The New Mouseketeers at Disneyland circa 1977

Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt

This is, well, interesting.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJPRWfyLp5I&feature=related" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...=related</a>

 

Originally Posted By DBitz2

Fun to see a bit of Disneyland circa the 70's. As I recall, they used Disneyland in that show a good bit.

 

Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA

<-- confesses that he watched The New Mickey Mouse Club.

(hangs head in shame)

 

Originally Posted By Darley_Abbey

Love the funky version of the Mickey Mouse Club March.

 

Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA

Thing is, I can barely remember my own phone number, yet I can sing along with these lyrics from when I was a Sophomore in high school.

"It's Showtime! Get up and go time
It's Showtime! No feelin' low time
It's Showtime! With the Mouseketeers!"

Ah, 1977 -- that was a great time at Disneyland -- it was more...laid back in those days.

*Sigh*

 

Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt

"Fun to see a bit of Disneyland circa the 70's."

I thought so too. Those twins were almost unbearable to watch though.

 

Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt

"Ah, 1977 -- that was a great time at Disneyland -- it was more...laid back in those days."

I know, right? I remember visiting DL that summer very well. Space Mountain was the newest attraction, Big Thunder Mountain RR was under construction, and the Electrical Parade had just returned from its hiatus after a two year break for America on Parade.

 

Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA

'Space Mountain -- the most incredible attraction in 22 years'

 

Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA

Here's the commercial from 1977 -- Youtube is amazing!

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T00SmJsARww" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...SmJsARww</a>

"It can only happen at Disneyland"

 

Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt

Thanks for that Jim! I soooo remember that commercial and being psyched to go to Disneyland to ride Space Mountain.

Do you remember this one?

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlpHejdnjnI" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...HejdnjnI</a>

 

Originally Posted By CuriouserConstance

"I thought so too. Those twins were almost unbearable to watch though."

I know, right? Something about happy, singing and dancing kids makes my skin crawl.

 

Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA

Hans, I do remember the commercial for Big Thunder Mountain. I think they did all their commercials 'in house' back then...

 

Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan

I, too, admit to watching this show regularly.

Of course, even then, it was as cheesy as the day is long, with those hyper jazz-hands showbiz kids and that extreme "gosh I am so FREAKING HAPPY TO BE ALIVE!!!!" ear-to-ear smiles. But you have to understand that back then, information about Disneyland wasn't as ever-present as it is today.

It's hard to imagine now what a thrill it was at the time, back when a trip to Disneyland was a once every year or so thing for the luckiest of us, to see footage like that showing Main Street, the castle, the Monorail, etc. I didn't care about the song and dance stuff or the kids from the county fair singing, it was about seeing fairly recent footage of Disneyland, and imagining when my next visit might be.

Like Jim said, it is freaky how, not having heard that stuff in at least 30 years, the lyrics are somehow embedded in my brain stem like nothing else.

 

Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA

<It's hard to imagine now what a thrill it was at the time, back when a trip to Disneyland was a once every year or so thing for the luckiest of us, to see footage like that showing Main Street, the castle, the Monorail, etc. I didn't care about the song and dance stuff or the kids from the county fair singing, it was about seeing fairly recent footage of Disneyland, and imagining when my next visit might be.>

EXACTLY my reason for watching Kar2oonMan. Those shots of them jumping out of the Monorail and then running from Main Street to Carnation Plaza -- very cool at the time.

 

Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt

I think that Kar2tooMan, Jim, and me may have been separated at birth.

 

Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA

Weird, isn't it?

 

Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan

We should post under one account as Huey, Dewey and Louie.

Hey, it works for those chicks from Morva!

 

Originally Posted By mousermerf


Something Epcot in me says I should love this.. but something else in me says I should tie it up in a bag and drown it in a river to put out of its own misery.. which is what it appears Disney chose to do..

And strangely enough, I feel like Disney is at a similar point in its history now as it was when it produced this hot mess...

 

Originally Posted By Dabob2

"<It's hard to imagine now what a thrill it was at the time, back when a trip to Disneyland was a once every year or so thing for the luckiest of us, to see footage like that showing Main Street, the castle, the Monorail, etc. I didn't care about the song and dance stuff or the kids from the county fair singing, it was about seeing fairly recent footage of Disneyland, and imagining when my next visit might be"

Perfectly stated. Me too.

Even though we were only about 35 miles away, we were at the mercy of parental units who, astoundingly, did not see the need to visit more than once a year. Combine that with friends' parental units, and maybe twice a year, tops, if you were lucky.

Child abuse, I calls it!

I would watch anything DL related on TV.

 

Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA

So now, we have Hans, Jim, Kar2oonMan and now Dabob2.

Huey, Dewey and Louie and Chuy??