Which park is best? Six years ago I wrote a series of articles for our friends at miceage.com. The purpose was to evaluate and compare each of the Disney parks to see which one truly reigned supreme. In a tough fought brawl to take it all one park emerged as the ultimate victor. But […]
Top 10 Name Changes That Changed Nothing – Part 2
Before we begin Part 2, I just want to say that I could have changed the title of this article to something different, just to trick you into thinking that you are getting something brand new, when it’s really just more of the same. That may be good enough for Disney, but I always look […]
Top 10 Name Changes That Changed Nothing – Part 1
This post is part of the Disney Blog Carnival. Head over there to see more great Disney-related posts and articles. —————— “I think I’ll go meet the boys for a cold sasparilla. Oh I forgot, we’re calling it root beer now. Same kind of thing, different name. Well, that’s progress for you!” — Carousel of Progress Remember […]
Orlando’s Lost Links to Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Last week I had some time to sit down with Robert Watts and listen to him tell stories about being back in Orlando for the first time since Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. For those of you who don’t know, Robert Watts is a movie producer. He’s worked on countless films, most of […]
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 mechanical […]
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 […]