Breakfast with the Stars

My early memories of Disney are the characters and the 'Mickey Mouse Club' program. I used to sing the song for the TV show "M--I--C--K--KEY--Y--M--O--U--S--E. I'm sure it was one of my favorite programs.

What has stuck with me from that time are the characters. Mickey Mouse. Minnie Mouse. Donald Duck (I used to do a fair impesonation of Donald.) Goofy. And on an on. They probably stuck with me because of cartoons and the like.

Today, Disney has changed.

I don't sense any particular connection in Kyle to most of these characters. He know who the characters are for sure, but he doesn't seem terribly excited about seeing them. In fact, when asked about it later in the day, he declared the breakfast 'boring' since there wasn't much to do there.

But he does enjoy attention provided by the characters as evidenced by the pictures.

Kyle relates more to Buzz Lightyear and characters more of this generation. Things change I guess. He's also more excited about riding up front in the monorail than any Disney character you can throw at him.

But I must wonder about some things. I remember on a trip to New York planning a worship service with my college room mate and another friend. We were very much into creative worship in those days. And my room mate suggested we use the song "Zippity-Do-Dah" for the worship service. "Why?" I asked. "Because no one can sing that song without smiling."

I wonder what happened to songs like that? Do kids still sing them? Have we lost that? What's replacing it?

For me, I don't know.

Perhaps the answer is in a place like Epcot, dedicated more to the future than the past. We visited. I really liked the place. New ideas. New things. Technology applied.

Disney is techhnology applied. It is the technology that enables all the magic.

I just hope that a five year old sees more magic than technology.