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devores · 03-02-2009, 09:43 AM

I know there have been several threads on here about the Disney Magic. What I wanted to know is, what was that one moment at Disney that really impacted you?

Mine is the time we were at Epcot. Im not sure exactly how this all happened, but we witnessed a little girl interacting with Mickey. The little girls was deaf, and Mickey was signing to her. The mother of the girl was welling up watching her little girls excitement. We almost could not hold back the tears. This was the moment I truely understood the Magic of Disney.

So, what was your moment?

onelilspark · 03-02-2009, 10:16 AM

I can't even remember mine! But my parents tell me about it all the time.

My very first trip we came in right as the afternoon parade was going on at the MK. Minnie leaned down and waved to me. According to my parents, we could have gone home right then and I still would have been hooked for life!

Heluvsme · 03-02-2009, 10:53 AM

As a family we'd been to Disney numerous times (and so many times prior to having kids), but the one moment that stands out to me involved my 2nd child, my son. My son was a very late talker. We had already been through numerous evaluations for him and because he always fell into a 'gray' area with the testing, we didn't have a definitive diagnosis. Receptive/Expressive lang. delay? Autism? Natural late talker? Apraxic? We just didn't know for sure. Well, when he was 3 we took our annual trip to WDW and there was just something magical about it. He started talking, he started being more interested in things, he was so full of joy and trying to communicate everything he saw to us! While in line for It's A Small World he said "Mommy" and he clapped his hands and said "Ride." It was by far a turning point for us, for him. It truly will always be a trip to remember for our family. From that point on, his speech really took off. We continue to go to WDW every year, and it seems like every year he is still making improvements!!

I think the curiosity and wonderment that Disney evokes works magic, I truly do. No one will ever convince me of anything different.

pat fan · 03-02-2009, 11:02 AM

I guess on our first trip, our youngest was 7, and we were watching the fireworks at MK and he leaned over (while watching the sky) and gave me a half hug and said "Thanks for bringing me here mom".....just the way he said it, still makes me well up.

jayandstacey · 03-02-2009, 03:03 PM

Our one moment also happened to be our first moment.

Our DD5 had a fair number of health complications from Type 1 diabetes, including many hospital trips starting around her first birthday. We saved our money and wanted to take her and her younger brother on a Doosie of a Disney vacation, her first. So we booked 10 days at the Beach Club and hoped for a relaxing vacation during a slow first 10 days of November. We also hoped for some magic but didn't have any particular expectations. The rides, atmosphere and "escape" were all that we were looking for.

We arrived midday to beautiful weather and decided to head to Epcot through the International Gateway. As we scanned our tickets, our DD saw Snow White a few paces away and ran to her. Snow White talked with our daughter, got to know her and, well, you know... No one else was around... it was about 10 minutes worth of hanging out with Snow White.

Our DD talked about how she recently was a "townsfolk" player in the local high school production of "Beauty and the Beast." - "Oh really?" said Snow White, "Then I'd like you to meet my friend." Snow White took my daughter's hand and they skipped all the way over the bridge into France, where Belle was in her courtyard and my daughter was in heaven, just beside herself and talking as fast as she could. Belle was happy to "finally meet someone else from my village!"

We spent about $6000 on that trip. It was all "paid back" in the first 15 minutes.

Amazing.

Lolie · 03-02-2009, 03:18 PM

While I was standing in front of the Partner's statue a year ago I asked to nobody in particular "Why is it called Walt Disney World?" and a cast member said to me....

"Because a big brother loved his little brother so much, that he would do anything it took to make sure his little brother's dreams came true."

Walt died before Disney World opened, and even though Roy finished off the plans he wanted to make sure everyone knew who made it all happen and whose dream this really was.

t_catt11 · 03-02-2009, 03:21 PM

Here I am, a grown man, with tears on my eyes at my desk, while I keep this window open at work. Thanks, Disers!

DisneyLover75 · 03-02-2009, 03:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Heluvsme

As a family we'd been to Disney numerous times (and so many times prior to having kids), but the one moment that stands out to me involved my 2nd child, my son. My son was a very late talker. We had already been through numerous evaluations for him and because he always fell into a 'gray' area with the testing, we didn't have a definitive diagnosis. Receptive/Expressive lang. delay? Autism? Natural late talker? Apraxic? We just didn't know for sure. Well, when he was 3 we took our annual trip to WDW and there was just something magical about it. He started talking, he started being more interested in things, he was so full of joy and trying to communicate everything he saw to us! While in line for It's A Small World he said "Mommy" and he clapped his hands and said "Ride." It was by far a turning point for us, for him. It truly will always be a trip to remember for our family. From that point on, his speech really took off. We continue to go to WDW every year, and it seems like every year he is still making improvements!!

I think the curiosity and wonderment that Disney evokes works magic, I truly do. No one will ever convince me of anything different.

OMG! My son has almost exactly the same story.

Last May, when he was four, the only word he knew was Mama. He didn't even TRY talking other than that. He signed, but that was it. He is autistic. We went to Disney and spent six days there, and he was enchanted!

Within two weeks of getting back, he was talking! Not conversations, but lots and lots of words! He still mispronounces words, and still has some trouble, but that made an enormous difference for him. Unbelievable.

I'm excited to see if this upcoming trip will have a further impact on his development!

disneydreamer1970 · 03-02-2009, 03:28 PM

The moment I witnessed did not include a Disney character but did Santa Claus! While waiting on Main Street with DD to see Santa a couple of years ago there was a family in front of us that had two children, one of which was handicapped and could not speak. He was so scared of Santa, and mom wanted nothing more than a picture of he and his sister with him, and it just didn't happen. As they walked away, Santa motioned to a Cast Member to quietly get mom to turn around with her camera as he walked up behind him in his wheelchair with his sister walking next to him. As she went to take the picture the little boy caught Santa out of the corner of his eye and looked back at Santa and began to smile! It was a picture perfect moment! Mom was crying as well as myself and several other people in line that day! I still get choked up when I think about it!

Trish

kiranic · 03-02-2009, 03:37 PM

My magical moment happened on my DD's 7th birthday. We had been to the BBB and she was dressed like Tinkerbell, her favorite character. During one of the parades, when she was up on her daddy's shoulders, Captain Hook came over and shoot his hook at her. She said "I think he thinks I am the real Tinkerbell." When the float with Peter Pan and Wendy came by I was taking pictures. My husband said, "Did you see that Peter Pan just pointed right at DD." I was disappointed that I hadn't seen it until I looked in the camera viewer and saw that I had "magically" caught the moment in the camera. (I don't have the picture loaded to photobucket or I would post it.)

Kurby · 03-02-2009, 03:37 PM

we had gone only once when i was a kid and i hadn't been back until dh took me a few months after we got engaged.

ya ya disney will be fun -

we flew in, checked in and headed over to mk

oh this is kinda cool

ya right - i'm standing infront of that round garden thing infront of the castle watching the show and dh looks at me and askes what's wrong.

here i stood - a 30something women standing in themiddle of a bunch of people, tears running down my face.

to this day i still don't know why i was crying, its not like i remember going as a kid it was just emotional for me.

to this day i get that twinge of emotion the first time we walk down main street each visit.

kiranic · 03-02-2009, 03:47 PM

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Originally Posted by kiranic

My magical moment happened on my DD's 7th birthday. We had been to the BBB and she was dressed like Tinkerbell, her favorite character. During one of the parades, when she was up on her daddy's shoulders, Captain Hook came over and shoot his hook at her. She said "I think he thinks I am the real Tinkerbell." When the float with Peter Pan and Wendy came by I was taking pictures. My husband said, "Did you see that Peter Pan just pointed right at DD." I was disappointed that I hadn't seen it until I looked in the camera viewer and saw that I had "magically" caught the moment in the camera. (I don't have the picture loaded to photobucket or I would post it.)

Okay I found it!

angela3676 · 03-02-2009, 03:49 PM

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Originally Posted by t_catt11

Here I am, a grown man, with tears on my eyes at my desk, while I keep this window open at work. Thanks, Disers!

dito, except for the man part. I'm such a push-over for good stories like these.

Cinderella3 · 03-02-2009, 03:52 PM

We went to WDW in Dec of 2007, there we stood in line to get an autograph with characters at Mickey's tent(Mickey, Minnie, Pluto and Goofy) we was the next to get our picture and there was this little girl with a walker, just so happy to see them. My son, who at the time was 10

, told her " it is more important if you get the picture then I do", so he let the little girl go, the characters gathered up in one photo so the Mom could get a great picture. The Mom thanked my son, he said no problem and gave her a big smile. The CM came over and told my son that since he was more interested in passing along the magic of Disney that My son got to get a picture of all the characters. I was so proud of him..

suejai · 03-02-2009, 04:27 PM

I had three moments on our first trip last May. We were watching Wishes on our first evening, I turned to see tears streaming down the face of my big tough biker husband, I was already crying. Then our 16 year son turned to us to tell us 'thank you for bringing me to Disney' sees us crying and starts crying himself. Our 13 yr son looks at us all bawling and asks why are we all crying.

A momemt that again made my DH well up was watching a little 2 or 3 yr old girl walk straight into Buzz Lightyears arms with such complete innocence and trust. I guess he's not as tough as he makes out (I already knew that

)

My third moment was watching Wishes on our last evening. We were sitting at the edge of the terrace at the Noddle Station (I know now that it is not a great place to watch from) but it IS right under Tinker Bell's flight path. I was turned talking to my husband when he said 'look Tink is flying' I leaned forward and she pointed at me and blew me and my DS a kiss. I was thrilled to say the least! I'm not sure how she did this hurtling down a wire at that speed, but she did and it was such a nice ending to our trip.

Sorry for such a long post, but it is hard to narrow it down to just one moment - our trip was filled with so many, that we are going again this May.

03-02-2009, 09:43 AM	#1
devores Mouseketeer Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Polk City, FL Posts: 472	That one moment TISSUE ALERT I know there have been several threads on here about the Disney Magic. What I wanted to know is, what was that one moment at Disney that really impacted you? Mine is the time we were at Epcot. Im not sure exactly how this all happened, but we witnessed a little girl interacting with Mickey. The little girls was deaf, and Mickey was signing to her. The mother of the girl was welling up watching her little girls excitement. We almost could not hold back the tears. This was the moment I truely understood the Magic of Disney. So, what was your moment? Last edited by devores; 03-03-2009 at 11:23 AM.

03-02-2009, 10:16 AM	#2
onelilspark DIS Veteran Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Melbourne, FL Posts: 6,984	I can't even remember mine! But my parents tell me about it all the time. My very first trip we came in right as the afternoon parade was going on at the MK. Minnie leaned down and waved to me. According to my parents, we could have gone home right then and I still would have been hooked for life! __________________ Hey look! I started a blog! Disney Update 2/19 Be Our Guest Lunch Review - Drink Around the World Adventure Me DH Bandit Follow me on Twitter! Feb '09 DR/TR - Aug '09 -DR/TR - Aug & Oct '09 PTR - Oct '09 -DR/TR - Mar '10-DLR PTR/TR - Oct/Dec '10 PTR - Oct '10 DR/TR - Dec '10 DR - May '11 PTR/DR/TR - Sept '11 DR / TR - DLR '12 TR (outside link)

03-02-2009, 10:53 AM	#3
Heluvsme Working on our 20th trip!! Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Northern Kentucky, USA Posts: 836	As a family we'd been to Disney numerous times (and so many times prior to having kids), but the one moment that stands out to me involved my 2nd child, my son. My son was a very late talker. We had already been through numerous evaluations for him and because he always fell into a 'gray' area with the testing, we didn't have a definitive diagnosis. Receptive/Expressive lang. delay? Autism? Natural late talker? Apraxic? We just didn't know for sure. Well, when he was 3 we took our annual trip to WDW and there was just something magical about it. He started talking, he started being more interested in things, he was so full of joy and trying to communicate everything he saw to us! While in line for It's A Small World he said "Mommy" and he clapped his hands and said "Ride." It was by far a turning point for us, for him. It truly will always be a trip to remember for our family. From that point on, his speech really took off. We continue to go to WDW every year, and it seems like every year he is still making improvements!! I think the curiosity and wonderment that Disney evokes works magic, I truly do. No one will ever convince me of anything different. __________________ Me DH DD DS

03-02-2009, 11:02 AM	#4
pat fan I'm leaving now so I don't have to witness what comes next Join Date: Oct 1999 Location: ma. Posts: 3,785	I guess on our first trip, our youngest was 7, and we were watching the fireworks at MK and he leaned over (while watching the sky) and gave me a half hug and said "Thanks for bringing me here mom".....just the way he said it, still makes me well up. __________________ "Sure I wave the American flag. Do you know a better flag to wave? Sure I love my country with all her faults. I'm not ashamed of that, never have been, never will be." -- John Wayne

03-02-2009, 03:18 PM	#6
Lolie Earning My Ears Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Alejado de las Puertas Posts: 36	While I was standing in front of the Partner's statue a year ago I asked to nobody in particular "Why is it called Walt Disney World?" and a cast member said to me.... "Because a big brother loved his little brother so much, that he would do anything it took to make sure his little brother's dreams came true." Walt died before Disney World opened, and even though Roy finished off the plans he wanted to make sure everyone knew who made it all happen and whose dream this really was. __________________ {Mommy} {Baby - 8.5 Months} Past WDW Trips: April 1990 - April 1991 - March 1992 - March 1993 - March 1994 - March 1995 - March 1996 - March 1997 - March 1998 - March 1999 - March 2000 - March 2001 - March 2002 - March 2003 - March 2004 - May 2005 - May 2006 - May 2007 - June 2007 - November 2007 - March 2008 - March 2009 - June 2009 - March 2010 - July 2010 - MNSSHP October 2010

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03-02-2009, 03:03 PM	#5
jayandstacey DIS Veteran Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 1,445	Our one moment also happened to be our first moment. Our DD5 had a fair number of health complications from Type 1 diabetes, including many hospital trips starting around her first birthday. We saved our money and wanted to take her and her younger brother on a Doosie of a Disney vacation, her first. So we booked 10 days at the Beach Club and hoped for a relaxing vacation during a slow first 10 days of November. We also hoped for some magic but didn't have any particular expectations. The rides, atmosphere and "escape" were all that we were looking for. We arrived midday to beautiful weather and decided to head to Epcot through the International Gateway. As we scanned our tickets, our DD saw Snow White a few paces away and ran to her. Snow White talked with our daughter, got to know her and, well, you know... No one else was around... it was about 10 minutes worth of hanging out with Snow White. Our DD talked about how she recently was a "townsfolk" player in the local high school production of "Beauty and the Beast." - "Oh really?" said Snow White, "Then I'd like you to meet my friend." Snow White took my daughter's hand and they skipped all the way over the bridge into France, where Belle was in her courtyard and my daughter was in heaven, just beside herself and talking as fast as she could. Belle was happy to "finally meet someone else from my village!" We spent about $6000 on that trip. It was all "paid back" in the first 15 minutes. Amazing.

03-02-2009, 03:21 PM	#7
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03-02-2009, 03:28 PM	#9
disneydreamer1970 Proud Auntie to baby Devyn Will be LOVING that verandah! Practicing to win the belly flop contest on her 1st cruise Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Maine Posts: 2,175	The moment I witnessed did not include a Disney character but did Santa Claus! While waiting on Main Street with DD to see Santa a couple of years ago there was a family in front of us that had two children, one of which was handicapped and could not speak. He was so scared of Santa, and mom wanted nothing more than a picture of he and his sister with him, and it just didn't happen. As they walked away, Santa motioned to a Cast Member to quietly get mom to turn around with her camera as he walked up behind him in his wheelchair with his sister walking next to him. As she went to take the picture the little boy caught Santa out of the corner of his eye and looked back at Santa and began to smile! It was a picture perfect moment! Mom was crying as well as myself and several other people in line that day! I still get choked up when I think about it! Trish __________________ Me DH DS(20) DD (10) DS (5)

03-02-2009, 03:37 PM	#10
kiranic Mouseketeer Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Illinois Posts: 310	My magical moment happened on my DD's 7th birthday. We had been to the BBB and she was dressed like Tinkerbell, her favorite character. During one of the parades, when she was up on her daddy's shoulders, Captain Hook came over and shoot his hook at her. She said "I think he thinks I am the real Tinkerbell." When the float with Peter Pan and Wendy came by I was taking pictures. My husband said, "Did you see that Peter Pan just pointed right at DD." I was disappointed that I hadn't seen it until I looked in the camera viewer and saw that I had "magically" caught the moment in the camera. (I don't have the picture loaded to photobucket or I would post it.) __________________ WL--7/08, POFQ--10/09

03-02-2009, 03:37 PM	#11
Kurby All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you. ~Walt Disney Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Second star to the right and straight on 'til morning Posts: 10,618	we had gone only once when i was a kid and i hadn't been back until dh took me a few months after we got engaged. ya ya disney will be fun - we flew in, checked in and headed over to mk oh this is kinda cool ya right - i'm standing infront of that round garden thing infront of the castle watching the show and dh looks at me and askes what's wrong. here i stood - a 30something women standing in themiddle of a bunch of people, tears running down my face. to this day i still don't know why i was crying, its not like i remember going as a kid it was just emotional for me. to this day i get that twinge of emotion the first time we walk down main street each visit. __________________ Summer 2010 Trip Report Our "WONDERful" Cruise May 2009

03-02-2009, 03:52 PM	#14
Cinderella3 Mouseketeer Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Bloomingdale Posts: 82	We went to WDW in Dec of 2007, there we stood in line to get an autograph with characters at Mickey's tent(Mickey, Minnie, Pluto and Goofy) we was the next to get our picture and there was this little girl with a walker, just so happy to see them. My son, who at the time was 10 , told her " it is more important if you get the picture then I do", so he let the little girl go, the characters gathered up in one photo so the Mom could get a great picture. The Mom thanked my son, he said no problem and gave her a big smile. The CM came over and told my son that since he was more interested in passing along the magic of Disney that My son got to get a picture of all the characters. I was so proud of him..

03-02-2009, 04:27 PM	#15
suejai DIS Veteran Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Central Alberta Posts: 1,387	I had three moments on our first trip last May. We were watching Wishes on our first evening, I turned to see tears streaming down the face of my big tough biker husband, I was already crying. Then our 16 year son turned to us to tell us 'thank you for bringing me to Disney' sees us crying and starts crying himself. Our 13 yr son looks at us all bawling and asks why are we all crying. A momemt that again made my DH well up was watching a little 2 or 3 yr old girl walk straight into Buzz Lightyears arms with such complete innocence and trust. I guess he's not as tough as he makes out (I already knew that ) My third moment was watching Wishes on our last evening. We were sitting at the edge of the terrace at the Noddle Station (I know now that it is not a great place to watch from) but it IS right under Tinker Bell's flight path. I was turned talking to my husband when he said 'look Tink is flying' I leaned forward and she pointed at me and blew me and my DS a kiss. I was thrilled to say the least! I'm not sure how she did this hurtling down a wire at that speed, but she did and it was such a nice ending to our trip. Sorry for such a long post, but it is hard to narrow it down to just one moment - our trip was filled with so many, that we are going again this May. __________________ DH: Me: DS:

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