Originally Posted By Rsey103 If you could board a time machine and travel to any Disney park in the world at any time in the past -or- future, what park would you visit---in what year---and why?
Originally Posted By disneylandfan8 Would love to go back to Disneyland in 1990 - and watch the Party Gras parade again! It's my favorite DL parade.
Originally Posted By LacyBelle Good call with the Party Gras parade, DLF8. I still carry a coin from that parade in my purse. For me, it would have to be a toss up between DL in the 70s when I was young, or the first visit hubby & I made together in 1995. Sharing my love for Disney with him...and the Lion King parade. Another good parade that's gone to Yesterland.
Originally Posted By A Happy Haunt I would travel to the future. Can you image how intense all the AAs will be! The computer graphics will be amazing!
Originally Posted By avromark Epcot when they had WOM and Horizon and Dreamflight and Communicore and Food Rocks and...
Originally Posted By trekkeruss Opening Day, Disneyland 1955, because i wasn't born yet and why not? Now, if I could only go as far back as when I was around ala Quantum Leap, I think I would choose Disneyland 1967, when Tomorrowland was brand new.
Originally Posted By trekkeruss Some other things I would enjoy about DL of that year would be the Skyway, Skull Rock and the Chicken of the Sea Pirate Ship, the Motor Boat Cruise, the crappy looking interior of the Matterhorn, the Pack Mules, the Mine Train thru Nature's Wonderland, the Indian Village and Dance Circle, and the Tahitian Terrace.
Originally Posted By trekkeruss We never stayed at the DL hotel back in those days; we almost always stayed at HoJo's. I learned to swim at the pool there.
Originally Posted By avromark I stayed at my relatives houses, that said my first visit was in the 80's for some odd reason. Although I'd love to do Mine Train, especially. Maybe I'm a bit old fashioned but I like the "vibe" from retro DL. Shirts instead of undershirts, imagine!
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo I would either go for the opening of 1967 Tomorrowland on the Move (or maybe the opening of Haunted Mansion). If it had to be in my own lifetime, I would go for the opening of America Sings, when Disneyland was probably at it's zenith. Also WDW in 1989 with a newly opened Studios park, Typhoon Lagoon, and Pleasure Island. Epcot was at it's coolness before tinkering too much. And the quality of WDW actually existed.
Originally Posted By Rsey103 I agree with trekkeruss; I would love to go back to dedication day July 17, 1955 and see Walt in his new park. I'd also like to travel back to the day the Matterhorn, Monorails, and Subs opened. And I'd like to hang out near the entrance to City Hall on a summer day in 1971 and watch my 32 and 31-year-old parents, my two siblings and me, step into a Disney park (Disneyland) for the very first time.....
Originally Posted By Rsey103 >>Also WDW in 1989 with a newly opened Studios park, Typhoon Lagoon, and Pleasure Island. Epcot was at it's coolness before tinkering too much. And the quality of WDW actually existed.<< davewasbaloo, I was there for that one! The grand opening of the Studios park was indeed grand....
Originally Posted By alexbook I'd go to the future, without a doubt. How about opening day of first Disney's off-world park?
Originally Posted By WDWdreamin I would also love to go to the park opening. If I had to go in my lifetime, then I guess I would go in the year I was born to see how much things have changed.
