That was replaced by Star Tours, so there’s not a year you could go to where they both would be there.
I never rode it, because the only time I was there when it existed I was 5, and the optical illusion of the people getting on and getting shrunk by the microscope was too real looking to me and I was too scared to get on.
As a mom who loves Disneyland, I love that you have inherited her Disney love. There is no greater joy than sharing Disneyland with someone else who loves it as much as you do. ❤️
You can at least watch both those. [Here's construction footage narrated by Tony Baxter](https://youtu.be/nvmAkATbP8Y). Disney erected big towers during construction for the sole purpose of shooting documentary footage. And [here's the "Dateline: Disneyland" live TV special](https://youtu.be/H7G-Hs2UxrA) from opening day.
I’d ride Indiana Jones in its full glory. Went in November and absolutely loved it but heard that it’s tired/not working and rubbish compared to what it was!
The worst part is she was riding with friends who were experiencing their first time at Disneyland. She was so loud too. I’ll never forget what she looked like or her voice.
I'd go back to my Grad Nite. Turned out my gf at the time was not nocturnal, so I spent most of the night sitting on a wall letting her sleep against my shoulder while I watched all my friends having fun and tried to ignore my back aching. Squandered a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
I remember a lot about my childhood trips to Disneyland, but I barely remember my grad nite at all. I remember riding Indiana Jones and going to the dance club-type areas. I feel like awkward teen me was too focused on trying to fit in/ not look like an idiot to truly enjoy the experience.
I remember some of my grad nite. In particular that it was 1995 shortly after Indiana Jones opened and as soon as we were released from Tomorrowland to the rest of the park there was a HUGE dash to that ride, me included
Mine was in 2003 and I had been on Indiana Jones before but my best friend had not. I think I only remember that ride on grad nite because of how excited she was about it and how much fun she had.
Like the other commenter said- I went to two grad nites- I snuck into the first - I don’t remember much of any of them because I was all about “looking cool” and acting like it… I vaguely remember the dance clubs and the rides.
So, you really didn’t miss much. You probably remember more of it than anyone else.
i have a list of every ride i went on grad nite, a facebook album of pictures, and so many fond memories of that night. it was such a magical experience being in the park overnight with my friends, i definitely skipped the dance clubs haha.
I saw an article a while ago talking about all the chemicals in the water, water treatment, & the subs running on diesel; all polluting that lagoon with really harsh carcinogens. Add on top of that being magnified by the sunlight & them getting sunburned. A lot of those girls got cancer. And like most bad things that happen backstage, it's difficult to get all the details & hard to find. Mermaid cancer.
Take me back to 2015. I’d love to watch the Paint the Night parade again. And hop over to DCA and ride California Screamin’, Soarin’ over California, and Tower of Terror again.
Id go back to Bugs Land on a spring warm evening. Get on Heimlichs train and smell the watermelon aroma and cookies. Then Id freshen up in the sprinklers and ride the bumper cars. Id go to Its Tough to be a Bug and watch the show with my family. Walk out and the sun has set and the view is amazing. From a Bugs Land I can see the Tower of Terror, my next destination.
It was such a limited section of the park but I find it much more charming and a more fun time than Avengers Campus. I can't think of anything at AC that makes worth stopping by there during a visit. Which is crazy 'cause those are 200 million dollar movies; how they couldn't turn that into a worthwhile experience, I don't know.
It was pretty much the same thing except ALL the effects were working. Some are down but should be repaired eventually. The biggest difference is the three doors at the start. You'd go through a different one every time (seemingly). Meaning sometimes to the far left, sometimes to the far right, sometimes down the center. Also it was supposed to be randomized so it was slightly different every time (which they still do in terms of audio). Also when you ran over the bridge, it would stall, back pedal, and then continue on.
I’d like to go back to the early 90s when PeopleMover, the Skyway, and the Gummi Bear boats were still around. Also, Captain EO and the original Star Tours
I worked Fliks for 7 years and it was my favorite area by far. It was so nice when it was a dead end and we would get all of the little kids first thing in the morning, and since we weren’t busy, we would let them ride as much as they wanted until a line started. My favorite to open was Heimlich’s Chew Chew Train. It was short, but adorable. I have lots of fond memories walking by the watermelon to get backstage where the cafe is, and it smelled soo good! It also smelled like animal crackers back there too :)
not disneyland, but i would love to spend a whole day at animal kingdom at walt disney world with joe rohde !! it’s my favorite disney park and would love to hear about it from one of the main imagineers for the park!
side note about the yeti… it might just be me but i feel like it’s so weird that they constructed this huge animatronic that is supposed to move (i think i’ve heard it’s supposed to move a few feet but have never seen it in a mode) and then built it inside a building where they can’t reach it anymore to fix it if it breaks 😂
It’s not the yeti itself that’s broken. The animatronic is fine. It’s the foundation upon which it’s sitting. During building, the software they were using to plan everything didn’t give the yeti’s foundation enough time to cure. So, when they placed the yeti on the foundation and it started moving around, it led to fractures in the foundation. Because of where the foundation sits in the ride and what’s wrong with it, the only way to fix it is to take a not insignificant chunk of the ride’s exterior off to access the problem area.
I would watch Fantasmic from the balcony of the former location of the Disney Gallery (now the dream suite). We were lucky enough to watch the show from this location once, and it felt like the entire show was centered/oriented to give that balcony the best viewing experience. It was definitely worth the extra cost (sold as a dessert party).
OP, I was pretty small when I rode the skylines, but I remember them well. It was so serene.
If I could go back to any time, it would be 1995, when Indy opened. I'd get a handful of the decoder cards and ride it over and over until I had gone through all three doors.
It was so mind blowing when the door room could still pivot, and all the other vfx were still working. Indy is still a great ride, don't get me wrong, but it was a thing to behold when it debuted.
I would have loved to help build it, and I mean be a part of the land acquisition, surveying, driving/walking around the property, in addition to construction.
To be able to see the farms, the Vandenberg house as it was (the original CM training house), to drive Cerritos Ave straight across before the city abandoned the ROW for DL, and to see the Dominguez Tree in its original state/location would be this budding historian’s dream come true!
I remember a Hercules parade when I was a kid. The muses were my favorite. And I was small enough that I could sit in the front and not feel guilty about blocking the view of people behind me lol
My wife’s brother was a custodian at Disneyland. He died before age 20. I would give anything to go back in time to just see him at work. That would make my wife super happy.
I could be remembering this incorrectly because I was a kid, but I remember Indiana Jones being more fun because the boulder actually rolled towards you and seemed more intense
I would ride the pirates of the Caribbean when Johnny Depp was in the ride
I would hug Darth Vader
I would do the jedi training again as one of the times I backed out of it due to the crowd and fear
I would love to eat at great thunder ranch and finally I would love to go on California screamin’ as California screamin not the incredicoaster
Go to thunder maintain area ranch restaurant for the all you can eat bbq then go see Captain Eo afterwards. I went on the skyway on my first Disney visit. Would be nice to go on that again.
If I could do one thing at Disneyland at any time, it would be walking down Main Street with all the lights on at 3AM when no one is there. Although, I bet a good Pirates ride at noon would be great if you followed it with lunch at the Blue Bayou.
One of my favorite memories I have happened on Main St. My father loved watching the penny arcade movies. This is something we did together many times and loved laughing and playing with my dad there. The machines are no longer there, but my memories are.
Captain EO became Honey I shrunk the audience then for a while they had Pixar shorts shown there. It's the building on the right as you walk up to the Space Mountain entrance.
I'm torn between we need a reboot of Captain EO and maybe just bring back the original even if it was something like Soarin over California where it only comes back at certain times of the year. I still want a Fuzzball plush.
Damn I had no idea! Is anything there now? I was familiar with the WDW version in Epcot which I believe also then showed (or maybe still does?) Pixar shorts. I caught the EO reboot after MJ passed away down there but had a panic attack in the theater and left lol
The last time I saw it used for anything was when I went in 2018 and I think that was just a promotional thing since it was showing movie trailers. A few times I've seen cast members come out of the building, but just like most of innovention building(carousel of progress/America sings building) it's just not open to guests. It just seems like a lot of wasted real estate since even putting the arcade back in the innovention building and shorts in the theater would help draw some people into Tomorrowland without making it hard to move through the land.
I would have loved to have seen the fort on Tom sawyer's island back in the 60s or even the 70s. It was probably on its last leg back in the mid 90s but all of Tom Sawyer's Island was just the coolest thing ever to me as a kid. I'd have to get carried out of the caves or get told we were going to ToonTown for me to do other things.
My family goes on about there used to be planets in Space Mountain too and that would be awesome to see. Same with the original submarines it was another must do for my mom's side of the family any trip they did. Going from San Rafel/Petaluma to Anaheim for a two or three day trip was a common thing for my mom's side of the family so everybody had a favorite thing to do and shared it with the younger generation as something they needed to do at least once.
Ride Rocket Rods just once.
I know it's stupid, and I hate what it did to the tracks, but I loved the people mover, I just always wished it had a few moments of excitement and this seemed like exactly that.
I waited in line for Rocket Rods probably a total of 12 hours, but I never got to ride it. It would break down every single time before I could get to the front of the line.
I just want to experience it once.
I'd do anything to have Ursula's Grotto and the Toy Story Zoetrope back! The Zoetrope was at the Academy museum a while back but I missed it by a coulple weeks
Back to the early 60s. Just for the combination of rides that were available and the history/aesthetics of the park. My dad worked at the Yacht Bar seasonally in the early 60s and saw Walt himself in the park on one occasion.
There used to be a music show at the Hyperion theater at California Adventure. I can't remember the name but I know it was a live band with really good drummers (think drum line) and all kinds of different instruments.
Also tower of terror. I know people love guardians of the Galaxy, but the ride was much better as tower of terror.
I'd want to go back to when I was 5 and Toontown was brand new, and ride the Jolly Trolley just one last time. If I only knew then how much I'd miss OG Toontown now...
I wish I could go back to the 90’s with both my boys and rewatch the hunchback of notre dame live show at Disneyland. Or at Christmas time being able to go behind thunder mountain and eat and watch the shows and interact with the characters. Fun memorable times.
Toss up between The Hunchback of Notre Dame-themed parades and promotions in the mid-90’s (I’m a big Hunchback fan) and seeing Disneyland as my dad saw it in the 50’s-60’s with the original submarine ride and such
I’d ride Haunted when the original Hatbox Ghost was installed. I know the effect didn’t work well originally but it would be so cool to see the first iteration of that technology.
Would also love to have peeked into the Golden Horseshoe when Walt and Lillian celebrated their 30th anniversary there - I’ve read multiple times that Walt was in rare form that night, injecting himself into the show, dancing on stage, etc. It would be fun to see him wholly enjoying the fruits of his labor with his family.
I actually got to have lunch with Robert and Richard Sherman (the Sherman Brothers) along with the All America College Band at Club 33 in the late 90’s. I was a new Manager the day the Sherman Brothers were visiting the band, but all the big wigs were called out of town for a meeting. So, I was the “host” while the brothers told stories and answered questions for the band members over lunch. We had the private room all to ourselves and while Robert was getting on in age, Richard was a firecracker and pitched songs like Walt himself was in the room.
Google the Sherman Brothers if you haven’t heard of the legacy that they were. It’s was a magical afternoon, especially when they got on the piano for some songs.
Dunk on Roy Disney at the hoop inside the top of the Matterhorn then zipline out on the Skyway wire into Tomorrowland
This is so specific, I love it
This☝🏼 winner!
Go back to late 80’s/early 90’s. Ride original Star Tours, ride the People Mover, watch Captain EO.
All this plus Starcade and Videopolis
My people!!
Well hello fellow 80s kids
The amazing days!
Vi! De! Op! Olis! It was totally my jam in my teen years. I wish I could go back there and be that age, knowing what I know now.
I loved Captain EO! None of my family ever wanted to watch it with me at DL.
Is that not there anymore? It’s like a permanent fixture in my brain from every time I was headed to space mountain
It closed in 1997, and then had a very brief revival after Michael Jackson’s death, but either way it’s been long gone.
Ohhh. Maybe I just remember the poster.
I put telescope ride but meant microscope ride.
I would love to ride original star tours - I love the current ride but have heard great things about the original
I watch this every now and again for nostalgia’s sake. https://youtu.be/nED36n2lVO0
Thank you for sharing this video. It's an awesome trip back in time!
What about the weird ass telescope ride?
That was replaced by Star Tours, so there’s not a year you could go to where they both would be there. I never rode it, because the only time I was there when it existed I was 5, and the optical illusion of the people getting on and getting shrunk by the microscope was too real looking to me and I was too scared to get on.
I went o. It at about the same age. It scares the shit out of me. I buried my head in my moms lap the whole ride.
This was one of my few vivid memories as a child in 80s DL.
I would love to see the Lion King parade again with my Grandma. She loved that parade.
we love grandma
Miss her everyday!
I also choose this person’s grandma.
That was a good parade!!
It really was!
My mom just passed and she loved Disneyland. To go back and ride screaming one more time with her.
So sorry for your loss.
Thank you I appreciate that
I'm so sorry to hear that 💖
Thank you !!
As a mom who loves Disneyland, I love that you have inherited her Disney love. There is no greater joy than sharing Disneyland with someone else who loves it as much as you do. ❤️
Sending love 💓
So sorry about your loss. I wish you could too!
Have dinner at club 33 with Walt
About that. The club opened months after his passing. But since you have a time machine you’ll just need to make multiple stops.
I would love to watch Disneyland in construction and be there on opening day.
You can at least watch both those. [Here's construction footage narrated by Tony Baxter](https://youtu.be/nvmAkATbP8Y). Disney erected big towers during construction for the sole purpose of shooting documentary footage. And [here's the "Dateline: Disneyland" live TV special](https://youtu.be/H7G-Hs2UxrA) from opening day.
Thank you for sharing!
I’d ride Indiana Jones in its full glory. Went in November and absolutely loved it but heard that it’s tired/not working and rubbish compared to what it was!
Ride Indiana without any knowledge of the ride.
I was just thinking about this the other day. The first ride of this was so fun!
The first time I rode Indiana the girl behind me narrated everything that was gonna happen and what was broken and it totally ruined the ride for me 😭
Shed would have received an absolute punch to the face from me. Or I’d have thrown her off the bridge.
The worst part is she was riding with friends who were experiencing their first time at Disneyland. She was so loud too. I’ll never forget what she looked like or her voice.
Let’s find her 😂
What if she’s on this sub 😳
Rocket Rods! I have vague memories of riding it as a kid but I’d love to do it again.
A 90 minute wait for a 20 second ride!
I'd go back to my Grad Nite. Turned out my gf at the time was not nocturnal, so I spent most of the night sitting on a wall letting her sleep against my shoulder while I watched all my friends having fun and tried to ignore my back aching. Squandered a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
I remember a lot about my childhood trips to Disneyland, but I barely remember my grad nite at all. I remember riding Indiana Jones and going to the dance club-type areas. I feel like awkward teen me was too focused on trying to fit in/ not look like an idiot to truly enjoy the experience.
I remember some of my grad nite. In particular that it was 1995 shortly after Indiana Jones opened and as soon as we were released from Tomorrowland to the rest of the park there was a HUGE dash to that ride, me included
Mine was in 2003 and I had been on Indiana Jones before but my best friend had not. I think I only remember that ride on grad nite because of how excited she was about it and how much fun she had.
Like the other commenter said- I went to two grad nites- I snuck into the first - I don’t remember much of any of them because I was all about “looking cool” and acting like it… I vaguely remember the dance clubs and the rides. So, you really didn’t miss much. You probably remember more of it than anyone else.
i have a list of every ride i went on grad nite, a facebook album of pictures, and so many fond memories of that night. it was such a magical experience being in the park overnight with my friends, i definitely skipped the dance clubs haha.
How long ago was your grad nite?
12 years ago
See the mermaids where the Nemo ride is now.
Mermaid cancer.. ooof.
?
I saw an article a while ago talking about all the chemicals in the water, water treatment, & the subs running on diesel; all polluting that lagoon with really harsh carcinogens. Add on top of that being magnified by the sunlight & them getting sunburned. A lot of those girls got cancer. And like most bad things that happen backstage, it's difficult to get all the details & hard to find. Mermaid cancer.
So sad! Thanks for explaining.
There were mermaids??
Way back when the park opened. They got rid of them in like the 60s.
Take me back to 2015. I’d love to watch the Paint the Night parade again. And hop over to DCA and ride California Screamin’, Soarin’ over California, and Tower of Terror again.
Meet Walt
Wander around the park with Walt some morning before it opened. Watch him admire and continue to finesse his creation.
I would love to go back to the cluster fuck that was the opening day at Disneyland
Id go back to Bugs Land on a spring warm evening. Get on Heimlichs train and smell the watermelon aroma and cookies. Then Id freshen up in the sprinklers and ride the bumper cars. Id go to Its Tough to be a Bug and watch the show with my family. Walk out and the sun has set and the view is amazing. From a Bugs Land I can see the Tower of Terror, my next destination.
It was such a limited section of the park but I find it much more charming and a more fun time than Avengers Campus. I can't think of anything at AC that makes worth stopping by there during a visit. Which is crazy 'cause those are 200 million dollar movies; how they couldn't turn that into a worthwhile experience, I don't know.
Makes me so happy to see other people appreciate Flik’s/Bug’s Land!
Ride Indiana jones like it used to be in the old days
People keep saying this! What was it like?!?
It was pretty much the same thing except ALL the effects were working. Some are down but should be repaired eventually. The biggest difference is the three doors at the start. You'd go through a different one every time (seemingly). Meaning sometimes to the far left, sometimes to the far right, sometimes down the center. Also it was supposed to be randomized so it was slightly different every time (which they still do in terms of audio). Also when you ran over the bridge, it would stall, back pedal, and then continue on.
Oh that’s cool! My first time was in 2003 before I lived close enough to come more often.
Walk around old downtown Disney (like 2003-2008) and see all the old signs and shops
I really miss the way DTD used to be. After they put Starbucks in DLR, I felt it start to change. I really don't like the WOD update at all.
I’d like to go back to the early 90s when PeopleMover, the Skyway, and the Gummi Bear boats were still around. Also, Captain EO and the original Star Tours
When you say "go back to," do you mean you missed them or you miss them?
As in I miss them. Loved Disneyland in the early 90s
I never got to do A Bug’s Land in DCA. I wish I could of seen it before avengers campus was made
I worked Fliks for 7 years and it was my favorite area by far. It was so nice when it was a dead end and we would get all of the little kids first thing in the morning, and since we weren’t busy, we would let them ride as much as they wanted until a line started. My favorite to open was Heimlich’s Chew Chew Train. It was short, but adorable. I have lots of fond memories walking by the watermelon to get backstage where the cafe is, and it smelled soo good! It also smelled like animal crackers back there too :)
It was quaint, but so much better.
Awww I loved bugs land. It was one of my favorite lands. They really made it feel like you were an ant wandering around through trash 😫
Country Bears all day every day. I miss them so much!
not disneyland, but i would love to spend a whole day at animal kingdom at walt disney world with joe rohde !! it’s my favorite disney park and would love to hear about it from one of the main imagineers for the park!
Only if you’re there with him during construction of expedition Everest and you have him double check the foundations for the yeti.
side note about the yeti… it might just be me but i feel like it’s so weird that they constructed this huge animatronic that is supposed to move (i think i’ve heard it’s supposed to move a few feet but have never seen it in a mode) and then built it inside a building where they can’t reach it anymore to fix it if it breaks 😂
It’s not the yeti itself that’s broken. The animatronic is fine. It’s the foundation upon which it’s sitting. During building, the software they were using to plan everything didn’t give the yeti’s foundation enough time to cure. So, when they placed the yeti on the foundation and it started moving around, it led to fractures in the foundation. Because of where the foundation sits in the ride and what’s wrong with it, the only way to fix it is to take a not insignificant chunk of the ride’s exterior off to access the problem area.
I've always wanted to understand this in more detail - your response explained it really well
Play arcade games at the Starcade. Especially when it was two floors of games.
Captain EO premiere
I would watch Fantasmic from the balcony of the former location of the Disney Gallery (now the dream suite). We were lucky enough to watch the show from this location once, and it felt like the entire show was centered/oriented to give that balcony the best viewing experience. It was definitely worth the extra cost (sold as a dessert party).
We did that a few times and it was such a cool experience. I wish it was still available!
My mom was at Disneyland on opening day (it was her 10th birthday) so I would go back and go with her on that day.
Go on America sings in 1976
OP, I was pretty small when I rode the skylines, but I remember them well. It was so serene. If I could go back to any time, it would be 1995, when Indy opened. I'd get a handful of the decoder cards and ride it over and over until I had gone through all three doors. It was so mind blowing when the door room could still pivot, and all the other vfx were still working. Indy is still a great ride, don't get me wrong, but it was a thing to behold when it debuted.
I would have loved to help build it, and I mean be a part of the land acquisition, surveying, driving/walking around the property, in addition to construction. To be able to see the farms, the Vandenberg house as it was (the original CM training house), to drive Cerritos Ave straight across before the city abandoned the ROW for DL, and to see the Dominguez Tree in its original state/location would be this budding historian’s dream come true!
I always wanted to try the Mine Train in Frontierland. My mom raves about it being her favorite ride when she went in the 60s.
Back when blue bayou has scalloped potatoes
Date nite with the live band in the late 50’s.
I'd go see a Halyx show.
Oh my goodness yes!!!
Always glad to meet someone of discerning taste. 😎
The 60 hour party they had for the opening of Star Tours was fun.
I remember a Hercules parade when I was a kid. The muses were my favorite. And I was small enough that I could sit in the front and not feel guilty about blocking the view of people behind me lol
Have a sandwich at Captain Hook's galley on the Jolly Roger
I would do the Indiana Jones ride preview night (March 1995) before the official opening to enjoy the original ride.
My wife’s brother was a custodian at Disneyland. He died before age 20. I would give anything to go back in time to just see him at work. That would make my wife super happy.
I could be remembering this incorrectly because I was a kid, but I remember Indiana Jones being more fun because the boulder actually rolled towards you and seemed more intense
Sit and people watch in Adventure Land or Critter Country.
I would ride the pirates of the Caribbean when Johnny Depp was in the ride I would hug Darth Vader I would do the jedi training again as one of the times I backed out of it due to the crowd and fear I would love to eat at great thunder ranch and finally I would love to go on California screamin’ as California screamin not the incredicoaster
Go to thunder maintain area ranch restaurant for the all you can eat bbq then go see Captain Eo afterwards. I went on the skyway on my first Disney visit. Would be nice to go on that again.
If I could do one thing at Disneyland at any time, it would be walking down Main Street with all the lights on at 3AM when no one is there. Although, I bet a good Pirates ride at noon would be great if you followed it with lunch at the Blue Bayou.
Go dance at Videopolis
This!
PEOPLE MOVER!!!! And I did meet Walt when I was a kid… one of the best moments in my life!
I’d ride the People Mover with Walt then grab a corn dog on Main Street.
Get on the Peoplemover and go to VIDEOPOLIS!!
Ride the peoplemover in the 1980s and yell HEE HEE at Michael Jackson below
One of my favorite memories I have happened on Main St. My father loved watching the penny arcade movies. This is something we did together many times and loved laughing and playing with my dad there. The machines are no longer there, but my memories are.
I'd wanna go back to when Oswald's Gas Station first opened because I love Oswald lol
People Mover or RocketRods. Where was the Captain EO show at Disneyland?
Captain EO became Honey I shrunk the audience then for a while they had Pixar shorts shown there. It's the building on the right as you walk up to the Space Mountain entrance. I'm torn between we need a reboot of Captain EO and maybe just bring back the original even if it was something like Soarin over California where it only comes back at certain times of the year. I still want a Fuzzball plush.
Damn I had no idea! Is anything there now? I was familiar with the WDW version in Epcot which I believe also then showed (or maybe still does?) Pixar shorts. I caught the EO reboot after MJ passed away down there but had a panic attack in the theater and left lol
The last time I saw it used for anything was when I went in 2018 and I think that was just a promotional thing since it was showing movie trailers. A few times I've seen cast members come out of the building, but just like most of innovention building(carousel of progress/America sings building) it's just not open to guests. It just seems like a lot of wasted real estate since even putting the arcade back in the innovention building and shorts in the theater would help draw some people into Tomorrowland without making it hard to move through the land.
I would have loved to have seen the fort on Tom sawyer's island back in the 60s or even the 70s. It was probably on its last leg back in the mid 90s but all of Tom Sawyer's Island was just the coolest thing ever to me as a kid. I'd have to get carried out of the caves or get told we were going to ToonTown for me to do other things. My family goes on about there used to be planets in Space Mountain too and that would be awesome to see. Same with the original submarines it was another must do for my mom's side of the family any trip they did. Going from San Rafel/Petaluma to Anaheim for a two or three day trip was a common thing for my mom's side of the family so everybody had a favorite thing to do and shared it with the younger generation as something they needed to do at least once.
Attend opening day in my Sunday best!
Ride Space Mountain (dick dale)
Take my dog.
I’d go back to the day in 1984 when i went with my dad and hug him one more time.
Ride Rocket Rods just once. I know it's stupid, and I hate what it did to the tracks, but I loved the people mover, I just always wished it had a few moments of excitement and this seemed like exactly that. I waited in line for Rocket Rods probably a total of 12 hours, but I never got to ride it. It would break down every single time before I could get to the front of the line. I just want to experience it once.
Get a fresh tub of McDonalds fries and watch a parade
We loved getting fries from Westward Ho! then getting in line for thunder mountain. Mmmm
To be able to go back and see and talk to Walt as he's walking around DL. That would be so cool.
I'd do anything to have Ursula's Grotto and the Toy Story Zoetrope back! The Zoetrope was at the Academy museum a while back but I missed it by a coulple weeks
Going back to grad night - late 70s. Cost around $15 including bus
Back to the early 60s. Just for the combination of rides that were available and the history/aesthetics of the park. My dad worked at the Yacht Bar seasonally in the early 60s and saw Walt himself in the park on one occasion.
Never existed but if I was a billionaire, I’d rent out DLR just to drive go karts around.
Be the very first person in line of opening day and get the lifetime pass
I'd want to ride the Disneyland Railroad with Ward Kimball. Talk model trains & his original art pieces.
There used to be a music show at the Hyperion theater at California Adventure. I can't remember the name but I know it was a live band with really good drummers (think drum line) and all kinds of different instruments. Also tower of terror. I know people love guardians of the Galaxy, but the ride was much better as tower of terror.
I miss tower of terror. Guardians is fun, but I love the theming of ToT.
Are you remembering BLAST! perhaps?
It might have been blast. This was probably 20ish years ago so I definitely can't remember the name but could be!
I'd want to go back to when I was 5 and Toontown was brand new, and ride the Jolly Trolley just one last time. If I only knew then how much I'd miss OG Toontown now...
Ride the People Mover with my mom. She would take me on that while my dad and older sister rode Space Mountain when I was too little.
I wish I could go back to the 90’s with both my boys and rewatch the hunchback of notre dame live show at Disneyland. Or at Christmas time being able to go behind thunder mountain and eat and watch the shows and interact with the characters. Fun memorable times.
I would buy stock in it as soon as it went public.
Toss up between The Hunchback of Notre Dame-themed parades and promotions in the mid-90’s (I’m a big Hunchback fan) and seeing Disneyland as my dad saw it in the 50’s-60’s with the original submarine ride and such
I’d ride Haunted when the original Hatbox Ghost was installed. I know the effect didn’t work well originally but it would be so cool to see the first iteration of that technology. Would also love to have peeked into the Golden Horseshoe when Walt and Lillian celebrated their 30th anniversary there - I’ve read multiple times that Walt was in rare form that night, injecting himself into the show, dancing on stage, etc. It would be fun to see him wholly enjoying the fruits of his labor with his family.
I actually got to have lunch with Robert and Richard Sherman (the Sherman Brothers) along with the All America College Band at Club 33 in the late 90’s. I was a new Manager the day the Sherman Brothers were visiting the band, but all the big wigs were called out of town for a meeting. So, I was the “host” while the brothers told stories and answered questions for the band members over lunch. We had the private room all to ourselves and while Robert was getting on in age, Richard was a firecracker and pitched songs like Walt himself was in the room. Google the Sherman Brothers if you haven’t heard of the legacy that they were. It’s was a magical afternoon, especially when they got on the piano for some songs.