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Blog Post: Theme Park University website now offering insights about how the themed entertainment industry actually works

Jim Hill

The Internet is really a wondrous place. Especially if you're a young person who's considering a career in animation. If you've ever considered becoming a character designer someday, you can always swing by Tom Bancroft 's Character Mentor Studio or Stephen Silver's blog and then...

on3 Mar 2013
Blog Post: Why For WDW's 40th anniversary celebration is kind of a modest affair

Jim Hill

Brent SD writes in to ask about JHM's 40 th -anniversary-of- Walt-Disney-World coverage. Or lack thereof. I can't help but notice that while many of the other Disney news sites have been doing article after article this week about Disney World's 40 th birthday, JimHillMedia has been posting...

on29 Sep 2011
Blog Post: How the "Disney World" project was described to Florida legislators back in February of 1967

Jim Hill

If you've visited Walt Disney World recently, I bet that you got to see some of the fun 40 th anniversary items that the Resort's shops currently have in stock. And as we get closer to October 1 st (i.e. WDW's official opening date), I'd imagine that we'll see even more 40 th anniversary...

on4 Feb 2011
Blog Post: Figuring out what was wrong with Disney's original Abraham Lincoln AA figure

Jim Hill

Back in the late 1950s, when Corky Wilds was working for Mitchell Camera Corporation , he'd make the trek from his home in North Hollywood out to Glendale. "This was before the highway got built. So the only way to get to Mitchell Camera's offices in Glendale was to drive up Riverside Drive...

on30 Aug 2010
Blog Post: Is everything on display in DCA's "Blue Sky Cellar" actually going to get built? Maybe. Maybe not

Jim Hill

Anne L. writes in to ask: "This past week, I couldn't help but notice that -- out of all the major Disneyana sites on the Web -- JHM is the only one that hasn't mentioned DCA 's Blue Sky Cellar yet. Why is that?" To be honest, Anne, you kind of answered your own question. Given that everyone else out...

on24 Oct 2008
Blog Post: WDI's X-Scream Makeover of WDW's Haunted Mansion: Part 3

Jim Hill

Picking up where we left off on Tuesday ... I know that this is going to sound a bit bizarre. Particularly given that -- back in 1955 -- Walt Disney built an entire theme park for just $17 million . But $30 million doesn't go as far as you might think these days. Which is why WDI really had to pick...

on23 Oct 2007

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Blog Post: Theme Park University website now offering insights about how the themed entertainment industry actually works

Blog Post: Why For WDW's 40th anniversary celebration is kind of a modest affair

Blog Post: How the "Disney World" project was described to Florida legislators back in February of 1967

Blog Post: Figuring out what was wrong with Disney's original Abraham Lincoln AA figure

Blog Post: Is everything on display in DCA's "Blue Sky Cellar" actually going to get built? Maybe. Maybe not

Blog Post: WDI's X-Scream Makeover of WDW's Haunted Mansion: Part 3