Kids
of the Kingdom
We
come back to the parks from the Polynesian and meet up with the Kids
of the Kingdom performing the song “There's More!”. They start in
the hub and begin a whirlwind tour of the Magic Kingdom. First to
Fantasyland where they can be seen riding on Dumbo and the Tea Cups.
It's a nice little clip looking back at a shine new Fantasyland
complete with Skyway. Then they are off to Tomorrowland. We see the
“Kids” singing and dancing in front of the original Tomorrowland
Entrance, complete with the two massive towers that I miss so much.
Then across the park to Adventureland where the Kids of the Kingdom
are still in glorious song but now high atop the Swiss Family Treehouse. All and all I really like this segment. It's a really nice
song that has found it's place into Disney nostalgia and can even be
found on several fan-made music collections on the internet. It also
gives a nice be it short look at some of the key lands in the park.
Mickey
Mouse Revue
This segment starts kind of weird with Julie Andrews saying “Now we are
back in Disney World and to prove it here's the Mickey Mouse Revue.”
So where have we been for the last 50 minutes...Cypress Gardens?
That odd intro aside we now get to see a pretty good preview for The
Mickey Mouse Revue. Once again we are seeing a brand new Disney
attraction that is a Walt Disney World original and would be until it
left for Tokyo Disneyland in September of 1980. We see Mickey warming
up the band, then the Three little Pigs singing “Who's Afraid of
the Big Bad Wolf”. Next Snow White and her forest friends are Sings
“I'm Wishing”. Then the Seven Dwarfs sing the “Dwarfs' Yodel
Song”. On to Cinderella and her Fairy Godmother sing
“Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo”. And last it's the Song of the South gang
singing “Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah” with the rest of the cast and a fade-out with the “Mickey Mouse Club March”. Again a great segment
that achieves exactly what it set out to do.
On to Tomorrowland and we
see the colored flags of the Grand Prix Raceway. We meet Chick Hearn
our announcer for the coming race. Chick Hearn was a famous Sports
announcer in the United States. He was best known for being the
commentator of the L.A. Lakers. He also is the person that coined the
term “Slam Dunk”. We are introduced to our racers. Mark Donohue,
twice winner of the U.S. Road Racing Championship and three-time
winner of the Trans American Sedan Series. Bobby Unser, 1969
Indianapolis 500 winner and 1981 winner as well but had it taken away
for then re-awarded to him in one of motorsports biggest
controversies. Sir Jackie Stewart, who is credited by Chick as the
Current World Driving Champion. Fun side note Sir Jackie went on to
win the F1 Championship that year and he did it with Mononucleosis, the wear of racing all around the world and having to cross the
Atlantic 186 times for media commitments including this one. Lastly, we meet “Mr. Leonard Hackett”.
As
the Drivers run to their cars Buddy finds out they are short one car.
With a whistle, he's old friend Herbie the Love Bug shows up and they
start the race. Herbie makes his move on the inside but is stopped by
a spoon in the road. Yeah a spoon not a fork 70's humor at it's best.
Jonathan
Winters
Johnny's
back and this time he has a whole new character for us. For some
reason, he is now a trapper named Carl Cracker from Weevil Seed
Georgia, which doesn't exist, and his two dogs Jessie and Cugini, who
also don't exist. He points toward his feet below the camera line at
to fictional dogs. But at this point, we have already seen some
crazy shenanigans from John so we shouldn't start questioning him
now. He begins to tell the story of how his other character from
earlier had talked to him about using his dogs to track his missing
wife who ran away. This segment has a few dog jokes but not much else
but its something to split up the park segments I guess.
Small
World
After
the antics of Buddy and Johnny we return to a calming voice of reason
in Julie Andrews.
Shes
going for a ride on the Skyway. And She's been on camera for more
than ten seconds so of course, she's singing. This time the song is
titled “A World Full of Love”. In a series of really well-done
cuts she goes from the Skyway to in front of the station and into the
queue (formerly the exit ramp) of It's A Small World. And as she
makes her way to the load area the voices of children come in and
start singing “It's A Small World After All”. It's a really well
done mash-up of the two songs and it continues as she floats down the
ride. Then out of the exit Julie pops out with dozens of children
wearing their traditional national outfits and they head for the
carousel. She gets them all on board and then we get a great wide
shot of the carousel and of Julie singing in front of it. Again we
get to see an attraction plus a nice musical number, very well done.
Bob
Hope
This segment is really special. It's just Bob Hope talking about how “all
this is Walt”. He really sums up Walt's philosophy and his love
America and all of us. I can't do this justice but I will post the
clip on the Manifesting the Magic YouTube page and link it here on
the blog. It really is worth a watch.
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