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• Floating along above the crowds at USF's Mardi Gras Celebration

  Max Schilling interrupts his bead-flinging practice to recount what it was like to ride a parade float through Universal Studios Florida last month Read More... Posted Saturday, March 21, 2009 12:00 AM | 2 Comments

• Last call at the Adventurers Club

  Max Schilling was there on the very last night that this Pleasure Island nightclub was open to the public. He now share his thoughts as well as some of the photographs that he took on Saturday night Read More... Posted Monday, September 29, 2008 12:00 AM | 11 Comments Filed under: Walt Disney World, Downtown Disney, 2008 , the Walt Disney World Resort, Walt Disney World Resort, Disney, audience , grand finale, storyline, WDW , Pleasure Island, Adventurers Club, The Adventurers Club, PI, AC, French Maid, French Maids, Otis Wren, Emil Bleehall, Pamelia Perkins, Jonathan Coulton, The Future Soon, closing, Madam Zarkov, Marcel, Emil Bleehall Junior, Emil Bleehall Senior, safari, Fingers, performers, DTD

• "Disaster! A Major Motion Picture Ride ... Starring YOU!" debuts at Universal Studios Florida

  Max Schilling was there as the doors were literally blown off of this new San Francisco Area attraction. He reports on what this radically revamped version of "Earthquake -- The Big One" is actually like Read More... Posted Friday, January 18, 2008 12:00 AM | 3 Comments Filed under: Walt Disney World, Christmas, "Earthquake -- The Big One" , Universal Studios Florida, 2008 , Universal Creative , theme park , attraction, 1974 , Sensurround , "Earthquake", USF , guest , interactivity , "Disaster! A Major Motion Picture Ride ... Starring YOU!" , Universal Orlando Resort, grand opening , Bill Davis , San Francisco Area , show building, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson , O-town , Frank Kinkaid, Christopher Walken , "Baboon!", "Apocageddon" , "Fungus", B-movie , "Mutha Nature" , Musion , production assistant , Musion Eyeliner technology, Musion Eyeliner, technology, UOR, the Magic Kingdom, the Walt Disney World Resort, Walt Disney World Resort, Pepper's Ghost , effect , "The Haunted Mansion" , Disney, Disney theme parks , worldwide, pre-show, cameo appearance , audience , filming , shooting , scenes , inserts, finished film, motion picture , cheap , grand finale, finale, underground, subway , subway station , earthquake, 8.0 earthquake, sequence , off-load area, trailer , insert scenes, pre-show area, explosion, close-up , aboard, "Disaster!", USF attraction , elements , previous show , storyline, San Francisco , March , "The Simpsons" attraction , "The Simpsons" , "The Simpsons Ride" , "Back to the Future -- The Ride" , "Back to the Future" , Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, Twentieth Century Fox, Universal Studios Islands of Adventure, Islands of Adventure, IOA, J K Rowling , fan, "The Wizarding World of Harry Potter" , WDW , Magic Kingdom, tricks, catchphrase, total disaster, 2009, Universal

• "Pirates of the Caribbean" fans brave cold & dark to be among the first to purchase the "At World's End" DVD

  Max Schilling reports on this early morning event, where 700 shoppers waited in line outside of WDW's World of Disney so that they could then get their hands of this eagerly anticipated disc Read More... Posted Tuesday, December 04, 2007 11:00 AM | 21 Comments Filed under: Walt Disney World, Downtown Disney, Shopping

• Disney's 12 ... er ... 10 ... um ... Would you believe 8 Days of Christmas?

  As the actual twelve days of Christmas draw to a close, JHM webmaster Max Schilling explores the Downtown Disney shop that used to pay tribute to this part of the holiday. Until that WDW store's need to sell you more stuff overtook its desire to tell a coherent story Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 03, 2007 12:00 AM | 15 Comments Filed under: Walt Disney World, Downtown Disney, Christmas, Shopping