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Blog Post: D23's "Treasures" exhibit offers a comprehensive look at the Walt Disney Company's past, present and future

Jim Hill

Last Monday afternoon, I was at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library & Museum and overheard a pretty funny exchange between two of the docents who'd been assigned to work the " D23 presents Treasures of the Walt Disney Archives " exhibit. Photo by Alice Hill It seems that one of these...

on27 Jul 2012
Blog Post: "Be Our Guest" features an unvarnished take on Disney Company history

Jim Hill

I have to admit that It's been kind of amusing to watch the reaction (both here and elsewhere around the Web) that Tuesday's "What's really behind the sudden change in Disney Parks & Resorts' facial hair policy" story has been getting. With all sorts of would-be Disney scholars...

on26 Jan 2012
Blog Post: October is a very knife time to visit the Disneyland Resort

Jim Hill

Now let me say from the very start of today's photo essay that the Security Hosts who patrol the grounds of the Disneyland Resort actively discourage people from bringing knives on property (That's why they do those bag checks at Disneyland Plaza, after all). But that said, this time of year...

on6 Oct 2010
Blog Post: Carolwood Foundation's fundraiser will reunite 5 of the 6 cars that originally made up the Santa Fe & Disneyland Railroad

Jim Hill

Yesterday's article about DCA 's entrance complex seems to have struck a nerve with JHM readers. Especially the part of that column which talked about the California Zephyr replica that sits in Sunshine Plaza. I can't tell you how many e-mails I got from rail fans who moaned about how their...

on14 Sep 2010
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: Pook-A-Looz give classic Disney characters a quirky new look

Jim Hill

From the people who brought you Passamaquoddy , Heffalumps and Woozles as well as Bibbidi Bobbidi Boo , now come Disney Pook-A-Looz . The official tagline for this quirky new line of plush is “Too cute for their own good.” But these classic Disney characters didn’t get that way all by themselves. They...

on6 Apr 2010
Blog Post: An Olympic-sized Why For

Jim Hill

First up, Davis P. writes to ask about JHM’s American International Toy Fair coverage this week : I thought that Jim Hill Media was a website that mostly covered Disney’s theme parks and animated films. What made you decide to go to New York and cover Toy Fair this year? Dear Davis P. Why did Nancy and...

on19 Feb 2010
Blog Post: Monday Mouse Watch : Get ready for WDW's monstrous new coaster

Jim Hill

Judging by the long lines at " Toy Story Mania " as well as the brisk business that "Hey Howdy Hey!" & the gift shop across the way have been doing, it would appear that Pixar Place has already proven to be a very popular addition to Disney's Hollywood Studios . The only problem with the studio theme...

on21 Jul 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: 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
Blog Post: Why For do the Imagineers keep adding new characters to Disney's classic theme park attractions?

Jim Hill

Earlier this week, Perry T. sent me the following e-mail : Jim, Are you as sick as I am about how the Imagineers keep forcing characters into older attractions at the Disney theme parks? Just in the past six months, we've had that new " Monsters, Inc. Laugh Floor " show replace the Magic Kingdom 's old...

on21 Jun 2007

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Blog Post: D23's "Treasures" exhibit offers a comprehensive look at the Walt Disney Company's past, present and future

Blog Post: "Be Our Guest" features an unvarnished take on Disney Company history

Blog Post: October is a very knife time to visit the Disneyland Resort

Blog Post: Carolwood Foundation's fundraiser will reunite 5 of the 6 cars that originally made up the Santa Fe & Disneyland Railroad

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

Blog Post: Pook-A-Looz give classic Disney characters a quirky new look

Blog Post: An Olympic-sized Why For

Blog Post: Monday Mouse Watch : Get ready for WDW's monstrous new coaster

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

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

Blog Post: Why For do the Imagineers keep adding new characters to Disney's classic theme park attractions?