Well with some thought about this is here is my list of good things ffrom years past until now:
1) Haunted Mansion Always was a favorite when I was little and still is now
2) My Favorite since a little boy that still has me singing at 50 when I get off the ride is Pirates of the Carribean
3) Space Mountain
4) COP. Still one of my all time favaorites
5) EPCOT
6) TOT, best well themed drop ride ever created and thought of.
7) Great American Movie Ride
8) Star Tours
9) Muppets
10) Ride in Norway with the Trolls
11) It's a small World
12) Peter Pan
13) Spaceship Earth. I have always stand and admire that Ball for minutes every time I see it. I still have to ride it afew times a day when I am in EPCOT no Matter what
14) Test Track
15) Green House Tour in the Land Pavillion
16) Soarin, my wifes favorite ride to be on and a must every time we are in EPCOT
17) Tree of life show tough to be a bug
18) A ton of great places to eat and a bunch of fun places to eat with decent to good food like the Rainforrest in DTD
19) Cirque Du Soleil
20) Hoop De-Doo Review
21) Seven Seas light parade show, love watching it every time I stayed at the Wilderness Lodge.
22) Hall of the Presidents
Here is the changes that dissapointed me:
1) Horizons
2) Imagination Origional Ride gone.
3) Alien Encounter now rethemed to stitch'
s great escape
4) Captain Nemo 20,000 Leagues
5) Mr. Toads Wild Run
6) The old Movie arcade on main street in MK
7) Eastern Ride
8) Cable Cars
9) Renaming of the Dixie Landings and merge with Port Orleans French Quarter. I still have pictures of the old name and sign with the rose. Just loved the way it was named back then. Kind of a mood point hear because I still loved to stay at PORS every vacation. It has become a tradition. If we don't stay here then we stay at the Wilderness Lodge.
10) I miss PI, lot of fun times and a ton of laugh's there.
Yes there has been changes for the good and not so good since my first vist ever as a boy in 1975. But when I look at the changes and some of my favorites gone, that what was part of making my memories and stories to tell my daughter and now grandson. You see Disney is ever changing and things in the life don't always stay as they are. It's like telling your kids about Drive in's and the fun we had. With the changes I get a little dissapointed and that is a good thing to do, but then I just look at the WDW in a whole and just smile from ear to ear. Every time for the first day that we arrive and check-in I still get a tear in my eye that is hard to describe to others that says that I am in my favorite place in the whole world where I know I will have a ball and feel like I am a little kid again. What's cool is my feeling works on my wife after a day or so and there she is acting like a little girl having a ball. This is special to me because I get to see her in a new light and see a part of how she was when she was a little girl that I did not even know existed way back then. It's this time on vacation spent that brings us closer to gether than I think we ever are. This is what Disney and the Disney Magic really is and what is tried to be talked about and hard to express that we never have gotten anywhere else like this on vacation. In closing, when was the last time you and your wife held hands wearing Mouse ears, eating ice cream and going to get get in line to go on a ride or see a show like the Muppets or Mickey's PhilharMagic. If you haven't done this in awhile, I suggest maybe you should. It makes you realize what truly is important in your life. To me it's my wife and family. WDW helps me to remember that always.
