The happy importance of design in the Disneyland experience with Sam Carter
You’ve probably seen the name Sam Carter within the #DisTwitter sphere. His tweets are unique in that they show a different side of Disney that we don’t often talk about:[…]
Category: Walt Disney Parks and Resorts
All posts regarding the Disney Company’s theme parks and resorts.
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Disneyland is the same, but we’re not. An op-ed on reopening day
I wasn’t there when Disneyland closed its gates for the first time since 9/11/2001. But like that day, March 14, 2020, I really don’t think we were all prepared for[…]
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Join us for ParksCon, the parks and resorts fan event that you’ll want to attend virtually in a near post-COVID world
As part of the reopening and life returning back to full, theme parks (for the most part) are reopening to excited and eager fans – including Disney ones. At the[…]
Conversation about the new theme park experience amid COVID-19 with Brady MacDonald
Theme parks are beginning to announce their reopenings around the globe, including Disney. Walt Disney World is scheduled to reopen in a phased approach on Saturday, July 11, 2020 with[…]
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The happy untold story of how Sleeping at Last created his cover of ‘it’s a small world’ in a COVID-19 world
I’d argue that there’s nothing more iconic to Disney than its music. Music is such a prevalent part of the entire experience watching movies or riding theme park attractions, and[…]
Meet William “Bill” Ross, music arranger for Andrea Bocelli and Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge
Just a few weeks ago, the Italian tenor icon that is Andrea Bocelli stood out on an empty plaza in Milan, Italy to give a sweet musical offering to the[…]
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Why we miss places like Disneyland, as told by The Imagineering Story’s Leslie Iwerks
It’s true that for most of us, we’re missing our favorite Disney Parks right now. It has been a little over a month and a half since my local Disneyland[…]
The songwriters of the theme song to Mickey & Minnie’s Runaway Railway tell us how it all came together
“Nothing can stop us now I’ll tell ya how We’re gonna make it happen Let’s take a ride And spend the day in the countryside…” I remember hearing those lyrics[…]
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[EXCLUSIVE] Glee’s Matthew Morrison did an album of reimagined Disney songs inspired by being a father
The first track of Disney Dreamin’ with Matthew Morrison, the newest album from the Fox “Glee” star, is “Friend Like Me.” It sounds like the animated film’s version of the[…]
The Coronavirus is affecting every part of Disney, but times like these call for Disney more than ever [op-ed]
This past month has been a tough one for everyone, corporations included. The Walt Disney Company is no exception, having to close many of its international theme parks like Shanghai[…]
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Rise of the Resistance feels real because its design called for real things, says Lucasfilm VP Doug Chiang
George Lucas didn’t know it at the time, but his creation of Star Wars would generations of audiences to other worlds where space adventures and action could live and play.[…]
Here’s why EPCOT is getting so much more Disney infused in it
Earlier this year at the D23 Expo, plans were announced that would revamp much of EPCOT at Walt Disney World. While that means a lot of a lot of the[…]