Tissue Time: What makes you cry at Disney?

[NostalgicDad]

Walking through the tunnel after entering the turnstiles.

Any fireworks show.

Flag Retreat.

Hearing Walt say......"To all those who come to this happy place........Welcome!"

Watching my kids have fun.

Seeing other kids crying or getting in trouble or yelled at.

 

[toocherie]

The Electrical Parade music makes me cry and smile at the same time . . . .

 

[rentayenta]

The opening speech!!! I don't think my girls have heard that at all....yes, we are definitely going to be there at rope drop at least once this trip. We aren't early risers so we tend to sleep in and get there later...not this time!! Thanks for the reminder!

My DD was laughing at me so badly on our trip to WDW. We arrived at the MK at the crack of dawn, seriously. Anyway the spiel came on, it was quiet, and beautiful outside, and I was bawling, like shaking bawling. I tried to explain to her how totally awesome it was being their with my child and being able to share it with her. She but one day she'll understand.



I also forgot the EP! I get teary everytime the dwarves come by in the mining cart with all of the jewels.

 

[chickybanky]

I tear up at the Electrical Light Parade and the fireworks.

I forgot to add Walt's opening spiel makes me tear up every single time and that's why I insist on being there at rope drop.

I've never been there for the rope drop, but we will be this time! I'm sure I'll tear up at that too.

 

[Bread&Butterflies]

I am tearing up right now cause we just got home last Saturday and I am sad that our trip is over.

While we were there, I teared up at the Electric Light Parade, the music gets me every time, but when the White Rabbit came up to me and my dd(2) and kneeled down to hold her hand I needed a tissue when he left. She was thrilled and kind of in shock. lol But the look on her face was priceless as Alice is her favorite story.

Later that night seeing her face watching the fireworks up close didn't bring me to tears, but when Tinkerbell went flying around the castle the waterworks started. I haven't seen Tink fly @ DL since I was a little girl. (I am usually on rides during the fireworks when I have been as a grown up w/my son) It was just a wonderful experience to re-live Disneyland through my toddler's eyes. *sniff* I never brought my son, now 21, when he was a toddler; so he enjoyed us shifting our focus this trip & seeing his little sister be mesmerized by everything as well.

Eating in the hotel room also brings back fond memories and tears me up. My mom was a single mom to 3 of us. And she took us to DL on a $150 budget in the 70's when we were 6,9 & 13. We ate lucky charms in the hotel in our little bowls from home, and she brought her electric frying pan and we ate scrambled eggs one morning & grilled cheese sandwiches for lunch, then splurged for food in the park for dinner. I get teared up thinking how great a mom she was to make sure we got to go to Disneyland even with little money. We even got 2 souvenirs; I still have the stuffed Marie from Aristocats that she got me on that trip and I am 40yrs old now, and mom til this day has the pastel drawing of my sister and I that we got done in NOS hanging on her bedroom wall.

 

[AmericanItGirl]

The only time that I got seriously choked up at DL was hearing "Remember When" for the first time after the fireworks because it just described my childhood so perfectly.

 

[bonita_babe232]

I agree with everyone! Entering disneyland looking at up at the signs and walking under the bridge to enter disneyland all tears of joy! Then when watching the fireworks and hearing walts words , lots of things get me! But i'm a crier to start with!

 

[CinderellaPrincess22]

Honestly the whole park makes me cry. .
Eveytime I look at the castle I cry.
I have ALWAYS LOVED the princesses.
But I also cry because I have never gotten to see Cinderella's castle in WDW.
I LOVE cinderella.
Just talking about all this makes me teary eyed.

 

[CinderellaPrincess22]

I can't wait to go back.
I'm sure I will cry through the WHOLE trip.
: ]

 

[CinderellaPrincess22]

Originally Posted by rentayenta
I forgot to add Walt's opening spiel makes me tear up every single time and that's why I insist on being there at rope drop.

I've never been there for the rope drop, but we will be this time! I'm sure I'll tear up at that too.


What is the rope drop?

 

[DangerMouse]

I tear up at the Electrical Light Parade and the fireworks.



I've never been there for the rope drop, but we will be this time! I'm sure I'll tear up at that too.

Just an FYI, the last few times I have been at rope drop, they haven't played Walt's speech. Just a short opening spiel . . . I wonder if they only used Walt for the 50th?

 

[JenDisneylandlver]

The Remember fireworks for sure.

When the Country Bears were still there I'd cry at a few different parts, because I have so many memories with my Grandma there. One of the bears was her favorite, she'd always do her best impression of him. LOL That and the swinging bear would come down from the ceiling, I'd get a few tears because I remember she'd always be the one to point it out to me, it was our favorite together.

Leaving there knowing we won't be back for a while can be a tear jerker as well.

 

[tofubeast]

Reading some of your experiences whether it be grandpa on main street, single mom preparing food in the hotel, and grandma at country bears is making me cry! It is amazing how so many of us have such special moments at DL, WDW, etc...

While it is very sad to think about those who have passed on, isn't it nice to have a place that makes you think about them and happy memories? It is almost like a piece of them is still with you.

Keep the stories coming, and somebody...pass the tissue please!

 

[Dizneydaz]

Fireworks and Flag Retreat-everytime!

 

[JenDisneylandlver]

Reading some of your experiences whether it be grandpa on main street, single mom preparing food in the hotel, and grandma at country bears is making me cry! It is amazing how so many of us have such special moments at DL, WDW, etc...

While it is very sad to think about those who have passed on, isn't it nice to have a place that makes you think about them and happy memories? It is almost like a piece of them is still with you.

Keep the stories coming, and somebody...pass the tissue please!

Oh absolutely! For me there are memories at every turn. When we walk past BTMR I can see my Dad getting off of it, looking kind of pale and sick, while saying it was great (he's been gone for about 15 years now). Even the Emporium on Main Street, I can remember my Grandma buying me the BIG Goofy doll, and me dragging it on to the monorail to go back to the hotel.

A lot of the rides are gone now (like the small boats, people mover, America Sings ect..) that I had a lot of memories from, but it really is like having a little piece of my loved ones there with us on every trip.

It's nice knowing that my son will have those same memories and feelings when he takes his kids to DL someday.

 

[DoomBugger]

Closing time makes me shed tears... and super long lines.

Seriously, I get emotional when I see photos or film of Walt. For me Disneyland is Walt's personal love letter to his country, America!

 

[mindylovesmickey]

Flag Retreat, Parade of Dreams (mainly everytime I hear the music), watching my kids with the characters.

 

[actionvaughn]

I knew I wasn't the only one to feel this way! Fantasmic definitley makes me teary, and even though I've been on it a trillion times, the end of Soarin'. (Am I the only one to mention it so far?) The music, the scene- I just get overfilled with emotion, and I can't explain it... but it gets me every time!

 

[stacielee]

RDCT Fireworks
The very beginning of the DEP (Ladies and gentleman boys and girls . . . )
Watching my youngest dd sleep with Sleeping Beauty.

As soon as I read that, I teared up!!! Same for me, EP!

 

[prncssmel]

Walking under the tunnel at the entrance.

Remember fireworks - I cry when I listen to the CD at home even. They are seriously my favorite thing in any Disney park.

IASW - such an amazing message.