Progress City, U.S.A.

Here it is – our sophomore effort. There’s Disneyland, there’s Horizons, there’s Robin Hood. We hope you like it.

Remember, you can subscribe to the podcast on iTunes here, and we’d be ever so grateful if you’d write a little review and rate the podcast.

While I’m shilling, I’ll remind you that you can now follow us on Facebook, too. I feel so trendy.

Anyway, here it is. Keep those great suggestions and comments coming – we appreciate how supportive everyone was of the pilot episode, and hope to be back soon with more!

Meet the World has a new post up of a photo essay of Tom Sawyers Island in 1974.  It’s pretty interesting to see how little has changed on the Island save the very significant growth of foliage.   I went back to some pictures I took last year on a visit to WDW, and decided to share them with you all.  You should really go back and catch the other article first to see how much the trees have grown!  Enjoy – you can click on the pictures to see a larger photo slideshow on Picasa.

PS – Thanks to George at Imaginerding for putting the Meet the World article up on his Geek End Update so I could catch wind of it…

OK, I’m actually at work so I can’t linger but I’ll bet that when you woke up this morning you didn’t think your day would involve seeing a 1977 Bollywood musical that was filmed guerrilla-style at Walt Disney World. I mean, I always hope my day will wind up that way but it never does. Except for today. There’s even something in there for you Magic Mountain fans…

It just goes to show ya, anything can happen in the movies. Care to take odds on anyone getting away with something like this today?

Thanks to BoingBoing…

There’s a question that I’ve seen pop up often over the years in the search results by which people are redirected to this site. With all the hubbub leading up to yesterday’s return of Captain EO to Disneyland’s Tomorrowland, I’ve seen a new explosion of people asking this question:

What does Captain “EO” stand for?

I’m assuming they mean as an abbreviation, not what does he stand for philosophically. Because you do not want to know.

Anyway, to answer that question I’ll quote myself – a citation from my old, old, old original Disney website, WEBCOT:

The name ‘Captain EO’ comes from Eos, the Greek goddess of dawn. Yes, Imagineers sometimes take drugs.

So there you go. Officially, EO doesn’t stand for anything. Not even Earl Owensby. It’s just a shout-out to all those ancient Greeks who happen to be Jacko fans.

And now, because it’s apropos, I repost this video:

While I’m no EO fan, doesn’t the fact that we’re still saddled with Honey, I Shrunk the Audience seem like another instance of Walt Disney World getting a swift kick to the batch while Disneyland points and laughs? Let’s see how John Lasseter would like it if he could only ever see Enchanted Tiki Room: Under New Management in perpetuity.

I’ll keep reminding myself – we have the WEDway, we have the WEDway…

Sometime in the pre-dawn hours, Apple saw fit to approve the ProgCast so you can now download and subscribe through iTunes here. You can also search for us in the podcast directory in iTunes itself.

Needless to say, we’d appreciate it if everyone goes to iTunes to subscribe and comment even if you’ve already heard the first episode. Hopefully, we’ll have the followup ready to go soon…

Thanks for the comments and support so far. The Progress City audience is the greatest audience in the woooorrrrldddd!