Memories... Ahh good times.

[NHMickey]

So do you have a piece of Disney that just envokes a tear in your eye? Is there a special collectable you treasure above all others cause of a special meaning... Please share it with us here on the collectors board... Where memories are also a collectable!!!

[SueEllen]

You know Nat, that's a hard call. There are so many things that really mean a lot to me...but you know the ONE thing I would NEVER EVER want to part with? My pictures from our Disney Visits...they mean more to me than ANY other Disney Collectible that I have. I have about 20 photo albums of Disney pictures that I'm *eventually* going to scrapbook (okay, it might take me YEARS to do)

I'm sure that's not the type of answer you were looking for, but it's the first one that popped into my head.

Sue Ellen

[KNWVIKING]

...'95 was my 1st trip to WDW, (other then a cinderella liberty at the end of boot camp back in '77), with DW and two sons. We drove in from the airport and I believe we came in the Main Gate enterance. In the big grassy median between the in-bound & out-bound lanes,there is a white sand oasis with palm trees that just struck me as "DISNEY" and I have no idea why. Whenever we're at WDW and we drive by this site I always get that dejavu feeling.

Told you it was silly.

[Buzz2001]

I agree SueEllen. My pins, snowglobes and everything else from WDW are great but nothing like my photos of my daughter and her first time at WDW. She thought she was the queen of the kingdom. Strutting around and posing every chance she got. Before that trip I didn't own a single thing from WDW let alone no anything about the place. That first trip is what will do it for me.

[JudithM]

I am currently reliving our first trip to WDW (12 years ago) through our photos. I tore apart our photo album & am creating a scrapbook. Goofymom/pop sent me some really neat hand made Disney scrapbook items that I am using. I'm not the most creative person, but it suits Beauregard & me!

[wdw4us2]

Nat, It's hard to pick out just one.

I'd have to say that my all-time favorite item from WDW is my Map of the Magic Kingdom from my first visit there in 1972. That was when you had to buy guide maps if you wanted to find your way around quickly.

We had it framed a few years ago, and it hangs above the computer desk so I can glance up at it when I'm on The Dis with my friends.

It also comes in handy when playing the Parks Game thread on the Theme Parks board.

What's your favorite, Nat?

[BeautyLLM]

I have two...the first is my Last Day/First Day pin, which is very emotional for me...(a story that I have told several times here so I won't bore you with it again). The others are a couple of specific photos of my kids at WDW...Jason, age 4, nose to nose with Pooh, Charlie, also about age four hamming it up with one of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Jessica, about 2 1/2 or 3, posing on a carrousel horse. Those days when they were little went by so fast.....

[mkingdon]

Hard choice to make...but I go with the photos idea. We always make up a large collage (SP?) with all our photos from each trip.

We have them all around the house, and whenever I'm feeling very non Disney, I just stand and look at one of them, and see something new or different, or just drift back to the time we took the photo.

Priceless

[Micca]

I have many Disney things that mean a lot, but my favorite is a video tape of my twin DD's from when they were about 3 years old. We were at the Germany pavilion in Epcot when they spontaneously burst into a mock German folk dance to the oom-pah music. I have no idea where they learned of such a thing, but it was the cutest moment from their entire childhood. They didn't dance long, but long enough that it began to attract the attention of people there in the area. As a postscript, one of our dd's is now a CM, but neither have actually been to Germany:D

[Simba's Mom]

My favorite is a picture, like so many others have said. It's a picture of DS #2 on the monorail from our first trip in 1987 (bonus points because that's when the inside of the monorail was a different set-up). He's sitting there with his arms folded across his chest and a very obvious pout because this Disney theme park thing isn't making him happy. He just wants to go back to his " village" (FW trailer homes-his idea of vacation) and watch the Disney channel.
But a picture probably isn't what you meant. I have a Mickey telephone, where he's holding the receiver in his hand, that DH bought me at FW in 1992. He had to take it out of the box to fit it in his luggage to surprise me with it as a Christmas gift the next month. So what did he do? Brought the box out right in front of me while we talked and packed the whole time. I never noticed a thing, right in front of me!

[john59]

1st---How are you doing Nat ?

Our first trip to Diz---Things sure have changed. Must be close to 30 years ago.
The airport (McCoy) was one big room. No jetways. You deplaned by climbing down steps.
I remember looking out the airport window and seeing a palm tree. Is that real ?????
I said to the kids ; how did you like the airplane ride. It was OK. That was a downer for me. I thought it may be the only time they would get on an airplane.
Got on a bus to go to the Contemporary hotel. As we rode along, there was nothing. We are in New Jersey !!!!! It really did look like the Pine Barrens of NJ.
All of a sudden we started seeing bushes that were trimmed as animals. Must be getting close.
There loomed the Contemporary. The monorail and one theme park, The Majic Kingdom. The kids rode the monorail for a couple hours and we rode boat transportation for about the same time.
After we checked in, we made reservations for the next year.
Our baby is now 35 and Shirl and I are having ball doing the Cruises. After the Cruise we go to the Dixie Landings (or whatever it is called) for a couple days. Head home and start planning the next expedition.
john59

[RamVA]

I'm not real big on saving mementos to remind me of special times--maybe because I never had much storage space moving around--no attic like in the "olden" days! I cry at the drop of a hat--songs, books, movies, even tv commercials, but I just don't get sentimental about "things".

But, there is one special collectible I have-- a gift from yours truly, Nat--that is just the epitomy of the special friendships and generosity that I have experienced in the last 19 months from this wonderful group of Disney "nuts" that I have met through pin trading! Every time I look at it, I am reminded of the wonderful times I had at the September pin event, and marvel at the generosity of someone who would be so giving--not to a good friend, mind you, but to someone they just met, and really barely know!--all in the spirit of pin karma!! Thanks again, Nat and Sandy for one of my best Disney memories--you two are a shining example of what this hobby is all about.