Blue Skies

Blue Skies

This weekend and the upcoming week bring a lot to the Disney fan-base. Ending the monumental D23 in California dropped tons of news on topics ranging from park experiences, updates, to television and film releases. As we adjust the focus of our site and enable some...

mickey mouse patterns

Well, we have had quite an adventurous few days/weeks here at etckt.com. Our site was recently hacked and it took a little bit to get back to 100% but we are now back to normal. We have undertaken a few changes due to this attack and will continue to refine our...

the studios II

While I was a castmember at The Walt Disney Co. I had the great pleasure of always having my office in one of the parks. First it was Epcot, but for the final portion of my tenure my office was the TV and film production studio on the backlot at Disney’s...

the studios I

With the celebration of the 20th anniversay of Disney’s Hollywood Studios, I have been looking in the archives to see what I could pull out, scan/photograph and post here on the site. The first thing that I found were some old maps. Maps This was one of the...

new world fantasy

EPCOT’s (notice the spelling, it was still an acronym at this time) second night-time fireworks display was named New World Fantasy. As I was going through my archives I discovered a cache of original animation cels used to produce portions of the show....