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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 […]

The All-New D23 Website

Marc Davis artwork for The Enchanted Snow Palace, a planned but never built attraction designed for Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom

Hi, remember me?

I apologize things have been dead around here for so long, but finally the fruits of my offline efforts are starting to appear. As you might have seen, Disney’s […]

Bye, Bye Birthdayland

One day more…

Tomorrow marks the end of an era, when Mickey’s Toontown Fair closes in Orlando. Twenty-two years after its opening as a “temporary” area, Mickey’s Birthdayland, the cobbled-together land will face the bulldozer in preparation for the Fantasyland expansion.

Mickey’s Birthdayland debuted to celebrate the Mouse’s 60th birthday in 1988. Pieced […]

In Case You Wonder Why I Rag On Eisner…

From a 1989 guidebook I just stumbled upon in my files:

A pettin’ zoo?! Two tickets to Orlando, please!!

What’s really atrocious is that the darned jingle from the Railroad spiel is still stuck in my head, twenty years later. Curse you, Mickey’s Birthdayland!!

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