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the studios III

Over the years I have collected lots of things. Most of them had gone on to become expensive hobbies so I moved to downscale my interests. One of the things that has been consistent is my love for pins. From concert pins to several Olympic items to my favorite Disney pins. There are quite a [...]

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 Hollywood Studios; Disney Production [...]

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.

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.

wdw in 1971

MouseKingdom tweeted about a great online gallery with pictures of The Magic Kingdom in the pre-opening days of 1971. They are awesome!

expedition everest

Not to long ago I was a CD for an ad agency and we were working on some promotional materials for a new attraction at Disney’s Animal Kingdom. The campaign was designed to introduce this ride to Disney Travel Agents and our idea used a great direct mail piece and a micro-site to lead the [...]