When we first visited Epcot Center during the summer of 1983, about 10 months after Walt Disney World’s second theme park opened, The Ball [aka Spaceship Earth] was all people talked about.
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Walt Disney's career truly began in Kansas City, Missouri, where he created his first studio and even got the inspiration for Mickey Mouse! Check out more about Walt's history with Kansas City here.
Take a wonderful journey through the history of Carousel of Progress, and find out about its close ties to Walt Disney himself and much more.
Five of the six Disney Resorts worldwide feature a classic railroad attraction. Let's take a look at the trains from each of the Disney Parks around the world!
We visited Walt Disney World – which, at the time, consisted of just the Magic Kingdom, two resorts and a campground – for the first time in November of 1972, about 14 months after the Vacation Kingdom of the World opened. The park was shell of what it would become ... yet we had the time of our lives!
The story of Walt Disney's backyard railroad, and how its legacy lives on in Disneyland today.
We're looking at the history of one of Magic Kingdom's most beloved attractions: PeopleMover!
We're taking a look at some wild ride openings from Disney's past. Check them out!
For many Mickey Mouse Club fans, it was a misconception that what we saw on our TV sets in the 1950s was the original Mickey Mouse Club, particularly when several “new” MMC revivals popped up on The Disney Channel decades later. It turns out that there were scores of Mickey Mouse Clubs located throughout the United States during the 1930s.
From unbuilt attractions and questionable replacements to a building built to the wrong specifications, these are the biggest errors in World Showcase history.
