Your First Love....

[JungleJim]

When did your love for Disney start?? I can remember becoming a Disney fan after a trip to Walt Disney World when I was four.

Whenever I had to write a book report for school I always wrote it on Walt Disney! The book was called Walt Disney: Master of Make-Believe.

 

[cruiseman]

I was about 4yrs old on my first trip to Disneyland and my sisters and I got to pick one toy to take home. My sisters picked tigger and minnie mouse. Although these were good picks I picked Big Al from country bears and slept with him for years. Thats when i became a fan and I miss Al.

 

[Legacy]

I didn't fall in love until my early teenage years. This is coming from a guy who would go to the parks whenever he wanted since he was 6 years old. Anyway, I think I was about 13 or 14... maybe older and was watching the second showing of Spectromagic. The park was empty and I was the only person younger then 25 within 20 yards on both sides. So, needless to say every character did something to me. The memorable ones though are Pinochio pinching my cheek and Cinderella blowing me a kiss. From that moment on I was hooked. That's when I truly experienced the magic for myself.

 

[Dizknee_Phreek]

i suppose i first fell in love on my first trip back in 1992. i believe i was 8 years old or so. thank goodness the rest of my family fell in love as well, and have been helping to feed my obsession ever since!

 

[Tramp]

Originally posted by JungleJim
When did your love for Disney start??

...I think it was 1955 +/- a year or two...The Mickey Mouse Club.

 

[westie]

My first disney love was the day my mom handed my brother and I our own book of E tickets. A whole book of E tickets. Now this wasn't the regular admission book of A,B,C,D,and E tickets leaving you wondering what to do with those other cruddy tickets. This was an entire book of E tickets. Carte blanche to go on the matterhorn or pirates or haunted mansion over and over till your nose bled from disney. Now those were the days!

 

[Erika]

I don't even know where it started. I do remember saying my bedtime prayers, and God-Blessing every character I could think of!! so it definitely started very young. My parents used to get copies of the old shorts, and those were (and still are) my favorites.

 

[JLW11Hi]

Mickey Mouse! When I was little, I loved to watch Mickey Mouse cartoons and tried to draw him all the time. He introduced me to the world of drawing and animation, a very important part of my life. I always went to WDW when I was a kid and oved it, but I didn't turn into the big theme park fanatic till about 4 years ago.

 

[cymbaldiva]

I'm not sure when I actually fell in love.....I remember seeing Disney on TV for so long before I ever actually got to go! I'm still dreaming of staying in the Contemporary because of the ads on Sunday nite television!

 

[Merlin]

May, 1977!! I was eleven years old and a year or so before that, I was at DL with my family and we were looking at the models and drawings of coming attractions. One in particular intrigued me...It was a model of Space Mountain. From that moment, I eagerly anticipated the opening of the ride. I remember visiting DL a couple times while it was being built and of course that added to the excitement. My brother and I went opening week and after finishing the ride, it was official. I was now a bonified Disney fan for life. That was also the day I became a roller coaster fan as well.

 

[homer424]

Oh wow-it started as far back as I can remember. My first WDW trip was when I was 3 in 1978 and I can still remember little glimpses of the park, being on the skyway, taking pictures with characters. My mom had said I screamed bloody murder when it was time to go(of course I still do-LOL). But I know when people would ask what I wanted for my birthday or Christmas I would always ask for anything with Mickey Mouse or Donald Duck-funny how nothing changes! My blankie from when I was a baby (which I still have! going on 28 years now!) has scenes from Disneyland on it. I still have a step stool that is now my daughter's that has a big old Mickey Mouse Club logo on it.

I also think my mom had a lot to do with it-she loved Disney just as much as I did. She was a kid at heart and really got into it all and fed my obsession steadily, God rest her soul. As much as I love going and ALWAYS cry (!) from sheer excitement when I walk through the gates my first day there, it sometimes isn't as fun because she isn't around to share it with me. sorry guys- I didn;t meant to be a downer!

Donna

 

[Sherm00]

I had a record when I was little of it's a small world, had the song and a walk throgh of the ride. I was in awe when I realized it was a real place. I plaied that record for days on end. I also had disney books on 45 records. I always watched the disney christmas specials and the wonderful world of disney. it didn't really sink in though till my first trip to disney when I was 8 years old. from then on I was hooked.

 

[maureen ashton]

My sister and I have been fans forever. When we were young (late 50's) we would visit our faternal grandparents on Sunday and we would not leave until we had seen The Wonderful World of Disney. Mickey Mouse Club was a favourite also. In the early sixties our cousins moved to California and we were so jealous that they could go to Disneyland whenever they wanted. We made it to DL once in the late eighties amd have visited WDW several times, but not as often as we would like. Fit in Disney movies, purchase videos and trips to Disney stores in between visits for our fix.

 

[bearboysnc]

Originally posted by westie
My first disney love was the day my mom handed my brother and I our own book of E tickets. A whole book of E tickets. Now this wasn't the regular admission book of A,B,C,D,and E tickets leaving you wondering what to do with those other cruddy tickets. This was an entire book of E tickets. Carte blanche to go on the matterhorn or pirates or haunted mansion over and over till your nose bled from disney.

Would those be the Magic Key tickets? Magic keys were good for any attraction in the park.

My first love would have to be the introduction of the "passport" you could ride anyride you wanted as many times as you wanted.

 

[wannabeBelle]

Well the love for all things Disney does date back pretty far. I loved Wide World of Disney on Sunday nights and even went once with my parents in my early teens. My obsession didnt start until 1997 when I went with just me and my Mom. I hadnt traveled very well until that point, motion sickness, home sickness etc. On that trip I had no such issues and was able to eat, go on anything and just enjoy myself in general. I went once a year in 1998 then again in 1999. Twice a year since 2000 and this year I am breaking my own records I Am doing 4 trips this year!!! Not to cause a thread drift but so many people here at work just dont understand how I can keep going to the same place and never get tired of it. I guess only us children at hear understand! Belle

 

[Married@WDW]

My earliest recollection of Disney Heaven was sitting on a rock at Discovery Island (I think it was called Treasure Island at the time) on a very hot August day with ice cream dripping down my arms. Ahhh, to go back to those days. I think I was three-years-old.

I also remember riding It's A Small World over and over again that trip. Funny how some of things you love as a child become your worst nightmare (literally, being trapped in IASW and they don't shut off the music!) as an adult.

 

[mwitkus]

i would say it would be ever since i was in nursery school (3/4 yrs old) and took our first trip to wdw.. then growing up i had my disney records w/ books to read along, when cable came out i had the disney channel and now that i am all grown up, i have an entire room in my house decorated in disney stuff (appropriately named The Disney Room) and i name all of my pets after disney characters... (so far i've had dopey and bashful (2 turtles), thumper (cockerspaniel), meiko (akita), gus gus (rabbit) and the next dog will be sebastion (st. bernard) i've even managed to get hubby hooked!!!

go disney!!!!

 

[wahooskipper]

Let's see...my first trip to Disneyland was in 1976. Many, many visits later my last trip was in 1984. My first trip to WDW was in 1985. Many, many trips later I went to work there on the WDW College Program in 1992. Since '92 I have been back more times than I can count but I look forward to my first trip with my firstborn (Oct. 9th or thereabouts) possibly during the holidays.

Pooh may be commercial but it is all about a Man and a Mouse.

 

[Pumbas Nakasak]

Given that when i was younger Disney was an image on TV that only the rich or seriously ill kids ever got to see in real life. But thanks to Sir Freddy Laker and Co trans atlantic flying became a realistic aim. And on our first visit my wife and I just new wed be back. Infact it is one of the things she comments on most. And at that time we saw no evening parades or Fantasy in the Sky, it was just the ambiance of the parks and resorts.

 

[Nintendo18]

Whenever I had to write a book report for school I always wrote it on Walt Disney! The book was called Walt Disney: Master of Make-Believe. [/B][/QUOTE]

I don't know what book i read, but i did the same exact thing as you. I loved disney ever since i first went there when i was like-2!