This is a refinement of an earlier article I did for LaughingPlace.com.
It started last year, as my wife and I finished our day at Disneyland and walked back to our room at the Disneyland Hotel. Not for the first time, I noticed the iconic “Disneyland Hotel” red neon sign missing, and an old sentiment awakened: [...]
Following-up on my earlier Space Mountain poster—created specifically to address the lack of high-quality Mountain-related imagery flowing out of Disney—the Vintage Disneyland Tickets blog proves me wrong with some beautiful stuff I’d never seen before.
This ticket image isn’t really done any favors with the its single-color palette, but the composition is great:
And this ’70s-era magazine [...]
Al Lutz’s October 3 MiceAge column reports a rumor that is either controversial or not, depending on your tolerance for riding that little motorized raft over to Tom Sawyer Island. The island will be re-themed to Pirates of the Caribbean–or so says the rumor–and the reasoning is simple enough: kids today like Jack Sparrow better than Huck Finn.
Cedar Point is the country’s best amusement park, and in 2007 it will add yet another new roller coaster: Maverick. It’s their seventeenth. And the nice thing about Cedar Point is that almost all of its coasters are really, really fun. (Unlike, say, Magic Mountain.) Maverick looks fun as well. It’s good to see that [...]
My Club 33 application arrived today, a scant thirteen months after I requested it. (Just to be clear: I’m not talking about my acceptance into the club. Just the application to apply.) Why it took thirteen months to mail three laser printed pieces of paper, I can’t imagine. Nor can I imagine why, when I [...]
The Disneylands That Never Were, a new book by MickeyNews.com columnist Shaun Finnie, (available from Lulu.com, 248 pages) has at its core a great idea. What Disney fan wouldn’t love to spend a few hours learning about all of the thrilling Imagineering projects that never got off the ground? And what self-styled Disney historian wouldn’t [...]
Have we all forgotten what Disneyland was originally about?
I was wandering around Disneyland a few weeks ago, thinking about the fact that it’s now fifty years old. There’s still a lot to admire about the place. It’s still clean, still fun, and still has a lot of the same enjoyments that attracted me as a [...]
Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom takes a lot of flak from theme park fans. But a closer look reveals just how special it really is.
It’s been more than five years since I last visited Walt Disney World. That’s a strange thing for me to type knowing I spent my entire childhood visiting annually, and knowing [...]
Why would Walt Disney spend his last days trying to solve the world’s transportation problems rather than entertain us?
If you’re like a significant percentage of the East Coast population that grew up in the 1970s, you and your family probably visited Walt Disney World once or twice for a family vacation. If you’re like my [...]
I had the pleasure of taking a long weekend to visit Disneyland in late October, partially to stay at the Grand Californian (nice, though not a great value), partially to see the new A Bug’s Land play area (very well done), but mainly to see the Haunted Mansion Holiday makeover that I unfortunately missed last [...]
