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 […]
Author: Shane
Disney Animated Movies Canon – The New Regime
Well now. That was an adventure, wasn’t it? Things couldn’t be better than they are, here in the fabulous 2010s. Parkeology hit the global media market in a big way. Our faces were on seemingly every TV channel in the country. A guy named John Cameron Swayze gave us all the news. A lot of singing […]
WDW46: Redemption City
I should have known what was in store when Ted’s flight from Chicago was delayed by electrical problems. WDW46 was still 18 hours away and already we were falling behind. The planning for WDW46 began almost within days of completing WDW47 in the summer of 2013. We ended that run with 48 rides — 45 of them […]
Two Days Until WDW46
Today we continue on with our series on the best animated film park tie-ins. We have some all-time classics on the list here. Fox and the Hound, Black Cauldron, Oliver and Company. These films not only– Ah forget it, we can wrap up that series later. We want to keep the momentum building for WDW46, […]
WDW46 – This Time It’s Personal
If you know about Parkeology at all, chances are it’s because of something called WDW47. And now, like any crass sequel, we are going to attempt to revisit the original. Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the parks. But first, a brief timeline to show how we got to this moment: […]
The Game Changer
INT. PARKEOLOGY OFFICES – NIGHT Park guide maps and power bar wrappers litter the table. Old FastPass tickets are strewn on the floor. Somewhere under the rubble, a stopwatch continues to run. Forgotten. SHANE sits on the floor with his back to the wall. Spent coffee cups around him, maybe something stronger. He hasn’t showered […]
Disney Animated Movies Canon – The Second Golden Age
In our previous post, we took a look at Disney’s most recent animated features, trying to pick the best theme park tie-in from each one. As we discovered, great theme park ties are few and far between. How can this be? Isn’t Disney a company built first and foremost on animation? Maybe, but it’s also […]
Mickey’s Sorcerer’s Hat Removal Uncovers Priceless Work of Art
In the year 1505 — barely a decade after the discovery of North America by Christopher Columbus — the two greatest artists of all time were commissioned to decorate opposite walls in the Hall of the Five Hundred in Florence, Italy. Leonardo da Vinci and his rival Michelangelo both began studies on their respective frescos and worked […]
Disney Animated Movies Canon – Rise of Computer Animation
There is perhaps nothing more synergistic than Disney animated features and theme parks. The parks are loaded with rides based on movies, restaurants based on movies, shops that sell merchandise from the movies, an entire attraction called “The Magic of Disney Animation” which is about the making of the movies. Without animation, there would be […]
