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 [...]
Visitors to Space Mountain today, with its Buck Rogers, sci-fi-inspired trappings, might be excused for forgetting the over-the-top NASA awesomeness that was the style back when the ride opened in 1975. (Does anyone else miss this statue out front?) Hopefully I can jog some memories with my attempt at a Space Mountain poster, a ride [...]
I’ve started a new blog over at LaughingPlace.com called True-Life Adventureland, for reasons that are better explained over there. The new blog will be a place for me to make lots of short, quick observations about Disney. I’ve been tempted to do that here many times, but LaughingPlace–especially given their large readership–is just a better [...]
I’ve been getting a lot of requests for printable versions of the Disney attraction posters I did a few years back. Request granted: you can download any of the images in PDF format by clicking on the links below. (PDFs are resolution-independent, meaning that you can print them out at any size you want and [...]
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.
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 [...]
