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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: "Mousejunkies!" takes an affectionate, irreverent look at Walt Disney World's appeal

Jim Hill

Okay. It's confession time. I know that the following statement may be hard for Disney hardcores to hear. But when you make your living as I do -- writing about The Walt Disney Company five days a week, 52 weeks a year, year in, year out -- there really is such a thing as too much Mouse. So when...

on18 Aug 2010
Blog Post: WDW's Galaxy Palace Theater to be replaced with ... Cast Member parking ?!

Jim Hill

"Don't it always seem to go, That you don't know what you've got Till it's gone They paved paradise and put up a parking lot." -- Joni Mitchell , " Big Yellow Taxi " I doubt that anyone -- not the choirs or the cheerleaders or all of the Cast Members that have performed here over the years -- would ever...

on28 Oct 2008
Blog Post: Will pirates soon be returning to Treasure ... er ... Discovery Island?

Jim Hill

Christy S. writes in to say: Jim When I was a little girl, my father and I flew down to Walt Disney World . This was just a year or so after the resort opened and I distinctly remember taking a boat ride with my father out to some island. Once we got there, these pirates led us on a treasure hunt which...

on5 Jun 2008
Blog Post: Monday Mouse Watch : Disney World's new grim grinning gracious ghosts

Jim Hill

Do you remember that story that JHM ran back in January? You know, the one where we talked how -- in response to guest complaints about somewhat gruesome gags like "Please drag your wretched bodies to the dead center of the room" and "Please follow the blood red carpet into the Foyer" -- the Imagineers...

on1 Jun 2008

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

Blog Post: "Mousejunkies!" takes an affectionate, irreverent look at Walt Disney World's appeal

Blog Post: WDW's Galaxy Palace Theater to be replaced with ... Cast Member parking ?!

Blog Post: Will pirates soon be returning to Treasure ... er ... Discovery Island?

Blog Post: Monday Mouse Watch : Disney World's new grim grinning gracious ghosts