Browse by Tags

• 100 Years of Magic
• 1401 Flower Street
• 1941
• 1994
• 2001
• 2006
• 2008
• 9/11
• acting classes
• acting coaches
• Adventureland
• air conditioning
• Alice Marriott
• animated feature
• attraction
• August
• autographs
• Barnstormer
• Big Cheese
• book
• butler
• butlers
• Casey Jr.
• Casey Jr. Circus Train
• Casey Jr. Jr.
• cast member
• cast members
• CD
• character
• characters
• Charlie Ridgeway
• Christmas
• Cinderella
• circus train
• city mouse
• clearance issues
• coaster
• construction
• country home
• country house
• country mouse
• D23
• D23 EXPO
• David Koenig
• Denise Preskitt
• dialogue
• disc
• Disney
• Disney characters
• Disney Fairies
• Disney Publicity
• Disney World
• Disneyana fan
• Disneyana fans
• Doubleday
• Duckburg
• Duckburg USA
• Dumbo
• Dumbo Circus
• Epcot
• Epcot Flower & Garden Festival
• Euro Disney
• Euro Disneyland
• expansion
• Fairest of All: A Tale of the Wicked Queen
• Fantasy Forest
• Fantasyland
• fashion
• final arrangements
• fireplace
• friend-of-Mickey
• friends-of-Mickey
• fright
• Goofy
• Goofy's Wiseacre Farm
• Grant's tomb
• grim grinning ghosts
• grim grinning gracious ghosts
• gruesome gags
• guest complaints
• guests
• Imagineer
• Imagineering
• Imagineers
• Liberty Square
• smokestack
• spiel
• Spinning Disney's World: Memories of a Magic Kingdom Press Agent
• The Animated Man : A Life of Walt Disney
• The Ballroom
• The Barnstormer
• The Barnstormer at Goofy's Wiseacre Farm
• The Entrance Hallway
• The Foyer
• The Haunted Mansion
• The Magic Kingdom
• The Walt Disney World Resort
• Walt Disney World
• WDI
• WDW

• Mickey & Minnie say "Farewell" to Toontown Fair, "Hello" to the Town Square Exhibition Hall

  Jim Hill brings the latest news of the Fantasy Forest project. Which involves the Toontown crew packing up and moving to new digs down on Main Street USA Read More... Posted Tuesday, September 29, 2009 12:00 AM | 18 Comments Filed under: theme park, Imagineering, Walt Disney World, Magic Kingdom, Disney Fairies, Dumbo Circus, Mickey Mouse, Dumbo, WDI, WDW, Imagineer, Walt Disney Studios, D23, animated feature, Disneyana fans, Main Street USA, 2001, guest, guests, 1401 Flower Street, Town Square Exposition Hall, autographs, Goofy , character , coaster, Imagineers, characters , Disney characters, Mickey's Toontown Fair , D23 EXPO, Disneyana fan, Walt Disney World Resort, 1941, The Barnstormer, Barnstormer, Goofy's Wiseacre Farm, kiddie coaster, Casey Jr., Casey Jr. Circus Train, circus train, Casey Jr. Jr., clearance issues, Wiseacre Farm, smokestack, off the table, pies, seltzer, expansion, Fantasy Forest, Magic Kingdom expansion, country house, country home, Town Square, Minnie, Minnie Mouse, 100 Years of Magic, Toontown Fair, photographs, country mouse, city mouse, Zoo Crew, Big Cheese, friend-of-Mickey, homeless, friends-of-Mickey, air conditioning, Operational, motion picture industry, Duckburg, heat, Duckburg USA, humidity, USA, Operational standpoint, The Barnstormer at Goofy's Wiseacre Farm

• "Creating Magic" reveals how the modern Magic Kingdom really operates

  Jim Hill reviews Lee Cockerell's new book, which recounts the many lessons that this Disney vet learned while he was the Executive Vice President in charge of Operations at the WDW Resort Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 15, 2008 12:00 AM | 7 Comments Filed under: book, Disney, parade, Epcot, Magic Kingdom, Tinker Bell, The Walt Disney Company, The Magic Kingdom, Euro Disneyland, Cinderella, 9/11, Walt Disney : The Triumph of the American Imagination, The Animated Man : A Life of Walt Disney, Neal Gabler, Michael Barrier, WDW, cast members, cast member, David Koenig, Realityland: True-Life Adventures of Walt Disney World, Disney World, The Walt Disney World Resort, September, guest, guests, Disney Publicity , publicity, 2006, pins, 1994, Lee Cockerell, Trapper Keeper, Charlie Ridgeway, Spinning Disney's World: Memories of a Magic Kingdom Press Agent, MMO, modern Mouse House, Doubleday, Grant's tomb, Alice Marriott, millennium celebration, Euro Disney, Publicity Department

• Characters come to the rescue at the Magic Kingdom

  Jim Hill explains how WDW officials used Mickey & friends as a diversion while repairs were being made on the Liberty Square bridge Read More... Posted Friday, August 29, 2008 12:00 PM | 5 Comments Filed under: Magic Kingdom, The Magic Kingdom, WDW, Fantasyland, Liberty Square, Operations, Christmas, 2008, The Walt Disney World Resort, guest, guests, holiday season , WDW guests, construction, August, WDW officials , Mickey's Pirate & Princess Party, Adventureland , Liberty Square bridge, operational issues

• Monday Mouse Watch : Disney World's new grim grinning gracious ghosts

  Forget about fright. Now it's all about being polite. Or so says Jim Hill as he talks about the new spiel that cast members are expected to recite whenever they work at this Magic Kingdom attraction Read More... Posted Monday, June 02, 2008 12:00 AM | 14 Comments Filed under: Disney, attraction, Imagineering, Walt Disney World, Epcot, Magic Kingdom, The Haunted Mansion, WDI, WDW, Imagineer, Walt Disney Imagineering, The Foyer, The Portrait Gallery, The Entrance Hallway, Liberty Square, cast members, Jeff Lange, cast member, JHM, guest, guests, butlers, maids, acting classes, Imagineers, CD, script, The Ballroom, wretched bodies, Fairest of All: A Tale of the Wicked Queen, guest complaints , gruesome gags , PR team , acting coaches , dialogue , spiel , show narration , The Stretching Room, final arrangements, maid, butler, please, Prince Arthur, grim grinning ghosts, grim grinning gracious ghosts, polite, fright, retraining, plussing, fashion, The Story and Song from the Haunted Mansion, fireplace, MouseSteps, JeffLangeDVD, photos, screensaver, Epcot Flower & Garden Festival, disc, Denise Preskitt