by Jim Smith | Dec 10, 2022 | Disney Parks & Resorts, Disney Pocket Guides, Facts and Figment Travel Planning, Travel Planning
(A version of this article was shared on Pirates & Princesses, along with similar articles on other Disney Cruise Line and Disney Resort Pocket Guide pieces.) “Go big or go home!” This nautical giant takes guests on bigger and better ocean adventures than ever...
by Jim Smith | Dec 4, 2022 | Disney Connections
Family traditions run long and deep – especially around the holidays. Trees, stockings, turkey dinner, and the question of “whose turn is it to play Santa Claus” are perennial family heartwarmers in the month of December. In November 1983, a whole new Christmas...
by Jim Smith | Nov 29, 2022 | Disney Trivia, Lists and Trivia
The earliest days of EPCOT brought many guests to CommuniCore to explore the latest advances in science and technology. After little more than a decade, the “brain” of EPCOT lost its audience, and was closed for transformation. From the ashes of CommuniCore rose...
by Jim Smith | Nov 29, 2022 | Hidden
Question 1: In 1999 – Innoventions underwent a refresh for Disney’s millennium celebration. During the period from 2001-2007, who was considered the official “host” of Innoventions? (Hint: a previous iteration of this character has appeared in former attractions...
by Jim Smith | Nov 23, 2022 | Disney, Extinct Disney Attractions
“E.P.C.O.T … will never be completed, but will always be introducing and testing and demonstrating new materials and systems.” – Walt Disney In the later years of his life, Walt Disney’s ambitious imagination envisioned EPCOT Center to be a functioning “city of...
