MarylouD

I feel the Future World has gone downhill, but World Showcase has turned into (for us anyway) a wonderful adult stroll in the afternoons/evenings.  The live entertainment, the food choices and the general atmosphere are really enjoyable for us.

You can see a fairly large cell in the background. I made it to go along with the sculptures of the 7 dwarves in the front.
 
 

We do the parks as if EVERY park is a half day park.  We almost always take a break after lunch back at the camper, and then hit another park in the evening.  The only park we would routinely go back to in the evening after spending the morning there is MK...so I guess that is our full day park. 

Moving on in the DeLorean.....
We are headed to a place that was once called: the Lake Buena Vista Shopping Village.



Now check these next two pics out. Did you know these were part of the old Lake Buena Vista Shopping Village area before Saratoga Springs was built? Well, now you do.


It is my understanding that these treehouses were supposed to be part of a residential development that would have included apartments, condos, and single family homes, and that the LBV Shopping Village was meant to be a retail center for those residents.
Then Disney realized that those residents may have voting rights regarding some Disney related issues, and scrapped the idea, but rented out the treehouses to guests and those going to the Disney institute.
Celebration was then built later using the same type idea that was originally planned for the LBV Shopping Village area.
I am sure there are some of you that know more on this topic than me, so please chime in if you have additional info.
Moving on to another great place from the past:





Interior pics including character breakfast:






The kid peaking out between my mom and dad would be me (pic above)

Look how short Donald is:

That's it for this update.......I hope you are enjoying your ride on the AC clan DeLorean.

Outstanding!!  
 
This thread has just reinstated itself as the best thread on the whole damn planet.  

As the warrior poet, of both Kids Incorporated and Black Eye Peas fame, Fergie says,
Let's get it started...........in here.
So these are the new supplies I have attained today:



In case you don't know, each of those slide reels holds 100 slides. That means I have somewhere between 600-700 old pics to share here. That means this might take awhile. It also means, there will be plenty of things you guys, especially Troll, will find AMAZING.
There was a lot of time, coordination, and effort put into making this happen. Picture your mom slaving away in the kitchen when you were a kid, with flour and powdered sugar all over her apron, clothes, and face. That is what I look like right now........minus all the food products all over me. So, anyways, I hope you enjoy this.
We will start out at a place near and dear to Those who enjoy old Disney lore..........



Peacock!












Peacock!







And now for one of the greatest, almost lost treasures:


I hope you enjoyed the first of many new installments.
The new pics I acquired are mostly from 1975 to 1982. There will be a few from MGM studios also. Most will be from the earlier end of this period though. The Discovery Island pics were on a slide reel labeled 1975-1978.

Interesting at Downtown Disney they have a security check of Magic
Bands to ride the Disney buses. Making sure you are an in property guest to use the buses.

Nothing available for Saturday on Thursday evening. (web or central res) Operator said cancels are released right away and they have access to them. Also said that during the busy periods I should reserve WAY in advance.
 
Tent site available on Friday evening. (central res)
 
4am Saturday morning I had no problem getting a same day Premium site off the website. Drove up and was on site by 11am.
 
 
So although is is not reliable or for the faint of heart.. It appears that in this case a same day reservation worked.

It's comments like I've seen here about how Disney makes it hard for folks to modify their stay from the resort that makes me wonder if they really want people staying there at all.

I already know the answer to this question (if people shell out the $$ theparks will take it), but I thought I'd throw it out there for other opinions.
 
Do you think that amusment parks have finally gone overboard with annual passes, especially Busch Gardens/Seaworld with their buy a day get a year fun pass?
 
The parks are just getting so overcrowded all the time now.
 
At least with Disney there are 4 parks to divide the crowds up, but you go to the competitors and you have 1 park or go home.
 
We are going to bite the bullet and purchase FL Resident Seasonal passes.  We aren't crazy enough to want to go to the parks during the black out dates anyway, but a lot of the posts here and on those other sites make it seem like the parks are always crowded.
 
We went to Busch for one of their ChristmasTown Nights, and it was wall to wall people.  They included it in with the normal admission, and cut out the snow play area. I'd say everone in a 5 county area was there that night.
 
We walked, got to see one show, then took the sky ride back to the front and left.
 
Crowds are one thing, mob scenes are something else.
 
 

Not sure how I missed this thread before.
I like the idea somebody had about a quick serve with a porch on the lake side next to the Settlement trading post.
They could put the hammocks back up on the beach outside, display the mower from the lawnmower tree inside, bring back the wagon with the canvas fixed, put the RC wagon back in place across the way, replace the trash cans with ones that look like tree stumps, put a few benches that look like split logs out front, and sell oooey gooey cinnamon rolls each morning.
I look forward to that happening. #eyeroll

Pomegranate lemonade. ..The ONLY reason I get a refillable mug

The beverage dispenser I could care less about. Won't ever get a refillable mug at the Fort. Why should I take a cart all the way over to the pool, Meadows, or Settlement for a Coke product, when I can get a Diet Dew right from my own fridge or cooler right there at my site.
 
Now the Food Court, can't wait to see that. Sometimes we do want a quick meal, and don't want to take the time to boat to the Lodge or Contemporary. We have gone to the Meadows on occasion, but the limited menu there gets old fast.

8" and 12". I got the globes from a lighting store and they told me to use the 8" instead of the 6" and I'm glad I did.

I could not have said it any better.  As much as we love the Fort, we can stay at plenty of nice places two nights for $130 per.

Yep for this very reason our next trip we will be at SSR.
I was not paying $130.00 per night for a campsite. I love the Fort at $65 a night I like the the Fort at $90 a night and couldn't care less about going to the Fort at $130 per night at least not for a quick 5 day trip.

There go some more trees. 
 
That new sidewalk is a good idea, but they still need to widen the path that the carts drive on, or run a sidewalk down its entire length.
 
TCD