Disney World Scheme: Entitled Families Hire Disabled Guide to Bypass Lines, Says ReportI'm not sure how such a concept could be defined as luxury or ingenuity, when the crux of the thing involves sharing your vacation with a total stranger. Perhaps this is why wealth so seldom lasts? Is feigning injury on your own considered too gauche ( Read more... )

If two movies of the same "transportation acting like people" joke weren't enough for you, then here, have Planes. Starring Dane Cook. Thanks, Disney.

So, the new Test Track at Epcot apparently kind of looks like Tron. And a lot of the fans of the previous Test Track apparently aren't too happy. To be honest, their laments are strangely interesting, given my own lack of emotional attachment to the old version. I suppose it's natural to feel a bit biased towards the Disney World that one sees on ( Read more... )

Eh... How can one go to the extreme lengths of building a Haunted Mansion replica, and still leave out obvious details like a stretching room and creepy wallpaper? Perhaps my own lofty imagination has set my standards too high ( Read more... )

Over the past week-and-a-half, I have become hopelessly addicted to GameCenter CX. Did you ever learn about something years after the fact, and then wonder how you could've missed out for so long? This is one of those cases ( Read more... )

I had not been to Toys 'R' Us in some time. Come along and see what was new.

( What the hell happened to Geoffrey, anyway? )

I'm not sure what the future holds for Captain EO, but if they ever decide to replace it with something more marketable, they could do worse than Captain Eeyore:

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In fact, this may already be better than Captain EO. A highlight: Eeyore zaps the Queen of Hearts with laser effects, turning her into a rhythm-enhanced Bert the chimney sweep. Several ( Read more... )

As a nostalgic fan of Disney theme parks, I have, at times, gone to extreme lengths to relive pleasant memories of the past and expand my knowledge of Vacationland minutiae. I’ve spent hundreds of dollars on literature and pictorial souvenirs, hours poring over internet articles and YouTube archives, and gigabyte upon gigabyte of iPod capacity on ( Read more... )

Recommended reading: a rather thoughtful (and somewhat creepy) retrospective of the original Snow White's Adventures attraction at Disney World. Makes me further regret that I mostly rode it with my eyes closed as a kid ( Read more... )

33 is the happiest age, study says

So, I only have to tough it out for a few more years, and things will be great? After all, 33 is... the age at which Jesus was crucified? Wha?

I must be aiming way too high.