The Bonner County newspaper has a look at what it takes to be one of the local contractors that helps the ABC hit tv show Extreme Makeover: Home Edition work its magic. When all systems were "go," Dave closed down his own construction company which was already working on two new homes that were put… Read More »EM:HE – The Herbert Home, Sandpoint Idaho
A Hong Kong Newspaper spent two days (Sunday and Wednesday) counting the number of guests that entered the new Disney theme park there and arrived a number that looks bad for Disney. The paper counted only 13,000 guests a day on average while the park has stated it expected those numbers to be around 15,000… Read More »HKDL: Low attendance reports
Update: July 2009 Fatal Monorail Accident information story There is a report of an accident on the Walt Disney World Monorail system on Saturday. Sounds like the ‘tugger’, a gas powered service vehicle, ran into monorail yellow. The tugger was approaching to service the stalled… Read More »WDW Monorail Accident Reported
Nicholas has just posted some updates from Disneyland on his photo blog. This one looking across the Rivers of America is my favorite.
The Laughing Place Store with its Disney Parks shopping service is running a special Pre-Christmas discount code. Save 20% off your whole order (excepting the Tales from the Laughing Place Magazine). Now is a great time to get those park exclusive items you want for your christmas tree (like this ornament of the famous Walt… Read More »Pre-Christmas Sale at LaughingPlace.com Store
I just watched this video. It’s old so if you’ve been hitting the Lost fan boards then you’ve probably seen it. However, if you haven’t seen it imagine scenes from ABC’s hit TV show Lost set to the tune of Queen’s Bohemiam Rhapsody, interpreted as a Polka by Weird Al Yankovic. Smashups just don’t get… Read More »LOST: Bohemian Rhapsody
Normally I try to ignore those folks who are so vehemently anti-Disney that I have to wonder why they don’t just change the channel or vacation at Six Flags Siberia. But a new blog came on the scene recently that hates Disney with such flair, such style and even a little bit of humor, that… Read More »Bad Disney, Bad
"Hey. We’ve got good news. We only lost $110.6 million this year." How would you like to give that pitch to your corporate benefactors? Well, it’s the pitch Euro Disney, parent company of Paris Disneyland, gave to their investors this week. The losses actually are 35% better than last year’s deficit. Revenue is increasing despite… Read More »Disneyland Paris still leaking money