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Blog Post: How a Toon Elevator helped Mickey Mouse learn how to talk

Jim Hill

By now, you’ve no doubt seen those online videos that made many a theme park fan go gaga. Where a few lucky Guests – as they were making a stop at Mickey’s House at Disneyland earlier this week – suddenly found themselves face-to-face with a NextGen walkaround character. A Mickey Mouse who not only addressed...

on7 May 2010
Blog Post: What happens when things actually do sort-of, kind-of go horribly wrong at a Disney theme park

Jim Hill

At the D23 EXPO back in September, I noted – with some amusement – that the new attractions that are now in the works for Hong Kong Disneyland follow the tried-and-true WDI formula. In that the critical event, the thing that sets everything in motion (Be it Albert the monkey opening an enchanted music...

on9 Feb 2010
Blog Post: Monday Mouse Watch : It's lights out for DAK's "Rivers of Light" parade, while Beastly Kingdomme makes a character-based comeback

Jim Hill

For Disney's Animal Kingdom fans ... It's one of those bad news / good news kind of day. The bad news is ... Plans for DAK's long-in-development nighttime parade -- "Rivers of Lights" -- have been tabled. Not because Animal Kingdom management lost confidence in Steve Davison's original concept. But ...

on23 Mar 2008
Blog Post: Monday Mouse Watch: Is there really such a thing as putting too much Walt into a Disney theme park?

Jim Hill

Last month, theme park fans the world over rejoiced at the news that the Walt Disney Company would be spending more than a billion dollars to redo DCA . With a large chunk of this cash being committed toward the retheming of the entrance portion of this troubled theme park . Which will soon be turned...

on25 Nov 2007

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Blog Post: How a Toon Elevator helped Mickey Mouse learn how to talk

Blog Post: What happens when things actually do sort-of, kind-of go horribly wrong at a Disney theme park

Blog Post: Monday Mouse Watch : It's lights out for DAK's "Rivers of Light" parade, while Beastly Kingdomme makes a character-based comeback

Blog Post: Monday Mouse Watch: Is there really such a thing as putting too much Walt into a Disney theme park?