PTR for the planning obsessed....Updated 11/5 We're home now.

[Charleston Princess]

The added bonus to scanning some old pictures is that if something destroys the original prints you will have the copies digitally.

20,000 was just so different than any other attraction...I think that's why we remember it better then others.

Good point!

That's so true -- and obviously long before my claustrophobia kicked in -- I wonder how I would fare on it these days?

 

[MRYPPNS]

Good point!

That's so true -- and obviously long before my claustrophobia kicked in -- I wonder how I would fare on it these days?

You'll have to try it when you go to Disneyland....it's a Nemo ride now. They do have a special "room" where you can go to view the underwater part if you are unable to make it on the sub for health/mobility issues.

 

[Charleston Princess]

You'll have to try it when you go to Disneyland....it's a Nemo ride now. They do have a special "room" where you can go to view the underwater part if you are unable to make it on the sub for health/mobility issues.

I think I would be okay since there are windows. I wouldn't feel trapped.

Do you think the new Nemo ride would be as fun as 20,000? I think I have built it up in my mind over the years, that nothing would quite compare.

 

[jordanyosh]

Great old skool fotos....

It's like a time capsule that also brings back tons of memories for not only you, but for the rest of us.....thanks for the walk down memory lane H.......

 

[MRYPPNS]

I think I would be okay since there are windows. I wouldn't feel trapped.

Do you think the new Nemo ride would be as fun as 20,000? I think I have built it up in my mind over the years, that nothing would quite compare.

The only thing that I can think of that might beat your memories would be the Jules Verne area at Tokyo DisneySea.

Great old skool fotos....

It's like a time capsule that also brings back tons of memories for not only you, but for the rest of us.....thanks for the walk down memory lane H.......

You're welcome...more coming up!

 

[MRYPPNS]

That does it for my 1984 photos of the Magic Kingdom. Lucky for us I had bought one of those big fold out postcards souvenirs.

You gotta love this Dumbo character!

Next Update: Busch Gardens, Seaworld and the Space Center

 

[mousescrapper]

There probably is nothing wrong with staying at a Holiday Inn but not for folks like us. We have countdown tickers for cryin' out loud. We take pictures of our suitcases and travel binders....we are just not the same as people who stay at the Motel 6. Now that's not to say that I won't ever stay off-site...I've been checking out the Marriot suites a bit, but any money saved would be used up by FDM so we could stay longer...do something bigger/better or just buy more things with Mickey on them!

I love it!!! such a good laugh and major trip down memory lane you are taking me on! Need a good flip back to the Disney major here on my last day stressing as the clock ticks to get everything done today!

the cult thing.... when can I come?

Wow!! You've inspired me to call my mother for some 1983 pictures. I was 9 and my brother was 6. We actually drove all the way from NH with my brother and me in the back of a pick up truck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It had a cap on it, but there was no opening between the front and back - we had to use a chalk board. If we had to go to the bathroom we would tap on the window with a coin and I would write a note on the chalk board! My mother made these cushions that we could make as a couch or into two beds! Can you even believe anyone would do such a thing! We camped at Fort Wilderness. I HAVE to get some pictures. My other trips were with my best friend's family so I probably don't have pictures from then?? But I'll have to look.

Who wore a seat belt back then? I even remember riding on the back of my Dad's old 70's Harely with cut offs on flip flops and no helmet...heck we lived by train tracks and played up by them and a retension pond behind our house...now we sure grew up in carefree way back in the 80's


Heidi,

can't wait till I get back and read more about your 84 adventures...makes me want to dig around for some more mementos from my 85 trip. Have any pic's of you? and I do remember those 110 camera's probably my first camera....my kids have mini digital ones that fit in the palm of your hand.

Scrappie

 

[MRYPPNS]

Scrappie-Do! Will you be able to get any sleep tonight???? Are you all packed? Are the kids jumping off the walls yet?

I show up in the pictures from Epcot. Digitally cameras are the best invention. I take tons and only print the best but it's nice to have them all saved...what's important today might be different 20 years from now.

 

[Charleston Princess]

I must say that vast improvements have been made in some of the characters' costumes!!!

 

[Lady Lallie]

I must say that vast improvements have been made in some of the characters' costumes!!!

That's what I was thinking when I was looking at the pics. The mouse ears are ginormous!

 

[Charleston Princess]

That's what I was thinking when I was looking at the pics. The mouse ears are ginormous!

I so hear Will Ferrell's voice when I read that!

Not to mention Pluto's tongue which is hanging down to his knees!

 

[MRYPPNS]

Take another look at the Mickey & Minnie garden picture...Mickey has human hands...just white gloves...

 

[jordanyosh]

ahhh...thanks for the 1984 flashback.........

Footloose
Purple Rain
the 84 Olympics in Los Angeles

 

[Charleston Princess]

Take another look at the Mickey & Minnie garden picture...Mickey has human hands...just white gloves...

That's downright creepy!!!

 

[jordanyosh]

Take another look at the Mickey & Minnie garden picture...Mickey has human hands...just white gloves...

I didn't even notice...

 

[Lady Lallie]

Take another look at the Mickey & Minnie garden picture...Mickey has human hands...just white gloves...

That's downright creepy!!!

That's just not right!

 

[MRYPPNS]

Did anyone get to go to River Country before it closed? I don't even think we knew about when we were there.

 

[Lady Lallie]

Did anyone get to go to River Country before it closed? I don't even think we knew about when we were there.

Never been.
I read some sad/scary stories about River Country in "Realityland: True-Life Adventues at Walt Disney World" by David Koenig (a very good read!). It also gives very good reasons why Skyway(I think that is what it was called) is closed.

 

[Charleston Princess]

Did anyone get to go to River Country before it closed? I don't even think we knew about when we were there.

We never went. I have an old brochure circa 1987, but my parents were never water park people so we never went.

Never been.
I read some sad/scary stories about River Country in "Realityland: True-Life Adventues at Walt Disney World" by David Koenig (a very good read!). It also gives very good reasons why Skyway(I think that is what it was called) is closed.

Do tell! I would like to know why Skyway closed!

 

[Lady Lallie]

Do tell! I would like to know why Skyway closed!

One time...it was in the '80's, I want to say 1986 but that could be a total guess. A female cast member got knocked by one of the ride vehicles, all she could do was hold on. There is a picture of her in the book dangling. Luckily, another cast member was there and stopped it, so she didn't get very far. In the picture you can see men in navy uniforms who happened to be there trying to climb on the roof to resuce her, eventually she dropped, hit the building and landed on the ground. She was not hurt. Then about ten years later or so, the same thing happened. This time it was male cast member who started it accidentally, was pulled out, hanging to the vehicle, sadly there was no one to stop the ride and he let go and did not survive the fall.
There are some insane stories in that book about injuries at WDW, that I had never heard of before, which is amazing to me since a lot of them are very recent.
Seriously, it's a great book. I was skeptical because I hate hearing negative things about WDW but thought the book was pretty fairly balanced, it goes into detail about construction, why Epcot isn't how Walt envisioned, etc. Very good. I read it fairly quickly too.