Kevin Across America | This Is What WALT DISNEY WORLD Looked Like In 1996 (25th Anniversary TV Special with Caroline Rhea) @KevinAcrossAmerica | Uploaded January 2024 | Updated October 2024, 11 hours ago.
The Walt Disney World Resort 25th Anniversary celebrations ran from October 1, 1996, to January 31, 1998. Cinderella Castle was transformed into a giant pink birthday cake, topped with faux icing, lollipops, and gum drops. The castle also had 26 candles for 25 years and one to grow on.
The 25th anniversary in the Magic Kingdom featured speeches by Roy E. Disney, then-CEO Michael Eisner, and then-first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, as well as a thundering flyover by U.S. military jets.
The celebration was marked in a great many ways, from the free "Guest of Honor" badges, 25th-anniversary lithographs, and new 25th-anniversary placards and banners around the parks.
A new parade was also unveiled, called The "Remember the Magic" parade which was an entirely new kind of street theater performance with a "stop-action" twist. Six giant floats (up to 55 feet long and 22 feet high) rolled down Main Street, U.S.A., each afternoon loaded with famous Disney characters and surrounded by dancers and colorfully costumed performers singing the 25th-anniversary theme song, "Remember the Magic."
The Walt Disney World Resort 25th Anniversary celebrations ran from October 1, 1996, to January 31, 1998. Cinderella Castle was transformed into a giant pink birthday cake, topped with faux icing, lollipops, and gum drops. The castle also had 26 candles for 25 years and one to grow on.
The 25th anniversary in the Magic Kingdom featured speeches by Roy E. Disney, then-CEO Michael Eisner, and then-first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, as well as a thundering flyover by U.S. military jets.
The celebration was marked in a great many ways, from the free "Guest of Honor" badges, 25th-anniversary lithographs, and new 25th-anniversary placards and banners around the parks.
A new parade was also unveiled, called The "Remember the Magic" parade which was an entirely new kind of street theater performance with a "stop-action" twist. Six giant floats (up to 55 feet long and 22 feet high) rolled down Main Street, U.S.A., each afternoon loaded with famous Disney characters and surrounded by dancers and colorfully costumed performers singing the 25th-anniversary theme song, "Remember the Magic."
