Tissue Time: What makes you cry at Disney?

[CandCMommy]

Watching the Electrical Parade with my DS. It's long been a favorite of mine and has now become a favorite of his. Now it's OUR thing. It also makes me tear up when he starts singing the music once we've left the park.

Watching DS in the new Playhouse Disney show, watching him as all his favorite tv characters come to life right before his eyes.

The look on my DS's face when the snow starts falling on Main Street.

I'm teary now just thinking about it.

 

[AZMermaid]

I cry every time at the Flag Retreat Ceremony. Just the respect that everyone has for the soldiers (past and present) and the flag and everything. It gets me every time. One time I saw it they had these two Marines do the color guard. They were leaving for Iraq the next day. OMG I get teary just remembering it!!

 

[Tink208]

Fantasmic! does it to me every time; it is just a matter of when. Sometimes the opening chord does it; sometimes it is the princesses and their partners singing/dancing on their barges; and, absolutely, if I have managed to make it all the way through, the Mark Twain coming out with all the characters on it will have me scrambling for a tissue.

This past November was our first trip with all four of us, and I don't think I will ever forget the feelings of total happiness that I had while sitting on the ground in New Orleans Square after having just watched Fantasmic! and watching the fireworks with my little boy cuddled up on my lap. It was a very misty-eyed moment for me.

It isn't DL, but it is Disney: the opening moments of the stage version of The Lion King made me cry; it was so stirring.

 

[Wendi2000]

For me it's the Christmas fireworks!

Yup, I totally cry when "White Christmas" starts to play and the snow starts to fall... I just love it.

I also cry when I leave the park on my last night there... sooooo very sad!!!

I sometimes cry when I have a nostalgic moment or when my son has a really special experience that I know will become one of those moments for him someday.

 

[E-orLover]

I am so glad to know I am not the only one who cry's at the simple things. My friends and husband just don't get it. I had a rough childhood but my mom always saw to it that we made an annual trip to the park (lived in S.CA). It did what Walt meant for it to do, I forgot about everything the moment I entered the gates. My mom was a single mom who worked two jobs (sometimes three) to support me and my brother, so I was so excited when we all went to Disneyland because we had our mom for a WHOLE day to ourselves. I try to forget some of the things that happened during my childhood but I cherish each and every memory I have of us at Disneyland. The place that allowed me to feel safe and have some fun and spend time with my mom. It is those memories that still bring me to tears.

Today, watching my boys enjoy the wonder, beauty and magic of Disneyland brings me to tears. Fantasmic, RDCT-this always brings me to tears (even listening to it on CD). Walt's opening speech.

But the one ture thing I love about Disneyland was it was one mans dream. That no supported in the begining, but he NEVER gave up on his dream, he kept fighting for it. He risked everything because he believed in it and knew others would to. So the courage and determination of Walt makes me cry because without that we wouldn't be able to experice any of the magic he knew deep down inside everyone would enjoy. And boy was he every right. He proved so many people wrong. Even when Disneyland first opened and all the troubles it faced that day, everyone agreed they would come back. So thank you Mr. Disney for everything, because I personal don't care how much of a sap I am when it comes to your park (or your movies).

 

[drgalyen]

Last time I went with just the hubby and tears started when I hit main street. I thought we could go without the kids and have a blast, cause we went there for our honeymoon. Well we both agreed that we won't go again without kids. It is so much more fun with kids, watching their faces makes me cry too.
FYI My DH cried while watching the fireworks! I thought it was cute!!!

 

[disneegrl4eva]

I just love that show though and I'll be one of those crazies sitting there for 2 hours to get a spot front and center. It's worth it to me.

i am SO there with you right now...that's a norm for me

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.

thank so much for bringing on the waterworks...now my nose is running......

Walking under the tunnel at the entrance.

oh man i have a funny one about this...when my dd was little, every time we go to the entrance at the tunnel, I would make her stop and all these people were rushing to get through but we took a couple of seconds and read the entire plaque and I just cherished the fact that I was about to enter my beloved place...and now that my dd is grown and doesnt share my sentiments about DL (she says I ruined it for her by taking her so muchas if) but this has stuck in her mind all these years even though she teases me about it...I dont do it anymore because Ive been fortunate enough to be able to go several times a year now but when she does grace me with her presence (once every 3 years or so ) I pretend like im going to it and she jokingly runs through it screaming

Leaving and going back to work. It really makes me cry.

The fireworks sometimes make me teary-eyed, and my DF's proposal really got me. That is the only time I have really cried in Disneyland. I expected a proposal, but didn't expect to cry!!!

YOU my dear....are the luckiest girl in the world....and when you get mad at your df, remember how many girls out there (me included) would have loved to get what you got!! and then dont be mad at him anymore



the thing that really makes me cry now is the lighting of sleeping beauty castle at christmas time...because this past christmas was its first year and I had never seen it before it just made me bawl my eyes out...dang here i go again..just thinking about it is making me tear up sheesh

 

[Alex2kMommy]

Leaving disneyland makes me cry.....
But ARRIVING also gets me choked up!!

The first view of the castle. Fireworks, parades. We always ride Pirates late on our last day, and it's a nice way to end our stay; I get a little teary.


Oh, and when we were going on our first trip to DL a year and a half ago, one of the CMs at Disney Travel told me that when we walk into the park, I should set my camera ready to shoot a photo of my older boy (6yo at the time) when he first saw the castle.

So I got my camera ready and waited (and got all misty!), but he didn't even look that direction, he was looking at all the shop windows. So I finally managed to choke out, "Ohhhh, honey, what a beautiful castle!"

He said, "Castle? What castle?"

OK, touching moment over.

 

[AmericanItGirl]

This isn't in the parks, but I'm watching the Disney Planning DVD (my mom is talking about taking a family trip to WDW in a few years since we've never been as a family [my brothers and I have been once before, but on separate trips]) and it's filled with so many cute moments and touching commentary that I can't help but tear up. I feel like a dork for admitting that.

 

[NWPrincess]

My dad and I were waiting in line at Peter Pan's Flight and we started talking to this family. One of the little girls started talking to him and he told her that he remembers when I was a little girl just like her and we were standing in the same exact line. Then he told her that if her dad was lucky, he'd get to take her on it again when she was my age.

It was so sweet of my dad and considering that I don't get to see him very often anymore, thinking of the moment really made me tear up.

 

[Albort]

Very Very Mad Guest yelling at me for i dont know what reason. :'(

 

[Pamb]

This isn't in the parks, but I'm watching the Disney Planning DVD (my mom is talking about taking a family trip to WDW in a few years since we've never been as a family [my brothers and I have been once before, but on separate trips]) and it's filled with so many cute moments and touching commentary that I can't help but tear up. I feel like a dork for admitting that.

That is so funny because this is happening to me too! I will be taking my family for the first time and every time I think of my girls 7 & 5 meeting the princesses (proud to be a HAPI member!) I get teary. I couldn't watch the DVD without crying. Dork #2 here!

 

[Judy from Boise]

The one thing that makes me really cry is the "Golden Dreams" attraction.I know it isn't on par with American Adventure, but it is still a very emotional experience.

 

[DisneySuiteFreak]

The one thing that makes me really cry is the "Golden Dreams" attraction.I know it isn't on par with American Adventure, but it is still a very emotional experience.

This one gets me every time too. And again, it's the visuals and story tied in with Heather Headly's beautiful voice singing the song at the end that makes it for me. What is the name of that song, does anyone know?? I tried to look it up once and couldn't find it, but the CM told me the singer was Heather Headly. She's been in a few Disney Broadway productions.

 

[Judy from Boise]

It's called "golden dreams" I have it on CD.... and thus iTunes!

 

[DisneySuiteFreak]

It's called "golden dreams" I have it on CD.... and thus iTunes!

Thank you! I'm going to find it now!

 

[Disney Anna]

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.

Oh, you are killing me....how sweet a memory about your Mom is that. I love that you still have Marie and your Mom the portrait of her girls (Aren't those great? My MIL has one of her 3 boys from the 60s in Disneyland).

 

[Disney Anna]

I cry when I'm there, when I think about it, when I watch a DVD...ok

At the Resorts...
1) Hearing Walt's voice at rope drop
2) Reading Walt's words at flag pole
3) Seeing the light on in Walt's apt.
4) Seeing Mickey Mouse
5) Fantasmic
6) Fireworks
7) Electrical Parade Music
8) Mr. Lincoln
9) Hearing the characters say goodbye at end of day
10) Seeing cast members say hi or bye by train station and on Main St, esp'y when they wear Mickey hands
11) Hearing Snow White sing at Wishing Well
12) Tinker Bell flying

At the movies, when the Disney logo first appears
When I think back on past trips, watching my Dad watching my neice Jill meet Mickey for the first time. He had tears in his eyes. Hers were full of wonder.

 

[davidsprincess]

One of the CM-lady-in-waiting (Barbie) at PFF asking us if our daughter would like to have special "one-on-one" time with her favorite princesses Aurora and Cinderella. It was us, the princesses and a lady-in-waiting. It was awsome. My husband even cried.

Just seeing DL through my daughter's eyes. It was awsome. I had never been there before and to share that "first" with my daughter is something I will never forget.

 

[Judy from Boise]

Thank you! I'm going to find it now!

Oops, I have it playing right now, and it is actually called "just one dream" and is off the DCA CD.