by Jim Smith | Mar 10, 2020 | Disney Parks & Resorts, Disney Spotlight Series, Travel Planning
It’s 4:00 PM. Disneyland is jammed, and you’ve used up all your FastPasses. You really want to ride Space Mountain, but it’s a 75 minute wait. You could a) suck it up and wait 75 minutes to ride, b) find another attraction with a shorter wait (Mark Twain Riverboat,...
by Jim Smith | Jan 10, 2020 | Disney, Disney Legends, Disney Spotlight Series
Walt Disney was quoted as saying “You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.” If you’ve ever been to a Disney park, you’ve no doubt had at least one, and most likely several,...
by Jim Smith | Dec 10, 2019 | Disney Trivia, Trivia and Games
At the end of the Disney Film The Princess and the Frog, Louis the alligator is seen living his dream, performing live music in Tiana’s Place with a group of jazz musicians called Firefly Five Plus Lou. What is the name Firefly Five Plus Lou a reference to? Image:...
by Jim Smith | Nov 21, 2019 | Disney, Disney Spotlight Series, Media
Always the pioneer, Walt Disney was the first movie producer to embrace the world of television. Most movie producers at the time were threatened by the invention of television. They saw it as a threat to the movie industry. Walt saw television as the way of the...