If you missed Shane’s introduction to this series click HERE! The day you realize that you are not alone in dressing up cats in tiny, homemade, hand knitted Shakespearean costumes (often adorned with glitter), and having them act out modern day retellings of The Tempest or A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a daylong remembered: It’s nice to […]
Lost and Abandoned Disney Details
These Vintage Trading Cards Will Blow Your Little Park Geek Mind
Like all geek things, it started in the 1980s. Pop culture’s most iconic characters debuted in that decade. We got Jabba and we got Ewoks. And Indiana Jones (three times). The Ghostbusters materialized. So did Marty McFly and Biff. The Goonies were good enough. E.T. phoned home. The list is endless. Freddy, Rambo, Predator, RoboCop, John […]
Streetmosphere Pirates Dig For Treasure In Their Noses
It happened during the week between Christmas and New Year’s. A week when the parks are so crowded, you have to wait in line just to scoff at the latest DVC sales booth. I’m pretty sure this was an “Apocalyptic Crowds Season” deal, and that this will not become a regular occurrence in Adventureland. But for a brief […]
Animal Kingdom’s Latest Delicious Treat is… Poop
A while back, I praised Universal’s Wizarding World of Harry Potter for creating the perfect theme park food crossover. Famous fictional food in a theme park is something Disney has never quite mastered, though they do allow you to eat famous fictional mice for every meal of the day. But now that bare-bones approach is about […]
Search for the Disney Institute Climbing Wall
The most memorable icon of the Disney Institute was the famous Disney Institute climbing wall. But is Michael Eisner’s lost cliff still out there?
3 Secrets To Rediscovering If You Had Wings
I’m just old enough to remember when “Tomorrow” meant peoplemovers, wrap-around movie screens, and acres of vanilla buildings. Now we live in a Stitched up Tomorrowland, where all the goodie 1970s futurism has been Monstered out of existence by a slew of animated Lightyears. Twenty years ago, Tom Morrow moved out and George Lucas aliens moved in. New […]
What may be?
Several weeks ago Disney announced that Maelstrom at the Norway Pavilion in Epcot was closing down to be replaced by a Frozen attraction. In fact much of the Norway pavilion will undergo changes as they add more Frozen merchandise locations and a meet and greet as well. We did not have too much to say […]
When AT-ATs Catch A Cold
Possibly the greatest of all Star Wars vehicles is the mighty All-Terrain-Armored-Transport (or AT-AT for short). Huge quadruped machines that lumber across the snow fields of Hoth or play hide-and-seek on the forest moon of Endor. They are simultaneously terrifying and adorable — like great danes or Duffy Bears. One just assumes that if an AT-AT […]
Ye come seekin’ adventure and salty pirates, eh?
This is it… after touring through nine of the biggest blunders in Disney theme park history we have finally arrived at the top of our list of the Top Ten Disney Theme Park Controversies. If you have not read them all click HERE to get caught up… Keep a weather eye open, mates, and hold […]