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Shanghai Disneyland’s Rides: A Preview Ranking
Visiting the Shanghai Disneyland attractions is a once in a lifetime experience. It is not about what rides are the biggest, most expensive or even most unique. It is simply the rides that hold the most personal interest for whatever reason. Parkeology has a long-held fascination with rides and attractions at Disney theme parks. For […]
Tokyo Disney’s 45 Rides: A Preview Ranking
In just two weeks comes a theme park challenge of mythic proportions… The two halves of Team Parkeology will board airplanes from our respective corners of the country and fly halfway around the world, where we will be reunited at the Tokyo Disney Resort. And there — in the span of just four days!! — […]
Shanghai Disneyland and the End of Civilization: Welcome to Thunderdome
Society has collapsed. Mob rule, bedlam, and anarchy are the norm. Unnamed vandals and costumed thugs roam the lawless streets; unruly clans devour every inch of space squeezing the life out of the remaining panicked innocents. The once pristine land has been laid to waste, water is in short supply and the unflinching heat shows […]
The 10 Lines You Wait In (Before Getting to the Rides)
Years ago, Disney embarked on a super secret project to re-invent the theme park experience. It came with an abbreviated nickname straight out of Silicon Valley. They called it NextGen. How totes adorbs of them. NextGen promised a turnstile-free park entrance, FastPasses without pesky paper slips, and a breezy vacation experience utterly devoid of hassle. […]
50 Greatest Park Characters: The Final Chapter – Saving the Best For Last
Two months ago Parkeology unleashed what is indisputably the most popular series about possibly fictional 1980’s vintage theme park trading cards ever to appear on the Internet. In fact the response has been so overwhelming that it is perhaps only rivaled by our explosive expose on Martin Short. In case you somehow missed them you […]
Ship of Theseus Paradox Endangers Universal Studios
In the first century A.D., noted Greek philosopher and one-time Hunger Games architect Plutarch proposed a thought experiment called the Ship of Theseus. In this puzzle, the Athenians carefully preserved the favorite vessel of hilarious jungle skipper Theseus, setting it up in a permanent museum called One Greek’s Dream, where they charged admission to school […]
Disney VS. Trump: We Reveal Big Changes Coming to WDW
It all seemed like a joke some months back when Donald Trump (along with Melania, his European trophy wife) took a torturously slow escalator ride down to what certainly must be the most bizarre presidential campaign announcement in history. Backed by approximately a thousand flags and cheered on by a crowd that looked to be […]
50 Greatest Park Characters: The Oddballs
If you missed Ted’s cards from last week, click here! I hold in my hand the last five cards. Well, not the last last five. Ted will reveal those next week. But this is my last chance to talk about the super cool deck of vintage trading cards from the 80s, a deck that dared […]