Captain Jack Sparrow’s Pirate Tutorial!
Ahoy, me hearties! Perhaps your littles think that they’re suited to be pirates because they’ve taken part in A Pirate’s Adventures: Treasure of the Seven Seas. Perhaps they’ve even joined The Pirates League, but that ain’t enough to be a true swashbuckler. Blow me...
Six Things You May Not Know About Expedition Everest
1. A New Disney Mountain When Disney’s Animal Kingdom opened on April 22, 1998, the park promised to immerse Guests into a lush and authentic wilderness that represented the wonder and beauty of nature found throughout the world. The only attraction that could be...
Jedi Training Academy: Trials of the Temple
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away… The Jedi Order has assembled a group of Force-sensitive younglings to test their abilities. These future padawans have been brought to the Jedi Temple where they will be trained to wield a lightsaber and in the ways of the...
Ten Things You May Not Know About Flight of Passage
1. An Unassuming Entrance The entrance to the Flight of Passage is completely different from what most Disney Guests are accustomed. Instead of grand marquees or towering architecture that can visually draw Guests from the entire land, the entrance to Flight of...
Becoming A Member of The Pirates League
Let’s be honest, not every girl dreams of being a princess and not every boy wants to be a knight. Some children (and their parents) dream of being pirates. Honestly, what could be better than strapping on a sword, donning a bandana and setting out to swash buckles...
Ten Things You May Not Know About Dumbo
The illustrator of the original book, Helen R. Durney, was a native of Syracuse, New York. Her original drawings are maintained in a collection in the Syracuse University Libraries. Though an animators’ strike (profiled in the January/February 2013 issue of...
Ten Things You May Not Know About Alice in Wonderland
1. The film was created in five years for $3 million, largely because Walt Disney had created a full live-action version of his film so that the animators had something to work with. 2. The talking doorknob was the only new character that Walt created for the film. 3....
A Magical Transformation at the Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique
Has your little one ever dreamed of becoming a Disney princess or a brave knight who battles the forces of evil? Disney’s Fairy Godmothers in-training help those dreams come true every day at the Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique in the Magic Kingdom. It’s a once in a lifetime...
Disney Pin Trading: Getting Started On Your Newest Disney Addiction!
I have to confess: I am a thing finder. I live in a family of thing finders. We love to collect various odds and ends from our travels. We’ve got gadgets and gizmos a plenty. We’ve got whosits and whatsits galore. Want thingamabobs? We’ve got way more than twenty. In...
Six Things You May Not Know About Slinky Dog
A Rough (Ruff?) Start We all know Slinky Dog as the laid-back toy with an easy-going southern drawl from the Toy Story universe. Surprisingly though, he wasn’t always intended to be so happy-go-lucky. In the original draft of Toy Story, Slinky was the least popular of...