This is the weekly rumor and refurbishment update for Orlando-area theme parks for the week of January 12, 2014. Walt Disney World: Magic Kingdom: A crane is now onsite at the Magic Kingdom next to Cinderella Castle. The crane is there to remove the 500,000 lights used during the castle dream lights and for refurbishment…
Disney is better known for its dark rides and castles than for its roller coasters. Over the years, though, it has designed some impressive-sounding coasters that never saw the light of day. For every idea that leaves Imagineering and makes it into one of Disney’s parks, there are many others that are canned for practical…
Disney’s Animal Kingdom is the youngest of Walt Disney World’s theme parks, having debuted in 1998. Despite this, a number of attractions that have featured in the park are now closed for good. Some of the closed rides and shows are missed by guests. Others are seen as having deservedly been consigned to the history…
Theme Park Tourist takes a look back at some of the prototype roller coasters that left their mark within the industry.
Disney’s Imagineers have created many magical and amazing attractions over the years. Sometimes, though, they are abandoned – and left to rot.
The UK’s American Adventure theme park closed at the end of the 2006 season. Take a look at what became of the site.
Jobs at Disney’s theme parks are highly sought-after, but some are more attractive than others. Here are 6 jobs that carry the “cool factor”.
There are a host of new rides and attractions coming to UK theme parks in 2014. Here’s a round-up of what’s in store!
In 1902, New York’s Coney Island amusement park planned to install a new roller coaster with a unique feature – a gap in its track. The idea of George Francis Meyer’s Cannon Coaster was that the train would leap over the gap, in a thrilling effect that had never been attempted before. Had the park…
The world of Tomorrow set a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away? It’s possible to varying degrees, according to a lot of folks in the Disney Parks sphere. Imagine, after all, Disneyland’s Tomorrowland. After an unsuccessful and quickly-reversed attempt to give the land Disneyland Paris’ Discoveryland style (with none of its substance)…
