Disney Legend and Walt Disney Imagineering’s former senior vice president of creative development, Tony Baxter, thinks Song of the South was worth saving. Song of the South and its Disney Parks ride, Splash Mountain, have been very controversial and have been the subject of many a debate among the Disney community. When the Walt Disney Company decided to remove Splash Mountain ...

If you need to summon a Disney World or Disneyland fan (or a Disney Fanatic in general) from within a crowd, yelling something about the ride called Splash Mountain is a surefire way to make them speak up. Disney fans were extremely divided when it came to the permanent closure of the Magic Kingdom ride that was based on the ...

With 200+ million dollar productions oiling the family entertainment machine that the Walt Disney Company has evolved into, it isn’t easy to imagine that most iconic films were sketched on a cocktail napkin. That’s right—the Roy E. Animation building may have housed some high-quality Disney brainstorming. Still, it’s not where Walt Disney and the original Imagineers dreamed up the magic ...

It’s no secret that many Disney Fanatics have made quite a fuss about the permanent closure of the Splash Mountain ride in Disney World’s Magic Kingdom and Disneyland Park. Whether they’ve been selling containers of water for thousands of dollars with claims that it’s water from the classic ride’s two locations, frantically collecting Br’er Rabbit memorabilia, very foolishly drinking the ...

Many hardcore Disney Fanatics are intimately familiar with the Imagineers who work behind the scenes on Disney rides or attractions in the famous department known as Walt Disney Imagineering. Some Imagineers have become iconic in the eyes of Disney fans — but now there is a whole new kind of Imagineer on the scene! In a Disney Parks Blog article ...

On Earth Day 2023, Disney’s Animal Kingdom Theme Park will celebrate its 25th Anniversary. However, the milestone birthday party will commence without the famous Imagineer who led its entire development. Retired Walt Disney Imagineer Joe Rhode took the creative lead on Disney World’s fourth Theme Park, taking expeditions all over the world and recruiting the finest people in zoology, his ...

Going to the Disney Parks is an experience that any Disney Fanatic would cherish. From the myriad rides and attractions in both Walt Disney World Resort and Disneyland Resort, like Space Mountain and “it’s a small world” in Magic Kingdom Park and Disneyland Park, there’s much for any Guest from any part of the world to enjoy at a Disney Resort. Disney fans ...

There are numerous kinds of Disney experiences one can enjoy. Whether that’s visiting the Walt Disney World Resort or Disneyland Resort with their Theme Parks—think like Magic Kingdom Park or Disney’s Animal Kingdom Theme Park at the former or Disneyland Park or Disney California Adventure Park at the latter—or a cruise with the Disney Cruise Line vessels like Disney Dream, ...

It’s been closed for years, and Walt Disney Imagineering is finally ready to reopen it to the public! Originally created for the 1964 World’s Fair by Walt Disney, Mary Blair, and Rolly Crump and featuring an unforgettable song by Robert Sherman and Richard M. Sherman, “it’s a small world” has become a Disney Park staple. While the original can be found in ...

Like many Disney fans, I saw the supposed leaked concept art of the long-lost Mary Poppins and thought to myself, “what the heck is that?” Truth be told, I didn’t know what to really expect from a Mary Poppins-themed attraction when it was announced at D23 in 2019, but my initial expectations were that it was going to be a dark ride similar ...