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101… Damnations?

Hellfire and brimstone are topics not usually associated with Walt Disney Productions.

– Walt Disney Productions, 1981

No, that title is not me being clever and kind of inappropriate. It’s Disney being kind of inappropriate!

I’ve been waiting to show this one to you for a while. This fascinating article appeared in the […]

Makin’ Memories, 1974 Style

Way back in the day, before human ingenuity blessed us with the miracle of digital photography, you actually had to think before you took a picture. Why, in my day we couldn’t just cast around taking hundreds of pictures willy-nilly with our cameras and iPhones and hula-hoops and dungarees; we had to stop, analyze the […]

Sponsors From The Past – The auto-train

From the very beginning, Disney theme parks have been closely tied to their corporate sponsors. This was born of necessity; Walt had to rely on those sponsorships to get Disneyland built in 1955, and it’s a tactic that the company has used ever since to differing levels of success or taste. The effect of this […]

December at the Walt Disney Family Museum

The hits keep on coming from the Walt Disney Family Museum this December. The main event for fans will no doubt be the celebration of Walt’s birthday on December 5th, which will feature a lecture by former Disney Imagineers Blaine Gibson and Rolly Crump and composer Richard Sherman. Also exciting is the premiere of a […]

The WEDway’s Back

There’s been a lot of low-level news lately that I’ve neglected to mention, and one of these stories involves my beloved WEDway Peoplemover. The Tomorrowland classic took a brief refurbishment break when Space Mountain went down for its rehab earlier this year, and has recently opened again with some minor changes.

Visually, the lights along […]