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Disney At The 1964-1965 New York World’s Fair: Great Moments With Mr. Lincoln

March 18, 2024 by Chuck Schmidt

The Walt Disney Company’s participation in the 1964-1965 New York World's Fair can be traced as far back as 1957. “It started, I guess, with Abraham Lincoln,” remembered Marty Sklar, former head of Walt Disney Imagineering, during an interview in 2010. “That show had been written – not the single Lincoln, but the entire Hall of Presidents show – in 1957.”

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MY FAVORITE THINGS ABOUT DISNEY: The Santa Fe and Disneyland Railroad

January 24, 2024 by Chuck Schmidt

Before there was Disneyland, there was a railroad, albeit a small-scale, handcrafted line in Walt Disney’s backyard in the Holmby Hills section of Los Angeles. It can be argued that the very genesis of Disneyland sprang up from that backyard layout – known as the Carolwood Pacific Railroad.

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MY FAVORITE THINGS ABOUT DISNEY: My Main Street Friends

December 18, 2023 by Chuck Schmidt

During my 45-plus years of covering the wonderful world of Disney, I’ve had the distinct honor of striking up relationships with a good number of Disney’s more prominent cast members, whose careers are memorialized on windows along Main Street USA in California, Florida or France. Whenever I return to a Disney park, I make sure to renew acquaintances with my Main Street buddies.

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MY FAVORITE THINGS ABOUT DISNEY: The Holiday Season

December 4, 2023 by Chuck Schmidt

As the song goes: It’s the most wonderful time of the year. “It” is the holiday season. And where does that “most wonderful time” take place? Why, Walt Disney World and Disneyland, of course.

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MY FAVORITE THINGS ABOUT DISNEY: “it’s a small world”

October 23, 2023 by Chuck Schmidt

"it’s a small world" and I go back a long way … all the way to 1964, when I first rode the quintessential Disney attraction at the 1964-1965 New York World’s Fair.

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Disneyland’s Haunted Mansion vs. Disney World’s Haunted Mansion

September 27, 2023 by Brian Delpozo

Everything that distinguishes the Disneyland and Walt Disney World Haunted Mansions from each other.

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The Best Disney World Jungle Cruise JOKES

September 19, 2023 by Brian Delpozo

The best puns, plays on words, and dad jokes from the iconic and world famous Jungle Cruise.

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What Was the Last Ride Walt Disney Worked On?

September 8, 2023 by Brian Delpozo

Which famous Disney attraction was the last Walt Disney personally oversaw?

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Disney100: The Exhibition Opens Walt’s Vault, Unlocking Scores Of Disney Treasures

September 8, 2023 by Chuck Schmidt

The Disney100: The Exhibition ran from Feb. 18 through August 27 at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, was curated Becky Cline and members of the Disney Archives, who opened up the Disney vault and unveiled a boatload of Disney treasures for Disney fans to savor.

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Shedding Light On Disney’s Classic Dark Rides

August 21, 2023 by Chuck Schmidt

Call me old school. Or just call me old. Either way, I still get a kick out of Disney’s classic “dark rides” – those slow-moving, bare-bones attractions that last all of two or three minutes, but often require a wait time of an hour or more.

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