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Looking thorugh these breaks my heart. Here's a little back story, i've been going to Disneyland since before i turned one. I figured it out at one point by going through family photo albums, and the year i was born, i went to Disneyland three times. Probably at least that many times for a number of years after that. It was the grand reward of my childhood. Any birthday, holiday, celebration of any kind would, no doubt, climax in a visit to Disneyland. For years we had season passes and once a year, we'ld sit in that little room, off to the right of the park entrance, right next to the dog kennel (where Elliot would stay for the day) sit aroundand get our pictures taken.
So biscaly, i've been going long enough to see all the arbitrary changes. In my latter years, i would go with a friend, once a year. My grandparents would come to visit (before their screws got to loose to drive) and we'ld go, i'ld invite a friend (normaly some girl i wanted to get with) and we'ld break off from my family in the morning and charge around the park. Over the years we lost various attractions. America Sings, Captain E.O., Autopia, Boatopia, The Peoplemover, we suffered the redesign of Tommorowland, then finaly, i cracked when they shut down the submarines...and shortly thereafter, The Bear Country Jamboree. I haven't been back since...tempted from time to time. The Tiki room may soon be undergoing an overhaul and if its anything like they've done at Disneyworld, when it happens i may just break down and cry like a child.
I miss Disneyland. Not the Disneyland with Honey I Shrunk the Audience and Indiana Jones, i miss the one with cloudy water, moray eels with screws visible in their tongues and mermaids so terrifyingly sterile that the last time i saw them it brought tears to my eyes. I miss animatronic bears singing Ghost Riders in the Sky and how they used to make dioramas of the new movies in the windows along main street. I miss the way that they transitioned from scene to scene in America Sings where they would project thousands of points of light on the stage in a pitch black room, and for a little bit, it would look like the entire stage was made up of little stars, describing forms in an oblivion of darkness. I miss my Disneyland.
Have you ever fallen in love with someone, and then watched them change into someone entirely different? Someone, or something unfamiliar whose alleigances have shifted, who values something different at their very core? It'll tear you heart apart at the seams. You keep wishing for the one you knew to return but deep down, you know it will never happen...but for some reason, you can't give up that last little shred of hope.
I miss the Disneyland, built by a mustachioed yokel and a mouse with black rubber hose for arms.
Fuck You Michael Eisner, you killed my girlfriend and replaced her with a robot. I'll see you in hell.
Looking thorugh these breaks my heart. Here's a little back story, i've been going to Disneyland since before i turned one. I figured it out at one point by going through family photo albums, and the year i was born, i went to Disneyland three times. Probably at least that many times for a number of years after that. It was the grand reward of my childhood. Any birthday, holiday, celebration of any kind would, no doubt, climax in a visit to Disneyland. For years we had season passes and once a year, we'ld sit in that little room, off to the right of the park entrance, right next to the dog kennel (where Elliot would stay for the day) sit aroundand get our pictures taken.
So biscaly, i've been going long enough to see all the arbitrary changes. In my latter years, i would go with a friend, once a year. My grandparents would come to visit (before their screws got to loose to drive) and we'ld go, i'ld invite a friend (normaly some girl i wanted to get with) and we'ld break off from my family in the morning and charge around the park. Over the years we lost various attractions. America Sings, Captain E.O., Autopia, Boatopia, The Peoplemover, we suffered the redesign of Tommorowland, then finaly, i cracked when they shut down the submarines...and shortly thereafter, The Bear Country Jamboree. I haven't been back since...tempted from time to time. The Tiki room may soon be undergoing an overhaul and if its anything like they've done at Disneyworld, when it happens i may just break down and cry like a child.
I miss Disneyland. Not the Disneyland with Honey I Shrunk the Audience and Indiana Jones, i miss the one with cloudy water, moray eels with screws visible in their tongues and mermaids so terrifyingly sterile that the last time i saw them it brought tears to my eyes. I miss animatronic bears singing Ghost Riders in the Sky and how they used to make dioramas of the new movies in the windows along main street. I miss the way that they transitioned from scene to scene in America Sings where they would project thousands of points of light on the stage in a pitch black room, and for a little bit, it would look like the entire stage was made up of little stars, describing forms in an oblivion of darkness. I miss my Disneyland.
Have you ever fallen in love with someone, and then watched them change into someone entirely different? Someone, or something unfamiliar whose alleigances have shifted, who values something different at their very core? It'll tear you heart apart at the seams. You keep wishing for the one you knew to return but deep down, you know it will never happen...but for some reason, you can't give up that last little shred of hope.
I miss the Disneyland, built by a mustachioed yokel and a mouse with black rubber hose for arms.
Fuck You Michael Eisner, you killed my girlfriend and replaced her with a robot. I'll see you in hell.
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It's always been one of those places that was promised to me for birthday's and other occassions.... but.. somehow... never manifested itself. But I can still connect with your feeling of lose here. *hug*
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