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General Grizz

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OKAY...I am listening to the part of "Let's All Sing Like the Birdies Sing" on my computer (the parts when the birdies whistle...not the song)...and I get in this automatic - a state that I don't control - feeling I do with several attractions:

1) I stop
2) I just forget everything I am doing
3) I listen...and I remember...
4) I have to put my head down, close my eyes...
5) I become in a state that you can't express...sad eyebrows, happy smile, or sometimes sighs...

This happens to me with Offenbach, Let's All Sing Like the Birdies Sing, the Country Bear Jamboree Queue Music, Journey Into Imagination Work of Art Scene, CoP, and Horizons.

I don't know why I start to feel this way...maybe it is just triggering the happy feelings I have/had in these attractions that I experience when I am there??

And then...when the song is normal I get hit back into reality...and yearn for Walt Disney, Retro Epcot, and Country Bear Jamboree... ;)

I believe this is the true love for Disney, when your feelings take over you....and you are in a state you can't control...

Maybe this is ClassicDisneyItis??

Anyone have these symptoms??
 
tinkrbel

tinkrbel

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I believe this is the true love for Disney, when your feelings take over you....and you are in a state you can't control...
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All the time, the music sends me back to WDW in my mind. The commercials on tv .. I can not control the tears. There is the excitement like now when we are so close to going again, I know people want me to shut up about going to WDW, but I just cant .. I become a babblering idiot. Normaly I dont talk about things to people I dont know ..but when it comes to WDW .. I tell complete strangers when we went last, when we are going again. I walk around singing songs from the tiki room, COP, the CBJ, and POC. I am always wearing a WDW t-shirt. and ... well here is the real thing I think makes me over the edge when it comes to DisneyItis,
I dont think of the charactors as really being people in costumes.
 
WigglyWiggins

WigglyWiggins

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I completley understand that feeling...and another thing that makes me fell not quite so weird is when you find another person whos been to disney nad you can just talk and talk and talk and talk with them, im still at school and i spent a whole double textiles lesson (2 hours) just discussing disney with a another mickey freak. I odered the holiday planning vid and when it came i was ill and in bed. I watched it from my bed and as soon as the music started i started crying. It sounds pathetic, but it just shows the magic of disney, that a little peice of music can bring back so many happy memories it makes you start to cry. Long live disney!!
 
SilentRascal

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Originally posted by tinkrbel


All the time, the music sends me back to WDW in my mind. The commercials on tv .. I can not control the tears. There is the excitement like now when we are so close to going again, I know people want me to shut up about going to WDW, but I just cant .. I become a babblering idiot. Normaly I dont talk about things to people I dont know ..but when it comes to WDW .. I tell complete strangers when we went last, when we are going again. I walk around singing songs from the tiki room, COP, the CBJ, and POC. I am always wearing a WDW t-shirt. and ... well here is the real thing I think makes me over the edge when it comes to DisneyItis,
I dont think of the charactors as really being people in costumes.
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I won't say I get as moved by these things as either of you two, however, I do agree with you about the commercial. Each time I see it, I get the same excited feeling inside as when I was a kid and heard my parents talk about planning a trip there. Even thinking about it now makes me hungry for another trip there, though none is in the works as of right now. :-(
 
2much2do

2much2do

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I am so happy to read these posts! I thought I was the only one, LOL! Yes, I get what I call a Disney Flashback. What happens usually is some music, a smell, somebody says something or I'll eat something that will instantly take me back to WDW. At the State Fair this past summer, they were selling turkey legs. A poor pathetic excuse for Disney turkey legs. They were pretty terrible, but......the sight of people eating them brought me right back to Frontierland. I had to stop for a second, close my eyes and be THERE. Then, it was over, but oh how sweet it was!!!!!
 
tinkrbel

tinkrbel

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you do start to think you are the only one. Its hard to believe there are others that feel so strongly isnt it? I thought maybe I was the only one that felt so strongly about a place. finding others that couldnt carelessabout other theme parks, and who count down the days till they can once again see that Magic Castle, hear "Blood on the Saddle" Stare up at SSE like it was the first time they ever saw it. Marvel at the Tree of Life and all the details. have tons of CD's of Disney Music that takes them back to moments in time and helps them look forward to the new memories yet to be :) on another post .. there is the question about what park would be Walts favorite .. I dont think that matters .. I just wish he had lived to see the how devoted some of us are to the Magic he left for us :)

34 days, this must be the longest March on record
 
SilentRascal

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Originally posted by 2much2do
I am so happy to read these posts! I thought I was the only one, LOL! Yes, I get what I call a Disney Flashback. What happens usually is some music, a smell, somebody says something or I'll eat something that will instantly take me back to WDW.
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I know that feeling as well. For some reason, I like the smell of the Disney buses. No not the diesel or normal bus fumes, it's the inside of the buses I'm talking about. Every now and then, somewhere, I'll catch a whiff of it and instantly I recall riding on one of the Disney buses bound for a theme park.
 
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Samwayla

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GrizzlyHall, I know exactly what your talking about, The POTC must smell. My air conditioning vents used to have that smell and everytime the air conditioning came on I could smell that and I'd feel like I was at POTC. It was a bad smell but since I associated it with Disney POTC it was a good smell. Know what I mean??? Anyway I got a new air conditioning and had the vents cleaned. I think I regret that. Now I can't smell POTC any more. I hope noone thinks I'm too crazy.
 
thumper

thumper

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DisneyItis - i love it! Everytime our family is together, the conversation always comes back to Disney. I could talk for hours about the memories I have! My husband and I were in the bookstore last night...what do you think i was reading? Birnbaum's Disney guide. When my husband found me, he said, "We already have that book." But I can read it again and again becasue every little thing brings back a memory or starts a discussion!
 
Irrawaddy Erik

Irrawaddy Erik

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I definetly know what you are talking about like its almost like and internal pull of somekind for me its bittersweet you love it but you miss it too ... i get that way on most of the epcot music also the whole illuminations cd and the new magic in the streets almost any area music or queue music will make me feel that way... some more than others like the CoP loading music ... Space mountain Queue .... the star tunnel from SM .... all of the WoM music and Horizons... and the old Universe of energy music and the new music ... Spaceship earth .... the epcot entrance melody ... tomorrows child ... makin memories (the niffty ninties version w/ the marimba) the list could go on........... as far as smells old cotton candy reminds me of the county bounty in toontown... i love the way CBJ smells ... as well as CoP and the sulfur smells always reminds me of watching illuminations at epcot as a kid... Its a bond that you make w/ things in the park even if the attraction/smell whatever closes or stops you will always be able to remember it


Erik
toontown/fantasyland attractions/opperations

oh yea every now and again if i catch a smell of a certain type of disinfectant it smells just like the monorails
 
no2apprentice

no2apprentice

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When we saw the "spelling bee" commercial for the first time for the 100 years Celebration, my wife looked at me and told me I would be the one to start singing the Mickey Mouse Club song. I took that as a real compliment.:D

POTC always brings an overwhelming feeling of joy and nostalgia for me. I can remember seeing Walt taking a whole TV show, introducing POTC before it went into Disneyland (oops - showing my age). It's obvious to anyone who's read about Walt, that he was very proud of audioanimatronics and the potential for it. There are other attractions, music, movies, etc., that "blank" me out to everything else, but nothing like POTC.

All together now, "Yo-ho, yo-ho, a pirate's life for me"!:lol:
 
Main Street USA

Main Street USA

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It really sucks when you talk about these things with some of your friends who dont get it or simply haven't had the chance to experience it. They laugh at me, and I tell them I don't care. I also tell them I wish they had the chance to experience when they were younger and then grow up with it.

I met a guy at my school that actually works down there part time every once in a while. He understood, and I sat there talking to a stranger for over an hour. It seemed like I had known this guy forever. I would mention things about WDW that really no one would get, you know, the smallest coolest things, and he'd be like "YEAH!" Felt so good to finally let it out and have someone understand and share my enthusiasm.

Thats why I spend so much time in these forums. I know that even if I don't type anything, I can just read and then go to bed in a good mood.
 
Scooter

Scooter

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Quick Story...

Last summer I had my driveway resurfaced.

It was really hot that day...like 93º. Six big burly guys showed up with their machines and tools to do the job.

They worked for hours in the hot sun. I felt bad for them so I put out an ice chest filled with nice cold bottles of Coke.

When they were done, the biggest, meanest, smellyiest, sweatiest guy came to my door to get paid.

I answered the door in a Sleeveless Disney T-shirt. I have big arms with big crazy Tattoos all over them.

The guy saw my Disney T-shirt and asked me if I had ever been to Disney World...he then told me he goes there twice a year.

We started talking about Disney World and one thing led to another and we ended up talking for over an HOUR about what a great place Disney World was and and what our favorite rides were. Then it dawned on me.....

Here we were...me with my tattoos all hanging out...him with black driveway tar all over him...all sweaty and nasty...and we were talking like little KIDS about the Disney World! The neighbors must of thought we were CRAZY!!:lol:

Oh...the Magic of Disney !!!!:) :) :) :) :) :) :)
 
figmentmom

figmentmom

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I sure am glad to hear all you guys have had these same experiences and feeling I have. I think the people I work with think I'm more than a little nuts on the subject, but I have so many wonderful memories of WDW that I can't help it. The smell of oranges (Horizons), wood burning (SE), certain flowers (the old Imagination ride), all take me right back there, instantaneously. Music does the same. It doesn't even have to be a "Disney" song, per se - just a little bit of something I hear in a totally different song can do it.

Only 28 days to go! And you're right - this is the longest March on record!!!!
 
TinkerBell9988

TinkerBell9988

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I know this is an old thread, but I have to reply to it. (sorry!) I am 13, and I feel the exact same way. I mean, its wierd. And all my friends think Im koo-koo, crazy. The only person/people Ive met who have felt the same way are you guys! I just can't explain it... I feel like WDW is my home and I get that gushy feeling everytime I hear a song, like the CoP theme song, Tiki Room, SpectroMagic, PoC, HM, and that "Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, Tip For Today!" in the hotel room. ahhhhhhhh Its so hard to explain. I guess its "DisneyWorld Phobia" or something. If Walt could just see us now... We are appreciating all of his creations and innovations. gosh, im so emotional, sometimes I cry when I see or hear certain things, especially When You Wish Upon A Star. But I can totally relate to all of your stories and thoughts. Just wanted to share that with ya.....


Fellow DisneyPhobiac,

TinkerBell9988
 

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