What makes you so happy that you cry at Disney?

[tjone8]

Yes, I am a certified sap and am easily moved to tears. During my last vacation at Disney in 2014 I openly wept at Illuminations, although I had seen them before during our last visit in 2012. I'm not sure what it was about this time, but as I was sitting at Rose & Crown (selected specfically for this event), I felt the all too familiar lump form in my throat and then the water works started.

 

[Oneanne]

I've only choked up once... I was walking thru the Castle when a little girl came out of BBB in full regalia, beeming and carrying herself like a true Princess. Behind her was her Dad, teary eye and sup-supping: he turned to his wife and said "It was worth every penny".

 

[Mamato2cutekiddos]

Reading this thread...

Seriously. Everything. I'm overly emotional to begin with, plus I'm a rather nostalgic person. Wishes, meeting characters, looking at pictures of past trips, parades... it can be difficult, and I rarely take my sunglasses off because of it. It makes me embarassed that I get choked up so easily. Though I'm the same on Christmas, Easter, birthdays, etc.

 

[gavsgirl]

Every time I hear the wishes fireworks music start. Never fails! And we always stay at a hotel where we get it nightly so I cry a lot! Lol

 

[MataHari22]

Almost everything. Haha! Even when I'm home I listen to my Disney playlist, and get choked up. Specifically, the Fantasmic Finale song, it gets me every time. But, to your question, every time I start walking into MK, and every time I leave there, I cry. I always cry at Cinderella Castle, at Wishes, Illuminations, watching the shows with Mickey they have at the castle, gets me every time. Then there are many other things there that make me choke up. It's my happy place, and it also has some bittersweet memories. I miss my brother, he passed away many years ago, and we only got to go once together when we were very little. I wish that we were able to go as adults.
I love my happy place.

 

[kollerbear]

Wishes and the Castle Lighting (by Elsa) last trip got me crying like a little girl.

 

[ScottlovesDisney]

It used to take a lot for me to tear up. I haven't been to DW since 2011 and my life has taken a terrible turn financially since. I don't know when I will be able to make it back. But what makes me tear up now is when I listen to Disney stations on Live365 and hear Wishes, Illuminations, Soarin and the Star Tunnel inside Space Mountain I tear up, bathed in memories of my trips with my family when I was a child and my last solo visit in 2011.

 

[disnut8]

During Fourth of July weekend and the entertainment in the American pavilion. When the acts in the theater salute all five services of the American Armed Forces with the themes and singing and ask, as each theme is played or sung, for current or former members of that branch to stand up. And those men and women do and it's just powerful to see and hear all that. Plus, for those people to get the recognition they deserve. And then - for the Pledge of Allegiance to be recited by younger kids and the National Anthem to get played and *gasp* have people in the audience sing to it. Yep - gets me every single time. Oh - and sometimes one or more of those things aren't during the Fourth of July weekend and a special presentation. I find myself glad I wear sunglasses and I can pretend I have something in my eye.

 

[KeroKero]

Wishes definitely gets me teary eyed each and every trip. I also get teary eyed while watching Carousel of Progress, its a nostalgia thing.

 

[BStew]

Gosh guys, I am tearing up right now! This past November we were there and my ds was 2 at the time and LOVED (well, still does love Elsa) we were watching the FOF parade and Elsa blew a kiss to him! I can still see the look on his face and he hugged me so tight. Great, now I am crying at work!

 

[bc7ate9]

I get choked up when I see the castle at the beginning of Disney movies. When I walk on to Main Street as well. I cried at the Beauty and the Beast show at HS too...not even sure why - I guess it took me back to my childhood and trips with my family.

 

[Buttrcp16]

Wishes gets me every time!

And we like to watch family trip videos on YouTube when gearing ourselves up for our next trip. Some of them are really well done and get me choked up!

 

[Mom2Stitch]

So many things it's hard to even remember them all until I'm there in the moment. Wishes, Fantasmic! ending, American Adventure-very heavy emotions at those. But I think the thing that evokes the most tears from me is when I see or hear Walt himself. The Castle show and One Man's Dream movie just get me every time.

At home it's watching the planning DVD, videos on Youtube (Seeyareelsoon is the best!!!), and I always have a happy cry when I get the trip paid in full, because it's official I'm going

 

[MinnieMSue]

The MK opening show when the train full of characters come round the track - I bawl like a baby.

 

[Gumbo4x4]

Just the CC bill when we get home, but that's an entirely different emotion


DW did tear up when she saw the castle for the first time at the age of 41. She had always wanted to go to Disney as a child & her family NEVER vacationed despite having the means.

 

[SA-TX]

Pirates of the Caribbean at Disneyland. Loving father, wonderful memories, that whole nightmare.

 

[loves to dive]

When Tink flies at the MK. I'm a big ole Tink fan, my DS hates going to the FW but goes to the ones at MK just to see my face when she flies.

 

[bbjunkie]

Oh my, so many things. Driving under the Walt Disney World sign over the highway, walking out from under the train station onto Main Street, walking upstairs at the Train Station and looking up Main Street at the Castle; oh this list will get ridiculous. Every. Little. Thing. I have a hard time stopping the tears when my daughter says or sees something that effects her; that's what really gets me. I love it.

 

[bdiddy]

Going on Small World makes me tear up. It was my Grandma's favorite ride. She loved Disney so much. She's been gone 12 yrs now but I can't get on that ride without thinking of her. Also, this picture from our first trip makes me ball like a baby. All the joy that is Disney is so apparent in my DD's face. I like to show this to people when I talk about Disney and also when they give me that argument "your kids won't remember it" and I like to say "I remember it" and I got to see the joy and happiness on their faces and got a forever memory with this picture that I wouldn't have gotten had we waited until they were older. Now that they are 9 and 11, a lot of the magic is gone for them. We still have a fantastic time but there's just something about taking toddler/preschoolers that makes it even more magical!

 

[TMJR]

Seeing my teenagers act like kids. It is so nice to see them not worry about what people might think...they just act like big kids in Disney.