The city of Santa Clarita has been under attack by wildfires for the past few weeks. Located nearby, Disney’s Golden Oak Movie Ranch, which has it’s history in old westerns and was bought by the mouse in 1959 for TV and movie use (as recently… Read More »Disney Movie Ranch Aids Firefight
The Bentinal reports on Disneyland’s latest addition to its controversial Fastpass Priotity Boarding system. (Warning, not to be read by the humor impaired.)
One of the best books written about Disneyland’s history is the Nickel Tour: A Postcard Journey Through a Half Century of the Happiest Place on Earth by David Mumford and Bruce Gordon. It’s an amazing work that I refer to often as the canonical source… Read More »WDW History Collection
A round up of recent stories from the top Disney websites: A look across the pond to Paris Disneyland and its latest show Peter Pan is on LaughingPlace.com. Jim Hill Media debuts a new look and a spurt of new articles including one on rumors… Read More »Disney Round Up II
Even if you don’t speak a word of french, it’s fun to see another group of Disney fans getting together to enjoy Paris Disneyland, just like the LaughingPlace.com members assembled this last weekend. I would like to know more about this group, but I couldn’t… Read More »Parlez Vous Francais?
Christian Science Monitor book review of Peter Jungk’s fictionalized biography of Walt Disney and one of his animators. This animator becomes obsessed with the famous filmmaker after he is let go from the company. When reading the book remember the reviewer’s caution, “Every detail in… Read More »The Perfect American?
Just when I was about to delete his site off my bookmarks for inactivity, Michael Barrier returns with an excellent essay on Disneyland Paris. Barrier is always insightful: Walt Disney’s original Disneyland, when it opened almost fifty years ago, was itself reminiscent of a department… Read More »Just when you thought it was safe…
Tom Keating has found a novel way to find his car in the vast parking lots of Walt Disney World. I sense a business opportunity. Have a keychain sized device that you click once to record the location of your car. Then at the end… Read More »Disney GPS