Pinocchio’s Daring Dinner Bell

Every now and then I stumble across something a little baffling.  Usually it’s that “Move It Shake It Celebrate It” mini-parade on Main Street.  What is that thing?  A couple modest parade floats, some awkward dance moves, a few lip-synching college kids.  If it weren’t for the fact that some of the performers were dogs, […]

Think Green

As you probably already know, Innoventions is full of garbage.  In fact, it’s one of the featured exhibits.  They love to teach you what the future will be like, and in the future, we will recycle everything. Recycling seems to be a common thread among Epcot pavilions.  Ellen recycles sunlight, Test Track recycles kinetic energy, […]

Walt Disney World Explorer CD-ROM (1996)

Released in 1996 (with a revised edition two years later), the Walt Disney World Explorer CD-ROM game quickly climbed the charts to become the best selling game of the year.  Featuring an innovative combat interface, diabolical level design, and enhanced A.I., it went on to collect all the major awards and appeared on several Top […]

Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Queue

This tree is so much more awesome living 30 feet away from where it used to live. Today I want to talk about Interactive Pooh.  No, I will not be stooping to any cheap bathroom jokes.  I hope.  But I did get a chance to see the new Queue for Winnie-the-Pooh out at the Magic […]

Mountains of Snow at Mickey’s Christmas Party

  Playful spooks have interrupted our virtual tour!  Today we take a quick break from exploring the video game disasters of the past and focus on a little something I like to call… irony. I had a chance to attend Mickey’s Not So Scary Quite Contrary Harry Carrey Very Merry Christmas Party last weekend.  Something […]

Adventures in the Magic Kingdom (1990)

  If you grew up the 80s and didn’t own or want to own an NES, then either you spent your early years living in a bomb shelter with your paranoid parents, or you were a girl.  And that’s not even true, because girls at least love Tetris, and the NES is so awesome you […]

Parkeology in the Virtual World

This is how parkeologists view the world:  An apocalyptic Disney landscape, in which the wind whistles eerily through once-grand halls, and evil creatures lurk in the darkness  (no, I’m not speaking of Sounds Dangerous). For months now, the Disney fan community has been waiting with baited breath for the arrival of Epic Mickey.  For those […]