Contradictheory: Why do people queue for hours at Disneyland when they don’t have to?

One of my relatives visited Tokyo Disneyland earlier this year, and experienced that magical thing that only people who are lucky enough to go to Disneyland get to experience: A four-hour queue for a four-minute ride.

Given that Tokyo Disneyland has a maximum capacity of 85,000 people – and occasionally has to close its doors because that many are in the park – it means that they all are crammed into a park measuring 46ha. To put it in more familiar terms, that’s roughly all the inhabitants of Pulau Langkawi crammed into Mid Valley Megamall in Kuala Lumpur, presumably on a busy Sunday.