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Blog Post: Are Disney's new interactive queues actually encouraging theme park Guests to be more destructive?

Jim Hill

Figment's Friend sent me a rather anxious e-mail last week. This JHM reader wanted to share a bit of news coming out of WDW's Magic Kingdom which had really upset him: Did you see what happened to that portrait of Tony Baxter which was hung in the new interactive queue of Big Thunder Mountain...

on25 Mar 2013
Blog Post: Are the Imagineers taking another shot at getting a shoot-the-chutes built at a Disney theme park?

Jim Hill

It was supposed to be Disneyland 's first thrill ride: Monstro the Whale ... Copyright Disney Enterprises, Inc. All rights reserved Which - in much the same way that Dumbo the Flying Elephant ... Copyright Disney Enterprises, Inc. All rights reserved ... was just a Disneyified version of that amusement...

on9 Jan 2012
Blog Post: How many of you strolled down Disneyland's Afternoon Avenue and experienced "Disney Afternoon - Live!"

Jim Hill

Picture this: It's the Fall of 1990. And after a highly successful summer (with attendance levels at the Happiest Place on Earth reaching record highs thanks to this theme park's 35 th anniversary celebration as well as the popularity of the Party Gras Parade ), Disneyland management is now facing...

on15 Nov 2011
Blog Post: Why For aren't more Disney World attractions cloned for Disneyland?

Jim Hill

Maddy Mouse wrote in to say: I have kind of a weird question for you to answer. I notice that Walt Disney World has lots of rides, shows and attractions that the Imagineers originally designed for Disneyland . But when it comes to rides, shows and attractions that the Imagineers originally designed for...

on28 Jul 2011
Blog Post: Big Thunder model makes for a fun addition to the Disneyland Hotel

Jim Hill

As part of this week's hit-and-run trip to Southern California, I made a special trip to the Disneyland Hotel yesterday. Just so I could then check out that replica of the Big Thunder Mountain Railroad which had recently been installed in the Frontier tower lobby. Photo by Jim Hill When you're...

on6 Jul 2011
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: Mist Direction or How DAK Operations just slipped Joe Rohde a Mickey

Jim Hill

Folks who visited Disney's Animal Kingdom late last month got something of a treat. In that -- for a while there, anyway -- most of " Expedition Everest " 's effects were actually working. The scenic mist that's supposed to drift off of Forbidden Mountain top actually did that. The fog bank that your...

on26 May 2008
Blog Post: A PC Haunted Mansion ?! Now that's scary

Jim Hill

Forget about "Grim Grinning Ghosts." Get ready for "Prim, we-don't-mean-to-offend-anyone Ghosts." That's the word coming out of Glendale these days. Reportedly in response to guest complaints about goofy but ghoulish lines like "Drag your wretched bodies to the dead center of the room," the Imagineers...

on2 Jan 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: Are Disney's new interactive queues actually encouraging theme park Guests to be more destructive?

Blog Post: Are the Imagineers taking another shot at getting a shoot-the-chutes built at a Disney theme park?

Blog Post: How many of you strolled down Disneyland's Afternoon Avenue and experienced "Disney Afternoon - Live!"

Blog Post: Why For aren't more Disney World attractions cloned for Disneyland?

Blog Post: Big Thunder model makes for a fun addition to the Disneyland Hotel

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

Blog Post: Mist Direction or How DAK Operations just slipped Joe Rohde a Mickey

Blog Post: A PC Haunted Mansion ?! Now that's scary

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