Originally Posted By FenwayGirl <<For me, it was watching Wonderful World Of Color on sunday nights in the early sixties, when Walt was still alive.>> We could hardly wait for Sunday night in our house. Being raised in the NE in a large family..we could only dream about Disneyland, but I was able to make my first trip to WDW in 1981 (nothing but MK) with my then 3 year old daughter! I was hooked for life..Many years and many,many trips later I am still hooked
Originally Posted By tashajilek "Tasha ...hopefully we will meet there as well...Good News Tasha...Disney Store is returning to Metro Town Very soon...if you hear anything more please let me know, I shall do the same : )" Thats so awesome TM!!! hey we live pretty close to eachother, who knows maybe we can do a metrotown Disneystore meet!
Originally Posted By tashajilek I never got teased, just kids were really jealous becuase no kids from Canada seemed to have ever gone. Now people think im crazy but go figure its coming from people who have NEVER been to a Disney park. I have a very open mind about things, dont knock it until you tried it.
Originally Posted By TINK-MOBILE Will keep you imformed...Tasha.Mickeymeg was hoping that it would be now, then I could order the Tangled DVD and get the lithos as well...have to go to alderwood to get them....if i would like any...
Originally Posted By tashajilek ^^^ Yes! i think its a must do!! I love the Alderwood DS, i am really upset that they removed the discount disneystore from burlington
Originally Posted By TINK-MOBILE Me too , I am hoping Disney rehires the Castmembers who were at the store when it closed..there is a sign by the Bay, Disney Store opening soon..I was told... Happy it is returning many people grew up with the store , was a very big reason people shopped at metro town... The Burlington DDS might return though...
Originally Posted By WDWdreamin Thanks to everyone who shared, and I hope that the thread-crashers can have a wonderful meet too. I'm glad to hear that not to many people here were teased. Watching World of Color on Sunday nights sounds so special.
Originally Posted By Princessjenn5795 "I love the Alderwood DS, i am really upset that they removed the discount disneystore from burlington " The one I really miss is the one they had at Westlake Center in downtown Seattle. That was the one I always went to as a kid. The Alderwood one is pretty good though.
Originally Posted By Brian55nh Did anyone else watching "Wonderful World Of Color" like me sit through each show no matter if it really interested me all that much but *just* to make sure to catch the little preview they'd show at the end about next week's show - and then go nuts seeing it was one that was going to be theme park oriented? There were just so few produced that it seemed to be forever before another one would come on. Oh, the ensuing anticipation for the following Sunday...
Originally Posted By mickeymeg <Happy it is returning many people grew up with the store , was a very big reason people shopped at metro town...> It is one of few reasons I would show up in that area of Vancouver at all. I am glad it is coming back, hopefully by the next time I find myself in Vancouver.
Originally Posted By pecos bill Yes Brian, I was like that too. As much as we all loved the show, there certainly were some duds, but if an episode was about the park it was like waiting for Christmas for next Sunday night. I vividly remember the episode called Gala Day At Disneyland, showing the opening of the Subs, Monorail and Matterhorn. It had to be a rerun because the show originally aired in 1959 and I saw it in about 64 or 65, but holy cow, you talk about amazing stuff for a six year old! That was the episode that showed the sub ride on opening day where they did indeed have live mermaids in the lagoon, and dont even get me started on Matterhorn and Monorail, it was almost too much for my six year old brain to handle.
Originally Posted By Rebekah WDWDreamin, It fluctuated for me. Alot of the time I was poked fun of for my love of all things Disney (from about age 9 - 19) but yet I think deep down they loved it. It was never vicious...just the typical you're different from me so I'll point it out. But when a Disney school bus lunchbox turned up at lost and found after it was there the requisite 30 days it was given to me. It was a given that it would go to me (it wasn't mine initially). I still have that lunchbox over 20 years later. It holds my collection of Disney viewmaster reels. On the flip side we were among the first people to get Disney Channel and people teased me a bit for that. When I had slumber parties I would show Disney films over objections but the films were well accepted. They were not animated features or Ron Miller live action but some of the smaller films that Disney created for the Disney Channel or family films presented on the Disney Channel.
Originally Posted By tashajilek Thats cool that you still have that lunch box. Something really cool that used to happen in our mall was Disney characters would come to out mall. It was once a year and they said the characters were all driving down from disneyland. I would wait in line to see Mickey, Minnie and everyone else. They would also bring props and giants story books and read all the kids Disney stories and give out prizes. I really missed when they stopped doing that but it was a great memory. Out of my family i guess i am the one who cares the most about Disney. My brother bugs me all the time yet he seems to always know all the newest information on DL too hahah. Tm, i shopped at the Burlington DS so much that they gave me a 15% off preferred customer card lol.
Originally Posted By TINK-MOBILE Tasha.I have one too...but it expires soon..the one in Anahiem had really raised their prices...I too am the real Disney nut in our Family...I remember going to North Van Disney Store when they set up the Hunch Back Castle....Maybe we will meet one day in Disney Tasha...Did you get the Bambi Lunch Box from beat buy...sorry for hi jacking again....Guess I'll never grow up....hee hee hee : )
Originally Posted By TINK-MOBILE Hey Dave.. There is nothing like Grrrrreat Company...my friend... Lol : )
Originally Posted By magic0214 Since I am still in school, I am almost still growing up with it. I started watching Playhouse Disney when it first started so I am the biggest fan of Rolie Polie Olie, Out of the Box, and PB&J Otter. Then, I became part of the High School Musical generation and watched all those movies along with the Camp Rock and Cheetah Girls series. For the longest time when I was younger, I was obsessed with The Aristocats, I would watch it 4 times in a row on days. I grew up on all the movies! My earliest time in theaters, thay I can remember, being when I was 3 (1999) watching Tarzan in a small theater in Bangor, Maine. Parks were weird for me, since I didn't go to one till I came to Florida in 2000. I went to the Magic Kingdom, but then had a phase where I would rather go visit the fair a city away instead of Disney. As you all know now, I am a hard-core Disney fan, loving all aspects of the company! (BTW, just read the new Disney Junior shows coming, and I might actually watch them!)
Originally Posted By Labuda "That was the episode that showed the sub ride on opening day where they did indeed have live mermaids in the lagoon" Oooo, I remember riding the subs on my first trip to WDW back in the mid-80s and seeing the mermaids. What fun!
