Ever see Indiana Jones check his watch? When there is a ride stoppage Disney has a “stall” mode for Indy and it’s hilarious.
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Parkeology
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Daily posts about the weird, obscure, and forgotten details in #disneyparks. OG Disney World fans. Created the original #WDW ride every ride in 1 day challenge.
- Muppets humor hiding in plain sight at Disney’s Hollywood Studios. Have you seen the PizzeRizzo sign glitch out, revealing a secret message? Only visible at night, in a low traffic area.
00:00 - Disney takes a lot of flack over Smuggler’s Run: It’s just jacked up video game. Who cares about coaxium? Hondo who? But you know what else it is? A freaking engineering marvel! There are 28 identical cockpits with crews all operating simultaneously, TWENTY EIGHT! How many guests
- Roger Rabbit was poised to be Disney’s next big thing, he was featured all over OG Disney-MGM Studios. Now only a few remnants remind folks of his prior fame. His giant footprints in cement may particularly confuse kids today. Do current guests miss or even remember poor Roger?
- If you recognize these glasses, you lived in another century. And you were lovin’ it. The McDonald’s Millennium celebration glasses for Walt Disney World were legit cubes of solid glass. Anybody still have their collection?
- A not-so-subtle idea for making the Disney World parking lot experience a touch more magical.
- Mary Poppins was considered Walt Disney’s crowning achievement, but is surprisingly underrepresented in the parks. Most guest have never even heard of the penguin fountain, tucked away in the Grand Floridian DVC building. Is this lowkey the best Poppins thing out there right now?
00:00 - In the pre-internet days, when we wanted a Disney park fix, we turned to… a kids singalong tape. It didn’t matter if you were like that bird in the dunce cap (“but I don’t know all the songs”), Professor Owl had you covered. Did anyone else wear out their copy?
- Is the parking lot at Disney’s Animal Kingdom cursed? We are starting to wonder if it is the Kiss of Death to have a lot named after you. If we were a Peacock or a Giraffe, we’d be pretty worried right now.
- Call us crazy, but we kinda like when the CEO wears the dorky Disney theme park merch.
- The Tower of Terror was once an icon at Disney World. Not the real ride at Disney's Hollywood Studios, but the billboard. It was a work of art. Forced perspective, a brewing storm-- and a dimensional, shaking elevator cage of terrified riders! Are you sad it's gone?
- 99.999% of EPCOT guests will never stand across the lagoon with a giant telephoto lens pointed at the Morocco pavilion able to see Tower of Terror behind it. But we love that the .0001% see this! Is this the best Disney sight line ever?
- The Tower of Terror fog effect in the queue is absolute PERFECTION on quiet nights. It doesn’t always work. Have you wandered the spooky sidewalks at Disney’s Hollywood Studios on a late, empty evening?
00:00 - Remember when Eisner spread postmodern whimsy across Disney? Buildings told stories, had personalities, and maybe even a sense of humor. Hotels where dolphins swam on the roof or a building where the Seven Dwarfs are literal pillars of society. Dated today? Maybe, but this wasn't
