You Can Have Cheap - The Aggressive Mexican Vendors of Walt Disney World Part 1

You Can Have Cheap - The Aggressive Mexican Vendors of Walt Disney World Part 1

Until they were replaced by cheap prescriptions and meth superlabs, one of the main tourist attractions for Mexico were the vendors of various handmade goods.  And, as they were represented in a couple of Walt Disney World rides, they were a touch pushy.

Let's begin our fiesta fun flight with If You Had Wings, a long form Airline commercial that went through four different incarnations.  It was later replaced by Buzz Lightyear's Space Ranger Spin, which kept the same track layout.  I've skipped ahead to the scene in question:



And here from the soundtrack:

You want buy a sombrero 

made of real fine straw? 

Or how 'bout a nice handbag

For your pretty mama? 

You can have cheap

Have cheap, Have cheap, Have cheap

You'll notice that the actual ride doesn't have the "cheap" chorus, but rather goes back to "If you had wings".  I don't know if there were changes, or if they recorded that segment and you only have time to hear the first bit before the omnimover vehicle passed by,.

The vendor stayed after Eastern Airlines dropped its sponsorship and the ride was changed to If You Can Fly from 1987 to 1989.



The only change was the song, which is just horrible.  I've seen collections of every obscure piece of Disney ride and background music, and NOBODY has bothered to track this one down.

More on the ride itself from Martin Smith -