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Speaking of "breaking the illusion", brother, I can tell you such stories. Like when Walt Disney announced Disneyland and he said we would fly with Peter Pan. Well, fella, let me tell you -- I didn't fly anywhere, I was suspended from the ceiling in a fiberglass frigate (completely out of...

Fresh Baked has a new video up...they shot 30 minutes of this sign from the Mark Twain Riverboat...

They were going to build it, but then FreshBaked complained they could see a gap, so they cancelled it.

Characters and animals getting shot...just don't see it.

Turn it into a shooting arcade. j/k...Anyway, aside from the sweet childhood scenes, Bambi is a fairly serious, violent, and dramatic film. You'd have to cut out a large section of material from the movie, which in my opinion, would reinforce the general misconception of what Bambi the movie...

Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey breaks down a lot. Complicated machinery creates complex maintenance and operational issues.

Who says it's behind schedule? Disneyland is opening SW:GE early, Rise of the Resistance may not have ever been intended to be crowd-ready by May 31. Watch this space after June 23.

I keep thinking about the people in California who are going to just show up during the May 31 - June 23 "reservation" window and have no clue about getting an entrance reservation. That's going to be ugly, unless there's a chunk of those reservations set aside for "walk-up" guests throughout...

The Wizarding World of Harry Potter has some great detail, too, but never for a second do I think I'm not in a theme park. You're holding this place to an impossible standard. Is there a mass-market commercial theme park anywhere in the U.S. that makes you forget you're in a theme park? How are...

I remember when Avatar first came out, and there were reports of people visiting their therapists upset that they couldn't go live on Pandora. Hardcore Star Wars fans are going to have to accept Galaxy's Edge is an addition to a theme park, and as such, is a theme park, not an actual planet. As...

Yeah, yeah...the rise of the Ernest films...that sucked in High School.

Funny you should say that. My first name is Ernest.

"The suspense is terrible. I hope it lasts." -- W. Wonka

I have all of the Disney/Pixar 3D releases. The Little Mermaid 3D release is a blast, because it looks like it was shot on the old multiplane camera. Anyway, the next evolution of 3D is glasses-free 3D displays, which were demonstrated at the CES a few years ago, but had issues with viewing...

There are height and weight requirements at Universal's Harry Potter rides. I think this is Disney's "we can make IP-based thrill-rides, too" response to Potter.

I'm a pushover for breakfast at Tony's on Main Street. I've had generally good experiences at Epcot, still haven't eaten in France or Morocco yet. If I was going to DHS today, I'd go for something more quirky, like the Sci-Fi Drive In. It's silly, but unique. The Brown Derby is good, especially...

End of day...my wife an I get ice cream and kick back on Main Street and just let the horde exit and watch them stand in lines for the trams, while we sit and rest our feet. Lovely peaceful moment, no stress, no lines. That's how we roll.

Overlooked ride at Disneyland...Casey Jr. Circus Train. As in really overlooked. Rode it twice in a row last time I was out with no lines at all. You get Walt's model fascination from the Storybook canal boats alongside a blast of Dumbo's charm and innocence. It's wonderful. It was the first...

Peter Pan's Flight at Disneyland. It's not my favorite sense-shaking mind-blowing ride...but when I married my beloved wife 11 years ago, she had never visited a Disney park. Her parents were 60's radicals, marches, all that stuff, and they believed every terrible thing they heard about Walt...

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