by Jim Smith | Nov 22, 2021 | Disney, Disney Connections, Star Wars
(Editor’s Update: March 28, 2024 – Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser took its last voyage on September 28-30, 2023. For numerous reasons, the elevated Star Wars experience was not sustainable as a Disney Parks entertainment offering. Explore these reasons,...
by Jim Smith | Nov 22, 2021 | Disney Parks & Resorts, Disney Pocket Guides, Facts and Figment Travel Planning, Travel Planning
Friends, it’s time to jazz up your Walt Disney World vacation! planDisney has released another issue of the “pocket guides” series on Disney Parks Blog, familiarizing guests with Disney’s Port Orleans Resort: French Quarter. Escape to the historic French Quarter in...
by Jim Smith | Nov 17, 2021 | Bits & Pieces, Disney, Media
Disney has partnered with Minecraft to issue a Magic Kingdom downloadable content (DLC) pack to celebrate the park’s 50th anniversary. Per today’s post on Disney Parks Blog, the game pack will replicate the Magic Kingdom park. The game pack is full of familiar iconic...
by Jim Smith | Nov 15, 2021 | Disney Parks & Resorts, Disney Trivia, Extinct Disney Attractions, Lists and Trivia
Believe it or not, guests at Disneyland have been able to paddle a canoe in the Rivers of America since 1956. Disneyland’s Frontierland was inspired by Walt Disney’s love of American folk icons, including the legendary Davy Crockett and the fictional Tom Sawyer. Most...
by Jim Smith | Nov 15, 2021 | Disney, Disney Spotlight Series, Extinct Disney Attractions
If you could see close in my eyes, the American flag is waving in both of them and up my spine is growing this red, white and blue stripe.” – Walt Disney Walt Disney may have been a master of fantasy, but his morals and values were rooted deeply in the history of the...
