Disney fans united on twitter today in honor of Austin Wuennenberg, the 21 year old Monorail Pilot who died in the tragic Monorail collision accident at Walt Disney World in the early morning hours of July 5th 2009. As you can see in this screen… Read More »Disney Fans Honor Fallen Monorail Pilot with Twitter Trending Topic
Update: NTSB preliminary report is now out with best details about accident so far. A former Monorail Pilot has made a video with what looks to be the best explanation so far of exactly what happened this morning at 2AM that resulted in the tragic… Read More »Former Monorail Pilot’s Explanation of Crash
Spent the night of July the 3rd at the Magic Kingdom to see their 4th of July Fireworks one night early. For anyone going tonight, you might want to get on the road now to see it yourself. I got some great photos, but there… Read More »4th of July Fireworks at the Magic Kingdom
The swearing in of new United States Citizens is always an emotional story. But when it happens at at Disney theme park, there is a little extra magic added to the ceremony. This year over 1000 new American citizens were welcomed to the country in… Read More »Hall of Presidents Opens to 1000+ New American Citizens at the Magic Kingdom
Via the Whitehouse.gov blog we get this video of President Barack Obama as he records his speech for the Hall of Presidents attraction that officially reopens on the 4th of July. I’m guessing President Obama has never been to Walt Disney World since he asks… Read More »Video of President Barack Obama recording his Hall of Presidents Speech
Disney aficionado Lou Mongello is one of the few fans who have managed to turn their passion for the parks into enough income to support a family. It couldn’t have happened to a more deserving fellow if you ask me. Mongello is so affable that… Read More »Lou Mongello, Disney Trivia Author, Podcaster, interviewed
I’m enjoying the idea from the LA Times’ Dan Fost that Walt Disney was a geek. In an article about the Walt Disney Family Museum Fost identifies Walt’s love of tinkering, appetite for new technologies, and passion for the future as three traits the identify… Read More »Walt Disney was a Geek
“I want to be a real park” said Hong Kong Disneyland after seeing the poor imitation theme park puppet it had been constructed as. Alas until recently, HKDL was caught between it’s Stromboli (Eisner’ fear of infrastructure investment) and Fowlfellow (a rotten government only looking out for itself) and the Blue Fairy was no where in sight.
Finally a deal has been struck that will fix some of the mistakes in the concept and construction of Hong Kong Disneyland. But it will take at least $450 million to do so. This move is important because Disney will shortly start construction on another theme park in Shanghai, which is on mainland China. Not to mention the competition Ocean Park is giving Disney right there in Hong Kong.
After the expansion the beautiful but small Disneyland model park will have three new lands that are uniquely its own and a list of attractions that is nearing respectability.
Below the cut are descriptions of the new lands that will be built. One thing that irks me is that while the Adventurers Club sits unloved and abandoned over here in Florida, they’re planning on building one in China. Of course, I was an advocate for building an Adventurers Club west out in Disneyland, the more the merrier. Just reopen this one too.