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		<title>Disney&#8217;s Biggest Theme Park Mistakes</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 03:38:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Maletic</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8220;Disneyland Hotel&#8221; red neon sign missing, and an old sentiment awakened: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gregmaletic.wordpress.com&blog=424931&post=103&subd=gregmaletic&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Space Mountain imagery follow-up</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 19:34:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Maletic</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;d never seen before.
This ticket image isn&#8217;t really done any favors with the its single-color palette, but the composition is great:

And this &#8217;70s-era magazine [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gregmaletic.wordpress.com&blog=424931&post=105&subd=gregmaletic&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Revisionism</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Dec 2006 06:39:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Maletic</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Al Lutz’s <a href="http://miceage.com/allutz/al100306a.htm">October 3 MiceAge column</a> 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.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gregmaletic.wordpress.com&blog=424931&post=50&subd=gregmaletic&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Maverick</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Oct 2006 05:58:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Maletic</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cedar Point is the country&#8217;s best amusement park, and in 2007 it will add yet another new roller coaster: Maverick. It&#8217;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&#8217;s good to see that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gregmaletic.wordpress.com&blog=424931&post=44&subd=gregmaletic&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Club 33</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Sep 2006 00:47:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Maletic</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My Club 33 application arrived today, a scant thirteen months after I requested it. (Just to be clear: I&#8217;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&#8217;t imagine. Nor can I imagine why, when I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gregmaletic.wordpress.com&blog=424931&post=25&subd=gregmaletic&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Disneylands That Never Were: A Book Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Sep 2006 15:35:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Maletic</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gregmaletic.wordpress.com&blog=424931&post=24&subd=gregmaletic&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Meaning of Disneyland</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2005 20:43:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Maletic</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have we all forgotten what Disneyland was originally about?
I was wandering around Disneyland a few weeks ago, thinking about the fact that it&#8217;s now fifty years old. There&#8217;s still a lot to admire about the place. It&#8217;s still clean, still fun, and still has a lot of the same enjoyments that attracted me as a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gregmaletic.wordpress.com&blog=424931&post=3&subd=gregmaletic&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Defending Walt Disney World&#8217;s Magic Kingdom</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2005 22:29:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Maletic</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Walt Disney World&#8217;s Magic Kingdom takes a lot of flak from theme park fans. But a closer look reveals just how special it really is.

It&#8217;s been more than five years since I last visited Walt Disney World. That&#8217;s a strange thing for me to type knowing I spent my entire childhood visiting annually, and knowing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gregmaletic.wordpress.com&blog=424931&post=4&subd=gregmaletic&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Florida Project</title>
		<link>http://gregmaletic.wordpress.com/2003/06/03/the-florida-project/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2003 22:33:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Maletic</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why would Walt Disney spend his last days trying to solve the world&#8217;s transportation problems rather than entertain us?

If you&#8217;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&#8217;re like my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gregmaletic.wordpress.com&blog=424931&post=5&subd=gregmaletic&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Haunted Mansion Holiday</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Nov 2002 22:39:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Maletic</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;s Land play area (very well done), but mainly to see the Haunted Mansion Holiday makeover that I unfortunately missed last [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gregmaletic.wordpress.com&blog=424931&post=6&subd=gregmaletic&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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