It’s taken forever, but we’re finally doing it! Let’s complete the loop with a look at the Epcot opening television special. After a whirlwind couple of months recapping my Dopey Challenge and Fairytale Challenge runDisney weekends, we’re settling back into our regularly scheduled blog programming. And you know I can’t resist starting with another installment of my Thoughts While...
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Hello and welcome once again to my inescapable series Thoughts While Watching, where we watch old Disney media with new eyes. And can you think of any more appropriate entry for December than the Wonderful World of Disney episode “Disneyland Around the Seasons”? This 1966 time capsule captures exactly what you’re craving this time of year: vintage footage of...
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Will the real Thurl Ravenscroft please stand up? SEINFELD’S LIES We didn’t put much thought into popping the Netflix film Unfrosted on TV last Saturday night. We were looking for something uncomplicated and fun, and a silly satire about feuding cereal companies headed by the king of sitcoms seemed about right. What I didn’t realize going in was that...
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Hello and welcome back to my continuing series Thoughts While Watching, where we watch vintage-to-vintage-ish Disney media with modern eyes and wonder accordingly. Today we’re setting the time machine to waywayback – let’s visit Disneyland with Uncle Walt again! I’ve pulled another episode of The Wonderful World of Disney (Color?), this one called “Disneyland After Dark.” I went in...
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Hello and welcome back to Thoughts While Watching, where I – say it with me – consume vintage-to-vintage-ish Disney and Disney parks media and react to it in real time. Today we’re tackling an episode of “The Wonderful World of Disney,” or possibly “The Wonderful World of Color,” or possibly just “Disneyland.” I swear this show has suffered a...
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Hello and welcome back to yet another trip report! Find all the entries in this report here. Onward! I did not rush my last day at WDW – while I was up at 7am to join the Cosmic Rewind virtual queue (and snag a Lightning Lane spot too juuuuust in case), I promptly went back to sleep. How you like...
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Hello and welcome back to that cherished blog tradition, my Thoughts While Watching series! Journey through time with me yet again as we plumb the media archives for old and older Disneyland and World media, then react to it with modern sensibilities. What could go wrong? Today we’re taking it almost – but not quite – as far back...
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Today we have another Happy Friday post, a category that exists purely to highlight Disney and theme park things that makes me happy. Can you spare a minute to hear the gospel of Disney’s Peter & The Wolf cartoon short as narrated by Mr. Sterling Holloway? C’mon, don’t just stand that way! And don’t stand that way either. DISNEY’S...
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Hello and welcome back to my long-running Thoughts While Watching series, where I react to bygone Disney parks media in real time. Some months I know exactly what forgotten clip I want to give the TWW treatment; others I have to go out and find something. It never takes long, though, because many wonderful people have uploaded just about...
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My Thoughts While Watching posts are all about reacting to old Disney media with new eyes, so by now, I’m sure you’re used to my vintage video finds. But this time, are you ready to go waaay vintage? Good, because today’s series entry is what is known in the bygone parlance as a humdinger. Remember that scene in 101...
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