If the WDWMagic Forums existed in the 80s, what would folks be saying?

alissafalco

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Commodore 64
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You can still see that in the Norway video!
 

TubaGeek

God bless the "Ignore" button.
This is an absolute falsehood. Yea, I changed my mind. I just couldn't sit there and read this over and over and not call you out. You are delusional. Forget about snorting pixie dust...you mainline it. I have knowledge that Disney now subcontracts out much of their maintenance. Was that how the parks were ran? My mother was basically forced to retire....was that how they valued their Cm's? Yea, I know what the parks were back then and how they were ran. Food quality? Thick you come on here and pontificate like you are such an authority. Yet you spew nonfactual comments like this. I was amused by you before, but that has quickly turned to annoyed.


Jimmy Thick.......wouldn't know the truth if it punched him in the nose.
Sir, I award you with one hearty internet handshake.
 
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wdwfan4ver

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Sorry, I didn't remember the internet back in the 1980's. The only times I was on a computer back in the 1980's was the grade school I attended. The grade school I attended at the time had a computer room with Apple II computers with a 2 disk drives with a 5 1/4 floppy disk with green screen monitors. Students were not on the internet at time, but was playing stuff like number munchers, Oregon trail or using word processing programs on the computers at the time.
 

FettFan

Well-Known Member
A conversation between three people:

"Oh my god, my ears totally POPPED at the Living Seas elevators!"


"No, they didn't. The elevators don't actually move."


"YES they DO! I FELT it moving right under my feet!"

"No, that's just an illusion. The hydrolators do not actually move; the coral you see in the side windows moving past you is actually just a textured conveyer belt. Like a treadmill."


"Yeah they don't actually go anywhere. They only drop about two inches."


"SEE! I told you they moved!"

"THEY. DO. NOT. MOVE. THEY ARE JUST ROOMS WITH ANIMATED WINDOWS!"


"Then how do they make it feel like it's moving without moving it?"


"....."
 

Matt_Black

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Original Poster
Yeah, people would've complained about something. "Who's this Figment character? That's not a classic character from my childhood! Why should I spend my hard earned vacation dollars to learn, anyway?"

As Ben Franklin says in The American Adventure, "The Golden Age was never the present age."
 

marni1971

Park History nut
Premium Member
Same thing they are saying now. Access to instant information has change our culture as we know it. I assure you the parks had issues way back when, there just was no way to preserve and nit pick. Don't believe the myth, the parks are being run exactly the same way back then, that they are now.


Jimmy Thick- Quick, get me a Youtube from 1974...
Thanks Jimmy. That was good.
 

ParentsOf4

Well-Known Member
Yeah, people would've complained about something. "Who's this Figment character? That's not a classic character from my childhood! Why should I spend my hard earned vacation dollars to learn, anyway?"

As Ben Franklin says in The American Adventure, "The Golden Age was never the present age."
No, I don't recall it being like that back then. The mega corporation we know today as The Walt Disney Company simply didn't exist. Up through the mid-1980s, WDW was pretty inexpensive while the quality and cleanliness just blew us away. And the CMs seemed like they were straight from The Stepford Wives (the original, not the remake).

EPCOT was more forward looking than backwards thinking. There wasn't the same obsession with costumed characters that there is today. Meet-and-greets were almost non-existent. (At least, I never went to them.) To me, Figment was part of the innovation that EPCOT was supposed to represent. I just recall thinking Figment seemed too childish for the rest of EPCOT.

It was a period between Disney's original classics (perhaps ending with Mary Poppins in 1964) and Disney's new classics (starting with The Little Mermaid in 1989). Growing up, I got stuck with Herbie movies. Mickey Mouse definitely was not cool.

But WDW was cool. For the kids in my neighborhood, it was the dream vacation.

I recall things changing after The Little Mermaid. Suddenly, anything Disney was appealing to my neices and nephews. After a few hit movies, people started to take their younger children to WDW. The kiddie patrol slowly started taking over what once was a place for families with their junior and senior high school students.

P.S. I thought I should mention that I remember strollers being almost non-existent back then.
 
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Florida_is_hot

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If the forum existed, you look at the messages today you see the same in 1980
The parks are too expensive, too crowded, Disney builds nothing new, tour groups etc......

I swear as it is the same messages and threads are recycled over and over again.
 

Cmdr_Crimson

Well-Known Member
Oh Man I can't wait for the Easter & Christmas Parades..It's the only time we will know what is new at Disney this year!

Have you heard of that Epcot Center place? *Snirk* Yeah That it'll go places! Sounds like a Half Day park to me...

I got big feelings that River Country will be here for a Looooong time.

I sure wish there would be a way that lines could go faster..
 

GoofGoof

Premium Member
Back in the 80s the top 10 most common things heard on Disney message boards were:
  1. Wouldn't it be great if they came up with a way for us to buy a share of our favorite hotel so that we could have a place to come back to each year and be greeted with a "welcome home".
  2. Wouldn't it be great if they sold a drink mug that I could bring back every year and could be refilled for free for the rest of my life
  3. Wouldn't it be cool if they invented some wrist band that we could wear that would allow us to open our hotel rooms, enter the parks and pay for things.
  4. Wouldn't it be cool if they had a system where I could pre-book 3 rides each day and skip the regular lines.
  5. Wouldn't it be great if there were 4 parks instead of just 2.
  6. Wouldn't it be great if they had some less expensive hotels for the family on a budget. I love the Contemporary and Poly, but I can't afford those places and I'm not going camping.
  7. Wouldn't it be great if they had more permanent locations where I could meet my favorite characters. I love a good meet and greet opportunity but the characters just appear randomly around the park so I never know where I need to go to meet them.
  8. Too bad they don't have a way for my kids to get a makeover and get dressed up like a princess or a pirate. That would be really cool.
  9. Can you believe how much prices went up from last year? They are pricing out the average family.
  10. The 70s were so much better than the current time at WDW. For those of you who never came here in the 70s you can't possibly understand what the rest of us are talking about, but it was so much better.
 

George

Liker of Things
Premium Member
What's your favoutite Horizons ending?

Did you see how bright the lasers in IllumiNations were last night?

Hey! Spaceship Earth has a song now!

Fancy breakfast at the Odyssey?

Mesa Verde.
The lasers were bright, but I kinda wish they'd do more with them.
Cheesy, cheesy song, but it fits in that kind of weird Disney EPCOTish way that the whole place just seems to hang together. When is The Living Seas opening?
Isn't the Odyssey located in a nice spot. Wasted space otherwise. Provides a little shortcut too......I never did Odyssey breakfast. *sigh*
 

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