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By Michael - April 20th, 2010 EPCOT Center’s path from concept to execution was, in so many ways, far more tortured than most Disney fans know. Far from a merely difficult transition from Walt’s concept for a futuristic city to a permanent World’s Fair (or, as modern revisionists would have it, a straight shot from Walt’s mind to the park that […]
By Michael - April 15th, 2010 Have you ever looked at a picture that you’ve seen a million times before, only to note something random that you have to have seen before but had never noticed? Check out this picture from 1980 of Imagineer John Hench, and see if you notice anything:
John Hench with an Imagineering model of EPCOT Center’s […]
By Michael - April 15th, 2010 Stay classy!
Spotted between Big Thunder Mountain and Splash Mountain on March 14th, 2010.
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By Michael - April 6th, 2010 When last we met, we watched a lavish trip planning video from 1993. Today we’re going to stop by Walt Disney World merely one year later, but it’s pretty obvious that by 1994 things have really changed.
For one thing, there’s the length of the video. The 1993 edition is almost fifty minutes long; by […]
By Michael - April 5th, 2010 (Photo: MousePlanet)
Might there be a reason that construction has not begun in earnest on the new Fantasyland? Perhaps…
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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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