The wierdest things that will give you the disney feel

vintageepcot

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I was just listening to some music and came across some Dave Matthew's music and the last time I listened to it was on the way down to florida when I was still getting into the music and I was trying to learn a song on my guitar back at the condo and I just the whole disney vacation feeling all over again. It seems to happen to me each time. To me it can be a book maybe a new thing like something I wore allot during the trip, music or even some unpacked items that I haven't seen since the trip and they still have the smell of the whole setting. Something you thing about or have stuck in your head at times while walking thru the parks. Just something you haven't seen since the trip. Arrant those sometimes the greatest moments finding those objects or what ever it is again and getting a glimpse of that feeling back without looking at pictures or videos. Another thing that gets me going is my little pebble sized piece of the Epcot fountain that strayed away and was found during the refurbishment around the time they were chipping away at the cement. They must of made a mess because I saw allot of them floating around.
 

the-reason14

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I know exactly what you mean. I know there's this mary mary cd that I cant listen too at home or when Im driving in my car, just because it reminds me so much of several trips to FLA and WDW. There's been so many trips where me and my dad would jam to that cd all the way down there, and once we get to the pop, we would rarely use the car. But when we did it was either for the water parks or downtown disney, mainly driving around WDW. So I just cant listen to it because of that, because it reminds me so much of WDW. Each time we go, I try my best to have that cd playing, even though the last few times it wasnt, but still. But now that I think about it, I do listen to a few songs from it, but I cant listen to it in its entirety. I feel if I do, then the WDW feeling will wear off and I dont want that lol. I can literally turn that cd on, sit in the car, rock the car to simulate movement, close my eyes and Id think Im on my way to WDW lol.
 

Mikester71

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Usually music with me as well. Each trip, there is always a song that is popular and that we end up hearing all the way down and back as we switch from station to station while driving through the different cities and States. This past trip, it seemed like we heard Nickelback every two seconds on the way home. And as a Canadian who is not a huge Nickelback fan (we got them crammed down our throats up here when they first came out years ago), it seemed funny that the further I was from Canada, the more I heard these Canadian icons. :hammer:

At least now when I hear them, I think of our last WDW trip! :lol:
 

vintageepcot

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The Summer Olympics I spent up in Orlando during Phelp's reign.
Portable DVD player.
This site, :)

HA HA thats pretty funny because I always see the winter Olympics in florida. The summer olympics gets me when I hear the theme song because thats all you hear on certain TV channels.
 

828tnt

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The Summer Olympics I spent up in Orlando during Phelp's reign.
Portable DVD player.
This site, :)


really odd that you would bring this up - at least to me in this way.....

that particular year, i decided to do a surprise trip just me and my stepson- 10 at the time. i won't get into the dr phil family stuff, but looking back, a disney trip was just the remedy he and i needed!

on our first night to epcot on that trip, we did the park as well as it could be done! hit all the attractions, even tried a few "snacks" from around the world. that was a huge step for him, not being chicken fingers and all....

well after illuminations, i asked him where he wanted to go. we still had time to hit a ride, or we could just go back to ssr. he wanted to go to "espn". i explained to him exactally what espn was, and still insisted. he was suddenly hungry- lol.

well, while waiting for out sandwiches we became very involved with the olympics on tv. finally a phelps event came on. the entire place focused on one thing. no baseball game mattered anymore. i explained as best i could, the whold deal to my little guy.

well, it just happened to be the "comeback relay", you know the rediculously dramatically one. i think he exchanged high-fives with most in the place. the roar still gives me chills....

i've attended many sporting events with him- i'm a redskins and flyers season ticket holder. nothing will replace the feeling of everyone being that one particular collective on that night.

nothing.
 

Cmdr_Crimson

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The Museum of Science & Industry out here in Chicago has an Epcot-ish feel to it. The exhibits reflect the pavillions in a way that makes me feel like I'm there...with the exception that there is no rides..But, it does deal with Imagination, Space, Communication, Innovations of technology, The Land, Life & Health and Energy... All it needs is the Innoventions loop playing and perfection..Also the museum has a piece of Disney art that is used in Colleen Moore's Fairy Castle it's Mickey & Minnie as the King & Queen of Hearts...So it makes it even better...:)
 

foreverbelle

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Mine is a weird one.

So in the Fairfax County area we have these local bus systems. Fairfax Connector is what its called. They are yellow, red black and white. Everytime one passes us, I can't help but think of Disney. How much they look like the Disney buses and the whole feel of them..Its just something that makes me think of Disney.
 

DisneyLeo18

Active Member
Few years ago my whole family went on a magical gathering (or whatever the heck it was called) and i made a CD the morning we left. I still listen to the CD once and a while because it reminds me of walking through the airport and into the hotel.

Also sometimes when i go to the store i pick up the tollhose ice cream sandwiches and it reminds me of the first time I had one while walking through DAK.
 

vintageepcot

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There's this garden in my back yard That I converted into a mini innoventions. I got random house objects that were set aside and now abmient music some from innoventions goes on every day automatically and I made the fountain in it dance to music every 15 minutes using a christmas light music sensor and some cheap fountain pumps. I used garage band to syncronize the music timings. That is what gives me the feel. It doesn't look a thing like it but the it kind of has that feel. I hang out in that aria all the time when I have friends over. its an easy little project if you ever want to do it if you want I can give you a list of everything you will need. I had all the stuff sitting in the garage but it could cost around 300$ for the fountain and the ambient.
 

bobjl527

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Here's an odd one: I am sure that most of you know that the water in Florida has a certain "aroma." To me, it is kind of a sulfer smell. It also has a funky taste. I notice the smell every morning when I take a shower at the hotel. Occasionally where I live in suburban Chicago, my tap water smells like Florida water. I think it must be something added at the treatment plant. I get excited and yell out to my wife, "Hey! It smells like Florida in here." :sohappy:
 

urbanvegan

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There is something about the feeling when I get up early (dawn-ish) to do something out-of-the-ordinary that reminds me of getting up to go to the parks. There's something about that dewy smell and that electric feeling in the air....
 

toetheline29

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There is something about the feeling when I get up early (dawn-ish) to do something out-of-the-ordinary that reminds me of getting up to go to the parks. There's something about that dewy smell and that electric feeling in the air....

I know exactly what you mean. I've been getting that feeling as I've been walking to class every morning I have an early class for about the past two weeks. It won't last much longer, though, for me; pretty soon it's going to get cooler and it won't feel at all humid any more.

During my last trip, I listened to an album by RBD (a Mexican group) pretty much any time there was downtime (on the plane, when we came back to the hotel for a break, in the mornings while getting ready, etc). I hadn't listened to it in a while, and I happened to play it again the other day and for some reason, I kept thinking of Disney while I was listening to it. It took me a few minutes to remember that I had listened to it almost exclusively during the trip :).

Normally after a trip, one of the first things I do when I get home is do all my laundry. Again from this past trip, about a week after I got back (right about the time I was thinking, "A week ago, I was on Splash Mountain" :() I finally got around to unpacking my carry-on bag. I found a t-shirt I shoved in my carry-on as we were leaving the hotel because it wouldn't fit in my suitcase. It still smelled like "Disney" (or at least the hotel room :lol:).
 

Smee

Member
OK, this is really wierd.

There is an underground passageway between terminals at O'Hare Airport that has lots of neon lighting and futuristic music playing, etc. Everytime I fly through O'Hare and use this I think of EPCOT.
 

WDW 3

Well-Known Member
Turing on the cell phone. A trip a few years ago all three in our party would get ready and all turn our cell phones on our way out the door and this little jingle reminds us of Disney World.
 

brich

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Every time I make a mortgage payment, it reminds me that I just spent money that would get me a few days at Disney... :shrug:
 

EaglesfanNJ

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Great thread btw!

We are about 1.5 hours from the Jersey shore. Our last time down was a few weeks, and i had a moment just like this! On the boardwalk they have a very nice Christmas shop! For whatever reason, as soon as i walked in, it gave me that feeling of being in the Christmas shop in MK and DTD. This place even had Disney Character ornaments, so that really added to it. After i left it had me jonesing for my trip on Sunday!
 

vintageepcot

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Sometimes the smell at Frontier Land mostly on Splash Mountain, Prates of the Caribbean and Splash Mountain gets to me. It isn't that dewey smell someone else mentioned that hits me to, its that green mold smell that will catch me. I smelled it at the wax Museum and I knew the smell right away.
 


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