Welcome back to Thoughts While Watching, my exploratory series that dares to ask: what was going on back in the day?! Join me in witnessing Disney’s vintage-est media with modern eyes. THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF DISNEY’S DISNEYLAND COLOR TELEVISION SPECIAL And one of my favorite-est bits of Disney’s vintage-est media, my TWW north star if you will, is an...
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After the usual WDW Marathon Weekend/Princess Half Marathon Weekend hiatus, we’re back with another Thoughts While Watching! In this long-running series, we view retro Disney media through a modern lens. Sometimes it’s weird, sometimes it’s wonderful, and sometimes it’s, well, a product of a different time. But it’s always required viewing for the avid Disney historian! So get those...
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Hello and welcome back to Thoughts While Watching, where we watch vintage Disney media and react to it in real time! Today we will be tackling a curious hybrid: The Reluctant Dragon, a Disney feature film that premiered in 1941. WHAT’S SO CURIOUS ABOUT THE RELUCTANT DRAGON? The Reluctant Dragon is ostensibly a Walt Disney Studios feature film… but...
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I only spent one proper day at Disneyland, but I made the most of it! Read all the entries in this trip report here. Onward! After a brief-with-a-capital-B rest in my hotel room, I was ready to tackle the remainder of my single day in Disneyland! LIGHTNING LANE-A-PALOOZA Thankfully the late afternoon line at security wasn’t bad at all,...
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A couple weeks ago I dropped a post about Davy Crockett in honor of my dad, who is a big Fess Parker fan. Seeing as how last Sunday was Father’s Day, I thought it might be fun to revisit ol’ Fess in my latest Thoughts While Watching post. (Bonus: it works for Juneteenth tomorrow too!) Turns out, in addition...
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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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