Disney Imagineer, and Disney’s Animal Kingdom visionary, Joe Rohde is back with another chapter in our introduction to “Pandora – The World of Avatar.” Also new to the Disney World website are a bunch of new details for the land. The more I see of… Read More »More details of Pandora – The World of Avatar are shared by Disney
Pandora – The World of Avatar is coming to Disney’s Animal Kingdom Summer 2017. Guests at this weekend’s Destination D event learned quite a bit more about the project thanks to visits from Imagineer Joe Rohde and movie director James Cameron. The pair stayed in… Read More »More details from Avatar land coming to Disney’s Animal Kingdom
How does it feel to complete one’s quest, obtain the grail, discover gravity? I may not know, but I do know how it feels to have my personal mini-quest resolved. For years now I’ve privately worked with people I knew in the Disney organization to… Read More »Disneyland’s Haunted Mansion returns Imagineer graveyard
The results of the 2016 Presidential Election are still unknown, but we do know one thing, since President Barack Obama is limited to 2 four-year terms, there will be a new president for the United States of America and a new audio-animatronic added to Walt… Read More »Hall of Presidents schedules 6 month refurbishment to install new robot president
When the Haunted Mansion opened in 1969, the Imagineers who worked on the attraction cleverly left tributes to themselves in the form of witty, albeit morbid, tombstone epitaphs. The tombstones were located in and around the queue area of the attraction. Later, most of the… Read More »Disneyland restores tribute tombstones to Haunted Mansion
Magic Kingdom’s Tomorrowland is in the middle of a slight retheming. It started with a new color scheme for the PeopleMover. The trend spread to the nearby Carousel of Progress and now its progressed to the front of the land with its giant rock formation.… Read More »Tomorrowland color scheme update in progress at Magic Kingdom
Like clockwork after every big project led by Walt Disney Imagineering (WDI), there is a layoff. The finish of Shanghai Disneyland is no different. The Glendale, CA facility has confirmed that layoffs in the ‘low single digits’ were made, with no one in senior staff… Read More »Layoffs impact Walt Disney Imagineering
Take an tour of Tiffins restaurant and the Nomad Lounge at Disney’s Animal Kingdom with imagineers Joe Rohde and Emily O’Brien. Guests who visit will enjoy theming that is all about “the travel and adventure” that led to the creation of Disney’s Animal Kingdom. Actual… Read More »Imagineers discuss the making of Tiffins restaurant at Disney’s Animal Kingdom