Originally Posted By FiveBearRugs Does anyone here have really, *really* good memories of this parade? Besides the 6 giant balloons, I'm curious to see which characters and floats were also in the parade. Yesterland.com shows a picture of Ariel, as one of the character floats...
Originally Posted By friarthe Yesyesyesyes. For some reason it's the only parade I actually remember fondly (not counting the Electric or Christmas parades, since they're ongoing). We used to take pocketfuls of confetti home--I'd occasionally toss them out in class (I was in high school) for kicks. And that song was infectious. I'd consider buying a CD if they included it.
Originally Posted By friarthe Oh, "good" memories as in able to remember. Nope, I'm pretty hopeless there.
Originally Posted By RTShark77 You can see some of the props while riding the train right before you reach frontierland station.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros If you check it out on YouTube, there are several pretty good videos of it. I watched them a few months ago, and I honestly can't say that a single character sticks out in my mind as being there. I'm sure they had some, but the rest of the performers far outshined the standard characters.
Originally Posted By disneylandfan8 I LOVED the Party Gras Parade for the 35th Anniversary. I have a couple of VHS tapes of it. My girls were 9 and 4, they loved it when the CM dancers picked them out of the crowd to do the conga line. I still have some mardi gras beads and a few purple coins. The balloon floats were wonderful! I have photos of Sorceror's Apprentice Mickey, a Carmen Miranda-like Minnie, Donald Duck, Pluto, Goofy, Roger Rabbit, and a Court Jester, and a live Ariel is atop a giant fish. And, yes, confetti was everywhere! I, too, would love to have the music on a CD.
Originally Posted By SFH Yeah, that was back when some in the company thought Roger Rabbit was the next Mickey Mouse. I remember they couldn't run the Skyway because the gondolas would come too close to the floats.
Originally Posted By Disney_Binky OH I remember Party Gras. I was 9 or 10 years old. I think I still have some of the confetti. I remember wishing I could've won a car too. Never happened
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Originally Posted By DlandDug <-- ADORED Party Gras! "No can resist The magic and the myst- Ic magic of the Party Gras!" I have quite a few of those purple coins (I used to get mine from the Extremely Secret Loyal Royal Order of the Aardvarks-- I knew the secret hand signal!). I also took a lot of photos, but no video. Yes, there's a lot of videos out there on the 'net. I was always hopeful they would put Disneyland past parade music on the Disneyland Forever CD kiosks. I would have gotten this one in a heartbeat!
Originally Posted By DlandDug Of course, I meant to say: "No can resist The magic and the myst- Ic music of the Party Gras!"
Originally Posted By Kimber I have an mp3 of the 10+ minute-long parade roll and show stop - it's HOT! HOT! HOT!- e-mail me and I'll send it along. I was looking through the 35th Anniversary Celebration media kit and it's full of Party Gras images - our pal Kevin Kidney sculpted some of the maquette work for the parade floats - it was the first parade he worked on. I still have my ESLROotA membership card . Kim
Originally Posted By disneylandfan8 DlandDug, I thought it was the Extremely Secret Loyal Royal Order of the Armadillos? Kimber, I would love to email you but there's no email in your profile? But my email is in my profile! Would LOVE to hear the parade again!
Originally Posted By SleepingBeauty82 I wish I could remember this one. I might remember the commercials for it but I was only 7 or 8.
Originally Posted By Kimber Just checked my membership card and it's "The Extremely Secret Eternal Fraternal Order of Armadillos" - I had forgotten how much fun Party Gras and the whole 35th Celebration was. disneylandfan8 - keep an eye on your mail box - it's a 9.5MB file but it's really clean - I listened to it on my way in to work today and was dancin' the cha-cha in the fast lane . Kim
Originally Posted By DlandDug >>DlandDug, I thought it was the Extremely Secret Loyal Royal Order of the Armadillos?<< Yes, it was armadillos. Or, as Kimber pointed out, the The Extremely Secret Eternal Fraternal Order of Armadillos. I didn't have time to dig my card out-- I do still have it!
Originally Posted By disneylandfan8 Thanks, Kimber!! I'm listening to it over & over & over... So glad my memory worked for once. At my age, you never know! LOL
Originally Posted By Kimber OK - my e-mail address is kpetersennffc@aol.com Just let me know if you'd like the Party Gras soundtrack file and I'll attach it to the answer. I'm a Disneyland music fan and have about 450 tracks of all sorts of stuff . Kim
