I’m a big fan of ABC’s ‘reality show’ Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. This week they finished a project in Kansas City and the local newspaper has been keeping track of the shows progress. Sounds like another tearjerker of a show. Perfect. Ty’s website. Ty Fan Site.
Just added a few trip reports to the list on the right. Three Kid Circus, a good parenting blog, is a hillarious recounting of one family’s Disneyland vacation. Start at this point and read the next three posts for all the juicy deets. Brandon, from my old stomping grounds of Portland Oregon, sent me a… Read More »Some Weekend Reading
The New York Times posts the latest rumor about Disney and the NFL negotiations.
Remember that little trial where all the dirt between Eisner and Ovitz was revealed. Well, it’s not over yet. Ovitz has just filed a brief asking again to be excused from the trial. "Unable to prove that Ovitz left Disney voluntarily, or that he wanted to leave at all, the plaintiffs again resort to character… Read More »Ovitz trial, not dead yet!
Gone are the old visuals and conscientiously French theme based on Jules Verne’s novel "From the Earth to the Moon." Instead, the ride tours the solar system before hurtling out through asteroid showers to skim past supernovas and other astronomical phenomena, portrayed with high-definition video and a host of other new effects. Paris Disneyland unveiled… Read More »Space Mountain II???
Someone snuck out these great pictures from the construction of Disney World’s next e-ticket attraction – Mt Everest.
With Spring Break officially in the record books now, I can report that we survived. Mostly by avoiding the parks when we could and by avoiding any of the major throughfares. A good idea, as Ken pointed out earlier in the comments: Disney World – Magic Kingdom was closed at least 3 days in a… Read More »A Break from Spring Break
Disneyworld announced today that it would layoff about 25 management level employees in an effort to reduce layers of decision making. This can go either way, of course. Fewer people to get in the way of a good idea, or fewer people to put a stop to a bad one.