T-7 Days and counting… The most epic, challenging, outrageous and downright INSANE event in Parkeology history is only a week away. Despite the already nearly insurmountable odds we just made it even more difficult. If getting one person through the entire roster of WDW rides in one single normal operating day wasn’t hard enough […]
Author: Teevtee
May the Force be With You!
It’s Confirmed: Star Wars expansion is coming to Walt Disney World and big changes are on the way. We all knew it was coming. We have all heard the many, many rumors and now we have word that the big announcement is imminent and should be made official at a huge press gala in a […]
Lending a Helping Hand
In 2011 shortly after the tsunami struck Japan and created an unprecedented series of tragic events we posted a tribute of sorts to the Tokyo Disney resort, you can read it here: https://www.parkeology.com/2011/03/so-story-goes.html. About a year ago (one year after the tsunami) we were back in Tokyo and were thrilled to find it every bit […]
Here There Be Princesses – Tokyo Disneyland
A while back Shane gave himself a little challenge. He wanted to find the small hidden areas in the parks that he had never been to before. Not unlike the monsters lurking in the uncharted areas of old pirate maps who knew what these seldom trafficked areas held? Sadly other than getting arrested for […]
The sad end of an era
In 2011 when Steve jobs died I felt sad. I never met him, never had any contact of any sort with him and yet I was sad. He touched my life through his work at both Pixar and Apple. It was a strange experience to feel a read sadness for the loss of someone I […]
Point Counter-Point
Years ago when Saturday Night Live used to be funny (no even before Will Ferrell… no even before Phil Hartman… no even before Eddie Murphy; we are talking original cast here) in the mid 1970’s a staple of the then unique fake news segment was called “ Point- Counterpoint”. Weekend Up-Date co-anchors Dan Aykroyd (who […]
Living The Dream Part Three: GET OUT!
Read part one here and part two here. It’s 6:30 am on the last day of the cruise and Leslie, our aggressively enthusiastic cruise director, is on the ship-wide public address system telling everyone to get the hell off. Her once charming and intriguing English accent is now grating and incredibly annoying. Half asIeep I […]
Living The Dream Part 2: Curse of the Black Pearl
Read part one here Sitting at the Meridian bar aboard the Disney Dream my father and I are contemplating ordering an extremely expensive glass of Louis XIII “Black Pearl” cognac. This is interesting for a number of reasons. First of it costs $1,200 a shot, and that’s considered a bargain. Yes, TWELVE HUNDRED American dollars […]
Living the Dream
Everything was going great on our Cruise aboard the Disney Dream until my 7 year old daughter asked about Donald Duck’s penis… but more on that later. We have very defined roles around the Parkeology offices. For example Shane writes frequent updates, he maintains the day in and day out technical aspects of the site, […]
