Merry Christmas!!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!

Now back to my Holiday Photo Album

and a Very MARY Christmas!

Now these were taken about 1983 or 84
Herbie the Love Bug was in the Parade
and I was the Comic Cop [last year I posted
other pics of Herbie and I, but I just found a few more]

Here we are leaving the town sq. gate
The Trees were from the Flights of Fantasy Parade...
and then put in the Christmas Parade for the Snow White Unit.

Being the Cop was a lot of Stunt work
and Herbie beat the crap out of me!
but it sure was FUN!

These shots were taken backstage
with some of my friends...
Nice to know I could make Snow White laugh!

This taken in 1987

I saw this sign in the float warehouse and asked
the girls to take a picture with me!
What great sports they were...

The sign was used in another parade...
I can't remember which one...

as we close the Holiday photo Album...
that ends this years Christmas memories...

As a little Present to all of you...
Here's my favorite picture of Walt at Christmas time...
Reading a story in front of the castle.

Happy Holidays Everyone...
from
Disney On Parole

CINDERELLA - Live in Las Vegas

Before DVD there was Video and Laser Disc...

and in 1981 the
"Video Software Dealers Association"
was established, better known as "VSDA"
[These are the owners of the Video Retail stores]
and each year they have a huge convention and the studios
are there to show them the
New and Exciting products they have coming out...MOVIES!

The year is 1988
and The Classic
"CINDERELLA"
had been re-released theatrically
in 1957,1965,1973,1981 and 1987
NOW...
it's going to be released
on Home Video and Laser Disc
for the First time ever!

This was the First Video
in the Walt Disney Classic Collection
to feature the "Sorcerer Mickey" Classic logo
before the Film

Now back to VSDA and Las Vegas...
Disney put together a Live Broadway style show
to present to the Dealers to get them to buy the movie...

Just to make it funnier, they cast guys in the roles
of the Step Mother and Stepsisters...

Here is the number "Sing Sweet Nightingale"
this was a lot of fun...
Just like the film, Anastasia is singing and
Drizella's playing the flute...

A fight breaks out and the place is in shambles

Cinderella is called in to clean up the mess...
a new song was written for the step sisters to sing to Cinderella...
I can't remember the title, but it was all about cleaning up the mess!
"There's a large carpet in the main hall... CLEAN IT!"...

Also if you per ordered your Video,
you got a FREE Lithograph!
Cool huh?

DISNEYLAND Main Street Electrical Parade - Cinderella

The first thing you would see
is the Mice pulling the pumpkin coach...

Matterhorn Way was a great resting place
for the mice...

I love the kid in the background,
"Forget the parade, I just want to play on this great bench!"
Can you imagine what it was like,
being Cinderella,
sitting in the Coach waving,
as the Fairy God Mother bonces around in the back...

Small World Character Cavalcade

In the 80s Disneyland would do these character parades
all the Characters that were in the park that day
would do the parade.
These shots are from the Small World Character Parade

Note the Tweddles London hats and over dressing
and the Tour Guide resting at the lamp post

Back then you could meet Cinderellas Mice -Susy or Perla
here she is with Susy
And Mary Poppins in her Jolly Holiday outfit - for spring and summer