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Post by Ariel's Grotto on Feb 17, 2009 5:13:01 GMT -5
What are some of your favourite Disney-related memories from your childhood? I was taking a trip down memory lane earlier and it inspired me to make a thread where we could share stories. For example, I was really big on reenactments. Sometimes I would even go as far as to reenact a movie scene-by-scene. My favourite scenes to do, however, was the entire Part of Your World sequence and the scene where Snow White is running through the forest. I made it my priority to know every move and expression those characters made, and to repeat them exactly the same. I even had to do them daily, and sometimes several times a day at that. I am sure my family just loved me.
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Post by meggyc on Feb 17, 2009 9:32:16 GMT -5
I think actually watching the Disney Channel (when it was good) was a big part of my childhood. I remember waking up at the crack of dawn to watch that Mousercise show. There were lots of cartoons such as Gummi Bears, Care Bears, the Wuzzles that I would watch in the morning. And Dumbo's Circus, Adventures in Wonderland, and Welcome to Pooh Corner also stand out as well. I think I most fondly remember Under the Umbrella Tree and Fraggle Rock. I remember hating that Kids Incorporated show because it marked the end of the cartoons. I never watched it. I was not one for live action shows that featured no cartoons. Heheh. I remember that Wake, Rattle, and Roll show... The one with the kid and the robot and the Hanna-Barbera cartoons. That was a fun show.
I think my earliest Disney memory (actually, the first thing I really remember) is of seeing The Little Mermaid in theaters. It was the first movie I had ever seen in a theater and I was absolutely wild, running up and down the aisles and screaming. Not a scared scream. Just... screaming. I was two. And that just reminds me of how I do NOT look forward to taking a child to the movies. Though I guess I enjoyed it.
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Post by Beauty&TheBeast on Mar 24, 2009 18:32:34 GMT -5
I remember when I was younger, we had this truck that had a camper shell on it (my dad's truck for moving giant pieces of wood), and sometimes my dad would use it when we would go visit my relatives in Long Beach, and my brother and I would sit int he back. And when we would sit in the back, as my dad was driving, my brother and I would pretend that we were race car drivers. And who would we race? Disney characters! And whenever a car was speeding really fast, we would say they were cheating, so that car had to be Cruelle de Vil . I also remember whenever the song "Don't Be Cruel" came on by Elvis Presley, when I was too young to remember who sang the song, for some reason, I would just refer to it as Ursula's song . That song reminded me of Ursula, for some reason, hehe . I also remember when I was younger, my brother and I didn't receive money from the tooth fairy, but we received presents. So, my mother took me to the Disney store so that I could tell her what I wanted the tooth fairy to bring me. I remember wanting a music box, so we went over to where they were being sold. The lady selling the music boxes, after I had told her I wanted one with Belle (or else Ariel if they didn't have Belle), she showed us one of Aurora and said it was Belle . I freaked out and corrected her immediatly, and then started naming all of the characters in ths different music boxes, just to make sure that she knew them all . She then said that I would make a good Disney employee one day, hehe.
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hmouse81
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Post by hmouse81 on Mar 29, 2009 22:14:18 GMT -5
Let's see . . . I sometimes had my Disney Plush sing to songs on the radio all the time when I was a kid. I also did the reeanactments to various movies (and some cartoons) with my Plush.
One reeanactment that stood out was shortly after I saw Totally Minnie back when it first aired, the brief bit they showed from Klondike Kid stuck out in my mind, yet I never knew how the cartoon ended (that was until I finally saw the whole thing in 1997.) Anyway, I'd take the scene with my Minnie Plush and our Mickey Plush (Sis and I shared our Mickey and Donald Plushes, we oddly enough both had a Minnie to ourselves) and keep the beginning as is (well except for the drinking parts, which again weren't in the special) and then sort of branched out different ending scenarios there (one of which had the Minnie as the cliched damsel in distress role, which I later learned wasn't too far off from what happened in the original cartoon.)
Then I had home video footage of me back in '89 where I brought up my Minnie Plush and held it in front of the camera. My father jokingly said "It's Mickey!" and me, being the smart aleck that I was back at the time went "Nope." Dad then said "That's not Mickey, it's Minnie." I added, in a gleeful way I might add "You're wrong, Mickey's the one with the pants!"
Good times.
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Post by joplin4 on Mar 30, 2009 21:34:50 GMT -5
You know, I used to do things like that, too. Well, I haven't grown up much, I guess.
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Tonichelle
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Post by Tonichelle on Apr 18, 2009 14:29:43 GMT -5
In school we used to play the different movie at the time... Aladdin in second grade was a big deal. We all had characters that we were and we'd play them at recess. I was Jazzy...
Sadly enough it's not one of my favorite films now lol but it's a great memory none the less.
I got to go to DisneyLand when I was five, and the only things I remember are the bad parts (getting stuck to the sidewalk because my gummy shoes melted while we stood in line, parents arguing over whether a ride was safe or not, etc) but they're fun to laugh about now!
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Post by Sis Rabbit on May 1, 2009 23:53:19 GMT -5
Oh geeze... My entire childhood pretty much revolved around Disney. Growing up in San Diego, I went to Disneyland at least once a year, and I loved pretty much every Disney movie (it helped being a kid during that revival, I think). I also was huge on the Disney Afternoon. But, as you can probably all guess, my best memories would have to be the Brer Rabbit obsession I had as a kid. I know, I know... I never really outgrew it. But it was easier to imagine living in that world when I was a kid. Since Song of the South has never been released on home video, I watched the Sing A Longs that had him in them over and over and over and over. It also forced me to dig up the original stories which, with their rather difficult dialect, I think helped form me into the advanced reader I was as a kid. But it was the world I loved most. Splash Mountain is still the happiest place in the world for me.
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Post by Disneysfan on Jul 8, 2009 7:34:04 GMT -5
My most fondest memories involved watching the old Disney Channel at my grandmother's house. Those were the days. I would watch Dumbo's Circus, MMC, and all those great shows. I hope those shows make it onto DVD soon! I would buy it in a heartbeat.
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Retrogirl
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Post by Retrogirl on Jul 9, 2009 1:18:11 GMT -5
I remember watching several of the old shows mentioned on the Disney channel. I used to renact "A Whole New World" by putting a small carpet on my swing and imagining I was flying. We also pretended we were different Pocahontus characters in school.
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alibell
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Post by alibell on Jul 30, 2009 1:19:05 GMT -5
I probably got into Disney the most when my family was living in Indonesia in 1990-91. We didn't have any english-speaking channels on the tv so I just used to watch my Disney videos ALL THE TIME. I think Dumbo was my favourite back then, along with Cinderella and Peter Pan. I wasn't allowed to touch the video player cause I was only little so I used to have to run and find someone to fast forward the scene with the pink elephants in Dumbo and the scene where Cinderella's cleaning the floor and she sings in the bubbles. I appreciate them more now but I found them so boring when I was little! and I didn't like the indians in Peter Pan. Mary Poppins was my all-time favourite movie for YEARS. I used to sing the song that Jane & Michael sing (their advertisement) from when I was very very young but I always sang "nessa sessa FAR-ley water!" instead of "never smell of barley water". hehe. I also remember that Hercules was the first movie my brother and I saw in a cinema without our parents... we felt so grown up!
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Post by andrewjose on Oct 30, 2009 4:23:25 GMT -5
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Post by margalicious on Nov 10, 2009 14:13:18 GMT -5
I remember that I was once a Princess Jasmine fan. I always sing their theme song "A whole new world" I really felt that I was Princess Jasmine. ;D I also like Tinkerbell. In fact, I have it tattooed on my belly. ;D
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Post by perryfan86 on Mar 29, 2010 17:39:50 GMT -5
okay, you might think me a complete dork for this. My Mom used to be a nanny and everytime she went to garage sales she would buy tons of cheap Disney toys. Mostly those you'd find at McDonalds. But when I was about five or six I think. We had a super nintendo and Final Fantasy 3/6 with it. I played a little bit of it, and liked it but didn't get very far. (Being six and it had a pretty complicated storyline) But I thought it would be cool if they made a game like that with Disney characters so I spent alot of time making my own little RPG adventures with the toys. I had a lot of fun with that... I never ever would have imagined that company actually making a Disney RPG. I was very surprised. (LOL! I wouldn't be surprised if Disney and Square were spying on me playing. ;D -Hey look that kid likes Final Fantasy and is re-enacting the themes with Disney characters... we have our multi-million dollar idea!) But being serious, that's as far back Disney-wise as I can remember. I also remember I was really ticked missing out on seeing Aladdin in theatres back then but I'm not sure if that was before or after. That is my story.
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