As we mentioned before the fan favorite exhibit and movie attraction One Man’s Dream has been given a new treatment and re-imagined into Walt Disney Presents. The first half is still all the history leading up to the creation of Disneyland, but the second half… Read More »Walt Disney Presents: now with more models
Like many Disney fans, when we talk about film, we tend to focus on Walt Disney’s Animated Classics, but that’s really not fair to all of Walt’s fantastic live-action creations – the money from which helped Walt make some of his most famous creations, including… Read More »New book offers definitive look at Walt Disney’s Live-Action films
By the time I made it to Walt Disney World for the first time in 1997, World of Motion in the Transportation pavilion had already been converted into Test Track. (And Sadly Horizons was closed temporarily.) But now, thanks to Martin Smith of Martin’s Vids,… Read More »EPCOT’s World of Motion – Ultimate Fan Tribute Video
Marty Sklar was a staff writer at the UCLA’s Daily Bruin newspaper when he heard about Disneyland. One month before the park opened, Sklar got a position writing The Disneyland News, sold in the park to guests, before joining the park’s publicity team and eventually… Read More »Imagineering Legend Marty Sklar dead at age 83
Disneyland may have had relatively humble beginnings, but it opened to the public a fully formed idea that would dominate the imaginations of hundreds of millions of visitors and countless more who dream of visiting one day. Encapsulating all that history, all those moments, all… Read More »Review: The Disneyland Encyclopedia Updated 3rd Edition
One of my favorite speakers at any fan event is Disney writer/director/producer Don Hahn. He brings a wonderful sense of humor along with unique insight into the history and inner workings of the Walt Disney Company. He’s also an accomplished author and his latest book… Read More »Don Hahn’s new book on Disney’s magical mid-century influence is available
The last-ever Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus show will be broadcast LIVE on Facebook, in its entirety, on Sunday, May 21 at 7:00 pm ET/4:00 pm PT. This could potentially be the most watched Facebook LIVE ever as the world watches The Greatest… Read More »Last ever Ringling Bros. circus will be live-streamed on Facebook
While the long gone Cherry Plaza hotel on Lake Eola in Orlando was the site where Walt Disney made the initial 1965 announcement that Disney had bought up a bunch of property south of the town, the actual plans for Disney World weren’t released until… Read More »Disney World history uncovered in Orlando