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Happy Easter, gang! 🐇 I hope everyone has a wonderful Easter weekend, or Passover, and your outfit looks fabulous for the parade! Here's Box Office from Thursday, previewing how this Easter weekend will look theatrically. It seems Super Mario is going to be big, and that Hoppers run as the...

One of the few things, if not the only thing, that Magic Kingdom Park does better than Disneyland is its annual Easter parade. I think they started it as a tribute to the hoop skirted Southern Belles that would appear at Cypress Gardens, but now it's sort of its own WDW thing. It's a bit...

I don't think you even got the point. The point, and the hard facts, are that LA County was the number one county for declining population in the country last year. And it's getting worse. Not only are people currently leaving LA County (decline of 53,425) and the LA Metro Area (decline of...

That's the same basic route that Anaheim had considered its now-cancelled Streetcar route for 15 years ago. Except this is a gondola? With what, 25% of the hourly capacity of a Streetcar system? And built for an environment that has definitive peaks and valleys of traffic, pre-game and...

Okay gang, let's get some fun going here! It's spring, the hills are bursting in green, this weekend is Easter, we've got astronauts on the way back to the moon, and they're building new rides at DCA! That's certainly enough to celebrate and have some fun, don't you think?!? 🥳 Tomorrow I'm...

The other good news 🥳 , aside from the stellar condition of California's current water supply, is that rents are actually decreasing in 2025 for much of Southern California. That happens when people start leaving in big numbers, as even upper-middle and middle class families leaving allows...

I wouldn't be at all surprised to see California lose another major league sports team or two in the next few years, and the Angels could definitely be among them. It's increasingly a case of when, not if. The demographic and population shift out of California is well documented, and losing a...

The point remains, California's population is declining when the population of the nation is increasing. Where would you rather operate a theme park that caters to middle and upper-middle class people? LA Metro Area (Disneyland) = Decline of 62,454 people in 2025 Orlando Metro Area (Disney...

When Artemis IV lands on the moon, and the first lady astronaut (you just know it will be a woman for our return, and she better be ready to be fabulous!) steps out of the SpaceX lander and back onto the moon and plants the next American flag there 🇺🇸 , I would hope Disneyland would set up...

I can't wait to see them get there! I was going to drive down to San Diego today originally, to start Easter vacation. But then at a sociable this past weekend the topic of this moon shot came up and I changed my plans so I could be in front of my biggest TV screen today through tonight! I'm...

That's true to an extent. It's just the specific demographics of the people who are now leaving has changed. They aren't working class or lower on the economic ladder, they are mostly middle and upper-middle class families. They are the exact demographic that can afford a Magic Key for the whole...

Well, there is some good news there! 🥳 For the first time in over 50 years, California is finally adding a major reservoir to its once-vaunted State Water Project. Most of California's reservoirs were built in the 1920's to 1960's. The last major reservoir to come online was Lake Orroville in...

While we wait for Soarin' Over America, I saw this today and thought it was adorable! About 75 miles west of Washington DC where spring is finally coming to life after an unusually cold winter, a Bald Eagle husband and wife just had their first chicks in their nest! Mom and Dad are already...

I love this idea! Put a small plaza out in front, but the majority of the attraction and mini-land is indoors. You've got retail, a restaurant, and a ride, all in one indoor environment. And it can always be nighttime, a la' Pirates, where the skeletons look better and feel more at home to...

It's a bit scary to think how few of us here on this board are left who remember Mission To Mars, Presented by McDonnell Douglas in Tomorrowland in the 1970's to 90's. That big video screen of the takeoff and landing in the auditorium, um... McDonnell Douglas Spaceliner was always a highlight...