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By Michael - July 12th, 2020 Here’s to the future and you!
In the lead-up to the creation of Epcot Center during the 1970s, a common refrain from Disney publicity was that, in many ways, Walt’s futuristic dream for the city of EPCOT had already come true in the Florida swamps. The underlying systems and technologies in use at […]
By Michael - July 11th, 2020
Three years goes by pretty quick, doesn’t it?
Not that much has changed. Aside, of course, from the sweeping global pandemic that has kept us locked up inside for four months.
There’s at least one positive (?) outcome of all this cabin fever – there has been plenty of time for podcast shenanigans. I’ve […]
By Michael - April 6th, 2017 Disney Imagineer George McGinnis with a model of the Indiana Jones Adventure ride vehicle.
This one is tough to write.
Disney Imagineer George McGinnis has died at the age of 87. George was the last Imagineer personally hired by Walt Disney, and in his thirty years with Disney he worked on many classic […]
By Michael - March 11th, 2017 Few topics are more fascinating for fans than the mysterious realm of unbuilt Disney attractions. Occasionally, we’re lucky enough to come across rarely-seen artwork for these attractions in the online portfolios of Imagineers. I recently spotted a few rare gems in the profile of veteran designer Bob Baranick, and thought I’d point them out here.
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By Michael - July 24th, 2016 It’s been quite a week… quite a month… quite a year… pretty much all around the world. So why not let’s escape all that – escape through space and time to a magical place called 1994. When the world was new.
Yes, it’s time for a new episode of Walt Disney World Inside Out, this […]
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The Progress City Primer
 From the Progress City archives comes this collection of 33 tall tales and true from Disney history. Available in paperback, hardback, and ebook formats.
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