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They re-released the original soundtrack album on vinyl a couple of years back. I agree, though, that it would be great to have as many of the old albums as possible on streaming services. Thankfully, most of the original albums, outside of stuff like the Mansion LP, are still pretty reasonable...

I think that you make a very good point. I don't know that predicting the future is futile, so much, because some of the things that, in the past, were in the realm of Science Fiction that have become commonplace, like handheld computers; being able to talk in real time, including video, with...

That point, I completely agree with.

I disagree. By 1983, the first video stores were opening and, odds are, you knew at least someone with a VCR in your circle of friends. It just ballooned after that. Heck, I grew up in West Virginia and still had access to a ton of information through home video, television, and my public...

You can pull out your phone and learn about lots of things. When EPCOT Center was built, we could watch television shows or videotapes to learn lots of things. Learning about things on a ride with sets and robots is a totally different experience than looking at the same information on a tiny...

Enjoy your lifetime journey on the planet Earth! CANADA...MY CANADA.... (I also have had that song stuck in my brain for decades.)

Well, they were still going on the idea that, if you want to go overboard with spending, corporate sponsors can help fund that. Disneyland had to get corporate sponsors to be built and the MK had corporate sponsorship as well. You have to remember that EPCOT Center was, like Disneyland before...

Yeah, you can see a definite evolution from Mermaid to Frozen to BatB. Mermaid really showed a leap in realistic body movement with Ursula. Frozen improved body movement even further and the projections worked great for things like the Trolls and the reindeer's eyes. The brief video we have of...

While I completely agree, the Frozen AA figures are still pretty great. Now, if they were able to switch them out with fully-articulated faces, they'd be unbelievably awesome.

It will be a Ready Player One-themed resort with VR rigs in each room. ;)

Sadly, for older items from the parks, setting an eBay alert for when one goes up for auction is about your only option.

He and Disney don't exactly have a good history. ;)

This trip was definitely filled with a lot of ghosts of family members who have passed on. Some attractions are inextricably linked with a person because of their love for it or memories of exciting times. My Dad, especially, loved WDW and would go on and on about the Carousel of Progress and...

Yeah, they were way off on that one, I suspect because that day coincided with Mickey's 90th Birthday and there had been a Destination D event that had taken place at the Contemporary over that weekend, resulting in much higher crowd levels than could be predicted by a model based upon...

I did not. While I'm sure it was a different experience, it can hardly be considered a "special enhancement," in that it wasn't something that added to the original theme or related to Halloween in any way.

The portraits that changed with the "lightning" in the Mansion weren't working when I was there a couple of weeks ago. It really bugged me.

I agree. Remember that their idea of a "special enhancement" for SM during MNSSHP was simply to turn off all the lights.

Day 2, continued (Yes, again.) I'm going to take a little diversion with this post and focus on a single attraction. I often see It's a Small World (it's a small world, if I'm being pedantic.) as the subject of people's jokes. "I love to sleep on it," they say. "The dolls are creepy," they...

I was so disappointed when I saw the photo, since I'm such a huge Mansion fan. I wasn't surprised, though. The photographer was really phoning it in that day. Maybe he was counting the seconds until his break. I don't know. I just don't think he was a very good photographer. I will say that he...

I don't know if it would have sunk the company. The fact is that EPCOT, the actual city, was still in the very early stages of planning when Walt died. If you look at the initial plans for what became Disneyland compared to the final park, the two are very, very different. Remember that Walt was...