Do you remember.....

[travelbug]

Main Street Electrical Parade
Tapestry of Dreams Parade

Does anyone remember when the AK safari ride used to have a live CM standing by the truck containing Little Red? The CM would wave to the tourists that all was well.

Toontown Fair used to be called something else but I'm drawing a blank. Something about Mickey's birthday??

 

[SunnyP4Disney]

Ah, the Kitchen Kabaret (veggie veggie fruit fruit CHA CHA CHA!!!)

The part in Horizons when you'd smell the oranges

Body Wars (the first Disney ride to make me barf)

World of Motion (I was in the training video for that one at 5 years old, wearing my Ms. Pac Man shirt and MM ears)

When The Marketplace was called the Village and you could drive your golf carts there and park.

The Fairway Villas and Club Villas, remember when the Fairway Villas had full sized houses you could stay at?

Mission to Mars (where Stitch's Great Escape is at)- I loved how the seats would rumble when you took off

I MISS 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA! Everytime we go by there I get sad.

At Big Thunder Mountain when all the CMs would wear cowboy boots and bang their feet every now and again together.

 

[ols386]

Wasn't there a place called the Disney Institute several years ago? Does anyone remember it? I'm not really even sure what it was.

 

[Simba's Mom]

I LOVE reminiscing about changes at WDW. Does anyone else remember when the bus routes were identified by colored flags, not words on the frot("to get -,take the green flag bus to the brown flag bus")? Also, there was a time when all of Epcot opened at the same time and you could eat breakfast at the French Bakery. And I remember when Disney characters were informally just around, no "handlers" or formal lines.

 

[arkansas mom]

I have foggy memories of animatronics going into or out of Space Mountain. It was like scenes from a space-age family. What was that?

 

[FormrCastMbr]

Kikkoman had the greatest restaurant in Adventureland.

I remember they had a great burger there!

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River Country was great and also being able to swim in the lake.

I also remember taking a boat to the island where all the pelicans are/were...I can't think of the name was it Discovery Island maybe?

I worked at the Village Marketplace and one of the best memories was driving the golf carts around and on the roads...then I wasn't allowed anymore because I crashed into the building that is now Earl of Sandwich.

How about the buses that went around the Worls Showcase?

 

[Wall-E1]

I remember they had a great burger there!

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River Country was great and also being able to swim in the lake.

I also remember taking out boat to the island where all the pelicans are/were...I can't think of the name was it Discovery Island maybe?

Oh yes, Discovery Island. I was amazed by that as a kid. It was the first time that I ever encountered squirrels that would come up to you to be hand fed. As a kid, I thought that was the coolest thing.

 

[js]

I remember:

Tying the string of the paper tickets around the button of my shirt so the CMs could either look or pull off the tickets as we went on the rides (could you imagine letting your little kids do that with their tickets LOL).

If you had Wings

Wedway

Pushing the button in Horizons to smell the Oranges

 

[hrh_disney_queen]

I remember when the Contemporary Resort actually WAS contemporary.

A-E tickets, although since we belonged to the MK club, all of ours were E tickets.

Test riding Space Mountain before it opened to the general public.

Topiary animals you could see below on your way in on the monorail.

Christmas day-no lines.

No DHS, AK, DTD, and even no EPCOT. Just MK.

 

[MomofKatie]

Mr Toad's Wild Ride

If You Had Wings, sponsored by Eastern Airlines (and you didn't need a ticket to ride it!!)

The Circlevision Theater in Tomorrowland (where Monsters Inc is now)

The Mickey Mouse Revue

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

the Penny Arcade on Main Street

the magic shop on Main Street

The Main Street Electrical Parade

No Space Mtn, Splash Mtn, BTMRR, or PotC

King Stefan's Banquet Hall in Cinderella's Castle

the Diamond Horseshoe Revue

there were only 3 WDW resorts- the Contemporary, Ft Wilderness, and the Poly- and if you got to stay there, you were soooooo lucky

the Main Street Cinema, where you could watch old Mickey Mouse cartoons

the Swan Boats near the Castle

Flight to the Moon (later Mission to Mars) where Stitch is now.

buying ticket books with the A, B, C, D, and E tickets. The E ticket rides were the best ones.

 

[DisGlobeGirl01]

Mr. Toad, Dreamflight, World of Motion, Horizons...

All of these rides were my favorite!!!

 

[terri01p]

All of these rides were my favorite!!!

AH YES, good times !

 

[Sleepy]

I have foggy memories of animatronics going into or out of Space Mountain. It was like scenes from a space-age family. What was that?

I remember this from my trip in July 1981. I was only 11 years old back then. My memories are foggy as well, but I do remember seeing the futuristic animatronic family. I was too afraid to ride Space Mountain, so we exited. I have always had a fascination with animatronics. Upon my next trip in 1999, I kept asking myself where the animatronic family was and where the mission control animatronic thing was. Again, a foggy memory. I believe that part of my memory has been explained in an earlier post.

 

[DancingBear]

Toontown Fair used to be called something else but I'm drawing a blank. Something about Mickey's birthday??

Mickey's Birthdayland (later Mickey's Starland).

 

[DancingBear]

Body Wars (the first Disney ride to make me barf)

Yeah, I remember when Body Wars was the ride everyone "ran" to at rope drop. Loved Cranium Command, also in the Wonders of Life pavillion.

 

[DancingBear]

Wasn't there a place called the Disney Institute several years ago? Does anyone remember it? I'm not really even sure what it was.

Disney Institute was located where Saratoga Springs is now. The idea was to appeal to adults by offering some educational but fun courses, like cooking classes or drawing taught by a Disney animator, and also with spa services.

 

[DancingBear]

Pushing the button in Horizons to smell the Oranges

As I remember it, you didn't have to push buttons to smell the oranges, it just happened when you passed the orange groves. But you did have to press the buttons to vote whether you returned via land, sea or space.

Site with audio and video of Horizons:

http://www.horizons1.com/media.htm

 

[NY Disney fan]

Two things I remember in Epcot (golf ball) starship ride (are they still there?):

1.) the caveman would blow his foot to show that that was the only transportation he had.

2.) the little paper boy that said "extra! extra! NY Daily!"

 

[DancingBear]

the Diamond Horseshoe Revue

I remember one of the secrets for MK was immediately going to the podium near Tony's Town Square and getting a reservation for lunchtime at the Revue.

 

[DancingBear]

Two things I remember in Epcot (golf ball) starship ride (are they still there?):

1.) the caveman would blow his foot to show that that was the only transportation he had.

Right, his foot would light up like it was burning and he was blowing on it to cool it off!

2.) the little paper boy that said "extra! extra! NY Daily!"

I really hated that kids' voice, it went right through me.