Take a Vintage Tour of The Happiest Place on Earth with this Summer 1957 Issue of “Disneyland Holiday”

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With Disney Parks around the world still closed, WDWNT is dipping into our archives of vintage parks materials for a look back into parks history! Thanks to WDWNT reader Don Jones, we’re able to share this look back at The Happiest Place on Earth with the Summer 1957 issue of “Disneyland Holiday!” Note: This article … Read more

See EPCOT Center Under Construction in 1980 With This Article From Orlando-land Magazine

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With Disney Parks around the world closed for the foreseeable future, WDWNT is dipping into our archives of vintage parks materials for a look back into parks history! Today, we’re heading back to before the beginning of EPCOT Center with an 1980 article from Orlando-land magazine! Note: This article will detail the magazine piece page … Read more

DISNEY+ REVIEW: The Imagineering Story – Episode 1 – “The Happiest Place on Earth” Will Put a Smile on Any Fan’s Face

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For years, we have anxiously awaited Leslie Iwerks’ documentary about Walt Disney Imagineering. Well, it’s finally here as part of the launch of Disney+. The first episode spans the course of an hour and basically covers the advent of WDI through to the end of Walt Disney’s life. In the course of the program, we … Read more

REVIEW: Marty Sklar’s “Travels With Figment” is More Bittersweet Tribute Than Memoir

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When Marty Sklar, former President of Imagineering, unexpectedly died in 2017, he was working on his third autobiographic book about working for Disney. His first, “Dream It! Do It!,” was published in 2013, and the followup, “One Little Spark,” in 2015, but, after his passing, Disney Editions had to decide the best way to pay … Read more

EDITORIAL: Epcot – A History of Compromise, and What That Means for the Epcot of the Future

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Author Foreword: With the official closing of Club Cool, Innoventions, the Fountain of Nations, Fountain View, and the Mickey & Friends Character Spot, many are grieving the loss of Epcot icons they knew since childhood and possibly the original spirit of the park as a whole. In an editorial I wrote last year, as rumors … Read more