Disney's Forgotten Manic Mickey Parade

Mickey Mania has been a consistent part of American culture for close to 90 years, but never has there been a more clearly manic display of #MickeyMouse worship than this iconic 1994 #WaltDisneyWorld #Parade!
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[@toocartoony]

POOH WAS ABSOLUTELY V I B I N G

[@TheatreKidCarter]

Getting down harder than any costumed character ive seen

[@tacodraws5012]

Busting it down sexual style

[@hokagebread6163]

he was high like any good disney cast member

[@SaltTastesGood]

VIBING

[@mforrest9737]

@BK Beatty Why did you're joke make me sad?

[@TheRealMoonwolf]

Dan: Who needs more Mickey plushies? *gradually 50 Mickey plushies appear in the set-*

[@abramdavidson988]

Including a few that stare straight into your soul.

[@adorableyin]

Yeah, that's Dan, all right

[@Mickey-pancakes-are-good]

*I need more mickey plushies.*

[@ryannl.4678]

@5:27 are none of us gonna mention Pooh ABSOLUTELY GETTIN DOWN

[@latreaselipsey9376]

Nah cuz he was goin down

[@IDP987]

👀

[@ashleysimmons3210]

I KNOW RIGHT!!

[@bbbw6114]

Pooh is giving me left reindeer vibes ALL THE WAY

[@ajardine9812]

HELP THATS SO FUNNY-

[@toysvilltvstudios7576]

Just call this "Mickey's Overdone Ego trip"..... XD

[@vanessaolbertz5340]

“When Mickey met acid trips.”

[@samuraiturtle.2637]

More like “Mickey the narcissist”

[@bannaissalty7853]

The Mickey wtf parade

[@toysvilltvstudios7576]

@@madaboutmonsters9957 Yep! :)

[@KyleEvra]

Call it "BUY A MICKEY PLUSH NOW I KNOW YOU WANT TOO!!!"

[@NathanSpies]

Disney should bring back this parade without any announcements, just out of the blue so we can see the public's reaction!

[@expensivepink7]

i would want to go lol

[@paulamelo9699]

I don’t think Walt Disney is not going to be happy. Sophia,

[@DepthTravel]

@@expensivepink7 same here.

[@julienicol9202]

Boy would I like to see all of the memes that come after that!

[@darkwolfknight8293]

That will be awesome.

[@lovelytimeable]

Max’s part killed me!!! I was like “mickey wants to what now” 🤣

[@SoooBUwU]

i'm pretty sure Max just made up half of those things, because i've never heard the phrase "busting fresh, out of sight" or "chill hard" or "bump the bump" or "groove your moves" ever... then again, i was born in 2003, so i wasn't even alive to witness the 90s, so maybe people did use those phrases in the 90s. either way, it made me cringe a little bit.

[@SoooBUwU]

@BK Beatty lol, that's crazy. although 2003 doesn't seem too long ago, even though i'm an adult (by law anyway, i don't feel like an adult...). and honestly, being old enough to be my mom isn't really that old, considering teenagers get pregnant a lot. my mom graduated high school when she was pregnant with me, so i dunno. but yeah, i feel you.

[@lizzardgamer7146]

Each scene with just you kept getting more and more mickeys. I noticed only once you were holding one.

[@expensivepink7]

OMG SAME LOL

[@quartzossie]

I only noticed after the plush segment lmao

[@thelostrebel6475]

I just noticed after he got the glasses lol

[@zekelinderman3970]

Remember, it's not a 90s Disney parade without walking gloves or shoes you can drive in!

[@mickeymouseproductions8977]

2:01 Roger: "It's a Def Jam!" Me: *EVERYBODY GET UP, IT'S TIME TO SLAM NOW*

[@ThatOneLebaneseGuy]

*WE GOTTA A BIT GOING NOW WELCOME TO THE SPACE JAM space jam*

[@artenedyson458]

Here's your chance, do your dance At the Space Jam Alright

[@jenbaier5607]

Space Jam Space Jam

[@memeelfman324]

Hey yo what’s your gonna do Hey yo what’s your gonna do hey yo what’s your gonna do

[@itsyagirl_num1688]

WERE TAKE TO OVER TIMR WELLCOME TO THE SPCE SPACE ( PS I LOVED SPACE JAM SENS I WAS 4 IM 10 NOW)

[@DisneyDancer1990]

I like that the hand walking Mickey just had a Mickey head slapped onto the bottom of the costume. 😂

[@tanyalopez-ub7oq]

And the army😂😂😂

[@philipdarrenellwell1994]

Winnie the Pooh busting a move will be my new sleep paralysis demon

[@SuperAidanBrosYT]

I agree

[@kristiecarney3750]

Every time I think its safe, you show us Golf ball Goofy again. Let us escape him Dan!! 😂

[@SpenglerExtreme]

But that fancy foot work is so fresh!

[@abbycollins]

Seeing Dan break into laughter not even 5 seconds into the parade makes me think this is gonna be good.

[@randomhomanv6750]

“The big cheese” PLSSS im dying 😭😭😂😂

[@babyjg3759]

Reminds me of “Roblox Normal Elevator”

[@Ihavethreeaxolotls]

DO NOT look up “great Mickey inflation” just a word to the wise 🤣

[@TheRealYuckl3s_9000]

Oh god I know what your talking about. DONT SEARCH IT VON YT KIDS!!!!!!

[@kenetickups6146]

Good advice

[@fizzystewz2custardcultmemb691]

deviant art: *how about I do, a n y w a y ?*

[@i.dont.read.replies]

Meh, I'll be fine. Edit: I looked it up and I'm not fine. 😳

[@fizzystewz2custardcultmemb691]

@@i.dont.read.replies I'm sorry for your tainted eyes sir/mam.

[@AlexZanderSantaMaria]

I was at Walt Disney World twice when this parade was running and I distinctly remember them playing the music so loud that you could hear it from across the park. The theme song has been in my head for decades.

[@medenslupus]

The fact that he says "subtle" right as it cuts to him wearing Mickey Glasses and smothered in mickey plushies is... *chef's kiss* magnefique

[@jorybarnes2860]

My GOD 😂 the gradual increase of Mickeys on the set was the funniest thing I've seen in any of these videos

[@MicheleKlinger]

The energy of this parade is A LOT, and I am so here for it!

[@CthulhusDream]

That suspiciously good Mickey voice 😱

[@ericlorandeau1378]

Mickey Mania was the parade during my first visit to WDW! I remembered loving it as a kid…I was also 9. Watching it as an adult is a bit unsettling 🤣! I, however, ALWAYS support the inclusion of Max in any and all parades! #moremax

[@matthewwilliams5447]

0:45. When Mickey said "Now, song it", it almost sounded like he was bossing them around.

[@Nikkii199045]

He said :now sing it: Not :now song it:

[@ocea1488]

Said nothing if night 0:45

[@alastairasher]

Remember this parade well from my first couple of times though I was 7/8 at the time. I have the soundtrack on a custom CD you could make in the parks sometime in the 90s called ‘Walt Disney World Forever’. Goofy says on the soundtrack ‘A party? Maybe I should bake a cake!’ Never knew what Roger Rabbit was saying until now. Max says “Mickey wants you all to ‘chill hard’ and ‘bump the bump’ …” emphasising these phrases like he has no idea what they mean… which probably he didn’t. Also the characters on tricycles had a few of their own tricks like doing wheelies and riding on two wheels I remember. Anyway a hilarious parade, typical of the spirit of the time and with a sense of humour which is sadly lacking today.

[@SRose-vp6ew]

The pop culture that we are almost forced to consume is always personally nostalgic, because it's our memories, but it's also collectively unpalatable looking back if we look back with an honest eye. So why does everyone seem to consume it? Well, it becomes the only stuff easily available to us and it makes us more relevant to at least understand it, like it or not. I used to wonder why old people didn't seem to understand, learn, or care to understand the slang of the day or how to dress. Now I get it. Most of what is pushed as trendy for a time is garbage and honestly we know that even in the middle of it but lie to ourselves. I look at what's trendy now and laugh. No girl really thinks mom jeans make her look better in any way other than being on trend. I see what's trendy and older me thinks that's not coming into my house, onto my body, or out of my mouth. Even the past pop culture we lift up should not necessarily be the parts that we lift up. There are amazing sub cultures through out history with true core values and style that should be lifted up. Pop culture is not typically the best of the time, or even the most consumed of the time, but the most pushed and produced of the time even if it's laughable and short lived as trendy, edgy, cool, the cat's meow, or on fleek. Does it really look and sound "good?"

[@Water_Me_Loan_64_YT]

Mickey doing a Handstand & releasing a song called “Ice Ice, Mickey” is very 1990s.

[@danielkrutko2971]

I don’t remember the whole parade but the inflatable unit lives in my head tent free. Must have seen them when I was like 5 or 6

[@CowGirlKat8691]

In 1996 Feb. I took my kids to Disneyland and Toy Story had a wonderful area where the 'soldiers' had plastic feet that were stuck together like the real toy ones & they had to sort of shuffle to get anywhere. No one knew yet that if you called out "Andy's coming!" they'd all have to fall down. So no one said it when we was there. The parade was amazing that day too! My daughter caught a beachball from Ariel & she was a very happy kid that day.

[@LucasBradleylpbproductions6]

When you said "Mickey Mania", I thought you were going to talk about the video game of the same name for the Genesis.

[@cwoodswdcchannel8297]

lol ngl that sounds like a good idea for a mod

[@dylancummings4667]

Whenyousaidmickeymanialthoughtyouweregoingtotalkaboutthevideogameofthesamenameforthegenesis

[@wool578]

@@cwoodswdcchannel8297 well? ya gonna make it?

[@cwoodswdcchannel8297]

If I knew how to mod games then yeah

[@ToppetREAL]

@@cwoodswdcchannel8297 the mod would be all the graphics would be replaced with mickey

[@ensignabby]

My mom recorded that whole parade and I watched it over and over. I remember that whole parade.

[@melissagold2573]

Omg me too, and I was only 2 during the actual trip. This video is giving me weird flashbacks of home videos of a trip I was too young to actually remember. (But yeah I definitely got one of those Mickey plushes whoops lol)

[@SnoozyNewzy]

If you still have the tape, you should upload it to KZbin 🤣

[@bronwynknight1330]

You've said Mickey so much that I can't comprehend what a Mickey is anymore °o°

[@Hessed3712]

You get a normal marching band, as you do with any other parade. Then…..a Disney fever dream.

[@xcuteedollfaceex]

Dan, I just want to say that I’ve been going through a rough time and your videos always give me a much needed laugh. Thank you.

[@DistoryDan]

💜

[@silverpelt0]

@@DistoryDan ICE ICE MICKEY

[@Dragontaur]

People weren't buying enough Mickey Mouse merchandise and memorabilia. Sales were down at that time for Mickey Mouse stuff.

[@MarioSonic2010]

2:02 Seriously, Dan's laugh is just too contagious! XD

[@AlolaMasked_BettyRubbleFan]

I mean, we got Mickey Mouse Russian Dolls, Mickey Mouse as the Incredible Hulk, The handstand Mickey Nightmare Fuel, Minnie with the Toast Band, Chip and Dale operating their own impressive mickey clock while others walk around, Pooh moving a spinning thing, Dissected Mickey feet and Gloves walking around along with a living hat, and Balloon Firefighters Max and Goofy! This parade is Straight-up Chaos!

[@Sinistraa]

This was my first ever Disney parade from my first visit to WDW at age 7 and I never forgot it. The weirdness and music live forever in my millennial brain. Thanks for the video!

[@ochocinco8582]

YES, SAME!! 😭

[@PD-mi3qj]

Donald Ducks 50th Birthday from the 80's is my favorite! Over 30 years later and the chorus of that song still haunts my dreams. The accompanying special hosted by Dick Van Dyke is a gem as well!

[@JoLoveDub]

Was my favorite as a toddler! Wore out the VHS that we taped from tv.

[@brycevo]

Goofy was nuts but Mickey. Man, his ego is nuts

[@jillparker6553]

This unlocked a memory of Mickey Mouse watches being the THING when I was in middle school in the early/mid 90s 😅

[@juliagoodwin9510]

This is the most 90s thing I've ever seen... and I grew up in that decade!

[@CutesyBubblez]

Disney: Consume Mickey merch! Dan: Lol, what chumps. Also Dan: Look at the hundreds of Mickeys I have!

[@Celestial7Heavens]

This looks like a parade that be more believable for April Fool’s XD As much as I love Disney, but ugh they do have their fair share of cringe moments XD

[@bearmcculloch1179]

Dan, this was truly a masterpiece as always 😂 I think we all need to see a costume evolution of Tik Tock though!!

[@Trinabiss97]

This was today’s request from my almost 5 year old. “Mumma! Disney Dan! Mickey!” Me: the costume or the parade? “The parade!” *excited screeching when the video started*

[@DistoryDan]

💜

[@samanthavictoria3308]

That is the cutest thing I’ve ever heard

[@KyraHogue]

I had an old "Cool" Mickey and Minnie poster from the 90s. This parade looks like that Mickey jumped off of the page and started dancing. I am here for this mania.

[@1stSack]

4:00 he looks funny and terrifying at the same time.

[@memethyst]

0:28 hey that's me :D i've been waiting for this video, i feel like this is definitely disney's weirdest parade... goofball is nothing compared to the horror that is upside down inflatable mickey

[@mrmaneak5936]

The Disney marketing team was like “ALRIGHT THE STOCKS DOWN BY 5, what do we do” And some guy at the end of the tables like “let’s make an entire parade to devoted to merchandise.”

[@davidleanza1142]

This parade was awesome!!! I was in it for a year and a half! It kicked our butts doing this in the Florida heat. I wish I had my Finale Dancer costume. Fun to wear. Thanks for this video so I can see all my awesome friends in our glory!! Mickey here, Mickey There, Everywhere!!

[@tmntphan]

Is anybody else gonna mention how each time Dan shows up on screen the Mickey Mouse merch multiplies

[@DistoryDan]

😘

[@steviechan5792]

I love how the more he delves into the parade, the more Mickeyfied his setup gets. XD

[@Taydar]

Remember the old saying Dan, Fill your house with mouse from roof to floor, and keep the big bad wolf from your door.

[@KikuroChan]

The song from this parade gets stuck in my head from time to time. I’m so glad this wasn’t a fever dream.

[@emilybauer8101]

What if they bring back Mickey Mania for his 100th birthday in 2028? I kinda feel like this insanity needs to be experienced by more generations 😅

[@prowolf633]

2:46 the slide actually looks cool!

[@Hikari__Rose]

3:30 *weebles wobble but they don't fall over* also this is more of an advirtisement your willingly watching instead of a parade Disney when people where thinking up this parade: *consume, buy, give us your money, get every mickey plushies* Also i vote Tokyo parade

[@belle2496]

Okey...I remember watching Mickey Mania in Tokyo Disneyland with my family when I was in 2nd grade. It was my 1st visit to a Disney park. We loved it and my mom even bought me the CD and the T-shirt for me. I'm now 32 and still love to dance to the music.😂

[@blair7653]

My family took a trip to Disney in the summer of '94, I was 8. I 100% have no recollection of this parade. Either we didn't see it, or I have blocked it from my memory. Lol..

[@davidwilliams5497]

Thicc Mickey… Thicckey, if you will, is love. Thicckey is life.

[@disneyfanaticsanonymous6344]

That ending. 🤣 Glad I wasn’t wearing my headphones!

[@Kaylee_Creates]

I love how Dan slowly adds more Mickey plushies

[@dlundhol]

This was the parade on my first trip to Disney World as a kid. I loved it.

[@aishayasmeen4862]

U should check out Light Magic. Apparently it was one of the most hated “Parade”/ nighttime shows 😂

[@AsgardianQueen]

This is hilarious! The actual dialog of the parade along with Dan's reactions.

[@nakkari100]

That’s enthusiastic attitude is so amazing. Thank you making my day better

[@asdfguy113]

"The Great Mickey inflation" Oh..no

[@SpenglerExtreme]

Dan, your screaming is scaring my dog and I’m wearing headphones for goodness sake. Great video! I would also like to note that directly after the Minnie segment, I got a Mini-Wheats ad. PS. Still campaigning for a Barney the Dinosaur Evolution video! 💜💜💜

[@toonirl6675]

The best videos really are he ones where Dan just goes completely unhinged

[@UmmYeahOk]

I never forgot. I had Mickey Mania in my head throughout 1994

[@coolguysplaypvz3294]

I actually refuse to believe Max said that

[@BH-zd2px]

I saw this parade in real time. It was great and fun. One of Disney's best in my opinion.

[@chibbysadventures5555]

I can't remember if you ever talked about "America On Parade", but its the one with the creepy doll looking things called "The People of America" or something like that. The dolls were also used in EPCOT for a bit.

[@ToonyKid]

I have to agree with how creepy this parade, especially the Mickey-like Weebles and Goofy and Max’s “balloon firefighter” float thingy.

[@pattipayne8202]

This video had me smiling the whole time

[@darktetsuya]

love how dan's set slowly descends into mickey madness lmao these are always great, tiding me over til I can get back to the magic kingdom!

[@KatelynJewel]

OMG! I have an old video of this parade from early 1995 when I was 2 (and was sadly my only Disney World trip.) This is one of two parades I have recorded along with Aladdin's Royal Caravan. The videos also include Mickey's House (which is sadly no longer around since Pete demolished it in favor for his silly sideshow back in 2011), and It's a Small World.

[@TaiteMorgan6]

8:05 the gloves also give off vibes to the thumb minions from the 1st spy kids

[@judibickford5306]

EVERYTHING you do is AMAZING, Dan! It's ALWAYS a PLEASURE to see one of your videos! ABSOLUTELY LOVE your Mickey voice!

[@TheIndigoBros92]

I remember watching some parts of this parade way back when our cable system had Univisión and they tended to make some specials related to holidays like Easter and Christmas on Walt Disney World. I never thought it was all around weird. Going from this to Remember the Magic on October of 1996 is a mood whiplash.

[@itsreelydalin]

Can you please PLEASE do a review of the live Disney shows that would come out for all the new movies in the 90s post-BatB? Like I need a Hunchback live show review ASAP

[@LucasBradleylpbproductions6]

Wouldn't that also include The Lion King, Tarzan, Aladdin, Frozen, The Little Mermaid, etc.?

[@itsreelydalin]

@@LucasBradleylpbproductions6 if it’s Post-BatB and only within the 90s (should have written that better the first time) I was thinking Aladdin, Lion King, Pocahontas, Hunchback, Hercules, Mulan and Tarzan :)

[@PrincessMeggala0913]

Yup yup. This is the first parade I ever saw when I was three……it was pretty nuts. Haha

[@hayleywaalen2612]

Mickey Mouse had a very bizarre parade.

[@thetoondevil]

Can I just say, I love your channel, I love seeing the history of everything, and I just love the energy you express in every video. I'm always excited when ever a new video comes up in my notifications. :D

[@726berkshire]

This was actually the very first Disney World parade I ever saw on our first visit in May of 1996. But compared to Remember the Magic, Tapestry of Nations, and the Toy Story parades, I have no memories of this nor did I care about it.

[@gracethewriter08]

I remember this parade. Never realized how weird it was until this video.

[@ochocinco8582]

This was my first parade at my first Walt Disney trip, and I LOVED IT 😭❤

[@Acnhfan]

Finally I’ve been waiting for this

[@Acnhfan]

Yas

[@cnmnnaturalist]

Max's little speech sounded like if you forced one of those AIs to write a script only using early 90s slang.

[@BookooAdventures]

We thought we were losing our minds when every time you popped up on screen there were more Mickey’s 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂😂😂 this is pure gold!!!! Love your videos!!!

[@firstflowerinspace]

“Consume Mickey plushes” is also what the increasing amount of Mickeys in this video is making me feel

[@starberrycupcake]

I owned Mickey Unrapped in cassette form lmao the early 90s were wild, I remember this parade vividly, if some of these things weren't kept for posterity I'd swear they were a childhood fever dream 😆

[@louieangellara2395]

They are very funny

[@brendon3637]

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[@RollaJones]

Forgotten? Oh no, Dan, I remember every second.

[@expensivepink7]

truly love your content, Dan

[@Maniac536]

I remember this. It was a big deal at the time and got a lot of mentions on the WDW Inside Out show

[@jullyasonhadora1519]

3:27 the army of mickey Weeble woobles makes me laugh 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@jennajoybrown]

I just discovered your channel and I died laughing at this video in particular. I loved how you were slowly being invaded by Mickeys. I’m glad I never saw this parade. It’s horrifying.

[@jordanstewart6298]

I'd love to see a video on updates to the castle (Birthday cake, Stitch toilet paper, the magic mirror for the 50th anniversary, etc.)

[@DisneyMarkUK]

Mickey Mania was soooooooo cool

[@RPena98]

This video was everything I wanted and more, thank you 😂😂 Mickey Maniaaaaaaa

[@sarahhumble8246]

Thank you for doing this one. I just found it because I love to browse your channel and play a video a day. When I was 3 in 1994, we went to Disney World for the first time. As a result, this is the only Disney parade we have on video. Yup. Years later I became a cast member so I guess the mesmerizing mania got me? No longer a cast member so I love watching your channel when I need some extra magic!