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Lost Horizons

Concept rendering for Horizons post-show. Click to enlarge.

Happy New Year, everyone. For my first substantive post of 2009 I have something really special to share – a piece of never-before-seen concept art for the defunct yet beloved EPCOT Center attraction Horizons. The rendering dates to 1980, when the attraction was still known under its […]

Beacon Joe here…

Beacon Joe here, sitting on the banks of the Rivers of America…. or at least I wish I was. I’ve got the Kingdom on the brain, here’s a couple of photos (some poor, some better) of some of my favorite places I wish I was.

The only source of energy that will never run out…

Greetings, all. I hope everyone had a good holiday season and are having an adequate new year so far. Pickings have obviously been sparse around here recently, but we look forward to gearing back up fairly soon. Despite the fact that most of the news from Orlando is gloomy and uninteresting of late, I […]

Woody’s Roundup 10-19-2008

More links and tidbits for your weekend perusal:

Ryan at the Main Street Gazette bids farewell to Pocahontas and her Forest Friends, which ended its ten-year run at Animal Kingdom last month. The show, tucked away into a small theater on the park’s periphery, was never a blockbuster attraction, but it had a decidedly […]

The Future of Further Study

“We just try to make a good picture. And then the professors come along and tell us what we do.” – Walt Disney          

Foxx at Passport to Dreams Old & New has written an interesting series of articles entitled “For Further Study”, the latest of which surveys Frontierland’s Rivers of America for references to […]