Okay, enough tail wagging. You wanna see a real fight between two badass Disney characters? This was filmed back when The Hunchback of Notre Dame Stage Show was still open at Disney-MGM Studios, so sometime before 2002. There are all sorts of cast member videos like this floating around. Disneyland was famous for making these,… Read More »A Real Character Fight
Okay, I’ve been sent this video like 20 times today. If you haven’t seen it yet, it features Mickey’s lovable dog Pluto doing what he’s known to do, have fun. Here he’s seen chasing a young guest, which isn’t abnormal for Pluto to do. What is unusual is the number of guests around. I think… Read More »Guests gone wild? Or when Pluto attacks? You decide
See. I knew he couldn’t stay away after that big announcement. If EPCOT Center never became what "Walt wanted," it became something close to what Walt might have loved. In its slow transition to "just Epcot," this extraordinary place of hope, vision and community became nothing more than another place to build mundane attractions, then… Read More »Epcot Central is back
Today Imagineering rolled out their latest version of the upgraded Haunted Mansion. A few of the left coast improvements were ported over, and some new ones rolled out. It’s my understanding that there are still a few more yet to come than what I saw tonight. I tried to keep myself as spoiler free as… Read More »Haunted Mansion 2.1b
The fan organized birthday party for EPCOT Celebration 25 has released its schedule of meets! I plan to be there for most of the events on the 1st and some on the afternoon of the 30th. Now sure how that will work since I can’t make it for the morning registration… hmmm. If you can’t… Read More »Morning Roundup – September 13th
This is the story I wanted to be writing tonight: Today marks the second anniversary of DisneyBay Hong Kong. The park has welcomed record numbers of Hong Kong residents and mainland Chinese drawn in to see what the legendary Imagineers of Walt Disney could do when teamed with local experts and let loose upon the… Read More »Hong Kong Disneyland makes it to year three
I’ve had lots of luck with having my items returned when lost at Disneyland or Disney World. As a kid I once lost my blue Velcro wallet and by the time we drove home to Portland, Or. from Disneyland it was there waiting for us (I think that included a stop in the bay area).… Read More »Purse lost at WDW 17 years ago returned
I first saw Twice Upon a Time when a 2nd generation video tape was pulled from the secret vault of a Disney animator. I wasn’t quite sure what to make of it at the time. Disney had just released The Lion King, and the two films were about as different in form as I could… Read More »Twice Upon A Time – The greatest animated film you’ve never heard of