Part of what makes LaughingPlace.com such an amazing internet community is the talent of its membership. Combine that with a bunch of disney oriented fun loving folk and you have a formula for some unique meets. Take the recent opportunity readers of the website had to go inside Disneyland’s famous and exclusive dining establishment –… Read More »Club 33 Scrapbook for Tinker Bell
Do: Take your kids to DisneyLand, regardless of their age. I never imagined getting so much enjoyment over their excitement.Don’t: Have kids outnumber the adults. One adult per child. You’ll save yourself from the, "hey where’s small child number 6" moment of terror. Also, most rides require an adult with the child lower than your… Read More »Disneyland Do’s and Don’ts’
With the Magic Kingdom for a backyard, relatives frequently found themselves "in town for a weekend." I quickly lost track of how many visits my family made during the course of those early summers. Even after moving away, I’ve found ways to return and trip the lights fantastic in Tomorrowland and take a flight of… Read More »Your First Visit to Disneyland
The lasting legacy of Walt Disney is his timeless insight into the imagination of children coupled with a gift for awakening the child in the rest of us. His idealized vision of childhood and Americana still resonates with kids of all ages worldwide. This week marked the 50th anniversary of Disneyland, a marvelous invention –… Read More »It Was Walt’s World
There are reports that Disney Cast Members are now searching monorails for abandoned packages. It’s nice to know they’re doing this on the monorails and, I hope, the trains/buses/boats that also transport guests around the Walt Disney World property. A few years ago I was riding the train at Disneyland and boarded an empty car… Read More »Searching for Bombs at Walt Disney World
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 hope somebody is considering offering all of Bob Gurr’s columns at www.laughingplace.com in some type of limited edition softcover book because Gurr influenced everything with wheels at Disneyland. And how come there hasn’t been a book about Morgan "Bill"Evans and how he transformed landscaping into an artform at Disneyland? As part of the series… Read More »Early Imagineers. Who were they?
It was always Walt’s intention that DL would be a place where a family can enjoy a day of fun (and learning – gasp!) together, and still go home at the end of the day with money in Father’s pocket. Walt wasn’t out to fleece anyone. Of course, there have been others managing the parks… Read More »Mellie Muses Money