What makes DL super special - where is your Pixie Dust place in the park?

[eatmypixiedust]

This is my favorite Billy Hill group:

What group are they in Jen? I never knew there were groups. The main Billy reminds me of Gilbert Godfrey

 

[iceskatejen]

That's the green team (Thursdays and Fridays, though they occasionally sub on other days). The bass and mandolin players from that group are also in the gold team. Though the one on mando in that pic is a sub--Rick Dunham (the regular is Billy Bald, aka Duane Michaels--the best Billy hugger of the bunch). The lead for the green team in John Eadan, aka Billy Ears (not to be confused with bass player John Marshall or banjo player John David--lot's of Johns in that bunch). John Eadan also occasionally is on General Hospital as a maitre de and sounds completely different than he does at DL. He also is a member of the Laughing Stock troupe that performs in front of the Golden Horseshoe.

 

[disneegrl4eva]

I would say my biggest spot would be right at the tunnel when you cross from reality to main st and during Fantasmic

 

[AskTheChief]

I post at another Disney site and there seems to be a lot of complaining about how things "used to be so much better" and "in the old days".

I understand that people have bad experiences or that some things used to be better, etc., and I do want honesty, so that doesn't bother me. I just can't recall a single bad memory from DL (except minor spats with my mom, but that happens when you go on a six night trip with you mom. ).

I've been going to DL since I was under a year old, so you would think I'd have at least one bad memory! My mom says that I cried through the entire small world ride as an infant, but I don't recall it, LOL.

DL hold such great memories for me, and not just how it "used to be". Now that I have kids and have been twice with them and dh, I have all new wonderful memories of all kinds.

I remember riding POTC with my grandparents when I was about five. Specifically, I remember the part right before you go down the big dip and see the skull and crossbones talking. Whenever I go on the ride now and see that, it's a total flashback. My grandma died last summer and my grandpa about ten years ago. It's one memory that really reminds me of a time when they were able to do such things at all. So I really, really love that ride.

Tom Sawyer's island is the same thing. I remember running around (yes, running!) there as a kid with my little brother (my parents were divorced and my brother has a different dad, but whenever my dad and step-mom would take me for a few days, we took my little brother because my mom and step-dad never could have afforded to take him. I couldn't bare to go there and have such a great time and leave him behind.).

Now my own kids are running around like crazy there (getting told to stop running by a cm every five minutes, and dh and I every two minutes, LOL).

And there are so many things I didn't experience when I was a kid, like Fantasimic!. It brings tears to my eyes, and dh's eyes. You should have seen me stare at him in amazement during our first dessert buffet (and his and the kid's first trip to DL) for F! when he teared up...a Navy chief, close to crying...at the site of Mickey Mouse, et al. I'll use that to blackmail him someday.

There are so many little details that are magical for me. Just the theming, the little door on the store next to the teacups, etc. Things that you will never see anywhere else. Just going on a ride on the Columbia, etc. on the ROA takes me to another time and place.

In "short" (yeah, right), I could go on and on, but I won't.

 

[AZMickeyfans]

Ok I'll make mine short and sweet because I gotta get back to the movie quoters club.

My Pixie Dust place is in Peter Pan and front row center watching Fantasmic!

I love getting those seats for my kids and watching them mouth EVERY word to the show. They get all tense before the villians start coming on and how they cheer "GO MICKEY GO" at the end when he's battling the dragon.