Every now and then I’ll run across something straight out of the haunted past of Disney World, before it was overrun with FastPasses, princesses, and those awful parade performance stops. I’m sure you’ve had similar experiences. Maybe not with Disney World, but other things from childhood. Like a familiar smell that triggers a memory of […]
Lost and Abandoned Disney Details
The Spanish Word for Pirate
Today we have a story in which a young child learns about other cultures. He also learns about friendship, togetherness, and world peace, but not until EPCOT Center opens. No, this story takes place way in the past, and the young child is me. Let me ask you a question that I think I know […]
The Diamond in the Rough
One of my favorite topics is complaining about places at Walt Disney World that I’ve never been able to visit. Ever since my post about the Catwalk Bar, I have been consumed with jealousy for people more privileged than myself. I think it’s because when I was a young lad, I once begged for pennies […]
Ever Evolving
One of the great things about Disney parks and Walt Disney World in particular is that stuff is always changing. Even Madonna would have a hard time reinventing herself at this pace. It’s well documented that Walt wanted it this way. He’s famous for saying that he wanted something he could endlessly tinker with, like […]
A few more…
Nothing too fancy today but we thought you might enjoy seeing a few more of the matchbooks of Disney’s past… Think of this as a continuation of last weeks post and we will have some new stuff up soon. The official hotels at the Hotel Plaza got in on the action as well. […]
Thank you for smoking…
It’s funny how times change. One day Universal is the laughing stock of the theme park world, the next day they still are but now they have a really nicely done Harry Potter section. Hey Listen, I am not going to make fun of this, it’s sweet. Seriously, it is amazing how what was considered […]
A Great Mystery…
It is well established that we suck! Everything Disney gets in Tokyo is far superior to our honky-tonk, county fair, ho-down like experiences. If given a choice between a trip to the Tokyo Disney Resort and say ending world hunger only a fool would choose to feed the children. In fact in my very own […]
Disneyland Dream
Parkeology is all about trying to find some little known fact or detail to talk about. We try for truly obscure stuff, well beyond the standard Hidden Mickeys. With all the die-hard fan sites out there, it’s hard to find anything that has never been written about in some shape or form, but we do […]
Disney’s Gulf Coast Disaster
Today we are going to take a break from Shane’s video game opus and shift gears to something much more serious; the many tragedies to have befallen upon the Gulf Coast. If it wasn’t so sad it would almost be pretty… and there is nothing funny about it. In 2005 Hurricane Katrina wreaked havoc on […]