Originally Posted By DDMAN26 Happy Birthday. You've provide a lot of great memories and I think more to come.
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer Happy 40th to Walt Disney World, a testament to themed entertainment, design and art. Walt Disney’s final dream, WDW, remains, 40 years later, a inherently captivating and grand showplace, of fact and fiction, dreams made into reality.
Originally Posted By Bob Paris 1 Wow - I was there, at the Magic Kingdom, ten years ago this morning. It was a lovely October morning and the sun was shining and it was beautiful! I got there SO early I parked right near the TTC - never got to do THAT again. Crazy to think that in two weeks time I will be heading back to TDL and TDS!
Originally Posted By Boardwalkbum Happy 40th B-day MK!!!! Happy 63rd B-day Dad!!! 1971 was a great year for all 3 of us!!!
Originally Posted By mrkthompsn <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESP1TvUywKI&feature=youtube_gdata_player" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...a_player</a>
Originally Posted By mrkthompsn ... and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8S5X4P1Dn0&feature=channel_video_title" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...eo_title</a> Happy 40th Walt Disney World! You've meant a lifetime to me.
Originally Posted By Socrates What everybody else said. Socrates "The unexamined life is not worth living."
Originally Posted By vbdad55 40 years and at least in my household-- WDW is still loved and treasured
Originally Posted By Witches of Morva ORDDU: It was a glorious day for the 40th anniversary celebration on Saturday, 8/1/2011. My sisters and I spent the day with another duckling from the Laughing Place Pond--Park Hopper--and we also had the pleasure of meeting Indigo at the Columbia Harbour House during lunch. ORWEN: I was so happy to see all the characters dancing down Main Street on the way to Cinderella's Castle. The little ceremony they had in front of the castle was very nice. So many other ducklings were crowded around to watch everything-- ORGOCH: --there weren't no room left fer a fat witch like yerself, I noticed. ORWEN: Shut up, old biddy! Not even a nasty tempered old crone like YOU can spoil my good mood today. I was so happy to see that Rapunzel now has her parking section in the new Hero's and Villains parking lot--not that we'll ever be able to park there 'cause we always fly in on brooms. But for all the Rapunzel fans out there who DO driver cars, you now have a hairy place to park!! ORDDU: Happy Fortieth Birthday, Magic Kingdom!!!
Originally Posted By Witches of Morva ORDDU: Oh, my, my. I meant to say it was a glorious day for us on 10/1/11--NOT 8/1/11. ORWEN: Well, it probabaly was a glorious day for us on 8/1/11. But I really don't remember for sure. ORGOCH: I think I had a hangover on 8/1/11. On 10/1/11 I was just gittin' high on Pixie dust!
Originally Posted By vbdad55 "I thought you were leaving?" was gone for a while- now visit much less frequently - picking and choosing-threads to participate in, which is likely best
Originally Posted By TDLFAN Yeah.. Happy 40th WDW. Jada jada. Too bad your 40th year will be a huge YAWN. Having visited Disneyland CA this past weekend, makes me realize how much help the MK needs.
Originally Posted By vbdad55 I hope we don't have to wait that long - but remember DL 10 years and even 5 years before their 50th -- sad state of affairs- all spruced up for the 50th.
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt Yeah, the situation at DL was shameful, with a couple of maintenance related fatal accidents to prove it. Let's hope things never go that far south again at any Disney theme park.
Originally Posted By TDLFAN Yes, agreed^^ but the predicaments of DL in between 1995 and 2005 should be reason enough for management to never allow that to happen at any other Disney park on Earth, yet here we are at the most unmagical of the Disney Kingdoms. It is not Pressler or Harris running WDW in 2011, so there are no excuses here. Having watched the castle ceremony on youtube, it left a really bad taste in my mouth. What I find insulting more than anything is how they believe the little castle ceremony is such a wonderful tribute.. The fact that clueless Meg left the stage as soon as her phoney spiel ended.. shows how much management cares. I also found it ironic that having paraded the logos of anniversary events from the past did not teach them anything.. but the preshow served more as a reminder of how magical these events used to be as opposed to them doing NOTHING now. Adding a few perimeter pyro to "Wishes" was not all that a special thing since they do perimeter pyro for paid for parties and a couple of holidays a year. Let's see.. for the 40th, there is no year long celebration, no special 40th related decor, no new parade, no new castle show, no CM wearing a special 40th nametag design, no new firework spectacular, no... NOTHING. Just "special" overpriced merchandise that banks on reproductions of memorabilia.. and even that merchandise was ill researched as it does not represent designs from opening day but more of the mid 70s to early 80s.. I would hardly call a "Casey's Corner" pin in a commemorative box a "special" souvenir, when we all know the real name of that location on opening day was "Coke's Corner". That is just one example. And so they go on with marketing mistakes and poor research on their part... but the ultimste goal here is to make money off the people who don't know any better and from younger fans who do not really know the history of WDW but somehow see themselves as true Disney "fanatics". Someone explain that one to me. The whole Oct 1st day at the MK was a huge "FAIL" IMHO. Just one more example of how WDW has lost it's magic and how lazy management has become, and how profecient they are at offering a walmart experience at Norstrom's prices. But I can't blame them for not knowing who their current fanbase is.. at least they gave out free cupcakes.
Originally Posted By Witches of Morva ORWEN: I think em said they didn't make enough cupcakes and they ran out of them fairly soon. I know I never got one! ORGOCH: Ya don't NEED one, sister! Not with all them dang Krispy Kremes ya gobbled down durin' the ceremony!
