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Even though I've been here since January, I never really posted a Disney Story. So here it goes...

Okay, it's 12:41 now as I'm writing this, and I'm listening to a playlist that's about 5 hours long of nothing but Disney music. Most of it isn't the music from the movies, though, but from the Theme park itself. There's just something about that music that I love, I really don't know. FOr instance, right now it's an instrumental piece from "Horizons". I was very young when I went on that ride, and on subsequent trips to Florida, we never rode it again, so when it closed in 1998, I didn't notice until about a year or so later. But listening to music from it makes me nostalgic for it.

Another bit of music that I have on this playlist is from EPCOT's Illuminations. I wish I had gotten the CD when I last went, but I'm a cheap person . So having this bit of music on my computer is rather comforting.

Disney music is probably my favorite way of thinking of Disney. My favorite piece of Disney Music (for theme parks) would have to be "We Go On", from Illuminations. It's such a wonderful song, so optimistic with a promising theme to it.

With the stillness of the night
There comes a time to understand
To reach out and touch tomorrow
Take the future in our hand

We can see a new horizon
Built on all that we have done
And our dreams begin another
Thousand circles round the sun

We go on
To the joy and through the tears
We go on
To discover new frontiers
Moving on
With the current of the years

We go on
Moving forward now as one
Moving on
With the spirit born to run
Ever on
With each rising sun

To a new day
We go on

We go on



ETA:

Stupid me, I forgot my favorite part about Disney Music, even if it doesn't fall under "Music":

Please stand clear of the doors, por favor mantengan se alejado de las puertas.

We heard that so many times that we memorized it (it's rather easy to memorize anyway!)

Escapay

That makes me want to run out and get some Disney theme parks CDs! I downloaded the Mickey Mania parade not too long ago, and was surprised that I actually remembered it and could hum along... I was so young when I was there for that! I love Fantasmic's theme, too.

-Aaron

Hello, im new to this forum, but ive been a fan of this site for quite a while. Well, I dont have much of a disney story because my past with disney has mostly been based in little bits. I would remember somehow my mom had tapes with a bunch of the old silly symphony shorts. My mom also had VHS' of the old classics. More particularly, Pinocchio, Sleeping beauty, Robin Hood, and the Little Mermaid. When i got older, my dad got cable...it sort of faded away then when I started watching Nickelodeon more than i watched the disney channel even though I really liked Aladdin and Lion King. (dont worry, i grew out of that, even though i dont really like the disney channel, i enjoy Toon Disney). The only disney thing i was really involved with at the time was going to disneyland even though i didnt go much despite it being close to home. But then 95 came and one of my mom's friends got us tickets to Totally Toy Story at the El Capitan Theatre. That definitely resparked my love for disney even though it was a pixar film. However that sort of died down and High school came which led to me missing out on the Limited edition dvds and the more recent disney movies. Once that was over, i hear about Sleeping Beauty being removed the shelves and I didnt even hear of it being out. It sparked a nostalgic feeling inside of me and I salvaged a copy of Fantasia and Fantasia 2000 as well. Since then all the dvds ive been getting have been disney and I love every single one.

So yea thats my story, by the way my names Alfredo and i hope ill last in the board.

Welcome Sublimedo!

*woohoo my first welcome!*

Anyway we hope you enjoy it here,

the locals are really friendly, except for the guy who lives in off-topic

so please do not tap on the glass!

We hope you stick around!

Welcome, welcome Sublimedo! (I've always wanted to use that smiley!!)
We all hope that you'll stick around for quite some time--be careful around here...you never know what mess you'll get yourself into...especially with cheese... *shifty eyes*

Welcome, Alfredo. Browse around and get to know everyone, I'm sure you'll love it here.

And I've always wanted to use this one .

-Aaron

Hello, everyone! I have been a fan of the site for some time now, so I thought I would jump on and introduce myself. I am a 24 year old guy in Jacksonville, Florida. Having grown up 2.5 hours away from Disney World, I have frequented there often throughout my childhood, and even spent my honeymoon there when I got married in Dec '01. I have loved Disney for as long as I can remember. The first film I ever saw in the theatres was "The Great Mouse Detective" in 1986 when I was 7 years old. I am graduating in a couple of weeks from the University of North Florida with an English degree (I am also a Film Studies minor). Although I am a musician and hope to make that my career, one of my dream jobs would be to have some sort of creative role for Disney, or maybe work in the archives or something.

Welcome to the forum Snowbot !!!

Everyone here loves Disney films glad to have you here.

Hello all....this is my first post in this site so I thought I'd start with my Disney Story. Just a warning though it will be a long one.

First movie memory for me was “Sword in the Stone" at the age of 5 in the wonderful city of Sydney Australia. For some reason the memory is of waiting on George street to catch a bus with my brother who is 13 years older than I, but I did enjoy the movie from what I was told.

From there on I didn't see much except for the "Wonderful World of Disney" shows on TV.

When I turned sixteen I started working in a record shop with my older brother and I would stay at his place at times. He said that I should listen to some CD’s because afterwards we would watch a movie together. The CD's were the soundtracks for Fantasia. He specifically told me to think about the images that I thought about when I heard the music which I thought was a kinda weird thing to say but humored him.

Well I listened one day and thought the music interesting but it didn't grab me that much. Then we watched Fantasia for the first time, lights out, room totally dark, sound right up. BOOM...I was gone. My brother said that every image, every colour, the style, everything on screen was inspired by what the artists pictured in thier heads when they listened to the music just as I had done. I was gone!

I'd loved my cartoons from a really early age. I grew up with specific memories of watching the Looney Tunes with Bugs, Elmer, Daffy and co. Saturday mornings was the Hanna Barbera gang of Huckleberry Hound, Snagglepuss , Ali gator and Oggie Doggie and Doggie Daddy. Add to that Scooby Doo, Josie and the Pussycats, the Jetsons & Flintstones, Super Friends. SO I had this love of animation but couldn't articulate it into anything other than me liking lots and lots of cartoons.

SO I had my first real taste of Disney through Fantasia and was hooked. My brother bought me a book called "The Dïsney Studio Story" by Richard Holliss and Brian Sibley which was kinda a biography of Walt's life with a Filmography of every short, Feature lenght and Live action film created by Disney up to 1987. I was astounded at the things that Walt and his committed crew of people were able to pull off. First Animated film with synchronised sound, first animated film with colour, the debacle of the Oswald the Lucky Rabbit films and creation of Mickey Mouse that came from it. The creation of the Multiplane camera. The Idea for DisneyLand and the fact that his brother, Roy, had by now become quite conservative and didn't think it worthwhile. The subsequent forays into TV which he did just to bankrole the Disneyland dream. The man quite honestly seemed a visionary!

I got really interested when my brother got me a book for my 17th birthday by some guys called Fank Thomas and Ollie Johnstone. Now I can't draw to save my life...I can't even draw stick figures but this book drew me right in. If there are any budding animators out there, whether your thinking about traditional hand drawn techniques or you want to go down the CGI path this book will enable you to learn how to imbue emotion, capture story and character and show how these masters made the simple line come to life. Here it was the wonder and the magic of a pencil and a line and how it comes from the thoughts in someone’s head somewhere to the drawingboad, paper, ink & cel and finally to the theatre or Television screen.

A few years later I got to meet Frank and Ollie in Australia when Bambi was released. They signed my copy of "Illusion of Life" and some lithographs that came out with the Jungle book and Fantasia Video box sets. Funnily the Jungle Book lithographs had thier names on them already and there's one with Kaa wrapped around Mowglie neck. Frank said to me "I already signed that one already". I pointed out to him that it was a copy of his signature and with a smile and a laugh he signed it five times across the bottom for me

I finished school after the “Little Mermaid” had such an impact and was working in a bank when a friend called me and said he'd seen an add for a shop looking for staff. It was called "That's Entertainment" and they had the licences to create clothes and other things of Disney, Warner Bros and Hanna Barbera characters. They were opening a new shop near me in a place called Penrith and so applied for a fulltime position. They couldn't give me one but could offer part time work. SO I left the bank in a flash, fulltime job and all and was determined to show them what they had. Before the shop had even opened they had me as a fulltime employee and so for me this was heaven. We had a huge projector screen where we'd show mainly Disney movies in the store. A favorite was Aladdin which we'd show when you couldn't get it on video yet. I had regular Uni students that I got to know that would ditch class and come to the shop and watch this or that...it was great environment. Seeing the kids faces as they came into the shops was amazing. I met so many great people that loved the Disney things as I did. In fact I met my wife while I was working in the Circular Quay store so I must have enjoyed it

The ownership changed after a while and it wasn't the same again and I soon went back to another bank but managed to get work in the same shopping complex once again for a new shop that was selling animation art. I had sericels and now I was selling Disney, and Warners and HB as well as Simpsons animation art when I wasn't working at the bank. I could tell you what cartoon this or that scene was from. People would come in not understanding how cartoons were done and we'd show them and original Simpson’s or Disney cel and go through the process of rough animation, cleanup, ink and paint and photograph spooled through a projector at 24 frames a second. Got myself a nice limited Edition Cel from Sleeping Beauty of Maleficent which is Hand Inked, Hand painted and is number 246 of 350 world wide.

Anyway that's my Disney story. Now I work for a large Telecommunications company as a business Analyst living in Sydney's Southern beach suburbs with my wife and 3 kids. The Disney DVD collection is going strong at around 70 animated ones not to mention live action ones. All up I'm up to around 400 DVD's total so I'm never short of something to watch.

As for other interests I love music The Beatles, Elvis, Chris Issacc and all the Motown stuff especially Marvin Gaye. I'm a huge Bruce Springsteen fan and very shortly, 5 minutes in fact, I'm going to watch my beloved soccer team Manchester United crush Liverpool so I'm going to finish up now.

As you can see Disney has been a big part of my life, hence the long post. Hope I didn’t bore any of you to tears and I hope to speak to many of you, especially those fellow Aussies very soon

Glen Jamieson

Welcome to the forum, Glen. Great story! I look forward to your posts here and hope you find the site and forum to be most satisfactory.

Glen, welcome aboard. That was a really interesting story- I wish I could have listened to the Fantasia soundtrack prior to watching it, but I was probably too young for that when I first saw Fantasia. It looks like you'll be a valuable contributor to the site, and I look forward to it.

-Aaron

Glen_J welcome to the forum!!!

I'm glad your a big fan of Disney films.

Great story!!!

All of us are Disney maniacs here!

Thanks for the great Welcome Luke, MickeyMousePal and Awallaceunc.

Luke....I've no doubt that this forum will be most satisfactory!

Glen J

Hi everyone
I tought I should introduce myself since I'm new to this forum.
I'm not a grumpy guy he is just my favourite dwarf.
I have been a Disney freak for a long time and I started to collect Disneymovies in the beginning of the nineties. I have many Disneymovies on Ld and DVD and it's getting more all the time, I'm really looking forward to the new treasures series. I found this forum last year but I haven't become a member until now. I live in Sweden and I'm working as a projectionist so I see lot's of movies not only Disney. "Home on the range" is coming here in september but I hope I can see it erlier.
That's all for now.

Jerry

Hello everyone who is new! I hope you enjoy your stay here!

*Man, I haven't been on in a while*

jambo*rafiki wrote:Hey Snowbot, I was just reading another one of your posts . . . I play guitar too. Not for as long as you, though!

Cool! I really enjoy it. I just graduated from college (finally) a couple of weeks ago, and have been enjoying having some free time to play and write songs. Definitely stick with it! Lots of people start playing and then get bored or give up, but it's really rewarding if you continue with it.

Hi Snowbot

Like Jambo & yourself I also play guitar ( I have a US Crimson Red Fender Telecaster...man I love that guitar ) and love everything Disney.

But it would appear we have something else in common. From your avatar's it would appear that your a Beatles fan.

In fact I got to meet the man in your avatar a little over ten years ago when he came to Australia during his "New World Tour".

With all the musos here we could almost start a band

Wow, that's great that you met Paul McCartney! I saw him play in Atlanta Georgia on his "Back in the US" tour in 2002. It was a fantastic show! I'm not sure if he came your way recently, so if not, I would recommend the DVD concert film. It captured the show nicely and had interesting behind-the-scenes footage.

Sounds like you've got a great guitar as well! I love a good Telecaster (looks like you're a fan of The Boss, too - is there a connection here?)