Tokyo Disneyland’s Secret Dance Cult

If everybody you knew broke in spontaneous dance at Disneyland, would you join them? Welcome to a classic segment of “oh Japan!”. Assuming you don’t know much about Japanese people, you might not have known that Japanese people are obsessed with Disneyland. It’s a little bit like how it is with grown adults taking annual pilgrimages to Disney World. I’m not sure why but it’s fun to see.

But the love of those Disney fans runs so deep that during some brief moments of closure, there would be young kids taking the train line back and forth from the bridge facing Disneyland just to gaze at the theme park. Sounds excessive? What if I told you there were groups of people that buy Disneyland tickets just to go dance around a ride like they worship it or something?

Akidearest discovering the cult of Baymax

Oh yes friends, the Baymax cult is real. But don’t worry, it can’t hurt you. Or can it? Well it doesn’t want to anyway. They just wanna dance and they want you to join them.

Disney’s Baymax ride

How to get to the Baymax cult gathering

Just like with anything else Disney, they have the entire experience curated beautifully. The visuals, rides, music and buildings are refined to give you that magical experience. That’s what you pay them the big bucks for after all!

But it doesn’t stop there! Disney makes its employees learn specific dances, songs and scripts for every section of the theme park and more importantly, every ride.

An employee doing all the Baymax dances

And one particular dance and song combo we care about today is the dance and song at The Happy Ride with Baymax. This ride has six songs with lyrics and dance choreographies.

For some reason, people gather around the ride and… Sing and dance to it? They don’t even line up for the bumper cars, they just crowd around it and join in on the choreography for fun.

How did this even come up?

The Baymax cult in all its glory

Things like these make me wonder, why buy tickets on a regular basis to go do silly dances for free? But when I think about it seriously, the real reason might be that you don’t get many chances to let loose and be silly in Japanese society without the excuse of being drunk. And Disneyland is one of those magical places where you can just have fun and let loose… In fact, people might just find it cute and join you.

Is that the real reason? I don’t know, but what we can all agree is that seeing a bunch of people spontaneously join the employees in dancing and singing does add to the “magic” of the ride itself.

Would you join them?

If you are to go visit Tokyo’s Disneyland at some point in the future, you should definitely pass by and experience the strange Baymax dance hobbyists. But I’m curious, would you join in? Aki from the earlier video did, would you?

Also, what’s an equivalent weird trend that happens in America? Best I can think of is people that dress up as Star Wars characters and go to the Star Wars themed areas. Would you join on the LARPing just for fun?

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