An Inflated History of Mickey Balloons At Disneyland - DIStory Dan Ep. 78

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Комментарии • 201

  • @BasementMermaid
    @BasementMermaid Год назад +73

    Dan, if you ever want to do that Treb documentary, go for it! That is fascinating to hear that this man revolutionized how balloons are used in celebrations and in corporate mouse overload themed vacations

    • @oliviab4799
      @oliviab4799 Год назад +2

      What a crazy specific talent #trebdoc

    • @robbalchunas
      @robbalchunas Год назад +2

      He's also the guy responsible for the confetti in Times Square on NYE. There's a documentary about it on RUclips.

  • @lollybirdy
    @lollybirdy Год назад +29

    I didnt know the mickey balloon had such a complicated history lmao

  • @pearlietook1029
    @pearlietook1029 Год назад +43

    You getting so excited to share this information with someone is such a huge mood considering as soon as I finished the video I needed to call my mom and tell her what i learned

  • @BeefyBryan
    @BeefyBryan Год назад +29

    I was always curious about the “bubble” layer on the Mickey Balloon. Thank you for doing the research for me. ☺️

  • @platinumstyle8283
    @platinumstyle8283 Год назад +17

    Hearing about the person who created the iconic disney mickey balloon brought me the same amount of joy and awe as the defunctland doc on the man who made the disney channel theme!! I honestly would love to hear more about Treb

  • @shinyagumon7015
    @shinyagumon7015 Год назад +115

    Now I want to know the history of these other weird balloons from that Ohio company.
    Also Dan, did you really make an "elderly man floating up with Balloons" jokes without referencing UP?

  • @SeyaDiakite7
    @SeyaDiakite7 Год назад +19

    I worked at Disney world when I was a teenager. I lived the magic in it everyday and I still have good contacts. Anyway whenever I think of Disney. I think of YOU 🤣🤣🤣

  • @dipperdawn
    @dipperdawn Год назад +14

    I didn't know I wanted this until it showed up in my feed and I got unreasonably excited to watch it.

  • @cam4894
    @cam4894 Год назад +9

    This is SO cool!!
    When I was a teenager, I had a job yelling and selling candy at Sesame Place. That job was the BEST!!

  • @nodesire9291
    @nodesire9291 Год назад +40

    never thought the history of balloons would be so disturbing, but here we are lol. not sure which was freakier-the painting of the kids or the og Mickey balloon

  • @HinataChick38
    @HinataChick38 Год назад +13

    Dan: "Walt did NOT want a carnival atmosphere for his park."
    Me: *remembers Holidayland*
    Me: Wait a minute...

  • @jwood4508
    @jwood4508 Год назад +6

    10:59 I audibly gasped when you revealed the dawn of the balloon arch. This kind of trivia impresses me. Thank you!

    • @charityquill4965
      @charityquill4965 Год назад

      it's cool to hear that it was such a big hit that it made Disney beg Treb to come back

  • @bunnybustard5526
    @bunnybustard5526 Год назад +3

    "Balloon" stopped being a word about five minutes in 😂

  • @yotsubafanfan
    @yotsubafanfan Год назад +21

    I remember coming home from Disney as a kid when my Dad came up with a great idea. He deflated the Mylar balloons my twin sis and I bought and hung them on our bedroom wall. They stayed on the wall until we got our own rooms when we were 10.

  • @ib-k321
    @ib-k321 Год назад +5

    No video is complete without Dan dying of laughter 😂

  • @lateramae
    @lateramae Год назад +6

    Wow, Treb Heining was a genius!!! While doing the Disney College Program, a cast member gave me a green Mickey Mouse glass house balloon and it lasted for weeks, maybe even months.

  • @haleyg6991
    @haleyg6991 Год назад +15

    Amazing video yet again Dan! Also I always love all the effort that goes into decorating the background. It's always interesting to see how it changes each video! Also one of my favorite things to do when I need to smile is look up pictures of old paintings with babies or children in them cause it honestly makes me wonder if they had ever seen an actual child or baby.

  • @brycevo
    @brycevo Год назад +5

    They're so iconic

  • @Tiara_Princess7
    @Tiara_Princess7 Год назад +8

    The 1 thing I wanted at Disney world was a Disney Mickey balloon, but my parents said no. I also wasn't allowed to eat all day at the parks.

  • @JCLopez209
    @JCLopez209 11 месяцев назад +2

    I'm happy they created Mylar Balloons cause as someone who is highly allergic to latex, this is a great alternative for people who have the same allergy as I do and want a balloon like this.

  • @laurendouglas6452
    @laurendouglas6452 Год назад +2

    I'm almost 30 and my desire to have a Mickey balloon is UNFATHOMABLE, they just bring so much joy✨ (And one of those balloon molds, just to put in a little frame of its own💜)

  • @imalright48
    @imalright48 Год назад +3

    THE LIGHT IN THE BACKGROUND IS SO COOL WHERE'D YOU GET IT

  • @olgagachaphoenix9130
    @olgagachaphoenix9130 Год назад +4

    Something I didn't know I wanted

  • @r00mmate47
    @r00mmate47 Год назад +1

    11:10 you didn’t have to call me out like that Dan.😂😂😂😂

  • @amydaskilewicz9076
    @amydaskilewicz9076 Год назад +1

    I always wanted a Mickey balloon, but since we came by plane so we couldn't get the balloon. I was so happy when the balloon popcorn bucket came out. I could finally get my Mickey balloon!

  • @whydidtheballooneatthefox282
    @whydidtheballooneatthefox282 Год назад +1

    As a balloon fanatic, myself THIS IS BEAUTIFUL, THIS IS APPROVED, WELL MADE VIDEO!

  • @robynwhite9226
    @robynwhite9226 11 месяцев назад +1

    I am a CBA, Certified Balloon Artist, and watching this was fun because I know what he means by the balloon arch, etc I was thought how to inflate the Mickey Mouse balloons the special way also!

  • @geoffterry7170
    @geoffterry7170 Год назад +2

    Thank you for this video. This has solve the decades long mystery (self inflicted) of why the group of kids in the last frame of "Trip to the Zoo", which is featured on Fischer Price's 1974 Pocket Camera, are all carrying Mickey Mouse balloons.
    I believe the photots were shot up in the NY State area, but there are Mickey Mouse balloons at the end!

  • @octaviorex244
    @octaviorex244 2 месяца назад +1

    That turned out to be more interesting than I was expecting

  • @f1zzMsm
    @f1zzMsm Год назад +1

    They were also a big part of a float at Tokyo disneyland. There was a parade called "Happiness Is Here" that had parade floats covered in glitter and colorful paints. The finale float had a hot air balloon made up of Mickey Balloons with Goofy holding it up. It was then replaced in 2018 with "Dreaming Up", another parade that was replaced again not too long ago...

  • @zanderthecritic
    @zanderthecritic Год назад +3

    This channel keeps getting better and better I remember when my family thought I was weird when I watched hear videos now we watch them together

  • @Xtremeinfla2008
    @Xtremeinfla2008 Год назад +2

    Omg the painting of the lids is so weird this is creepy in a good way!

  • @jessicaivyt
    @jessicaivyt Год назад +2

    oh i'm so excited for this one!!

  • @Idcolusa
    @Idcolusa 10 месяцев назад +2

    You should do a Treb doc…. Btw when I was a kid at Disney I never got one because parents said no. So now that I’m an adult… when I go to the parks, I always get a balloon

  • @Thedragonlover95
    @Thedragonlover95 Год назад +3

    When you learn about the magic of Balloons here, the more you learn

  • @parkspenny
    @parkspenny Год назад +7

    You’re an icon as always dan

  • @maggiemcginity-termuhlen
    @maggiemcginity-termuhlen Год назад +1

    My father worked custodial in Disneyland in summer ‘78 and he says that Mickey’s 50th birthday balloons were everywhere

  • @DuchessRococoPuff
    @DuchessRococoPuff Год назад +2

    Mickey balloons might be my favorite icon of the parks. Great video Dan!

  • @recklesslady758
    @recklesslady758 Год назад +1

    I work at a small family costume and party store we just started doing balloon art about a year ago so amazing to learn the history of the art I'm just starting to learn the basics of

  • @joshuacooper7629
    @joshuacooper7629 Год назад +2

    Ayo! New distory!!!!!! Thanks for the vid, we got an offhand and Dan video in the same day, sweet broadway baby Jesus has blessed us!

  • @julienicol9202
    @julienicol9202 Год назад +1

    When I visited Walt Disney World when I was 13 for the first time (it was also the first time I visited the United States, I’m Canadian) I wasn’t allowed to get a Mickey balloon or any Mickey shaped ice cream thing, because my mom said it was a waste of money, yes I was and sometimes still am sad. I recently went to Disneyland for the first time and saw the big bunches of balloons the cast members carry again after ten years being in a Disney park again, it was something to marvel at even if I didn’t buy any this time either.

  • @fluffymacaw933
    @fluffymacaw933 6 месяцев назад +1

    Bruh ever since Ive first seen the balloon with mickeys head inside a clear balloon at Disney world, Ive always wanted one

  • @spencermccarthy5157
    @spencermccarthy5157 11 месяцев назад +1

    I wish Disneyworld was a lot closer to where I live, I've always wanted to have some of the Disneyworld Balloons.🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈

  • @sakuracat23
    @sakuracat23 Год назад

    I have a glass house balloon memorial tattoo planned for my grandpa who loved Disney so much that he and my grandma went several times with or without us grandkids lol.
    We never had a connection with the balloons but it seems fitting and they are a really cool visual.

  • @AngelJD
    @AngelJD Год назад +1

    Treb belongs in the Disney Legends for the iconic Disney Balloons he helped Disney make iconic, colorful, creative, and last longer. A niche product yet a great iconic branding tool and products.

  • @TheVideogirl9
    @TheVideogirl9 Год назад +1

    What a great memory to share the facts and I don’t get any balloon as a kid, but Mickey Mouse glasshouse made with balloon are so cute!!

  • @thomasstanley3008
    @thomasstanley3008 Год назад +2

    Ok. But when did they start adding the weights to the ends of the balloon strings at Disneyland and WDW? I remember (growing up in the 80s) always looking up in Pirates and Small World as a kid and seeing at least one or two Mickey Balloons stuck on the ceiling! It’s like it was a requirement for the boat rides to have lost Mickey balloons just hovering above to torture the kids that lost them! I don’t remember my parents ever buying me one. Probably because of how many we would see go floating skywards on any given day at Disneyland 😂

  • @dukedave7
    @dukedave7 Год назад +1

    Takara Kosan is now known as TK Innovations, and the "glasshouse" balloons actually called bubble balloons are still produced by them.

  • @moonprincesst.s.h.4ever115
    @moonprincesst.s.h.4ever115 Год назад +1

    I had my Mickey and Minnie balloon that I got in 1993 from Disney World, when I was a Make a Wish kid pinned up in my bedroom for years. 🎈🎈🎈🎈

  • @RazzLaBeep
    @RazzLaBeep Год назад +3

    My sis and I took our Dad to Disneyland for his birthday, and of course we bought him some Mickey Ears plus a Disneyland spirit jersey. It was only when we bought him a red Mickey balloon that my dad had the biggest grin on his face 🥹🎈🏰🥳

  • @robbalchunas
    @robbalchunas Год назад +1

    Treb is a great guy and an important figure in the balloon industry. This year, Universal Studios Hollywood started selling his balloons.
    BTW, it's pronounced "Hi-ning", not "Henning".

  • @loverrlee
    @loverrlee Год назад +2

    The first balloons literally look so creepy

  • @elizabethharrison7306
    @elizabethharrison7306 Год назад +2

    Disney Dan you tube channel Love my favorite Disneyland Park one fan Big 💖💖💖💖💖⭐️💯🎶🏰

  • @Blaze-zt3gz
    @Blaze-zt3gz Год назад +2

    I’ve been wondering, could you maybe do a distory on characters that have gone extinct? 🎈

    • @DistoryDan
      @DistoryDan  Год назад +1

      Any ideas on extinct ones you’d like to see?

    • @Blaze-zt3gz
      @Blaze-zt3gz Год назад +2

      @@DistoryDan How about the fairies from Sleeping Beauty? Couldn’t you use to be able to meet them?

  • @ktroberts1687
    @ktroberts1687 Год назад +3

    What a party!!!! 🎉🎉🎉 awesome video Dan!

  • @alyssadepiro40
    @alyssadepiro40 Год назад

    @3:06 truthfully, I think that that would look really cool on a wall. If you found one that was already pretty damaged, you could bend them up right a little bit to kind of get some dimension.

  • @DeadBryan
    @DeadBryan 8 месяцев назад +3

    Glasshouse balloons 🎈 16:20 16:34

  • @PfabDesign
    @PfabDesign Год назад +1

    Every time I visit the parks I see at least 2-3 glass house balloons with issues.. sadly they don’t last that long. Luckily you can go to guest relations and they will replace it even though it’s a 3rd party vendor, so that’s nice

    • @robbalchunas
      @robbalchunas Год назад +1

      If tied correctly they'll last a long time, but at the parks, they're going for speed and volume.

  • @ashcashgamer5770
    @ashcashgamer5770 10 месяцев назад +1

    I really love balloons and how they look and the Mickey balloons are very iconic and beautiful to look at but my older sister hates balloons. My dad used to terrorize her with them when she was younger and she had developed a balloon phobia. I'm not affected by this, I just don't like them popping because they are incredibly loud. I might actually hold a Mickey balloon with me if I ever visit Disneyland again though. :)

  • @Barbariandisks
    @Barbariandisks Год назад +1

    I remember in the mid 80's those mouse heads were 2.50 a balloon, for i believe was a 15" or 16" balloon, i read some where they're up to 20 dollars now

  • @BenChurchill76
    @BenChurchill76 11 месяцев назад

    I'm sorry, but I laughed at the edit of the mylar balloons causing electrical shorts. I mean, it's a problem, but the way you inserted it right in there caught me off guard, and I laughed 🤣😰

  • @tradingfriends
    @tradingfriends Год назад +3

    Another amazing video on a history I didnt know I needed to know! And great job hyping it up, I had to click as soon as I saw it was posted!

  • @spencermccarthy5157
    @spencermccarthy5157 11 месяцев назад +1

    I've seen that they have made Duraballoons that are made of a thick plastic, last for months and are reusable. I hope that they can make Duraballoons with Mickey Mouse ears too just like in Disneyworld and Disneyland.🤞🤞

  • @lindapadgett9072
    @lindapadgett9072 Год назад +3

    My parents took me to Disney for the first time in 86 I remember my dad buying me a balloon. But I swear I remember it being a red mickey balloon inside a clear balloon. Did anyone ever get a balloon like that? Or am I just remembering it wrong?????

    • @Baxter_Berle1999
      @Baxter_Berle1999 Год назад +1

      The glasshouse balloons didn’t start selling at Disneyland until 1998-1999.

  • @PixieDust18
    @PixieDust18 Год назад

    9:48 It's quite funny to hear you say that you find these balloons too commercial because they are ( If I'm not mistaken) the only balloons there have always been at Disneyland Paris 😂😅

  • @Spacelord4ever
    @Spacelord4ever Год назад +1

    Micky head ice-cream is more iconic in my opinion

  • @Stitch2819
    @Stitch2819 Год назад +3

    Wow the balloons looked very old through out the History and I have never seen a Mickey balloon and since balloons are the ones that get the people's attention maybe the kids might want a balloon so bad 😅😂😂

  • @ducktalesstan
    @ducktalesstan Год назад +1

    Great video as always Dan!

  • @ElyseExplosion
    @ElyseExplosion Год назад

    I didn't go into this thinking i would be stanning Treb, but here we are and here I am!

  • @Kirschhh_
    @Kirschhh_ Год назад +2

    And then there is Disneyland Paris where they still stuck with mylar balloons 😂

  • @iangresswell6648
    @iangresswell6648 Год назад +2

    I love this video big time because I love balloons 🎈 😍 💕 because they make me happy 😊
    And sometimes I would dress myself 👗 up in balloons 🎈

  • @kenzihenderson5258
    @kenzihenderson5258 Год назад

    It's ok we love to here it! I love the mickey balloon merch that's more permanent, the ears and popcorn buckets being my favs. But among balloons my fav balloon is the light up mickey in the uv protection bubble.

  • @iamchristian1129
    @iamchristian1129 Год назад +3

    Can you do a Disney channel video and I honestly would like to see an evolution for famous singers like Miley Cyrus

  • @judibickford5306
    @judibickford5306 Год назад +4

    Was having a so-so day and then saw the coming attraction that said the video would launch at 6.
    As usual my tension popped like a balloon!
    SIMPLY WONDERFUL AS USUAL, DAN!
    YOU ROCK!
    🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈

  • @arleyvid
    @arleyvid Год назад

    I LOOOOOOOVED this!!!!!! Please I'd watch a full doc on Treb

  • @TATSUFAN
    @TATSUFAN 3 месяца назад +2

    I Just LOVE Balloons ❤

  • @DisneyJedi99
    @DisneyJedi99 Год назад

    I usually listen to youtube videos like this at 1.25 or 1.50x speed but I have to go to 1.00 for Disney Dan videos or it's just too fast hahaha! Genius/bonus marketing and analytics

  • @theprodigiousspiderstarTM
    @theprodigiousspiderstarTM Год назад +1

    We have seen the history of trash and ballons. Whats next, the Disney lights and street lamps xd. But still interesting none the less.

  • @kisesakusaku
    @kisesakusaku Год назад +1

    At the early 90s, me and my sibling are into Disney, especially Mickey and Minnie. I would be the kid that would ask specifically for a Mickey balloon, and at the time outside of Disneyland are these mylar printed Mickey balloons. I’m sure at one point I have those latex Mickey balloons, but not in the glass dome. The invention is really cool, NGL! Present day balloon continue to wow me, and hard to ask myself if I want one myself. 😅

  • @2347iuyjfgmhjrgdtyu
    @2347iuyjfgmhjrgdtyu 9 месяцев назад +2

    its kinda sad how underrated disney dan is :/

  • @carletto170
    @carletto170 Год назад +3

    Hey Dan!

  • @lilbabya.
    @lilbabya. Год назад +1

    I hate the fact that they’re round and not Mickey shaped in the plastic anymore. I want to Disney world for the first time back in March. The first thing I ran to get was a Mickey shaped balloon…they were all round..so I got a Mickey face balloon and a 50th anniversary balloon that lit up. Still sad I’ll never get to experience a Mickey shaped balloon 😕.

  • @2007cgarza
    @2007cgarza Год назад

    Through the 70s and So Cal Gas Co nights, I was allowed to get a balloon on the way out (what, midnight?) promptly falling asleep in the car, waking up in the morning to my balloon hovering just above the ground, helium fail. They didn't want to haul a balloon around all night, I get it. but was sad :P EVERY. YEAR. :P My memory!

  • @lNDOMlNUS
    @lNDOMlNUS Год назад +1

    Carrying on from the last video🌭🌭🫡

  • @mommas365
    @mommas365 Год назад +1

    Dan always has us good laughs

  • @catherine8262
    @catherine8262 Год назад

    This was way more interesting than I thought it would be!

  • @michaelwulfbane
    @michaelwulfbane Год назад

    My favorite term for the balloon in a balloon was a “Yo dawg! balloon”

  • @jollyollyYT8
    @jollyollyYT8 Год назад

    Omg the start 😂😂 I couldn’t stop laughing. I mean thanks for the info tho! I love ur vids. 😂😂❤

  • @annasahlstrom6109
    @annasahlstrom6109 Год назад

    The things you never think about. Another wonderful video!

  • @theresachow4537
    @theresachow4537 10 месяцев назад +1

    I've seen THOSE.

  • @726berkshire
    @726berkshire Год назад +1

    The design of the Mickey balloon is a classic case of changing little over the years. You just have to do some tweaks to make it better. ;)

  • @Maswartz226
    @Maswartz226 Год назад +1

    2:06 Elmer Elephant?!

  • @Nate12
    @Nate12 Год назад +1

    Great video dan 🎈

  • @telephonewyre
    @telephonewyre Год назад

    I would fully watch the balloon king documentary, sounds like a really interesting story

  • @lexi8445
    @lexi8445 Год назад

    I have a legitimate phobia of balloons and even just seeing the balloon sellers holding dozens of them makes me feel anxious. Still a super interesting video!

  • @theballoondr
    @theballoondr Месяц назад +1

    Hi there !! thank you soooo much for telling us the story of the best balloon ever made !!! I really love this balloon and I want them to my next party !!
    I have the T cleae balloon, but I need the Mickey latex head...
    Do you have any ide where I would be able to find and buy them ?
    It seams that Qualatex had discontinued it from it list 😢...
    Thanks again !!!
    Best wishies !!
    Leo.

  • @bradrriddle
    @bradrriddle Год назад

    I wonder what Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz would think about this video...
    😉😁
    "Ballooney!!!!!"

  • @DomPlaysPS4
    @DomPlaysPS4 Год назад +1

    Can you please do a evolution of WALL-E at D23 starting from 2009

  • @Skelepony
    @Skelepony Год назад

    Dan: I'm sure you've all purchased many different Mickey balloons-
    Me: uh... I've never been ta a Disney park in my 28 years of existence-

  • @jackreiter7291
    @jackreiter7291 Год назад

    10:55 VindicaTIOOOOOOOOOONNN!