I went digging through old SD cards and I wanna share some stuff I found. Let's roll back the clock to 2008.

Dinosaur, still sponsored by McDonald's at the time

Downtown Disney McDonald's (2008) This site is currently Uniqlo/The Daily Poutine

Downtown Disney McDonald's 2008. WHERE CAN I BUY THAT TABLE CENTERPIECE??

Downtown Disney McDonald's merch case (2008) & Metal Big Mac Keychain (5 mins ago)

Stitch wearing Pirate hat at World of Disney [I believe] to promote "PotC: At Worlds End" & the pirates merch shop under him, T-rex Cafe construction site, Fulton's Crab House (Now Paddlefish)

Downtown Disney signage for the 3 districts: Marketplace, Pleasure Island, West Side. (2008) #disneysprings

Iconic views of Downtown Disney West Side in 2008. Wetzel's pretzel/Häagen-Dazs is now a Starbucks, Planet Hollywood had an exterior makeover. Virgin is now Splitsville. Disney Quest is now basketball photo op or whatever.

Downtown Disney Pleasure Island district as seen from Google Earth. 2008, 2014, & Present

Let's wrap up the 2008 Downtown Disney with some Disney Quest world building for the Alien Encounter universe. (Ayy there's me in the pleasure island poster case reflection)

A few models demonstrating game elements and enemy types in "invasion!" A Disney Quest game set in the ExtraTerrorestrial Alien Encounter universe.

That's enough Downtown Disney for now. We'll come back towards the end of this thread to see DD just before it became Disney Springs in 2015. (Pic: Pleasure Island Comedy Warehouse, located where "STK Orlando" stands now.)