10 Fun Facts About Toy Story 5
1. New Toys! When coming up with ideas for what would become Toy Story 5, co-director Kenna Harris said, “From the beginning, we knew we wanted to include tech. How would the toys feel about a device in their room? What started as a binary good vs. evil story morphed...
Visiting the Original ImageWorks at EPCOT’s Imagination Pavilion
It’s sometimes easy to forget, but the Imagination Pavilion actually consists of three components: the attraction itself, the Magic Eye Theater, and ImageWorks (four if you include the surrounding gardens!). In fact, ImageWorks was the only section of the Pavilion...
10 Fun Facts About Journey Into Imagination
1. Introducing Figment When EPCOT Center first opened, the Kodak-sponsored pavilion had only one attraction, the film Magic Journeys which played in the Magic Eye Theater. At the time, our little purple friend was still being created, but the world met Figment soon...
Details Announced for Jollywood Nights
With Fall festivities in full swing at Walt Disney World, and spookiness in the air, it won’t be long before Christmas arrives in the Most Magical Place on Earth! In addition to the Mickey’s Very Merry celebrations taking place at the Magic Kingdom, and Christmas...
The Legend of Albert Awol and the Jungle Cruise
Before you see sail past the Gorilla Camp ("Look what they did to my truck! They left the lights on. Now I’ll never get that thing to turn over”), before you see the African Veldt and those lions generously having a zebra over for dinner, even before you glide past...
10 Fun Facts About Coco
1. World Showcase Inspiration for Coco initially came from, of all places, Epcot! When writer-director Lee Unkrich saw the papier mache folk art at Epcot’s Mexico Pavilion, it sparked an idea that led to the creation of this beautiful film. 2. The Day of...
5 Fun Facts From Pixar’s Animated Shorts
1) Renderman RenderMan is the photorealistic 3D rendering software developed by Pixar in 1987. It takes your final modeled scene and outputs the final image (or animation) by calculating variables such as cameras, geometry, materials, and lights. (Think of it as the...
5 More Attractions That Never Were
This week we continue our tour of Walt Disney Attractions That Never Were, beginning with a boat ride in EPCOT's World Showcase! 6. German Boat Ride The Germany Pavilion was also going to be home to an attraction, The Rhine River boat ride (above)....
5 Attractions That Never Were
In the long and storied history of the Magic Kingdom, many ideas have come and gone. And what ideas they were! Attractions, lands, new technologies, new experiences...Disney's Imagineers are always innovating and always coming up with new ideas. But as is often the...
New Details Revealed for Disney’s Lakeshore Lodge
The park announcements that came out of D23 we certainly exciting (and you can join us as we talk about them on this week's podcast!), but there are plenty of other things happening at Walt Disney World these days! One of the most anticipated is the new resort coming...