[Chat] Disneyland 1990's (The Disney Decade) in all it's Glory, Share your Favorite Memories

[DL_CRAZE]

[MANEATINGWREATH]

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As a 90's kid (born in 93), half of my Disneyland memories come from the 90's. I have very found memories of nearly everything in the park although most specifically the Country Bear Playhouse. That my friends is the one thing I will always remember from the 90's. I also have a great memory from around the late 90's. One night my mom, dad, and I decided to drive out to the Disneyland Hotel and explore the area. When nighttime fell and Fantasmic! was about to start we sat down by a hedge and listened to the entire show echoing in the distance. I specifically remember a possum lurking around in the hedges behind us and freaking us out. Little memories like that are what makes Disney special for me.

[Gwenchanter]

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Very cool list! I remember a lot of those things! I got my first AP when I turned 16 in 1998 but before that I got to go do Disneyland about twice a year for most of the 90s'.

[ccinsf]

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Thanks for that list! It was wonderful to read through even if 3/4 of the list made me want to scream. I had completely forgotten about the Disney Afternoon revamps of Autopia and Motor Boat cruise. They were cheap cardboard cutouts, but I also remember being 12 and thinking it was the greatest thing Disneyland had ever made.

[ducktalesfan5555]

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After looking back on Disneyland in the 90s, it doesn't look so good, lots of classics removed, New Tommorrowland (enough said), etc. But the 90s were my childhood years. In those years, I went to Disneyland as a kid. Nothing can change that. I miss my childhood!

[mickdaddy]

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The ironic thing is being a child of the late 70's and 80's (born in 74) by the time 90's rolled around our family had shifted our focus to Disneyworld and non-Disney destinations like Hawaii and Maine so most of the additions on that list I have no memory of many of the addition of the 90's because they were gone by the time I returned in 98! I did get to ride rocketrods on that trip and that is a lasting memory mostly because of the thought of how cool that ride should have been. I also have a great memory of riding Indy over and over as our first time with that ride in the pre fastpass que we would just jump the rails at tne end of the line and go again. My favorite memory was a 10 pm ride on Splash mountain in a way to heavy log and getting wet dropping into the flume from the loading station and getting soaked on the two smaller drops and creating the biggest tidal wave at the bottom of the big drop that soaked us to the bone! Not happy at the time but so funny now especially my brothers very vocal reaction during the zippity do dah finally!

[Juni]

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My best 90's memory was one of the anniversary years when I got to go on the actual anniversary date.

They had birthday cake stations set up all over the park. I would see them wheeling one of the carts towards one of the stations and I would actually follow it to go get another piece of cake. They had a chocolate and a vanilla.

I don't know how my mom survived me. I must have been bouncing off the walls.

So that, and the map that they gave out in the Disney afternoon ave where you had to go searching and get the character's stamp on the map. That thing was so much fun and I don't know why.

The 90's were my 10-18 years so they are always going to be the "golden age" for me.

[drjeep]

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The Dream Machine was one of those memories that despite the fact I must have been 6 or 7 is still clear in my head as much as anything. I don't think I had any idea why I was up there but it was fun!

[kayleigh83]

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Whoo! Love this thread! Until 10 days from now, the 90's were the home of my only two visits to DL! I was six when I went for the first time in 1994. I remember the Lion King celebration and there are lots of pictures of it at my parents' house! I don't remember a whole ton from the trip, but I know my Disneyland love started there. I came home with a Belle nightgown (from Beauty and the Beast) and it was my pride and joy.

My second trip was in 1999, when I was 11. I remember seeing the new Tarzan's Treehouse (and I did remember the original Swiss Family Robinson Treehouse from before but I loved how they redid it!) and being able to see the partially constructed DCA from our hotel room across the street, including Mickey's Fun Wheel and Screamin'! And also of course, the new Tomorrowland! I can never really hate on it that hard... I spent a long time playing in that awesome water fountain and it was so much fun for me at that age - so it's got nostalgia on its side for me there. On that trip I came home with a Sleeping Beauty dress, which I wore for Halloween. I know 11 is a little older than what they sell costumes for, but I was small so I still fit! Wheee!

So yeah, the 90's were good at DL for me too! Great thread!

[Kimickey]

^ththth

[ccinsf]

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Thank you so much for posting that. It's wonderful and infuriating. They didn't do a single thing they announced as they announced it.

[DL_CRAZE]

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Indiana Jones Show became Indiana Jones Adenture

Mickey's Starland became Mickey's Toontown

All Muppets stuff went to Disney MGM Studios

Dick Tracy was a box office failure

New Tomorrowland became..................well yea

[sbk1234]

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If we had gotten THAT Tomorrowland, there wouldn't have been a problem!

[PinkiePieFan]

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I became an AP in March 1995(just a few days after they opened Indiana Jones), and kept it until I moved to Stockton in January 2000. Here are 5 of my fondest memories of that time:
1. Summer 1995-Back when the park was open until 1 AM, the PeopleMover was still running, the hype for the 40th(I used to try to catch the stage show at Tomorrowland Terrace at least once a day), generally, a fun summer.
2. The actual 40th birthday itself(17 July, 1995)-Just being there on that day was special enough, just to say I was there. I don't think I can really express how great that day was for me.
3. 31 December, 1996(into 1 January, 1997)-My first New Year's Eve at the Magic Kingdom. I didn't get home until close to 6 the next morning. Probably one of the most fun days I've ever spent there.
4. Coke Corner-When Rod was playing there, it was like Cheers(minus the alcohol, of course). . . "where everybody knows your name".
5. One particular rainy day in the spring of 1998-I was making my weekly visit, and would not let a little rain stop me. I had brought my umbrella(at the time, a large green and white golf umbrella), and while I was in line to enter the park, 4 Japanese girls(I would estimate their ages between 18 and 23) decided to join me under my umbrella for a couple minutes.

Of course, there's also the post-Disneyland noshfests at a 24 hour restaurant(I preferred Pepper Shaker, Norm's, IHOP, and Denny's, in that order), but they aren't really Disneyland memories.

[explodingboy]

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Ah the 90's.

Being born in 1990, I wasn't able to fully experience the park (crazy to think it wasn't even a 'Resort' then, wow!) for a few years, but I have very fond memories of it. I remember thinking Toontown was possibly the greatest thing ever, Tomorrowland before the disaster of '98, never wanting to leave at the end of the day (but being so tired), and so much more.

Most importantly though I remember that 'feeling' I had being there as a child. It's a feeling that part of still tries to have but it's just not the same.

[drjeep]

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They did put an awful lot of stock in Dick Tracy being a huge success. If I recall the film it wasn't that well written. Seems like an awful big gamble to plan park changes based off a film that wasn't a proven success yet.

[DisneyChrisDotCom]

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I worked at Disneyland in 1990- it was my first job - I was 16. The Party Gras parade was going on - I remember eating in the cast member cafeteria and seeing all the performers from the parade in their costumes and wigs eating in the same cafeteria alongside everyone else. It was very surreal. I also remember seeing the backstage areas behind main street as they inflated the floats. Needless to say, the Party Gras song holds a special memory for me. It was such a special time for this 16 year old kid. The job itself I hated though --- lol dishwasher - yuck!

[orbitalpunk]

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Watching the premiere show of Fantasmic was a one of the big 90's moments for me. The River Belle was packed with media and we were soooooo blown away by this epic show.

[greeeneyes17]

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these were my childhood years (born in '92) so I'm gonna say that was a great decade because it's what creates the nostalgia for me.

[DisneylandDragon]

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The 90's was my teen years! I got to visit Disneyland at least twice a year with High School classmates in Band during magical music days! Those memories are something you can never replace! Everything I know and loved at Disneyland from childhood to present still operated at some point in the 90's! Original Captain EO run, Peoplemover, Sky Way etc...I need a time machine!