Goofy on the side of the train tracks?

[Reedy Creek Rob]

Does anyone else remember this, or did I make this up? I distinctly remember seeing Goofy in an overheated car (I think there was even steam/water coming out of radiator) stuck alongside the tracks. The conductor (or a recording) interacted with Goofy, telling him that we'd send help back for him at the next station.

I saw this on my first trip to WDW, in the late '80s. No one else I talk to seems to remember this. I always look around on my many subsequent trips, and can't even see a spot where this might have existed.

Does anyone remember this? And now I'm really getting greedy....does anyone have a picture that they'd be willing to share?

Thanks for your time.

 

[Nemo14]

Does anyone else remember this, or did I make this up? I distinctly remember seeing Goofy in an overheated car (I think there was even steam/water coming out of radiator) stuck alongside the tracks. The conductor (or a recording) interacted with Goofy, telling him that we'd send help back for him at the next station.

I saw this on my first trip to WDW, in the late '80s. No one else I talk to seems to remember this. I always look around on my many subsequent trips, and can't even see a spot where this might have existed.

Does anyone remember this? And now I'm really getting greedy....does anyone have a picture that they'd be willing to share?

Thanks for your time.

I don't remember that at all. Sorry.

Could it have been in Ft. Wilderness?

 

[mikeymouse]

Yeah I remember. Let me see if I can find a photo.

 

[mikeymouse]

courtesy of jim hill and jeff lange

 

[wendysue]

Hey, I remember seeing that, but had totally forgotten about it. I have a picture as well....somewhere...

 

[Tom]

Wow. I've never seen that. Was it in the Ft Wilderness train?

 

[Reedy Creek Rob]

Wow, thanks! That really made my day.

Thank you so much, you don't know how happy that made me.

 

[The Tuna]

That was during Mickeys Birthday in 1989 was it not? Everyone was trying to get to his party in Mickey's BirthdayLand. I still remember the song from the Mickey's BirthdayLand Express.

 

[Nemo14]

Seeing the picture, I do vaguely remember that now.

 

[Mad Stitch]

"We're rolling, We're rolling, on the express..." I miss that song.

 

[WDW_Jon]

I Remember that!
Mickeys birthday land was great!
Especially for a 7/8 year old!

 

[Red Sox]

Yes I remember that!

 

[Chester&Hester Enthusiast]

Can you imagine if TDO put something like that up nowadays? We'd never hear the end of it.

 

[marni1971]

Can you imagine if TDO put something like that up nowadays? We'd never hear the end of it.

About how imaginative and well placed it is and how it's all about the little details?

 

[Brer Panther]

I recall reading about that online. They had cardboard cutouts of Disney characters along the side of the tracks. Here are the Three Little Pigs, Baloo, Mowgli, and Piglet...

And here are some miscellaneous Snow White animals, Pinocchio and his pets, and Cyril Proudbottom (Mr. Toad's horse).

 

[Reedy Creek Rob]

About how imaginative and well placed it is and how it's all about the little details?

You can't argue with the fact that it made a huge impression (on me at least). One minor detail, witnessed once almost 30 years ago by a 10 year-old, lived vividly in my memory.

That's 30 years worth of goodwill. Not sure what it cost them to do that, but I can say it's part of what has brought me back again & again (& again & again & again......) over the years. I'm sure they've earned back whatever the cost was from me alone.

 

[Chester&Hester Enthusiast]

About how imaginative and well placed it is and how it's all about the little details?

You can't be serious. If Disney put up such simple plywood character cutouts along the train track today, these forums would be completely up in arms about the cheapening of WDW.

I didn't say I don't like them, I have fond memories of them from the opening of Birthdayland, but you can't deny that the majority of people on this website would tear that display (and the others that were there) to shreds.

 

[Disneyhead'71]

I believe that if they were to do something like that today, they would probably use statues similar to the statues in Springfield.

 

[CaptainAmerica]

I believe that if they were to do something like that today, they would probably use statues similar to the statues in Springfield.

And people would STILL b*tch about the cheapening of WDW (see any thread about DAAR).

 

[BrerJon]

I didn't say I don't like them, I have fond memories of them from the opening of Birthdayland, but you can't deny that the majority of people on this website would tear that display (and the others that were there) to shreds.

I don't know, I think it fits the theme quite well. The whole point was that Duckburg was where cartoon characters come to life, and they're all 2D characters in the movies, so the 2D cutouts do kind of fit. This wasn't long after Roger Rabbit was a smash hit, so 2D characters in a 3D world were quite big then.