Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom predates Orlando’s movie studio theme parks. But another local park was a secret filming location.
Disney’s Handwich: Whatever Happened to this Food of the Future?
Be sure to read to the end for a newly added (some might say shocking) update to our original post! Once upon a time Disney had a revolutionary idea that was going to transform the future of food, so what went wrong? When Michael Eisner and Frank Wells took the reigns of Disney in […]
Yoda Exiled to Magic Kingdom to Work on His Music
Before you even step under the train station and enter the Magic Kingdom, the stage is set. The magic is all around you, starting with the breezy palms on the shore of the Seven Seas Lagoon, progressing to a floral Mickey head just beyond the gate, and culminating in a breathtaking search of your personal […]
Politically Correct Snipers in the Frontierland Bell Tower
The Wild West used to be a rough and tumble place. It was a hostile land, full of dark gunslingers, raging locomotives, and poisonous critters everywhere you stepped. Actually, there were buffalo chips everywhere you stepped, but sometimes poisonous critters hid under them. Cactus too. Nothing says “danger” like a fabulous serape. A man could […]
ECPOT CENTER: The Purple Park
Steven Spielberg is a plagiarist! Clearly owes it all to Disney That’s right, the acclaimed wunderkind director/producer/writer/gaffer/best boy has been blatantly stealing from Disney for years. First he steals Robert A. Mattey, the special effects supervisor who created the giant squid effects for Disney’s “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea”, to create the […]
The Four Dragon Kings of the Theme Parks
When it comes to mythical beasts, dragons are royalty. Unicorns are upper class, a little bit snooty, sort of pampered. Griffins are middle class, your sort of everyday run-of-the-mill hybrid creatures, and jackalopes are like the serfs tending to the fields and making jokes about the unicorns behind their backs. The other mythical beasts fall […]
You’re Fat: Disney’s Gold Key Dining Plan Was the Trip of a Lifetime!
At least according to statistics you are. If you are an American then chances are good that you can’t fit into those huge pants of yours and it’s all Disney’s fault. Donald’s Lipitor prescription has not helped. Disney is pushing the Disney Dining plan these days… hard. It’s not because they are […]
Disney World’s Ugliest Show Building
You may have noticed that parkeology.com is looking a little different lately. Please do not be alarmed. We are merely refurbishing this area for your future enjoyment. Plus, we have a bet with Madonna to see who can reinvent themselves the most. So far the score is Parkeology: 2, Madonna 141. But if we find […]
Pitching a tent.
Camping sucks. You may catch poison ivy, be ravaged by malaria-riddled mosquitoes, or get mauled by a rabid squirrel all the while avoiding molestation by marauding hill-folk. Michael Eisner even wrote a book called “Camp” and you know that can’t be good. Where is the fun in eating canned meat and sleeping on the ground in […]