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The Progress City Radio Hour – Episode 56 – Mobility!

Rendering of EPCOT’s World of Motion by Herb Ryman, 1979

It’s fun to be free as The Progress City Radio Hour continues our 40th anniversary retrospective of EPCOT Center with a celebration of the fifth freedom – mobility! In this episode, heed the call of the open road as we talk about the development of […]

This Month’s Podcasts: Into the Wilderness!

Bob Baranick and Phantom Manor

Another month means another wave of Progress City Radio Hour episodes! This month we head off into the wilderness with a wide range of frontier discussion and yet another interview with a veteran theme park designer.

First comes our Wilderness episode. Here we grab our musket and […]

Leading Ladies And Femmes Fatales: The Art Of Marc Davis

As if their current Mary Blair retrospective wasn’t enough to get you to the Walt Disney Family Museum this year, the museum has just announced a second exhibition that will debut later this year. Leading Ladies And Femmes Fatales: The Art Of Marc Davis will go on display in the museum’s Theater Gallery from […]

Neverworlds – The Magic Kingdom’s Fantasia Gardens

This one’s a bit of a surprise. Most Disney folks, myself included, upon reading that headline would probably think of the fairly well-known but unbuilt Fantasia Gardens – the boat attraction based on the animated film that was intended to be part of Animal Kingdom’s “Beastly Kingdom.”

Concept art for the Animal Kingdom’s Fantasia Gardens […]