Here’s another guest blog by my nine-year-old daughter, Katie. When she got home from school I told her I had just read that the Kim Possible World Showcase Adventure was being replaced by a similar Phineas and Ferb experience. She immediately took to the laptop to offer her opinion on the news. Here’s Kate: Hi, [...]
After a three-year run, the Kim Possible World Showcase Adventure is going to Pixie Dust Heaven with Mr. Toad, Tapestry of Nations and the Humpback of Notre Dame show. (Among many others.) As Walt once said – and I’ll just paraphrase him here – the parks will always be changing and growing. Plussing, as it [...]
I hit a point each morning where I feel an undeniable pull to the south. I need to be at Walt Disney World. Yeah, pretty much every day. For those few minutes, I find myself daydreaming about where I would be. I don’t put any forethought into it, I just think: “Where am I at [...]
With Epcot’s 30th coming up next year, I was daydreaming today about changes I think would revitalize the park. Got me to wondering, what would you say if Imagineering sat you in a room and said “tell us what we should do next.” Personally, and I know many will cry heresy, I would say it’s [...]
I have yet to spend a Fourth of July at Walt Disney World, but hope to in the next few years. I know exactly what I’d do: I’d hit the Carousel of Progress, Hall of Presidents and then head over to the American Adventure. First, I’d love to see the Voices of Liberty do this: [...]
Katie and I just got back from another Daddy/Daughter trip to Walt Disney World. Before we left, she found one of my old journals where I chronicled some of our vacations. She told me she wanted to do the same thing on this trip, so she packed a journal and spent every night writing. When [...]
The woman who has been immortalized in a statue at Epcot’s Norway pavilion has died. Grete Waitz, a Norwegian runner who won nine New York City Marathons and the silver medal at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, has died after a six-year battle with cancer. She was 57. Helle Aanesen, the manager of the Active [...]
This video is incredible. The guys from DiscoverEpcot.com shot and put together a great stop-motion film that brings viewers into every pavilion around the world showcase. I kept finding myself smiling and laughing out loud. It’s fantastic. In the video description: “This is a stop motion project where I travel around the World Showcase Lagoon. [...]
I’ve taken part in a few “Drink Around the World” events at Epcot, but I’ve always taken it very easy. I don’t want to end up on someone’s blog acting like a weirdo. I don’t want to bother cast members, make a scene or bother other guests. Not that this bothered anyone: The guy in [...]
Journey Into Imagination is 28 years old. It’s pretty well known what I think of the creepy Dreamfinder and the cloying Figment. (See the first “Mousejunkies” book.) But all kidding aside, let me paraphrase a quote to explain my true feelings about it: A bad day on the Imagination attraction is better than a good [...]
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