Magic Kingdom 1-Day Attraction Pass - 1981/82

Yes another Walt Disney World post! I know there are a couple readers out there that enjoy WDW posts (me too!) so for you non-WDW fans, well, better luck next time….

From 1981/82 here’s a complimentary 1-Day Attraction Passport. This voucher entitled the bearer to one Magic Kingdom attraction passport. Interestingly, this voucher did not get you into the park – it only provided an unlimited passport once you were in the park. I’m pretty sure that well before September 30, 1982 (the voucher expiration date) WDW had switched to “passports only” so simply being “in the park” gave you access to all attractions making this voucher totally useless.





From 1982, here’s your guide to the Magic Kingdom. These guides are larger than Disneyland’s guide of the same period, being about 1 ½ inches wider. That castle is so big it won’t fit on the cover!

Walt Disney Word Tickets - September 1972

While rummaging through the Walt Disney Word ticket bucket for yesterday’s post I noticed this cool WDW Transportation Ticket and figured why not share it? Monorail, Boat or Motor Tram – isn’t the choice obvious?

It’s still amazing to me that Florida’s Monorail doesn’t actually enter the park! The WDW Monorail isn’t on the E ticket as at Disneyland, it’s on the “Transportation Ticket” found on the front of the ticket book. This September 1972 ticket book is the larger style book, pretty much the size of money!





The blue welcome sheet welcomes you to the “Vacation Kingdom”. Those fancy letters on the tickets are your clue that this isn’t Disneyland! Yes the Main Gate admission ticket is missing (don’t ya hate that?). Complete WDW ticket books from 1971/72 are very rare.





The attraction lineup seems small compare to Disneyland of 1972, but they are BIG attractions. Too bad I never saw the Mickey Mouse Revue, somehow I think I would have been totally obsessed with it had I experienced it.






Sharp eyes will notice the “C” and “A” tickets are from another ticket book, but they are from 1972.






This "12 Adventures" book was the larger book, with 7 or 8 tickets in the small book. State tax, estimate price, actual price, value, boy that’s a lot of numbers!

Magic Kingdom Club WDW Coupon - 1972

Whenever I think "Magic Kingdom Club" I think “Disneyland”, but the club was also for Walt Disney World. This ticket provided the bearer with some tough choices, I of course would go for the Special Ticket Book!





Alcoholic Beverages are not included but the tax & tip are included? That seems all backwards to me… Notice the Globe safety paper has a different pattern than the park tickets.





How about some vintage WDW postcards to add some color to this post? Boy that castle is BIG!

TokyoMagic, this one is for you.






Scary....

Disneyland Family Festival presents TRON September 20, 1982

Cast Activities and the Disneyland Family Festival present TRON September 20, 1982. Is the "Lincoln Theater" the Opera house at Disneyland? Maybe the ENCOM 511 knows, lets ask the MCP to check it out.





The new TRON looks like it has potential to be excellent, check out the latest trailer here (link) - how does Jeff Bridges look 35 and 60 simultaneously in the same movie?

Bonus Sunday

Vacationland Spring 1959 - 100mb

Bonus Saturday

Vacationland Fall 1970 - 79mb

Family Fun Party at Disneyland - September 24, 1970

Forty year ago today it was the 3rd annual Southland Hospitals Family Fun Party at Disneyland - September 24, 1970. 10am to 11pm - wow 13 hours of unlimited use of all attractions including the "Breathtaking Haunted Mansion" and free parking all for $4.25!







From my private vault, this is one of my favorite Vacationland magazines. From the Fall of 1970. I suppose I can identify with the kids on the cover being about their age in 1970. Even though the cover shot is most likely staged, it captures something unique to that time period that you really just had to be there to understand.






Speaking of capturing the mood of 1970, this art style really does it - boy do I like it! It's a good article too.






Life before Photoshop was good.






Sugar never looked so sweet. Great Disneyland Castle drawing on the sugar packed, I gotta get one those!





Come back tomorrow for this entire issue and come back Sunday for the Spring 1959 Vacationland, its a Bonus Weekend!

Vacationland - Spring 1959

A big thanks again to Tom for his donation of vintage Vacationland Magazines, these are awesome! I want to step right into the cover of this Spring 1959 Vacationland, I can hear the band now.





Great centerfold with a rare appearance of the Viewliner!





Come back on Bonus Sunday for the entire issue.

Commemorating the Magic of Tomorrow...Today - New Tomorrowland 1999

Today's post is a scan sent in by blog reader "JG", thanks JG! "Commemorating the Magic of Tomorrow...Today". This is an interesting item from 1999, I'll let JG describe it to us: "(it's on) heavy metallic gold paper, embossed with purple and silver ink. The Disneyland and Tomorrowland logos are embossed, as is the compass rose graphic. It also features the printed signature of Paul Pressler, which may reduce the value (ha-ha)."

You can download a high resolution scan here (link - 5mb) the concept art is very good, but sometimes concept art should remain a "concept".





Thanks again JG!

Trip Report - September 19, 2010

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