WDW Teary-eyed experience?

[fruitcake]

The last time I was in Disney was late Sept. 2001...a very emotional time for our country. This was the first time I had ever seen the show in the American Pavillion. I just couldn't stop crying. I had done alot of research on Kennedy when I was in school, and when his speech, mixed with the music, the song, 9/11, and the show as a whole was done....I was a mess. It was very touching.

It was our first trip without my mom....she had passed away in 1999 from cancer. I had already spent the evening there buying lots of trading pins...not to trade, but to keep. One of my mom's very favorite characters was Pinocchio. She absolutely loved him, but it was often difficult to find anything Pinocchio. Needless to say, I found a Pinocchio pin and just had to have it. The next day was spent in Epcot. After dinner in Italy, we made our way around World Showcase and there was the character bus.....with Pinocchio!!! Of course, I was in shock. There wasn't much of a line to see him, so I waited for only a short time. He started dancing around and spread his arms open wide for me to give him a hug. I showed him "his" pin, and told him I bought it because of my mom...I got another hug and a wonderful picture with Pinocchio. Even 30 year old can hug the characters!!! I never saw him again the rest of the trip...it was definitely meant to be...thanks, mom!

 

[Disneygrl36]

Teary-eyed experience on WDWMagic Boards!

Thank you all for sharing your teary-eyed moments--especially casualrdt & fruitcake. Your experiences touched me & I am very glad you chose to share such personal moments with us. Happy tears, memories, sad tears....Disney gives them all to us. I LOVE WDW!! Thank you Walt for giving us such a special & heartwarming (sometimes tear inducing) place to share with the people that we love.
<shading eyes because of all the misting going on

 

[surfsupdon]

The climax of Spectro when the music swells, the color lights transform into white, and the children's voices sing as the carousel goes round and they "cast a spell that wont be broken." It's beautiful.

And listening to the CD here in my car asI drive will also get me every time.

From the opening of the trumpets blowing, it is just such a happy song.

 

[speck76]

The climax of Spectro when the music swells, the color lights transform into white, and the children's voices sing as the carousel goes round and they "cast a spell that wont be broken." It's beautiful.

And listening to the CD here in my car asI drive will also get me every time.

From the opening of the trumpets blowing, it is just such a happy song.

I agree...I love that song and the last segment.

 

[Knett]

Great posts. Just to add a couple Teary-eyed moments I had just a couple weeks ago with my 6 year old daughter while I was there:

-During the Stars and Motorcars Parade, I had my daughter sitting on the curb near the end of the parade. Well she LOVES Stitch and I had told her that they had a Lilo & Stitch car in the parade so she made sure she had brought her Stitch hat(the one that looks like his whole head) and was wearing it. The moment comes when she spotted the car,she startes screaming "Look Daddy, it's STITCH!". Mind you the car was still a looong ways from us.lol. Anyway, when the car gets right near us, Stitch spots my daughter with his hat on, waved at her and blew her a kiss. That was all she could talk about the rest of that day.

-During SpectroMagic, near the end when Peter Pan and alot of characters are walking around, Mary Poppins walked right up to my daughter and began to talk to her, asking her if she had a fun day and stuff. They talked for about
a minute and before Mary Poppins took off, she hugged my daughter and told her bye.

There were a few more moments this last trip, but those two stood out so much.

 

[Kwit35]

:king: heres my story:::::::::::::::::::::::
My wife, daughter and i were at wdw october 2003. Now this was the second annual wdw pilgrimage.....(the third is planned for nov 12-20 2004)!!!!!!! Yeaaa!.....anyway
to make a really long story shorter...our 7 year old daughter alyssa's favorite disney movie and characters are beauty and the beast and belle... Now we had done the obligitory princess brakfast in the norway pavilion, as well as dinner with cinderella at 1900 park fare at the grand floridian, but my daughter really loves belle in here yellow ball gown. At home she would always dance and mimic the dance belle would do at the end of the movie with the beast.... She knows every word of the movie, and absolutely loves it all! Anyway we had met belle in her blue peasant dress at the breakfast.
We had also went to the beauty and the beast mlive on stage at the mgm studios. One of the cast members noticed my daughter and how she was singing all the songs with the cast etc....we got to talking to her at the end of the play, and we told her that alyssa has autism. She suggested that we talk to someone at the mk guest relations about the possibility of meeting belle in her ballgown at the end of the next day's performance...

We the next day when we went to the mk guest relations and began to re tell the story to one of the cast members there he advised us that there was really no way he could arrange that, but said he would try to see if there was something else he could do. He told us to call him later in the day....which we did.
At 130pm we again contacted him, and he told us that he was able to arrange a private meeting with belle in her yellow ballgown immediately after the share a dream come true parade, to come to city hall
well i had to make a mad dash to our resort (all stars movies) to retrieve the replica yellow ballgown dress we had purchase months in advance of our trip...
We wanted her to be dressed like belle when she got to meet her.!
I made it just in time for the parade/////// well we settled in to watch the parade in front of city hall. When the part where alice and the mad tea party show up, alice noticed her and pulled her out into the parade and she got to dance and be in the parade for about 5 minutes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wow it was awesome

anyway after the parade we went to city hall where they ushered us into a private room, offered us soft drinks, and were so courteous to us they treated us like kings.
We waited a few minutes and then the most magical think happened that i believe i will never forget as long as i live......belle arrived in all of her splendor and our daughter was in 7th heaven. She spent about 20 minutes with us and alyssa and we took so many pictures and video...........it truely made my daughter's dream come true as well as us.....
It was truely the most magical experience i have ever had!!!!!!!!! All thanks to the disney cast members who took the time to listen to a parent's story about their disabled child and her love of disney magic.........
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i know i have bored a few of you but i just wanted to share my story of some wonderful disney cast members who were awesome

Okay, I am crying just reading this...

 

[LoriMistress]

I get teary-eyed when I walked into MK and saw Main Street USA, seeing Cinderella's Castle made me completely teary-eyed. The babershop corteet(sp?) sang "When You Wish Upon A Star." And not only that, but riding on Peter Pan's flight got me so worked up. It brought up so many memories with me and my family when I went to DL as a child.

Also, seeing Donald Duck. When I went to him and hugged him, I had tears in my eyes...he is my FAVORITE Disney character.

And what made me teary eyed the most was leaving WDW. When we left MK (that was the last park we went to before our ride back home), I was crying leaving the park, before I went to sleep, and leaving WDW and seeing the sign...that just broke my heart. I am such a baby.

 

[magicmom]

I have been to Disney World over 125 times. My hubby and I were engaged at EPCOT and married at the Grand Floridian (10 years ago). With the exception of being engaged and crying over that, I have to say that we both got teary the first time we took our daugther to Disney. She was turning 1 and we decided that since her room and our entire house were decorated Disney she should see why.

As my hubby and I passed under the bridge on the bus passed the Contemporary I started to get a little faclempt. But by the time we entered the park and started walking down Main Street my hubby, my parents and I were all tearing up. We had always watched everyone else with the little kids who were so excited but now it was our turn to see the Disney World that Walt built through our daughters eyes. Now that we will be going in September and bring our 7 month old daughters too I am sure we will all be welling up again!

 

[mrtoad]

Seeing my daughter's face as we watched the Cinderella's Surprise Celebration. I still get tears when I look at the photos.

 

[jrashadb]

Teary-eyed... hmm...

Well, to be honest, I always get a bit emotional when watching Wishes and Illuminations, but they don't make me cry, exactly. I've welled up a bit at voth of those shows, but they were happy tears and I was too busy grinning like a loon to cry. Usually...
There has been one exception...
See, the last time I shed tears at a Disney park, it involved Illuminations, an now-exgirlfriend and a breakup...
But, yeah... that was a few years ago and that was the last time I got seriously teary-eyed at a park.

 

[TheDisneyQueen]

Thanks so much for sharing these WDW moments with us all! They really show what the true magic is about!

 

[LadyDarling]

I have a couple. One of them was just last year.

The story really starts in 1990, when I met a guy in my grade school. Matt and I became fast friends and still are to this day. In 1997, Matt was 17 and went to go give blood at a local Red Cross. He got his results back saying he had Hep C. He's always been a very straightlaced kid. Turns out he got it from a blood transfusion during a major surgery he had as an infant in 1980, long before donor blood was screened for that kind of thing. His health continues to decline dispite just about every treatment in the book (and a few that aren't). It had been a long time dream of ours to someday go to Disneyworld with a bunch of friends. But there is no way he could ever afford it. When we got the news that the last, clincally accepted treatment had actually WORSENED his condition, we knew we didn't have much time. Now, as far as I know, there is no "make-a-wish" foundation for 23 year olds. So last year, I just finished my first 5 songs of what will be a 10 song album (coming out in September). I got some folks together and put every penny I recieved for CDs towards Matt's trip. I left it complete open - as an open donation.

It worked out great! I was amazed how many people opened their hearts to Matt's plight! (Anyone at last years meet and greet may remember us!) My husband, our best friend Mike, and Matt all went to Disneyworld. We raised enough money to pay for his trip and spending cash! It was great!

Matt had a blast. But that first night, we went to EPCOT and caught Illuminations.... I cried on my husband's shoulder. We'd dreamed about this for almost a decade and it finally came true.

Other than that - Illuminations made me cry when I first saw it in 1999 with my now-husband. That was actually the moment we knew we wanted to get married...

Though we both cried a year later when he proposed in Disneyland the following year. :kiss:

 

[TheDisneyQueen]

Lady darling thats was such a nice thing you did for your friend Really you did make me tear and choke up bit... very touching story....
Angie

 

[WDWScottieBoy]

That's a very touching story. What songs are you putting on the CD? Was there one that he loved at WDW that you could put on there and surprise him with it. I have a feeling it would bring a big smile to his face or even better, tears of joy. You're an angel to do that for him, if only the whole world was like you. You know how to make a grown man cry, I'm sure. I got choked up reading that.

 

[TnkrBelPixiDust]

The first time I got all teary-eyed at WDW was when I went in 2000. I was my 6 year old brothers first time and just watching him get all excited at the Tapestry of Nations parade brought tears to my eyes. I had tears in my eyes and had to do the whole fanning my eyes thingy to keep them at bay lol!! For some reason he <3*LOVED*<3 the parade and still listens to the music quite often! I just love seeing the little kids @ WDW.. even if I dont know them it makes me happy.. they are just so innocent and excited.. its refreshing to see that!

 

[Gucci65]

My story is a repeat as well....

Way back in 1993, I took my daughter to MK for the first time. She was almost 2. At that time she loved Barney, but was terrified of him in person. She loved the Disney characters as well and we were afraid she would be scared of them as well. In toon town after she went running into Minnie's arms, I knew everything would be alright. Same thing when she met Mickey in his tent shortly afterwards. She still had a pacifier at this time and I thought we would never get rid of it. When she met Mickey she gave it to him and said "now don't drop it or Mommy will have to drive a long way to wash it". The characters paid more attention to her that day than any time we have been back (every year since '93). I still get a huge lump in my throat when I look back at the pictures or watch the video. She was in awe of the whole park, I will never forget the look on her face. My daughter (Boo47) will be 13 this month and still loves the parks - kids her age tease her about going to WDW twice a year they don't understand the obsession.

Oh, I still get teary eyed when I first walk down Main Street USA, at the finale of Fantasmic, during FOTLK.

Thank you all for your wonderful stories. It's not even 9am here at work and I was crying. :lol:

 

[LadyDarling]

What are friends for??

That's a very touching story. What songs are you putting on the CD? Was there one that he loved at WDW that you could put on there and surprise him with it. I have a feeling it would bring a big smile to his face or even better, tears of joy. You're an angel to do that for him, if only the whole world was like you. You know how to make a grown man cry, I'm sure. I got choked up reading that.

I'm just one of those folks who's always felt that my friends are very precious to me and if I did less than all I could, I wouldn't be worthy of the honor of being thier friend! I have no doubt that they'd pull together for me as well. I have few, but they are GREAT men in my life and I consider myself very blessed in that.

Actually - all the songs on the CD that I "sold" were original. They were the first 5 songs of my complete album coming out (finally,3 years in the making) in early September.

As for Matt, well, he's still struggling with depression (a common side effect of being told that unless something changes, you're only going to live a few more years) - and I still send him care packages and stay in touch daily (hearing from friends really helps him, and telling folks you're liver is failing and you've got Hep C doesn't really endear people to you, so his friends are few and true).

We did make a video of the trip last year and I'm getting together tons of WDW scraps to make a scrap book for him of all the pictures we took.

I actually have a website where I invited folks who were touched by Matt's story. If you're interested in looking at our pictures from the trip - PM me and I'll invite you to the site! Matt looked great in those pictures! At 5'8" tall, about 6 months before the trip, the treatment he was on caused him to lose weight (it's a lot like chemotherapy. it's interferon radiation treatment). When they took him off of it, he was down to 108lbs. It scared me becuase I knew if he hit the 90's he'd be hospitalized. But he was a real trooper! He refused a wheelchair during the trip (though I was ready to get him one), even though his knees started to lock up on him on the 2nd day (it's a sign of liver failure, unforunately).

But a great time was had by all! Mike and I are talking about doing it again! I hope that "again" will be someday when we can afford to bring Matt along again - but for now, even WE can't afford our annual trip this year. Oh well - there's always 2005!

Kudos to anyone who read this far.