Your adult self vs. your child self

OH yes! Anything with coasters. When I was a child, I hated Big Thunder Mountain. I cried so hard when my dad took me on that ride. I couldn't fathom the idea of doing Space Mountain later on (the DLP one) or even Indiana Jones. But when I got older, my best friend tempted me to go on Space Mountain. Skip BTM, and face your fears with a not upside roller coaster, just jump straight in. Lord! I thought I had a heart attack that day. BUT since then LOVE coasters! What I feared then became a love of mine.

Now something I loved as a Child that I don't like as an Adult, I can't think of one to be quite honest. I'm thinking really hard right now. But I can't think of one. I'll get back to you on that one

Ok so you all are probably going to laugh at this one but I was always scared to go into the Haunted Mansion when I was a kid. I had a bad experience in another haunted house so when we got down to Disney there was no way I was going any where near the Haunted Mansion. I avoided this ride for years and years. This last year my husband said I needed to get over my fear of haunted houses and try it. So at age 42 (yes you read that right) I finally ventured onto this ride. Guess what it is now one of my favorites! Can't wait to go on it again this year. However I will not be trying out any other haunted houses, I will stick with the Disney version.

As a kid, I liked the Captain EO 3D attraction - I managed to see it once as a sulking teenager in 1988 and then learned it had 'passed on' some time after but before I managed to return 20(!) years later. Now, last year, I learned that the good Captain had raised his head again, so decided on my visit there that I should see what it was like 25 years later. To say I was bemused and disappointed would be an understatement. Even the girls behind me that day saw it for the hokiness that would have been evident the first time I saw it, but we lived in a different time when hope was a valid reason to be optimistic! They did warn us that the movie was as it was 25 years before with no reconstruction or remastering...but still! >_<

Now as an adult...I can't think of much that I'd have hated back then...maybe Spaceship Earth, but that was more to do with the whole ride going backwards from a height in the dark and very slowly - things I didn't do well then.

The Grand Prix -definitely. I used to love that when I was a tyke. I don't even look at it now. Talk about a ride that needs updating.

Well. Walt Disney World did not exist when I was a kid. It opened when I was almost done with high school, and then I didn't actually visit until 2005. As for Disneyland, we lived on the opposite coast and were a family of seven, so traveling via airplane was beyond the family budget and the cross-continent drive wasn't something any of us would've survived.

I did have the chance to experience It's a Small World and the Carousel of Progress at the New York World's Fair, but I like them as much now as I did back in 1964/65.

But if we expand this to include Disney movies, I'll mention Babes in Toyland. I ADORED that film as a child and for decades wished I could see it again and relive the magic. Then, wonder of wonders, it was available "on demand" from our cable TV provider for Christmas of 2012! So I watched it. And ewwwwww, what a sexist piece of crap! So now I'm an adult and wondering why, in the climactic scene when the hero and villain were both shrunk down to maybe six inches tall and fighting to the death, why the FULL SIZED heroine didn't just pick up the villain and toss him out the window, problem solved? And I'm also wondering why none of the adults in my life explained to me how ridiculous that scene was?

As a child I wasn't a fan of the Backlot Tour, Haunted Mansion and Space Mountain. My brother loved HM so my Dad would take him on it and my Mom and I would go from Small World to the Carousel and repeat. My poor Mother I also wasn't a fan of Epcot in general.

Now as an adult I love all those things! I can't really think of anything that I liked as a child and not as an adult

I have real problems with motion sickness, including motion sickness induced by films, so I will never ever do Soarin' and I usually have to close my eyes during part of the films in the Canada, France, and China pavilions.

But I try to catch the French movie every trip. The music is spectacular, so I don't care if I can't watch the film.

Just a side note, the French movie, Impressions de France, needs a serious update.

Hmm..I don't have many recollections of Disney ride experiences as a child. So the only one I think of was Spaceship Earth. I was about 10 or 11 and my parents brought my younger brother for his first visit to Disney World. I was not the Disney fan that I am today so at the time, I never truly appreciated Spaceship Earth. It did not seem to click with me.

But when I re-rode it being older, I came to terms how great Spaceship Earth is and how meaningful it is. It's a great message about how our world is always changing and growing with communication and technology.

I'm not sure that there is too much of a difference for me. I probably enjoyed the coasters more when I was a child than I do today. Other than that I still love it all.

I liked Space Mountain more when I was young. As a forty-something adult, it's a little herky-jerky for me. (Not that I don't ride it anyway - LOL.)

I guess, to be fair, a lot of the things I disliked as a kid are gone now. I disliked the Mickey Revue thing, Mission to Mars, and the Submarines. I liked If You Had Wings, but I'm sure my kid-self likes Buzz better.

ETA - I never liked the Speedway, even as a kid. Don't think I've been on it in 35 years!

I love the coasters much more now then when I was younger. I do not like Space Mt (hurt my neck) or Primeval Hurl, other than those, Im game for anything.

Trailblazer is practically a kiddie coaster, for those who've never been to Hersheypark. But I didn't try it until, oh...about ten years ago. I plead motion sickness issues.

Maelstrom and the Haunted Mansion. On my very first trip to Disney World in 1989, when my family and I got off Maelstrom, I was bawling. My parents kept saying "the trolls aren't scary, they're funny!" Same with the HM ("It's not scary, it's funny!") To them, maybe but to a kid at the tender young age of 7 . . . . . but I've grown to love the HM (I think it has to do with what I like to call The Frees Factor, as I'm a huge Paul Frees fan). I like Maelstrom nowadays, but I wouldn't call it a favorite, though.

My first couple of trips to WDW I wanted to get on Big Thunder Mountain but I was too small. Now I love it. I probably loved the speedway because my daddy probably let me drive the car. I don't think there is nothing I wouldn't go on when I was younger. My first couple of trips to WDW, Was only MK and Epcot. Not sure if Studios was open yet and Animal Kingdom wasn't open either.

Journey Into Imagination. It was one of my absolute favorites as a kid (I was OBSESSED with Figment) but I was pretty meh about when DH and I went on it last trip. Maybe it's because of the refurbs, maybe it's just because I outgrew it, but it definitely wasn't the same love I had for it as a child.

It's the refurb.

Too funny, I will forever refer to it as primeval hurl

That's what made mein sister decide she's never going on Space Mountain again. Actually, she didn't like Big Thunder, either, but it's grown on her. But she will never ride Space Mountain again.