We ate there once, it was yummy And it was our first time seeing the Boardwalk so that was pretty cool tooMe too. I never ate there, but I always wanted to.
Yes. They operated until 1999. Below is a link to some history. I never liked the ride. It "removed the fourth wall" and in so doing, erased some of the magic. You could see "back stage" to areas that were supposed to be out of view. You could see parking lots. Delivery trucks. And the backs of buildings revealing just how much of a facade Fantasyland was.
http://www.yesterland.com/skywaymk.html
If you had wings, had wings, had wings...oh, I remember this! Eastern Airlines, also long gone!
That's all that matters, right?
Disney got quite a few complaints that the Big Red Boat experience was far, far from what people had come to expect from anything with Disney's name on it. The quality just wasn't there. So with the true Disney spirit, they decided that if they were going to have their name on something, they had better control the content and the quality. Hence, the birth of DCL at a cost of billions. The "low budget" comment wasn't meant to imply "inexpensive" so much as it was "done on the cheap". Disney's synergy with the Big Red Boat was about as cheesy as Warner Brothers or Hanna Barbera's characters roaming around your local amusement park.
I was a little too young to remember where a few of these were taken.
*I know it's the 80's but I still can't imagine that I was in style.
I sailed on that ship a couple of times...wow...memories!!!Before Disney launched its own cruise line, there was the very, very low budget....
Here is a photo of the ship as it appeared before being scrapped in 2012.
Those crazy date stamps were rarely straight And a few years later they brought out the tickets where you had to go to the kiosk on your first day and get an atrociously grainy picture of your good self put on the paper ticket. I think some of ours must be floating around at home somewhere, probably best they stay hidden - I don't recall those photos being overly flattering!
My 4 year old loved Figment last year. He can't wait to ride it again.
What ride was the dream machine on?
Nope. The original "Love Boat" launched in 1971 as the Sea Venture and sailed for Princess between 1975 and 2002 under the name Pacific Princess. After that, it was leased out to Quail Cruises out of Spain. It has since been scrapped. The second ship used for exterior shots on the Love Boat show was the Island Princess. It began life in 1972 as the Island Venture and sailed for Princess from 1974 until 1999. Neither ship was ever owned or operated by Premiere.I believe it(or at least one of them) was the original Love Boat.
When I went on it they were pretty clear that it was a "partnership" and Disney's name wasn't on it, nor was it advertised as such. I don't even think they had characters on board ...but I can't be sure it was SOOOO along ago!
The castlecake was its own special kind of fantabulous
I prefer to refer to it as "craptastic".
ooh has anyone mentioned our good friend PUSH in Tomorrowland? He was such fun!
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Nope. The original "Love Boat" launched in 1971 as the Sea Venture and sailed for Princess between 1975 and 2002 under the name Pacific Princess. After that, it was leased out to Quail Cruises out of Spain. It has since been scrapped. The second ship used for exterior shots on the Love Boat show was the Island Princess. It began life in 1972 as the Island Venture and sailed for Princess from 1974 until 1999. Neither ship was ever owned or operated by Premiere.
It was not always affiliated with Disney. It sounds like when you went on the ship, it wasn't. When Disney was running cruises on it, the tie in was very obvious, and yes, there were characters on board. Couldn't miss them. So if the ship was not advertised as a Disney cruise, and there were no Disney characters on board, then that would have been a time when it had no relationship to Disney. After Disney cut ties, Premiere started running cruises with Looney Tunes (or Warner Brothers) characters. That didn't last too long.
He was nuts.... we passed by with our honeymoon mouse ears on and he made some funny comment which had all the nearby adults in stitches laughing, something about us looking tired - newlyweds must not be getting enough sleep So funny and totally went over all the surrounding kids' heads!Oh yeah, PUSH was a riot. My son and his two older sisters were talking with PUSH, and PUSH turns to my son and says in his robot voice "Hey, know why you should be nice to your sisters?" My son stood there like, idk . PUSH says "...because someday they'll have hot friends". Followed by PUSH laughing in his robot voice.... I laughed so hard at that one. PUSH was awesome.
Dan