This was just a few months after my first visit in August 1974 and I remember passing by its construction in Tomorrowland wishing tomorrow had already come so that I could ride this most anticipated attraction! A roller coaster, in the dark? Amazing!Ī couple of years later I returned to Walt Disney World with my grandmother.
As such, we wouldn’t get our first Space Mountain until it opened at Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom in January 1975. Unfortunately, the technology did not yet exist that would allow for multiple roller coaster cars on the same track, at the same time, in the dark. Space Mountain was envisioned by Walt Disney himself and started showing up on park maps as early as 1968. In fact, on that memorable morning I rode Space Mountain three times in a row before moving on to all of the other attractions that I had also missed during my two-year hiatus. When I was recovering from a brain tumor and wasn’t allowed to ride anything for two years, it was Space Mountain that I missed the most and what I insisted on riding first when I was finally allowed to ride again on July 24, 2016. After all, where would the world be today without Walt’s dream, Disneyland?īut my favorite Disney ride is really Space Mountain. It was on this bench that Walt first dreamed of Disneyland, a place where “parents and children can have fun together.” I am a big believer in dreams. When I am asked about my favorite attraction, I often tease that it is Walt’s bench–the place where Walt would sit when taking his daughters to the merry-go-round at nearby Griffith Park. Popular choices include “it’s a small world,” Pirates of the Caribbean, and Peter Pan’s Flight. One of my favorite conversations is to ask folks about their favorite Disney park attraction.
I travel the world and talk to people about Disney.
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