Mr Baxter should check the air pressure once again as it looks like the Submarines are coming back to Disneyland. Marty Sklar can now thumb his nose freely at all those who claimed he should eat his famous ‘speed bump on harbor blvd’ words. Yep. Ken on LaughingPlace.com has the details and a bit of… Read More »The Return of the Subs
Habitat is one of the first good “Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games” (MMORPGs). Be warned though they’re more addictive than crack. Chip Morningstar, co-creator of Habitat, posts a personal history of The Birth of Habitat (with Many Digressions on the Early History of Lucasfilm Games and All That). One of those digressions includes an… Read More »Personal History of Silicon Valley’s Entertainment Mecca
People have been wondering what Disney will do if Hurricane Charley comes ashore and Orlando is in its path. If Charley strays below a catagory 1 Hurricane as it passes the Orlando area look for Disney to batten down the hatches, but not to close the gates. Any outside attraction or tented show will likely… Read More »Charley’s Florida Trip
It’s a wild cry, but you hear it all the time on the various Disney Themepark discussion boards. Never in Disney’s history have they brought an attraction back from the dead. Okay, they did dredge up the old film for America The Beautiful, but the attraction itself (circlevision) was never really dead (of course, it… Read More »Bring Back Toad!
Webjay.org posts an amazing collection of video and audio clips from Disney attractions around the world. Also included are some famous clips from the history of The Walt Disney Company. (Thanks Cory at BoingBoing.net)
Mercurie is a writer and a self proclaimed pop culture buff with an interest in classic movies, television, music,fantasy, science fiction, role playing games, comic books, medieval history, British history, and so on. He posts an anonymous blog that I’ve been reading as of late.… Read More »On Animation
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
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