My video interview: What it’s like to work at Epcot
Here’s a new video I did (and the link to the original). I’m not actually in it because I felt that it should be about them, not me. But it was me who was asking the questions, and it was me who...
View ArticleThe Disneyland Railroad runs on old french fry oil. Want proof?
I have a soft spot in my heart for this one, and not because I’ve been eating too many french fries. I pitched this idea to Disneyland for about a year and a half before they were kind enough to...
View ArticleVulgarity or good clean fun? Disney’s new ‘soaking awesome’ tees
A new souvenir tee-shirt soon to be on sale at Disneyland and Walt Disney World will sport a frisky turn of phrase. The shirt, themed to the water flume spectacular Splash Mountain, will proclaim “It...
View ArticleThe Disney Store Times Square opens. I’m without words
On Tuesday, the Disney Store makes a triumphant official grand opening in Times Square, shutting down the so-called “Crossroads of the World” with an appearance by a rodent that’s huge even by...
View ArticleDisney Legend Bob Gurr on creating his Disneyland rides
"Since Walt wanted the Matterhorn Bobsleds to open in just over a year later, along with a Submarine Voyage, a larger Autopia, and a Monorail, he asked if it could be built faster. He asked me to...
View ArticleCongress demands answers on privacy from Disney: the letter
Today, Edward Markey (D-Mass.) wrote The Walt Disney Company CEO Bob Iger demanding answers about the new MyMagic+ “magic bands” RFID-based wristbands that are being implemented at the Orlando theme...
View ArticleAre Disney’s Magic Kingdom Google Maps images fake?
What's the deal with these bird's-eye photos of Disney's Magic Kingdom in Orlando? They appear on Google Maps when you click "Satellite." They look fabricated. Why?
View ArticleA Walt Disney World guidebook for the rest of us
Most of the other Disney guides seemed to be crypto-valentines. The market was missing a guide to Walt Disney World written for the way most of us react to the resort.
View ArticleBoth of my current books are now out!
As of now, my two current Frommer's guides are officially released! One came out in November, and one is just released. For your health's sake, I do not recommend writing two entire 256-page books at...
View ArticleAwesome photos of Walt Disney World from the early ’70s
A treasure trove of family snapshots from our visits to the Magic Kingdom in Walt Disney World in 1973 and the mid-1970s. The place has changed so much it'll blow your mind.
View ArticleWhat Will Become of the Home Where Walt Disney Lived When He Was a Loser?
Dreams do come true, and sometimes wilder than anyone could have imagined them, but sometimes they have to lay dormant—or get left behind, or rot, or even be given to someone else—for a long time...
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