Originally Posted By lesmisfan i love the ducks! i was working the sunwheel one morning i think it was last week, and right behind a family was a duck going down the queue and into the waiting area went out the emergency exit and waited over in line were the non swingers get on, it was like he wanted to ride and knew where to go. too cute!
Originally Posted By Mickeyfan1 Hi their "juicer". I was a Lead in the Emporium in the late 80' until 1995. E-mail me at dcritchey749@sbcglobal.net and say hello....I'll just be we worked together. For a few summers I was the "Pick-Up Lead" in the Emporium (I'm sure that might raise a few questions on this thread, but for now we will just let their minds wander on exactly what this Lead did!). I'll bet you saw me more than once or twice a night at your register! And yes they were Sweda registers, and if the power every went out in the Emporium, which it did a few times, we had three hand cranks and the Leads would go from register to register "cranking" over sales! Those were fun times. Hope to hear from you.
Originally Posted By Pollyana For all you CMs.... Has your experience changed your image of Dland. Do you still like going as a guest? Keep sending the stories.. They are great!
Originally Posted By lesmisfan Working as a CM many people assume makes me get sick and tired of disneyland real fast. but its quite the reverse for me. Seeing what goes on behind the magic and seeing how it is all put together makes me appreciate the magic even more, i don't know why, even as a little kid i loved those shows on fox tv that showed you how tricks are done, it didn't ruin a thing for me but gave me a deeper appreciation of the trick. I still love going as a guest, be it by myself, with friends or with family. it is still a very magical place for me.
Originally Posted By Pollyana As it should be. Always a magical place no matter how many times you enter through the gates. I just can't get enough of that Disney magic. I will be back in July.
Originally Posted By myinnerpeterpan To all cast members (past and present) I would love to take a moment to thank all of you for making Disneyland such a wonderful place to be a kid again! You all do such a fantastic job on keeping Walt's dream alive and breathing on a daily basis. Thank you all for doing such a great job!
Originally Posted By tiggertoo You're welcome! Oh...Cast member story? I once got pooped on by one of our ducks. It was messy. That's all I've got time for right now. =)
Originally Posted By 8 ilovemickey 8 I was wondering when you apply to work at Disneyland do you get to choose where you want to work....rides, stores, food, etc....do you work your way up?
Originally Posted By 1disneymom3boys When I applied to work at Disneyland (many ages ago), the application had listings (attractions, custodial, retail, etc.) and asked for your first pref, second pref. They did not give options of where you want to work in the park. I got my first choice (attractions), and they placed me in Fantasyland. Each land was its own separate division (scheduling, paychecks) and also planned some of its own parties. We had a winter fantasyland ball. It was a very formal event at the Disneyland Hotel Grand Ballroom (dinner, dancing, pictures:That was such a great event). Does anyone know if they still hold Minnie's Moonlight madness? It was a scavenger hunt held after public park hours just for cast members. You would be in a group of 4 all bungee corded together, running through the park looking for clues. All this reminiscing is making yearn to work there again. Ahhhhh, such wonderful memories.
Originally Posted By imadisneygal Oh yeah! They still hold it. This year's theme is High School Musical. I LOVED Minnie's Moonlight Madness. What a blast. One year our team came in 6th!! Not too shabby with all those teams!! It was 1997 - the year it was called Minnie's Moonlight Magic to go along with Light Magic. My first summer there I was a Tour Guide and I used to volunteer to do Guest Control. I had to stand on the steps of City Hall to keep the middle steps clear during parades. It was always magical to watch all of the Guests on Main Street at night and to hear the music for the Main Street Electrical Parade begin. That voice..."Ladies and Gentlemen, boys and girls....Disneyland proudly presents our spectacular festival pageant of nighttime magic and imagination. In thousands of sparkling lights and electrsynthamagnetic musical sounds....The Main Street Electrical Parade!!!" Then the lights would go out around the parade route and the Guests would cheer, and I'd turn on my flashlight and wave it in time with the Baroque Hoedown. I still get tears in my eyes thinking about it. Having so many people in one place who are that excited about Disneyland is the reason I wanted to work there in the first place. Disneyland will always be magical to me. I have so many memories from my time there. I started in Guest Relations then moved to Center Stage (Main Street Attractions, Parking Lot, Main Entrance) and then stayed with the Main Entrance when the departments split apart!
Originally Posted By ncnike7 Alright, this is my last plead...Please CM's of the past and present tell us more!!!
Originally Posted By Mickeyfan1 Wow, do I remember "Minnie's Moonlight Madness." I participated in the first couple of madnesses. I remember the first year they had an additional fundraiser before the event. The team who raised and turned in the most pennies would win a very special prize. Well our team one....although I don't remember right now how many pennies we turned in. Our prize was an evening of dinner at RJ for Ribs in Beverly and the dessert at the origianl Cheesecake Factory also in Beverly Hills. And the best part....we didn't have to drive ourselves, Disney furnished the transportation in the MOUSEORAIL! The Mouseorail was the old Monorail Red with the bullet nose and tail. They took each end of the Monorail and put one cab in the middle and mounted it on a truch chassie I think and it became the most wonderful limo. Our team of four was able to invite about 9 or 10 more people to go on this trip, and we were all picked up at one place which was our choice. We choose the home of the person who lived the furthest and that was in Chino Hills. So here we are all waiting for the Mouseorail to arrive. All of the sudden we hear an airhorn blasting out "When You Wish Upon A Star", and here came the Mouseorail around the corner. The community went wild. The even sent a video crew to follow us that evening. You should have seen the looks we got traveling down the California Freeways in the Mouseorail. It was an evening I will never forget.
Originally Posted By ncnike7 Wow Mickeyfan1, that sounds so cool! Disney does take care of thier own!
