This is not a post I wanted to be writing so soon. Local Orlando News is reporting the death today of a 12-year old girl at the Walt Disney World Resort’s Typhoon Lagoon Water park. The girl was found at 6PM on the edge of the large Wave pool by a lifeguard. She soon passed… Read More »Another child dies at Walt Disney World
It’s been a rough few years for Playland, a historic amusement park in Westchester New York. In 2004 a young girl died after escaping the restraints of the ‘Mind Scrambler’ ride, and now a 7-year old boy was found dead after entering a dark tunnel water ride as the sole passenger in his boat. The… Read More »Boy, 7, dies on amusement park ride
Andreas Deja (IMDB, Wikipedia) represents the cream of the crop as far as animators are concerned. He is Disney’s nine old men (wikipedia) all rolled into one for our generation. He joined Walt Disney Feature Animation at the right time to allow him to become one of our greatest links to the wisdom of the… Read More »Interview with Star Disney Animator, Andreas Deja
The OC Register has a listing of most of the major injuries and deaths that have occured at Disneyland since 1990. (Registration Req’d)
CartoonBrew announces the closing of the last Disney Animation Studio to use traditional hand-drawn, or 2-D, animation. It’s really sad that Disney couldn’t figure out someway to keep their rich tradition of hand-drawn animation alive. I really hope that some of the fired animators are able to and release projects of their own, creating a… Read More »The death of animation at Disney
The headline for this story caught my eye: Disabled girl barred from theme park rides I remembered one woman, an annual passholder at Disneyland, who drove her motorized wheelchair recklessly, was repeatedly warned about it, then was banned for a period of time. So I thought it might be something like that. Turns out this… Read More »Disable Girl Urges Theme park Boycott
I am hearing various rumors about the incident at Walt Disney World’s MGM/Disney Studios yesterday, none of which point to this being a problem with the attraction, but I won’t post any of them here as I don’t have confirmation on any of them. The Orlando Sentinel has posted a follow up story, however, with… Read More »More Details on Tower of Terror Incident
The Orlando Sentinal is reporting that Disney World’s Twilight Zone Tower of Terror attraction today closed for inspection after a British Teen fell ill while riding. Tower of Terror is another high thrill attraction that can produce high g’s for the rider. Although these are vertical g’s which are different from the lateral kind experienced… Read More »MGM Studios: Tower of Terror closed