically consists of two main events. I've always enjoyed the twelve o'clock gathering of Goth Fashion and Hyper Noon Meet. It's never been unpleasant and, come to think of it, has been rather enjoyable each and every time.

The evening Haunted Mansion festival has seemed sorely lacking ... but I think an easy fix is to get there MUCH earlier, enjoy mingling with the Goths at Magnolia Park, and get into the Mansion in the first hundred or so ... before they start diluting the crowd with regular guests.

I realize this means getting our asses out of the Grand Cal earlier, but it can and should be done. It actually sounds like a pleasant day. Noon Meet, Big Group Photo, maybe a single ride. Grand Cal afternoon, lounging, cocktails, lounging. Sunset entry to the Park, schmoosing at Magnolia Park in the Park, a hopefully better than average Haunted Mansion ride, and then maybe some other rides and fireworks.

I haven't been to Disneyland since the 51st ... OMG a month ago ... so this will be a welcome visit. I'm going, and I hope to see a few of you there.

[Sub la Goon]

And for those of us in the DARK about Bats Day:confused:

Sounds like fun. What is the history & breakdown?

[€uroMeinke]

Well here's the official website:

http://www.batsday.net/

And here (http://www.loungeoftomorrow.com/LoT/showthread.php?t=1763&highlight=bats+day)'s what we did last year

My photos (http://photos.xenarchy.com/thumbnails.php?album=21)from last year's Bats Day

And my photos (http://albums.photo.epson.com/j/AlbumIndex?u=4218323&a=31393971&f=)from the year before that

[innerSpaceman]

Bah on it being called "Bat's Day." Sorry, but that's so gay. It's GOTH DAY, and that's all there is to it.


I'll grant Gay Day one thing: It says what it is.

People hear "Bats Day," they go - huh? whassat? some baseball game giveaway?

Tell 'em Goth Day, and they get it.


Was "Goth Day" trademarked or something? Why the frell do they officially call it "Bats Day?" WTF?







It's Goth Day.

Get It?

[Gemini Cricket]

I'm going.
Gasp! And break the iSm Golden Rule: Never in August?! I'm shocked. Shocked!
;) :D

"I'm shocked. Shocked to find that gambling is going on in here." ~ Capt. Renault

[€uroMeinke]

Was "Goth Day" trademarked or something? Why the frell do they officially call it "Bats Day?" WTF?



I believe it's origins come from a club called "Release the Bats" from which the first Bat's Day was born.

"Goth" is a bit pidgeon holey too, and came about well after my own predilection to wear black and listen to bands that have since been branded goth.

[innerSpaceman]

Maybe its pigeonholey, but I think it's way more descriptive ... even if the description is rather off. My daytime outfit will be far more punk than goth (tho my nighttime gear more classicaly goth). I think the term "Goth" is suitably wide ranging to encompass anything black rock'n'rollish, vampirelike, Byronromanctical, or Shellygothitude.

Originexpained regardless, I don't think Bat's Day is decriptive in any way ... and that's why (aside from officially), I've never heard it called that.


And GC, pishah on my August abstinance pledge ... Goth Day is always an exception.


Black. Hot. Sweat. Mmmmmm.

[€uroMeinke]

But "Bats" is like a secret code among the "Goths," they get the Bats connection from the club, and the song that was based in - thus it's a way of destinguishing honest-to-goth goths from Posseur Goths like us.

I do like the fashion show of Goth - and it's always grand when the Evil Queen joins us.

[Not Afraid]

Well, THIS posseur has a vinyl import 7" of the original song. :p

[innerSpaceman]

Well, then I prefer the all-inclusiveness of Gay Day ... where gay posseurs like Ghoulish Delight and NirvanaMan are perfectly welcome.



(though, alas and ironically, the fashion show is far less interesting)

[Sub la Goon]

Sounds like a Bat Day at Disneyland is better than a good day at work. ;)

I wonder if I can find any of my old 80's black T-Shirts? The ones I used to get at concerts, wear the next day, and then put away (for decades). They may be lost to mists of moving, marriages, and break-ups. And may be too small??

Also, I wonder if they will be there:

http://www.hasbro.fr/imgbdd/507154000.jpg

[innerSpaceman]

Oh, it's all about clothing too small ... from back in the day.

[dingdong2u]

Yeah, clothing too small, temperatures too warm, and more black than you can shake a stick at. :)

My mode-of-transportation is giving me some trouble but I'm hoping to make an appearance up there if I can. It'd be cool to be able to see Zappop, Monorail Man and some of the others up there again.

This year though I have a real reason to dress in black though. "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire-Play It!", the attraction I used to "haunt" over at DCA celebrates its two year closing anniversary that day and the MGM version in Florida will have had its very last performances the previous day. Guess no more chances to try to win the cruise anymore. :(

Anyway, look for me and hope to see some of you there...! :cool:

Mike

[innerSpaceman]

GOTH DaY gOth DAy GOth daY!!!!

Come on, all you swankers ... it's by far the best (non-Lot-initiated) Disneyland fashion day of the season!!!

Perhaps not as fun a dress-up day as Tiki Meets or Pirate Farewells, but a thousand times more dress-up fun than Gay Day. There just aren't that many fun dress-up days in the Disneyland calendar ... and this one has by far the most participants.

Come out and play!

[Babette]

I always feel so much more at home on Goth Day. I blend right in. This year I think I'll go with natural blond braids and hot pink. For just one day, I want to be anti-goth. I wonder if we could get my big bro to dress up. Nah, he'd never pass!

[Sub la Goon]

All I can say is that Lizziebith had better be there sporting her Bat Tat. I got to watch while she had that done and the excruciating faces she made have kept me from even considering getting one.

I have no Goth threads left over from the 80's :( but I really want to go and see the show. Since I have never met most of you, where/when will this be happening?

[Not Afraid]

Damn, VanGoon, if you go I;ll have to make an appearance. But, I have to leave before 7. Damn diabetic dog.

[CoasterMatt]

I want to go... but I've got family visiting and I'm trying to recover...

[innerSpaceman]

Since I have never met most of you, where/when will this be happening?
Main meet and fashion show - - noon, the Hub. Followed (usually) by massive group photo at Castle. Then, perhaps a ride. Heheh, lunch and Grand Cal Lounging thru Happy Hour.

Apparently adieu to Not Afraid at that point, but twilight return to the Park, more meet and nightime, even blacker fashion show at Magnolia Park in New Orleans Square, and de riguer goth marathon ride on the Haunted Mansion.


After that? Dunno, are they still having fireworks nightly on summer nights?

[Not Afraid]

I've sent an email out asking for backup with the dog. We'll see.

The other issue we have is the sick cats.

Hopefully, I won't be in black due to mourning.

[DreadPirateRoberts]

Dunno, are they still having fireworks nightly on summer nights?

They had them this evening.

[Not Afraid]

I heard the booms from my house this evening.

[DreadPirateRoberts]

I heard the booms from my house this evening.

I didn't know they went that far, not that that is really far.

[lizziebith]

All I can say is that Lizziebith had better be there sporting her Bat Tat. I got to watch while she had that done and the excruciating faces she made have kept me from even considering getting one.

I have no Goth threads left over from the 80's :( but I really want to go and see the show. Since I have never met most of you, where/when will this be happening?

http://lafanforce.com/phpBB/images/smiles/typotuxsmilies/smiles/icon_surprised.gif

I just figured out who you are! We're all gathering together again in some sort of time-slip pod!

Hiya!!! :D

[Not Afraid]

Every once in a while I will hear them. I'm 21 miles from doorstep to M&F.

[€uroMeinke]

We're all gathering together again in some sort of time-slip pod!

Indeed, that is all part of the crypto-social construction of this site.

Beware of water

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[DreadPirateRoberts]

Indeed, that is all part of the crypto-social construction of this site.

Beware of water

€

I hope the Rivers of America don't dry up.

[SzczerbiakManiac]

If I go, may I hang out with you guys if I'm not dressed to the 666s?

[€uroMeinke]

If I go, may I hang out with you guys if I'm not dressed to the 666s?

Heck yeah

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Busy that afternoon. We'll see how we feel later that night...

[lizziebith]

Heh, in light of the "less-adventurous-as-we-age-thread" this is embarrassing...but, this weekend snuck up too fast on us and we just canna go Cap'n! Poop.



Well, my Bat Tat and I will just have to attend on a Normal Person's Day -- probably more fun freaking them out then anyway! ;)

[CoasterMatt]

My monkey has to work, and I've got to recover from an ugly week...

[innerSpaceman]

Hello, bueller, anyone?





(zap and i will be there. hope we're not alone)

[Not Afraid]

We'll see. I'm just happy to be at home with 6 cats.

[Bornieo: Fully Loaded]

I might be there. We'll see how I feel.

[dingdong2u]

I shall be there... with bells on... Well... Maybe not with BELLS on per-se but you get the idea... :D

Hope to see some of you there... And for those who won't be able to make it, I'll have an extra Mint Julep spiked with some Pixy Stix for you in your honor. :)

--- Mike

[TheatreTech]

(zap and i will be there. hope we're not alone)

Don't worry, I'll be joining you.

(As if there were any doubt that I'd be there.) :rolleyes:

I asked for the day off months ago.

[Morrigoon]

I'll be there, in actual black this time!

[Boingonut]

I wish I could have been there, hope you guys had a good time!

[BarTopDancer]

Gah. I totally forgot all about it.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Ended up spending most of the day with family, and the rest wandering Home Depot daydreaming about condo improvement. Hope everyone had a good time!

[CoasterMatt]

It was Me and the Kitties day here at the Nuclear Muffin Test Kitchen; hope there's some good pics from today :)

[Not Afraid]

I, too, spent the day with kitties. It was good, although I'm still tense - probably more so because I was so attentative to their every move. But, I made the right choice by staying home. However, I can't wait to see pics.

[MickeyLumbo]

Fond Memories Of The Past

http://disneydaniel.smugmug.com/photos/8010709-M.jpg

photo courtesy:
DisneyDaniel

[innerSpaceman]

Nice Goth Day. Tired Now.

[Chernabog]

Wow vewwwwwy sweeeepy now... had a WTFing amazing time :)

Someone post pictures please! ;)

[Bornieo: Fully Loaded]

I should've stayed home like NA. Ugh!

[innerSpaceman]

The Jazz Kitchen is the new Grand Cal.

[Gemini Cricket]

Norm (Fishbulb) over at MC did a fantastic job with a photo recap of Bat's Day.
Click me. (http://micechat.com/forums/showthread.php?t=35009)

:)

[MouseWife]

Oh thank you for sharing those pictures! Awesome job and I loved seeing what I missed.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Thanks for the pics link. I wonder how Jack Sparrow acted towards the goths. I'm sure plenty of them had a pic with him.

[Morrigoon]

I'll try to upload pics tonight.

[Isaac]

What is this 'Bats Day' ? ;)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v686/zapppop/bd2006.jpg

[Morrigoon]

Note for the record that the sign in iSm's hands says, "Not Afraid Present's 700 Club"

[Cadaverous Pallor]

What is this 'Bats Day' ? ;)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v686/zapppop/bd2006.jpgBwahahaha, look at Babette! :p

Actually everyone looks fab as usual. Wish we could have been up to it but boy, were our minds elsewhere.

Must have more pictures!!

[Babette]

Zapp cut off iSm in that pic. I was going for his ear ;) WTF?

[Isaac]

I did that cause the flash washed out the sign he was holding.

[innerSpaceman]

Hahaha, Babette is simply continuing her usual photo trend of WTF is she doing when they snapped it.

Ahem, our group got No. 700 (Club) for the Second Year in a Row. Four more and we win the Chevy!!

[dingdong2u]

Hahaha, Babette is simply continuing her usual photo trend of WTF is she doing when they snapped it.

Ahem, our group got No. 700 (Club) for the Second Year in a Row. Four more and we win the Chevy!!

After the 1pm Castle Photo I never ended up finding you guys out in front of the Mansion at 8:00pm (pout). However, I was #404 entering the Mansion (darn, I almost had enough for half a Yugo!) :D

Hope everyone had fun. It was nice being able to see Crazy Legs and lots of the others at the Castle. Shall we do it again next year? :cool:

--- Mike

[Not Afraid]

Ahem, our group got No. 700 (Club) for the Second Year in a Row. Four more and we win the Chevy!!

When I first saw that pic I thoough it was last year's photos, but I wasn't holding the sign. I can believe you got the same number! That's Bee-Zar!

[DreadPirateRoberts]

When I first saw that pic I thoough it was last year's photos, but I wasn't holding the sign. I can believe you got the same number! That's Bee-Zar!


Could you please educate a Bat's day newbie? What is the sign for? Why do they give it out?

[Morrigoon]

I posted my photos on MC. Too many to repost all of them, but you can see them here (http://www.micechat.com/forums/showthread.php?t=35148)

But here's the sign:
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b321/morrigoon/DSC03595184.jpg

And here's a panorama of the hub before it got too crowded (was totally packed just before 1)
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b321/morrigoon/gothhubpan.jpg

[MickeyLumbo]

Could you please educate a Bat's day newbie? What is the sign for? Why do they give it out?

there is an exact "count" tallied of how many participants experience the Haunted Mansion attraction together. each group of (can't recall if it is 25 or 50) people have a paper sign to help organizers keep an accurate count.

amazingly, the "LoTters" group has received "700" two years in a row... and has now been dubbed, "the NotAfraid - 700 Club".

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Very cool pictures, Morrigoon! :cheers:

[DreadPirateRoberts]

there is an exact "count" tallied of how many participants experience the Haunted Mansion attraction together. each group of (can't recall if it is 25 or 50) people have a paper sign to help organizers keep an accurate count.

amazingly, the "LoTters" group has received "700" two years in a row... and has now been dubbed, "the NotAfraid - 700 Club".

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Very cool pictures, Morrigoon! :cheers:

Ah, Thank you!

[Gemini Cricket]

Cool pics!
Was it very hot that day in all that black?

[innerSpaceman]

It was the least hot Goth Day on record. Maybe because it was held a week earlier, or so I'm told.

Still too hot for black. TheatreTech (whose outfit was awesome - where are pics?) said all the heat from his body traveled downward along his rail-thin frame and got trapped in his boots, and he claimed his toes were burning.


Still, we have a way around that. We leave the park right after the 1pm photo and hang out in the Grand Cal and/or Jazz Kitchen all afternoon.



Patented coolness.

[Ghoulish Delight]

I
Still too hot for black. TheatreTech (whose outfit was awesome - where are pics?) I believe I saw a couple of him in Norm's pics (holding a parasol, right?)

[innerSpaceman]

Yeah, but he was backlit, and you couldn't see the spectacularness of it. Ooooh, and the color (it was NOT black). He didn't get Norm's copyrighted b&w treatment (which was such a perfect effect for this event), but the incredible details of the outfit were lost in the unfortunate backlighting.

He had one of the coolest outfits of the day ... or of EVER. Certainly someone, somewhere got a better pic.

[innerSpaceman]

Oh, and unlike last year, the purity of the stretch room was maintained ... with no ungoth interlopers allowed.

As such, the once-year-ok spielalong was excellent. With great echos of the stretch room speech afterwards ... once at our surprisingly fantastic, last-minute fireworks spot ('natch) and later, quite surprisingly indeed, by our hysterical tram spieler at the wonderful night's conclusion.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Courtesy Morigoon...

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b321/morrigoon/DSC03417014.jpg

[TheatreTech]

I'd do me.


Thankies iSm. :)
Surprisingly, even though it was hot, I don't think I physically broke a sweat all day. My feet are still in pain as well. I should have changed into the converse that I left in the car. 'Vanity before comfort'--what's a goth to do.

[alphabassettgrrl]

My pictures are at my on-line photo site.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/62443344@N00/sets/72157594247558736/

I didn't take as many shots as I thought I did but I did get to try out my fireworks setting. That was fun.

[Gn2Dlnd]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v325/gn2dlnd/Mattfiend.jpg

Such pretty boys.

Sigh.

[Not Afraid]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v325/gn2dlnd/Mattfiend.jpg

Such pretty boys.

Sigh.

Somwhow, lisening to early Bowie while looking at this pic is so appropriate. I always loved androgynous men.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v325/gn2dlnd/Mattfiend.jpg
Damn, that is hot. TT must've been THE most stylish Goth there. :cool:

[Capt Jack]

yup, its official. I have no style at all.
then again, I probably have shoes older than these two folks.

/sigh

[innerSpaceman]

Yes, TT was ....

... but enough of him - - who's the adorable boy standing next to?



(is it any surprise that bisexuals really dig androgenous men???)

[Not Afraid]

(is it any surprise that bisexuals really dig androgenous men???)

Bi-sexual men and fag hags. ;) (I'm not terribly bi.)

[Sub la Goon]

I was lucky enough to be there and TT looks even thinner in person (unbelievably). He looked great and I saw ISM and I don't know who else on this board. I was wearing my most baroque red PEZ t-shirt.

I recognized Darkbeer and introduced myself and he introduced me around to some of the Mice Chatters in attendance. Al Lutz was there (his birthday even) and I fell in with a group for lunch after the 1PM Big Picture at Pizza Port, did several rides, etc. Favorite moment: Billy and the Hillbillys having fun with a group of Goth girls in the box next to the stage. Billy: "We're into Goth.... Goth Brooks"

The group meet at the HM was very cool. It was like regulated chaos. The vibe was very much like the old days at concerts, clubs, and parties. See and be-seen. As a civilian, I was able to bypass the Goth line and get into the HM FastPass-style. I don't know what was funnier: the Goths or the tourists wondering what in the world was going on. The elevator ride was incredibly loud and hilarious.

All-in-all, I would say that Bat's Day is awesome! :cool:

[innerSpaceman]

Sub, i'm so bummed we didn't hook up. I didn't see you, though you apparently saw me (in that get-up I almost had on, probably a lot more of me than most people here have seen).

Let's not wait till next Goth Day to play in the Park ... or come to some other LoT event.

[Not Afraid]

VanGoon! You didn't hang with the LoTters? Next time.

[innerSpaceman]

You left him there to fend.


He recognized micechatters. Where were the swankers he might recognize? Hmmmmm?


(I don't know how in hell he recognized me .... little good it did, since he never intro'd himself)

[Not Afraid]

HEY! I had other priorities. I miss one Bats Day in 5 years and this is the hell I get. Fine. :p


Remember, I'm more Goth than any of you. I had GRAVES disease. ;)

[innerSpaceman]

Um, well, ok ... ya got me there.




But we're gonna be stuck in the rut of 700 till you get off your keister and come to another one.

[Not Afraid]

One year. ONCE. And I'm on my keister?

[Sub la Goon]

OMG people - chill.

I happened recognize ISM and TT post-facto by looking over some of the pix people posted.

A great time was had by all, fending or not.

I know that NA could not make it because my mom has a cat that recently went through the same thing. It ain't pretty and I applaud both of you for your diligence.

Maybe we could meet up at the Chinatown screening? Is that this Saturday?

[innerSpaceman]

Do you realize the SHAME that came with getting the same number twice? It was like we were has-beens or something. Nobodies. Posseurs.








(oh ... wait)

[Not Afraid]

VanGoon, you DO need to meet all of us and actually see our bantering in person. There is about 1/32 of an ounce of seriousness here.

Besides, I could beat ISM up.

[innerSpaceman]

half a teaspoon full, to be precise.






(which works for both the seriousness ratio and our relative beat-you-up sizes)

[Sub la Goon]

I agree. This I gotta see.

[TheatreTech]

Yes, TT was ....

... but enough of him - - who's the adorable boy standing next to?



(is it any surprise that bisexuals really dig androgenous men???)

That's Chris.
If a name adds much.

[Morrigoon]

Dunno, I still thought this guy had major style going:
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b321/morrigoon/DSC03448045.jpg

Sadly, the pic doesn't do justice AT ALL to his classy outfit.

[TheatreTech]

Dunno, I still thought this guy had major style going:
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b321/morrigoon/DSC03448045.jpg

Sadly, the pic doesn't do justice AT ALL to his classy outfit.

I saw that guy.
I liked the classy 'traditional-ness' of it. Or something, maybe.

[innerSpaceman]

That's Chris.
If a name adds much.


It will help to know what to call him in the dream i plan on having in about, oh, 3 hours.

[Morrigoon]

Bow-chicka bow-wow....

[CrazyLegs]

Not afraid I wish you would have made it