The Haunted Mansion GameCube video game is sadly unfaithful to the source material. It bears no resemblance to the classic Disney attraction.
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 […]
The Backside of a Moose
There are some things that are sacred to a man, and severed animal heads are some of them. Just the heads, mind you. Nobody wants the stuffed backside of a moose sitting in their office. But severed heads, you can stick those anywhere and it will still look classy. This is something females don’t seem […]
Making My Own Philharmagic
This is a bit of a departure today from our usual hard-hitting news and breathtaking secrets, but today I would like to spend a few moments talking about a serious disorder that affects 9 out of every 10 parkeologists. It’s called GAS, which doctors inform me stands for Giveit Away Syndrome. In one sense, it’s […]
Thrilla in Parkzilla: The Rematch!
For the last 2 months the Parkeology offices have been abuzz with debate, arguments and the occasional arm wrestling match as we tried to definitively answer once and for all which Disney park was the best in the world. Catch up here, here or here: Lets do this thing! Shane suffered a […]
The Misquotable Pinocchio
You know how some of those old Disney songs have all these weird words to remember? If you can recite entire verses of Higitus Figitus without a cheat sheet and a degree in linguistics, you are either some kind of savant or your name is Richard M. Sherman. If you can’t, don’t feel bad. Even […]