RoadDawg
05-09-2005, 01:06 AM
Ok... first off.. I admit I love Disneyland.
With that said I went through the madness that was "opening" of the 50th year celebration of Disneylands opening. :headbang: The morning started out a bit rough but by the end of the night it was fantastic. The opening ceremony was a media only thing (which plugged up the front of Sleeping Beauty's castle) and blocked off a good portion of the park. Instead of having several ways to go, people were limited to two. Frontierland or Tomorrowland. Either direction there were another thousand(s) there with you.
Anyways.. as the day moved on... it started getting better. We saw a remote control "trash" can chasing a lady down a walkway telling her to come back(it was pretty funny). Mickey climbed the Matterhorn and placed a flag at the top. (I'm sure it was easy but it's still got to be tough in a Mickey costume) They debuted their new parade, which is one of the best I've seen, the best is still the Main Street Electrical Parade. Following that there was the best darn firework show I've EVER seen. I was expecting stuff behind the castle and that was it. Instead there were fireworks launched pretty much all around us. Plus they also themed some of the fireworks towards the rides. For example they did Pirates of the Carribean. They put a skull and cross bone flag on the Matterhorn and the pirates were yelling over the speakers. Then boom... a firework shot out of the Matterhorn towards frontierland and vise versa back. It was pretty sweet. Anyways... to make a long story short... I had a blast and recommend anyone that likes Disney and fireworks to go and give it a whirl. I've been back twice since then (I'm an annual passholder :cheers: )
If people are interested I can try to post some pictures.
With that said I went through the madness that was "opening" of the 50th year celebration of Disneylands opening. :headbang: The morning started out a bit rough but by the end of the night it was fantastic. The opening ceremony was a media only thing (which plugged up the front of Sleeping Beauty's castle) and blocked off a good portion of the park. Instead of having several ways to go, people were limited to two. Frontierland or Tomorrowland. Either direction there were another thousand(s) there with you.
Anyways.. as the day moved on... it started getting better. We saw a remote control "trash" can chasing a lady down a walkway telling her to come back(it was pretty funny). Mickey climbed the Matterhorn and placed a flag at the top. (I'm sure it was easy but it's still got to be tough in a Mickey costume) They debuted their new parade, which is one of the best I've seen, the best is still the Main Street Electrical Parade. Following that there was the best darn firework show I've EVER seen. I was expecting stuff behind the castle and that was it. Instead there were fireworks launched pretty much all around us. Plus they also themed some of the fireworks towards the rides. For example they did Pirates of the Carribean. They put a skull and cross bone flag on the Matterhorn and the pirates were yelling over the speakers. Then boom... a firework shot out of the Matterhorn towards frontierland and vise versa back. It was pretty sweet. Anyways... to make a long story short... I had a blast and recommend anyone that likes Disney and fireworks to go and give it a whirl. I've been back twice since then (I'm an annual passholder :cheers: )
If people are interested I can try to post some pictures.