Book Review: The Dark Side of Disney
THE DARK SIDE OF DISNEY
Leonard Kinsey
172 Pages
2011
$2.99 Kindle
$14.95 paperback
Winner of the most provocative Disney book cover ever – a topless tattooed young woman wearing only unzipped short shorts and Mickey ears with an anarchy symbol smoking something while holding a large liquor bottle. Kinsey promises an "Utterly Unauthorized Tips, Tricks & Scams for your WDW vacation" by being "The anarchist cookbook of Disney travel guides." The book promises to show you "the best places in the parks to have sex, do drugs, and see a gritty rock show, complete with women throwing their underwear on the stage." Right up front the author wants to remind us that he really does love Disney. The author visited WDW more then a hundred times as a boy and he still goes back every year. However, if you are into the light and happy family escape that is Disney you may want to steer clear of this book.
Some of the tricks are a bit odd and something you probably never thought about. You learn how to scam a day pass for the VIP lounges at the airport, how to buy DVC points really cheap, how to sneak into the parks through non-public entrances, the perils of timeshare presentations, how to cut in lines, and where to buy drugs or to have public sex (including photos of his choice locations).
Some of the advice is just stuff you would find anywhere else. He is not thrilled with the Dining Plan, tells you how to eat cheap by splitting food or making a salad from the Pecos Bills toppings bar, recommends Giordano's off property for pizza, laments on how the stuff in the stores is all the same, and how to do a proper monorail pub crawl. He even slams Winnie the Pooh for having a fetish for honey.
He also details other hazards such as bed bugs, bacteria or alligators.
The book is a breezy romp through the resort that promise much debauchery but delivers very little. His advice is public sex will get you in trouble. Buying drugs will get you in trouble. Using improper tickets will get you in trouble. And sneaking down into the Utilidors used to be fun but will now get you in trouble. As an e-book it is really cheap and a fun read but don't get your hopes up too high.
I purchased this e-book on Amazon.
