EPCOT 2000 Holidays Around The World Pin

Holidays Around The World Plate

From 1997 comes this plate of the Candelight Procession at EPCOT.

From the box the plate came in.

2000 Cast Holiday Celebration Pin Set

A Chinese Theater Christmas

Let's travel back to a simpler time before giant, hideous, ridiculous sorcerer hats dominated the landscape and take a moment in front of the Christmas Tree.  Running around the bottom of the tree was a model train with miniture Hollywood landmarks along the tracks.  Since the installation of "the hat", the Christmas tree has been outside the gates to the Studio.  Perhaps if we all wish and dream hard enough this view will one day be available again.

Disneyland Monday - Adventureland

Just a couple of random shots of Adventureland.  Adventureland at Walt Disney World has some of my favorite architecture in the Magic Kingdom.  Adventureland at Disneyland is very different.  Like the rest of the park it's more...intimate isn't quite the word I'm looking for but it sort of works.  Here is a more rough land of exploration, not so colonized as the Magic Kingdom.  These are the alleys and bazaars and primitive structures of a jungle just starting to be tamed.

Not at all like the beautiful delicate verandas of the Magic Kingdom.  Here there is no place for refinement.  Every day in the jungle is a fight for survival.

"Vintage" Disney Stickers

I picked up this box of stickers at the parks several years ago.  While many of the stickers are fun I was mostly drawn to the ones related to the parks.  I'm posting all of the parks ones here with the exception of two which were of the Pirates of the Caribbean and Disneyland 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea exhibit attraction posters.  Obviously the stickers themselves are not vintage but the designs are.

This is the box in which the stickers came.

Disneyland Monday - 1989 Guidebook

I got this guidebook almost 20 years before I finally visited Disneyland for the first time.  I wrote a letter (that's a paper with words that you put in an envolope and send through the postal service) to Disneyland and requested the map and they happily sent it along to me.