Talk about living in an era of extremes! It wasn’t too long ago that theme parks seemed to be entangled in a bloody feud to hold the most records. Roller coasters suddenly became taller, faster, steeper, and more expensive with parks proudly advertising their “world’s biggest,” “highest,” “longest,” “fastest,” and “only” attractions across the nation….
Fantasyland, Cars Land, Tomorrowland… Glacier Bay? If park icons are the heart of Disney Parks, themed lands are the bones and joints! One of the basic tennents of Disneyland that set it apart from the amusement piers of the era was its lands that recreated idealized time periods and places brought to life in agonizing…
Forget everything you thought you know about these Disney classics.
Disney regularly develops new theme park attractions based on its own movies, and sometimes those of other studios as well. Let’s take a look at 5 movies that are set to be adapted into rides by the company’s Imagineers.
You might expect to find these attractions at every Disney resort, but you’d be wrong.
Theme parks are heading the way of Hollywood – spectacle-driven “stories” that eschew originality for annualizable franchises. Here’s the two reasons why. Editor’s note: This is the latest of a series of features in which one of our writers takes a deliberately controversial stance on a theme park-related topic to try and stir up some…
This is the weekly news, rumors and refurbishments update for Walt Disney World for the week of June 22, 2014. Here are the three biggest updates from around the resort for the past seven days… 1. Frozen is coming to Disney’s Hollywood Studios all summer long Remember that ‘Rock Your Summer Side’ dance party thingy…
From Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs on, Disney’s greatest achievements have typically been based on fairy tales. Perhaps it’s that early success that has made castles such an identifying feature in Disney Parks. From 1955 on, castles have played a pretty big role not only as awe-inspiring park icons, but as attraction entrances, meet-and-greets,…
These unique rides and attractions can only be found in a single Disney park.
Could Indiana Jones Adventure, Mystic Manor, Typhoon Lagoon, Tower of Terror, The Enchanted Tiki Room, Pleasure Island, Jungle Cruise, and even Haunted Mansion all be connected by this cross-continental secret society?
