Ok my friends, I've built a time machine and I need a brave volunteer

[real mad hatter]

Whit!

phh toronto that explains a lot :lol:

I lived in Montreal many years ago,La Salle was where I stayed,but I did get the chance to visit Toronto and loved it also.:wave:

 

[crazgurl]

I lived in Montreal many years ago,La Salle was where I stayed,but I did get the chance to visit Toronto and loved it also.:wave:

I haven't really spent much time in Toronto, but I'm definitely a Montreal girl through and through!

 

[crazgurl]

Now to get this thread back on track, I'd want to go back to opening day at hollywood studios... for some reason that was my favorite park since my first visit and I would LOVE to go back and see the ninja turtles and dinosaurs and the original park itself with the working film studio...

Failing that opening day at either epcot or magic kingdom would also rock my socks... My birthday is october 1st, but both opened before I was born, so I think it would be kind of strange!

 

[Epcot-Rules]

I would also like to go back to my first visit....December 1973. I was 12 yrs old. We were from a very rural area at that time. WDW was an amazing place for a youngster. Truly a place that far exceeded a childs imagination.

I woke one morning and the ENTIRE resort was decorated. I mean it I never seen a christmas wonderland in my wildest dreams. I was old enough to not believe in Santa Claus anymore but for the life of me I couldnt rationalize how this could have been pulled off over a single night without the help of some "magical" assistance. My mind was playing tricks on me. Something was pulling me back to adolesence. For one magical moment even at such a young age I had an out of body experience.

To this day when I visit I can still close my eyes and remember it like it was yesterday. Take me to that day. Forget about the M & M's I will pay you...name your price.

Mine is similar, the date would be summer on 1977. 1st and only family vacation from my entire childhood. My dad was a bad alcoholic who worked construction and Mom had a sever Bipolar disorder. But out of my childhood, this magical place seem to make our family problems melt away. I felt like the richest little boy in town.
So MK summer of 1977 would be my destination to have that once in a life time feeling again.

 

[Thomas morrow]

We'll go and we only have to go back to 2010 our first stay at the poly everything about the trip was perfect. We drive from PA no traffic all the way down. The weather for 9 days was perfect except one 10 minute rain shower that interupted the daytime parade and we're standing by the rest rooms behind Casey's and the parade characters are being led backstage right past us. The halloween party was great. Everything was almost a walk on and to top it off we watched Wishes from the Poly beach and just as the evil queen says "and a thunder bolt to cast my spell" a real bolt of lightning flashed in the sky above the castle.

 

[Laura]

I'd go back to 1995. MGM Studios was an awesome park. Tower of Terror was open. Epcot was equally great. Horizons, World of Motion, Wonders of Life, and the original Journey Into Imagination were running. Blizzard Beach was a new park.

The crowds weren't terrible. There was no fastpass system. You could call and making dining reservations to the restaurants really easily DURING your vacation. No advanced planning was necessary. The mid-90's were a really magical time to go to WDW.

 

[Laura]

Also if I got a second shot in the time machine, I'd love to check out Disneyland in the 50's.

 

[NemoRocks78]

Early December '95. Christmas decor would be all around, first of all. :xmas: At MK, New Tomorrowland is still fresh with Alien Encounter, Dreamflight, and Timekeeper running, and Toad/Lion King are still in Fantasyland. Mickey Mania Parade is heading down the streets daily. Epcot '95 has SSE with Irons, Food Rocks, Horizons, Motion, Life, and the original Seas, Imagination, and Land going (not to mention an early Innoventions with all the cool SEGA games! :lol: ). Studios is still young and things like the Backlot Tour are still cool. And outside of the parks, the Disney Village Marketplace and Pleasure Island are still in their prime and they'd be awesome to experience as an adult.

:king:

 

[Annielkd]

Mine is similar, the date would be summer on 1977. 1st and only family vacation from my entire childhood. My dad was a bad alcoholic who worked construction and Mom had a sever Bipolar disorder. But out of my childhood, this magical place seem to make our family problems melt away. I felt like the richest little boy in town.
So MK summer of 1977 would be my destination to have that once in a life time feeling again.

I was there for the first time the summer of 1977! I think that was when they were building Thunder mountain (or it could have been my second trip in 81). I have pictures but can't tell how old I am in the pictures.

 

[mergatroid]

I would volunteer, but I need assurances that your flux capacitor is of the proper tolerance, voltage rating and capacitance.

Also, has your machine been inspected and certified by the IAoTM

I'm afraid not unkadug however my my buddy who had been drinking heavily and used to be an electrician before he was sacked, gave it a kick and said "Yup, looks good to me".

That's as good as any 'certificate' in my book :animwink:

What flavour M&M's????

Red, white and blue Jubilee special pack in honour of her Majesty my friend

As time machines go, I'd always rather go forward than back.

But if I have to pick...and I only get one lousy day, I'll pick The day we see in that pic of Walt and Marty Sklar standing by the X. I get to be invisible and just hang around, right?

I'm still working on the 'invisibility cloak' using Mrs Mergatroids negligee and it's not ready yet sorry. To be honest, she's getting rather concerned with my use of her underwear collection :lookaroun

Should that be "one lousy Disney Day?" Oh, wait, no. That wasn't the ad campaign, was it?

In any event, I'd love to take my HD camcorder back to, say, a point in the early '90s, when I could visit the following (multiple times): Spaceship Earth, Horizons, World of Motion, Ice Station Cool, Journey Into Imagination, Wonders of Life, Wonders of China, Food Rocks! or Kitchen Kabaret, Communicore or the Innoventions with Alec Tronic, the original O'Canada!, The Mickey Mouse Revue, Dreamflight or If You Had Wings, the old Backlot Tram Tour, the Animation Tour (yeah, I'd have to do this one on the sly), Sorcery in the Sky, and whatever else isn't around anymore. This would preferably be during a slow time of the year, but on a Saturday so that I would have a maximum amount of time to accomplish everything. Oh, and a day with no rain or high temperatures/humidity. That's not asking for too much, is it?

Not at all, exactly what the MTT2012 was designed for, a good answer.

I would also like to go back to my first visit....December 1973. I was 12 yrs old. We were from a very rural area at that time. WDW was an amazing place for a youngster. Truly a place that far exceeded a childs imagination.

I woke one morning and the ENTIRE resort was decorated. I mean it I never seen a christmas wonderland in my wildest dreams. I was old enough to not believe in Santa Claus anymore but for the life of me I couldnt rationalize how this could have been pulled off over a single night without the help of some "magical" assistance. My mind was playing tricks on me. Something was pulling me back to adolesence. For one magical moment even at such a young age I had an out of body experience.

To this day when I visit I can still close my eyes and remember it like it was yesterday. Take me to that day. Forget about the M & M's I will pay you...name your price.

Wow, sounds such a lovely vision. Really nice story that

Early December '95. Christmas decor would be all around, first of all. :xmas: At MK, New Tomorrowland is still fresh with Alien Encounter, Dreamflight, and Timekeeper running, and Toad/Lion King are still in Fantasyland. Mickey Mania Parade is heading down the streets daily. Epcot '95 has SSE with Irons, Food Rocks, Horizons, Motion, Life, and the original Seas, Imagination, and Land going (not to mention an early Innoventions with all the cool SEGA games! :lol: ). Studios is still young and things like the Backlot Tour are still cool. And outside of the parks, the Disney Village Marketplace and Pleasure Island are still in their prime and they'd be awesome to experience as an adult.

:king:

Yes, very true. If/when you come back alive I'm thinking of going back to when MGM Studios had the 'Studio Tour' with 'Honey I Shrunk the Kids' flying bee segment etc. I kind of miss the studios back then even though on the face of it there was much less to do.

 

[mergatroid]

Mine is similar, the date would be summer on 1977. 1st and only family vacation from my entire childhood. My dad was a bad alcoholic who worked construction and Mom had a sever Bipolar disorder. But out of my childhood, this magical place seem to make our family problems melt away. I felt like the richest little boy in town.
So MK summer of 1977 would be my destination to have that once in a life time feeling again.

Sorry missed this on my last post, a beautiful story my friend. Exactly what Disney is there for.

 

[Epcot-Rules]

Sorry missed this on my last post, a beautiful story my friend. Exactly what Disney is there for.

Thank you, It would be 28 years before I returned with my own family, and it was the magic I hoped it would be. I had tears in my eyes when we seen MK.

 

[Mani]

I Am volunteer

 

[unkadug]

I Am volunteer

I thought you were Mani.

 

[copcarguyp71]

October 1996...it was my favorite trip of all time. EPCOT was at its pinnacle and the parks were hitting on all eight cylinders...except for the cakestle....oh wait, nevermind...I'm having a flashback to the pink nightmare. Never mind, I'm staying right where I am and deleting that from my memory banks.

 

[Lucky]

I'll volunteer for the Merg Time Traveler 2012. Please take me forward to the year 2015. I'm curious about whether anyone will have randomly bumped up this thread.

 

[George]

I'll volunteer for the Merg Time Traveler 2012. Please take me forward to the year 2015. I'm curious about whether anyone will have randomly bumped up this thread.

Obvious. Someone did a search on "time machine" in thread titles because they were incredibly eager to volunteer for the mission. DUH! I mean the title also includes the word "volunteer". Can you imagine the excitement felt upon finding this thread? It is probably equivalent to the excitement I felt when I found the thread about chicken burritos, baristas, cold fusion, and Animal Kingdom back in aught 7.

 

[Lucky]

Obvious. Someone did a search on "time machine" in thread titles because they were incredibly eager to volunteer for the mission. DUH! I mean the title also includes the word "volunteer". Can you imagine the excitement felt upon finding this thread? It is probably equivalent to the excitement I felt when I found the thread about chicken burritos, baristas, cold fusion, and Animal Kingdom back in aught 7.

I'm just visiting here from the future, to research an assignment on Primitive Social Media for my Ancient History class.

 

[George]

I'm just visiting here from the future, to research an assignment on Primitive Social Media for my Ancient History class.

In all actuality, you didn't have to come from the far future because I think to most young hipsters (of which I am not) this is primitive social media.

 

[mf1972]

I only travel in hot tub time machines, sorry