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What was your favourite Disney film during childhood? Share with DisneyLife & you could win a £300 Love2Shop voucher NOW CLOSED

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AnnMumsnet · 21/12/2015 11:28

To celebrate the launch of DisneyLife, the new digital membership service from Disney, they'd love to hear about your favourite Disney films from your childhood and whether you've shared this film with your DCs.

Here's what DisneyLife says "We're so excited to launch DisneyLife, which gives the whole family access to a fantastic collection of Disney and DisneyPixar movies, Disney Channels TV box sets, books, music and more, in one place. DisneyLife will help create magical moments for the whole family to share, so we're keen to hear about your favourite Disney film from childhood and if you've shared a magical moment with your children by watching this together."

So, what was your favourite Disney film when you were a child? Maybe The Jungle Book was your favourite and you would always sing along to the Bare Necessities? Or perhaps you loved Peter Pan and wished you could fly around Neverland? Maybe you watched Pocahontas repeatedly and wanted to learn to paint with all the colours of the wind? Have you shared your favourite Disney film with your DCs?

Whatever your favourite Disney film was, DisneyLife would love to hear about it!

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What was your favourite Disney film during childhood? Share with DisneyLife & you could win a £300 Love2Shop voucher NOW CLOSED
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clopper · 23/12/2015 08:54

Bed knobs and broomsticks and Mary poppins were my favourite Disney movies as a child. Great characters and stories and I loved the mixture of animation and real life actors in bed knobs. (Showing my age).
Movies I have enjoyed with my own children are the lion king ( great choice of voice actors) which also had a great storyline with elements of sadness and humour. Beauty and the beast and the jungle book are my favourites from the point of view of songs. In fact I love the songs as much as the films.
I've never watched bambi as my mum thought it would be too upsetting when I was smaller, so that one passed me by.

hermancakedestroyer · 23/12/2015 09:01

I loved and still love Beauty and the beast. I've watched it so many times. I've also been to the west end to see it. I was lucky enough some years ago to win a trip to Disney world! Amazing place. Loved it. Disney films have the right mix of happiness, sadness, and humour and make good viewing.

PeaceLoveAndMincePies · 23/12/2015 09:39

Aladdin! And it still is Grin

emilybrontescorset · 23/12/2015 10:16

Aristocrats.
Had the tap and read alone book for my dad too.

RockinHippy · 23/12/2015 10:49

The original Jungle Book still is & I suspect always will be my absolute favourite. Bambi & Lady & the Tramp were favourites too.

Frolicacid · 23/12/2015 13:03

The jungle book! I still love it and can't wait until Ds is old enough to enjoy it.

Michelle1985 · 23/12/2015 13:25

My favourite, always has been and always will be The Lion King! GREAT songs, GREAT storyline! Still at 30 years of age cry when Mufasa dies, laugh at Timone and Pumba then sing Hakuna Matata AWESOME AWESOME AWESOME!

Have the kids hooked on it too...so clearly stands the test of time Wink

MrsPnut · 23/12/2015 14:24

My favourite is also The Lion King, i took my youngest brother to see it and we came out singing the songs. Many years later, we still sing the songs and now our kids join in.

I also love Pocahontas, and remember my best friend jumping up and down on my bed trying to get me moving so we could go and see it at the cinema.

BananaThePoet · 23/12/2015 16:33

My favourite Disney film was the same as my mother's favourite Disney film and that was Snow White. I bought it on dvd when our son was five and we watched it together but he was afraid of the witch/queen and cuddled up to me when she came on and closed his eyes and then fell asleep. We never managed to watch it all the way through together.
He was a huge fan of the Toy Story films and watched them so many times over and over he could recite most of the lines and we made him the Buzz Lightyear wings out of a cardboard box to wear to infant school which was very popular at the time. I think he ended up owning nearly all the Toy Story merchandise eventually.

kungfupidge · 23/12/2015 16:58

my Favorite film will always be the little mermaid i really loved ariel and was transformed in my 7 year old mind into her everytime i took a bath hehehe :)

TelephoneIgnoringMachine · 23/12/2015 17:07

Can't possibly choose just one. I liked Lion King, Aladdin, & Beauty & the Beast the best. I also really liked Mary Poppins, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Pete's Dragon, & Flight of the Navigator.

Actually, I think my favourite is Beauty & the Beast. Closely followed by Mary Poppins.

voyager50 · 23/12/2015 17:36

Mary Poppins - I loved it as a child and I still love it now I'm just sorry that PL Travers didn't like what they did to her book!

BadFam1 · 23/12/2015 17:42

I have always loved Disney films and now my ds is old enough I enjoy spend countless Sunday afternoons chilling out and watching them. My favourite has to be the little mermaid as I love singing all the songs and Sebastian was amazing!

Blu · 23/12/2015 18:11

The Jungle Book. The music was so great, and it was witty and funny too. And not too soppy - an absence of princesses: I hated soppy princess films.
Though once I was older and got the video I used to FF through the 'My own home' little Indian girl sexist nonsense!

Sixgeese · 23/12/2015 18:15

I love Mary Poppins but didn't see it until it was on TV one Christmas, growing up we didn't have much spare money for luxuries like going to the cinema.

But I did see one Disney film at the cinema as a child in the late 70s / early 80s and that was Snow White and the Seven Dwarves. It did make a huge impression on me (after all it was the second of two films I saw at the cinema as a child, the first being Star Wars), so much so as an adult I went to see them all as they got released.

What is great about the Disney Classics is that they don't date like more modern films and can be watched again and again.

BrandNewAndImproved · 23/12/2015 19:43

Mine is either the little mermaid as I adored that as a child or sword in the stone.

As an adult I've watched sword in the stone quite a few times with my dc but we also love Robin Hood. Ahh this is such a hard decision and what about the one with mickey mouse and the magic with the brooms and the water, that was magical as a child.

tinababe363 · 23/12/2015 20:19

I cant choose between Bambi (who I do a good impression off) and peter panStar I love them al!! My baby is only 17 months so wont sit long enough to watch a full movie (believe me I tried) although he marches along with colonel hathi in the jungle book which is his daddy's favourite movie. Grin

cliveas · 23/12/2015 20:46

Fantasia, which was well Fantastic!

Hopezibah · 23/12/2015 22:18

We used to love Herbie - remember that car that had a mind of its own! I also liked dumbo and my daughter has a dumbo puzzle that we do together so i would love her to see the film.

HitsAndMrs · 23/12/2015 22:26

Peter Pan as I loved tinker bell. Now it's beauty and the beast.

LibrariesgaveusP0wer · 23/12/2015 22:58

Jungle book!

sjonlegs · 24/12/2015 02:33

I would have to say Bare Necessities from Jungle Book. For my 8th birthday party my Mum took me and a handful of my friends to the small local cinema to see it and we were absolutely buzzing! I can still remember singing to the song all the way to the restaurant afterwards and for weeks later!

LumpySpaceCow · 24/12/2015 04:20

The nightmare before Christmas was my favourite (and still is!). I have probably watched it over a couple of hundred times! A lot of these being with my daughter who since being about 2, would say 'let's watch mummy's favourite!). It was quite exciting to see Jack as a pirate in James and the Giant Peach the other day 😀

Vole3 · 24/12/2015 05:27

My first was Lady & the Tramp.
My favourite is The Jungle Book for the songs.
DS loves the live action films such as Air Buddies and desperately wants a puppy (out of luck as the cat would leave home).

IrritableBitchSyndrome · 24/12/2015 07:51

The Jungle Book. I loved the songs and still do! My older children loved the Little Mermaid, Lion King and Beauty abd the Beast. The smallest loves Winnie the Poo, and most recently Lilo and Stitch.