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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 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: The Disneyland expansion plan that never happened

Jim Hill

Danni T writes in to say: You've been posting an awful lot of Disney World stories lately. Isn't it time that you wrote something about Disneyland again? Maybe do another one of those stories where you talk about rides, shows or attractions that never got built? Ask and ye shall receive. The history...

on14 Nov 2008
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: 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: What a doll ! Remembering Joyce Carlson (1923 - 2008)

Jim Hill

The world got a little smaller this past Tuesday with the passing of Disney Legend Joyce Carlson . And -- no -- I'm not just saying that because this veteran Imagineer worked on six different versions of "it's a small world." With Joyce not only helping to create the original version of this much beloved...

on3 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 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: The Disneyland expansion plan that never happened

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

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: What a doll ! Remembering Joyce Carlson (1923 - 2008)

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