Note: Make sure to read to the very end to discover a hidden secret in todays video! The mid eighties represented a time of rebirth for the Walt Disney Company. Newly minted CEO Michael Eisner woke up a sleeping giant and started a decade of exciting projects and growth. The new movie Hot Tub Time […]
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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 […]
Where great rides go to die.
No matter how you look at it Horizons was an attraction that closed too soon. Even those who felt it was dated before it even opened at Epcot Center in 1983 would have to admit that being operational for a scant 16 years was a disservice to the enormous effort that went into creating it. […]
Disney World Goes To the Oscars
In honor of the Academy Awards, I have decided to devote an entire post linking the most famous American award show to a 43-square-mile patch of Florida swampland. Here are the nominees and winners of the Oscars, Walt Disney World style. Best Supporting Actress The Great Movie Ride is packed with Supporting Actress nominees. Of […]
Beams So Clean You Can Eat Off Them
Okay everyone. I’m here to confirm for you that there is something big happening at WDW. I’m not referring to the press event of last week, which announced the return of the Main Street Electrical Parade. You haven’t missed any new ride planning sessions, or rehearsals for the next major show. And no, we […]
Epcot Flamingos Once Roamed at Mexico Pavilion
Though it is not known for live animal exhibits, Epcot flamingos once hung out on the shore of the Mexico pavilion in World Showcase.
Proud History of Sea Serpents
Walt Disney World seems to have a great fondness for sea serpents. There are several that have appeared in various locations throughout the property. The most fanciful serpent prowls the waters of the castle moat in Magic Kingdom. At one time, he had a great fondness for Swan Boats, but now he just suns himself […]
Elephants Are The Future
I had forgotten all about this strange little episode in Walt Disney World history until a friend of mine reminded me about the Epcot space elephants. Yes, you read that correctly. Elephants invaded Epcot for a circus spectacular sometime in the mid 80s, and it is indeed everything you could hope for. The circus was […]
Kurt Russell Pwns Eric Idle
I mean this is no contest, right? If it was Russell vs Idle in a celebrity death cage match, you go with the guy who played Snake Plissken and Wyatt Earp, not Monty Python’s Sir Robin. And when you have a train wreck like the current incarnation of Journey Into Imagination, you want the guy […]