Happy 10th Anniversary, Ultimate Disney!

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Post by PixarFan2006 »

I cannot believe that this site has been around for 10 years (I thought it started in 2003).

Anyways, Happy Belated Birthday, UD! (I will have been a member for 5 years come June).
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:herc: :herc: :party:

(That's supposed to mean Happy Happy birthday, but, um, there's no Happy icon, so I used Hercules. :p)

Here's to another 10 years of my favorite site and yours! Great job, Luke!!! And everyone else, of course! :)

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY UD!!

I can't believe this site has been around for an entire decade! I've only been around for half of that, but it totally feels like more. UD/DVDizzy is wonderful, and let's hope there will be another wonderful 10 (+) years in store for us!

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Awesome AiW card, Kelvin!
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Wow, 10 years already?! I've been here since late 2008, and it already feels much longer (I'm sure that feeling goes for some others, too.) I hope UD will continue to exist for a long time and that it won't someday just 'go away', like some on the forums I've been to before.

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Happy Birthday, UD! I remember way back when it was just Luke, Jake, Gus, Netty, Loomis and me on a plain message board with a flickering condom ad.
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Happy 10 years UltimateDisney Forum!

It's still one of the greatest places to go ever for anything Disney...or just for fun times!
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How did I miss this! Happy birthday UD!

I started reading the site in 2002 and joined the forum in 2004. What a ride. I'm glad to have had such a wonderful stable online space for such a long time. Thank you, Luke and all who have helped along the way!

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HAPPY ANNIVERSARY, UD!!!
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Deeply sorry for not posting sooner, but Happy Birthday, Ultimate Disney! You don't look a day over 9 ;)
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Re: Happy 10th Anniversary, Ultimate Disney!

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Though it's been going solely by DVDizzy for the past few years, in my heart of hearts, this place will always be Ultimate Disney to me. Honestly, I can't believe it's seventeen years old now. UD is a bona fide post-Millennial teenager. Try to wrap that around your head.

But seriously, I'm forever grateful for what this site and forum has provided over these past seventeen years. I've had my gap years and occasional hiatuses from here, but I still genuinely love that such a community of supremely passionate, outspoken, wildly-enthusiastic Disney fans exists in this particular corner of the interwebs. It's helped form lifelong friendships and memories I'll cherish forever. I've lost count on how many UD members I've hung out with, and even these encounters aren't limited to the Disney parks. I've hung out with members in other cities, gone shopping with them outside the Disney bubble, even hosted a few in my home for their vacation. Whether it be having brunch with pinkrenata at Market Street Cafe, geeking out about laserdiscs with Disneykid at Rock n Roll Heaven, browsing the Criterion section at Barnes and Noble with pap64 & zackisthewalrus, playing in Disneyland with Sunny Wing (er, Elladorine - old habits die hard) and her son, or seeing Amy Grant in concert with AwallaceUNC, I honestly would never have had these experiences were it not for this site and forum. If in the far future, the world were to know only one thing about Ultimate Disney, it would be that it created such a close-knit, trusting community of friends who you eagerly look forward to seeing in that magical, mythical, fantastical House The Mouse Built.

Happy 17th Anniversary, UD!!!!! Dance, my elephants, dance!

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DVDizzy or Ultimate Disney will always be the place for Disney entertainment discussion. I shall always love this place. It is the top in Disney entertainment news and opinions. Happy 17th Anniversary to the happiest entertainment forum on the internet.
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17 years, holy cow. Although I've only been part of it for 11 years, this site will always hold a special place in my heart. Despite being more of a lurker for these past few years, I'll always have fond memories of this site in its prime and during my peak activity periods on here.

I'm forever grateful for the great friends I made on here back in the day. Even though I've lost touch with a lot of them, I think of them often and fondly and I look back on the countless hours I've spent talking to them, on and off this site with a smile. I miss those days!
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This place will ALWAYS be UD! :pink:
Escapay wrote:playing in Disneyland with Sunny Wing (er, Elladorine - old habits die hard)
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He was a suspicious little dude, who became quite upset when he finally realized that wasn't his mommy's hand ... :D
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Elladorine wrote:You can't tell how extremely nervous I was here
! :lol: But we had a fun time. :)
It never showed! We were having a blast just chatting and walking with the little guy.
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Escapay wrote:and her son
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He was a suspicious little dude, who became quite upset when he finally realized that wasn't his mommy's hand ... :D
This is forever one of my favorite pictures taken inside Disney California Adventure now haha. The realization and the pulling away and the look of betrayal when he looked up, I love it.

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Elladorine wrote:
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This is a lovely photo you guys. :) Wish I could join!

So, from left to right it's TheSequelofDisney, Escapay, Elladorine, Escapay's brother (so sorry I can't remember your UD username :smack: but I can still picture your Lewis Robinson avatar from 12 years back :D ) and Escapay's sister (never talked to you mademoiselle but would be more than pleased to make your acquaintance. :goofy: )

EDIT: Apparently the photograph does not like being quoted. :lol:
DisneyFreak wrote:I'm forever grateful for the great friends I made on here back in the day. Even though I've lost touch with a lot of them, I think of them often and fondly and I look back on the countless hours I've spent talking to them, on and off this site with a smile. I miss those days!
I very much identify with this.
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Jules wrote:So, from left to right it's TheSequelofDisney, Escapay, Elladorine, Escapay's brother (so sorry I can't remember your UD username :smack: but I can still picture your Lewis Robinson avatar from 12 years back :D ) and Escapay's sister (never talked to you mademoiselle but would be more than pleased to make your acquaintance. :goofy: )
That's not David, that's Aaron. rotfl And my siblings' UD aliases were Kram Nebuer and Jane Mccoy.

I've yet to meet David, but I'm sure one day he'll end up on my list.

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OMG I deserve to be shot, drawn and quartered, dipped in batter, fried in oil and fed to the sharks! :lol:

Now I can see it's obviously Aaron, and that I recall David being potentially a little thinner and with a somewhat more tangled hairdo. The sunglasses confused me. :oops: It's been so long since I've seen an AWallaceUNC post here. It's kind of nostalgic thinking about it!

David please don't blast me with the Wondrously Evil UD-Approved Lollipop! 8)

Thanks for reminding me of your siblings' usernames, Scaps! Kram, Kram, Kram, Kram, Kram .... however could I forget that name?
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Thanks to wayback machine, there are still some copies of the old board:

https://web.archive.org/web/20020102173 ... om/a/52995
https://web.archive.org/web/20020225192 ... om/a/52995

Are Nicole C, Bethany or Terry still around? By clicking on their names, you get their email address. Those were the times when you would often leave your email behind so others could contact you. Guess spam wasn't that much of a problem then. On the other hand, there were also boards where you could post comments without being registered at all, a possibilities which came to an end thanks to trolling.

(And no Dinosaur on this list: https://web.archive.org/web/20020214023 ... assics.htm)
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Rumpelstiltskin wrote:Are Nicole C, Bethany or Terry still around?
Terry's UD handle is Maerj. Like a lot of us old-timers, he doesn't post as frequently as he used to, but yes, he occasionally shows up.

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