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Yay!!! An actual @ParentsOf4 chart!!! That’s not only informative, it ends a recession on this forum ;) Seriously, your perspective is always welcome.

This is a family forum. Don’t talk about that here. See a doctor.

Images I don't need in my head for $1000, Alex. And it's a Daily Double!!

I appreciate your perspective even when I don’t always agree. This is one of those times. I have heard complaints from a variety of people for many years about Jungle Cruise’s cannibals, head hunters and just natives. Strangely, more recently Small World has popped up,too. That one I have a...

God how I loved that parade. And I’m really not at all a parade person. Spectro, Tapestry and America on Parade were about it. (America because it was so damn weird) I liked MSEP plenty until it kept coming back over and over like an unwelcome ex.

The subs needed a lot of work. Before Ovitz's trip, they had already been closed for a while for a "refurbishment" that was really meant as a permanent closure. But from what I understand, unlike Toad, 20K was closed without executive buyoff at WDI & California corporate. It ate up a lot of...

I've heard others repeat basically the same story. As Martin said, high cost of operation and upkeep for low number of people who could ride each day. Of course, older-school people working in WDW would appreciate the aesthetics and kinetics the ride added to the park. By the time Ovitz was...

Forgive me, I believe it was Ovitz. Eisner asked him to check on why 20K was down as part of a "get to know WDW" visit early in his brief tenure. Ops picked the worst sub in the fleet and added the buckets of water to show leakage. Ovitz got off and swore to Eisner that thing should be scrapped...

That would make perfect sense.

The update was coldly corporate even when it debuted. I wasn’t necessarily gutted or anything when they decided to drop the beautifully thought out original logo. Change can be good. When the faux-Walt script went up however....

Forgive me, but I think your memory might inadvertently be running a couple of things together. Happens to me too. The original tree houses were finished and rented out to conference and corporate guests as they were completed In 1975 -6 years before there was an international cast program...

The original townhomes at what became The Village Resort (Later The Disney Village Resort and now Saratoga Springs) were designed and built as part of what was supposed to be a real city of Lake Buena Vista. They were announced that way in 1973, iirc. and the original designs look like real...

Most of us hate clickbait headlines in my biz. Usually the web staff writes the headlines not us producers and reporters. Ours are very good at being fair... even though they do have to write something to make you click on it.

Most of us in "the media" -- especially local media try very hard every day to report fairly and accurately. I can't account for cable news. You do know all bars are currently shut down statewide in Florida, right? Closed since June 26th by order of the Department of Business & Professional...

It would be hilarious if just one time someone yelled "Proof!" the response was someone posting reams of top-secret, NDA-or-Disney-Will-Fire-and-Sue material. But most of us understand why that can't happen

Earth station (The spaceship earth post show area) Also the ticket booth guest relations window Picked up the slack.

Good to know!

Tishman and MetLife still own S&D, btw. Yes. The same MetLife that sponsored Wonders of Life. They look radically different because they were the first of Eisner’s push to have influential architects design prominent buildings. In this case, legendary architect Michael Graves. That same...

No. Pre-Eisner, Disney sold the rights to new hotel building to the Tishman Corp. Tishman was the primary contractor on Epcot (which was woefully over budget around this same time). Eisner saw the potential for the hotel biz and quickly greenlit the Grand Floridian and started working on an...

I hit refresh early this afternoon (Saturday) and got a day-of pass for Hollywood Studios. Never had that happen before. Granted, I was solo... but.. I have gone solo since Park Pass started with re-opening. It was quite "busy"* when I arrived around 3-30 and still had a decent crowd in the...