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By Michael - March 6th, 2008
What if Pooh’s “100-Acre Wood” was in Anaheim? Or Ariel and Sebastian found their new undersea home here? What if Anaheim could be home to not two, but three Disney parks?
– Excerpt from thirdthemepark.com
Yes, what about that, Mr. Eisner?
With all the fooferall surrounding recent rumors of a fifth gate (or 4th and a half gate) in Florida, I’ve been reminded of an odd period in Disney history when, from 2000 until 2002, Disney operated a website called thirdthemepark.com. Occasionally when I make joking reference to the site as a generic verbal stand-in for any gross instance of managerial hubris, I find that Disney fans don’t remember or were not aware that this page once existed.
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Thirdthemepark.com is a fairly interesting piece of Disney theme park lore, especially for those interested in the NeverWorld of lost park concepts. While the site itself is long gone (its URL is currently owned by an individual in Colorado), one can still view elements of it courtesy of the Internet Archive. So lets travel back, forty thousand years (or, say, seventeen), and take a look at this mysterious website and the process leading up to its creation.
Continue reading Third Theme Park – It’s dot-com!
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By Michael - February 29th, 2008 Progress City is a worker’s utopia, so we don’t often sell out to the man or shill for corporate interests. But sometimes, a deal is just too too sweet…
Anyway, thanks to this post by George at Imaginerding, I discovered some great Disney books with freakishly high discounts on Amazon. After a little sleuthing myself, I uncovered other titles that are on sale. Some of these titles are 80% off – sweet sweet savings of 20-30 devalued American dollars! So check below and stoke that economy before it collapses – at least we can burn the books for heat after peak oil hits!
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By Michael - February 25th, 2008 Now playing at the Progress City Googleplex…
 “I drink your honey! I drink it up!” I have to say, I think the graphic violence was a little over-the-top. Still, Big Al has cemented his reputation as one of our generation’s finest actors. Liver Lips kinda phoned it in, but that guy is just in it for the paycheck I hear.
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By Michael - February 25th, 2008 
Despite all appearances, we haven’t packed up and moved out of town. Things have been pretty hectic in that pesky “real world” ; I don’t know how you crazy kids keep it up with your blogging and hula hoops and dungarees and what-not with your twenty-two skiddo and Stutz Bearcats and the sock hops and such…
Anyway, I wanted to drop in to offer congratulations to Brad Bird and company for Ratatouille‘s Academy Award win last night. The film, nominated for five awards, won the Oscar for Best Animated Picture of the year. Frankly, I’m bewildered as to how it didn’t win for Sound Mixing and Sound Editing, and I’m terribly disappointed that the brilliant Michael Giacchino didn’t win for Best Score. Still, Best Animated Film isn’t chump change and we wish Bird and co. the absolute best on his next project, 1906. See some of Bird’s Oscar comments here.
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By Michael - February 16th, 2008 There has been an explosion lately of rumors concerning a future fifth gate for the Florida property. Things came to a head this morning when Jim Hill posted a story with the exclusive “scoop” on the long-rumored new Walt Disney World park. Far be it for a humble Tiki god to declare shenanigans on a fellow Disney blogger, but from looking at the web searches that visitors have used to find this page over the last several months it’s obvious that there’s a great interest in rumors about a fifth gate, and I can’t help but to weigh in with my opinion on this story.
Continue reading Fifth Theme Park!!!1! ZOMG!!@!1!
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