Friday, November 7 will be a momentous day here at the Parkeology offices. You can probably guess why. On that day, Big Hero 6 will be officially released into theaters, the 54th animated feature from Walt Disney Animation Studios. There is perhaps nothing more synergistic than Disney animated features and theme parks. The parks are loaded […]
DisneyQuest
6 Things I Can’t Believe Still Exist at Disney World
It’s hard for me to believe that Horizons, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, the Skyway, and Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride have been gone for 15 or 20 years now. There are readers of this blog in college who never knew what it was like to smell oranges, experience claustrophobic panic attacks, anonymously spit on people […]
The First Disney Pixar Movie
2012 is the Bizarro Year. This year, we hailed California Adventure, Hong Kong Disneyland, and the Magic Kingdom as shining beacons of incredible theming. Tokyo Disney Sea’s newest rides are a transplanted carnival game thing and a Magic Carpet spinner. At the box office, Spiderman and Batman got beat up by second tier superheroes like […]
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 […]
Buried Treasure
Parkeology is the search for fact, not truth. So forget any ideas you’ve got about lost attractions, exotic travel, and digging up Walt Disney World. We do not follow maps to buried treasure and X never, ever, marks the spot. …unless you happen be one of those unethical French parkeologists. But what are we supposed […]
Tronorails
A few monorails around the resort are starting to take on a new look. They will stay this way at least for the next nine months or so, until Walt Disney Pictures gives birth to the sequel to a certain breakthrough film from 1982. No, Condorman was 1981. There’s a lot of internet buzz for […]