Echos at Echo Lake, Disney’s Hollywood Studios Inspirations
It’s now Disney’s Hollywood Studios, but it was Disney-MGM Studios when it opened in 1989. Today, we’ll head into the Echo Park section of the park. Read the full YESTERLAND article HERE: Real...
View ArticleSunset Stroll: Disney Studios Park Inspirations, Part 6
The Imagineering from the park’s early years still brilliantly evokes the “Hollywood that never was—and always will be.” Read the full YESTERLAND article HERE: Real Buildings that Inspired Disney-MGM...
View ArticleDESIGN: Those Were The Times – No.15 Catastrophe Canyon EFX
Let’s go way back in time with Disney Legend Bob Gurr as he takes us to that time of great music and terrible hair, 1987. Disney was in the midst of creating their answer to Universal Studios Florida...
View ArticleCast Blast: Nature Calls of the Wild
Nature Calls of the Wild – Sometimes you just have to go. This week we have three great new stories to share from the jungles of Disneyland to old frontiers at Walt Disney World. If you have a story to...
View ArticleCast Blast: Back in the Saddle
Back in the Saddle! Glad to be back after the flu got the best of us here at Disney Cast Blast! We are putting the finishing touches on our celebrity edition and should have that up this time next...
View ArticleYesterland: Backstage Studio Tour
When Disney-MGM Studios opened, its biggest—and certainly its longest—attraction was the Backstage Studio Tour. Over the years, its importance, popularity, and length diminished. The final day of the...
View ArticleYesterland: Hollywood Holly-Day Parade
If this parade looks strangely familiar, there’s a reason. It’s a holiday—oops, I mean “Holly-Day”—makeover of the Disney Stars & Motor Cars parade. The cars, which are all themed to movies or...
View ArticleYesterland: The Earffel Tower
Your camera is loaded with film. Your goal is to have your family pose in front of the iconic symbol of each of the four parks of Walt Disney World. Cinderella Castle at Magic Kingdom Park. You got it!...
View ArticleYesterland: Studio Catering Co. and High Octane Refreshments
It’s fun when a theme park restaurant has a view into an attraction. Just think of Blue Bayou Restaurant at Disneyland, with a late twilight view of the bayou, boats, and fireflies of Pirates of...
View ArticleYesterland: Streets of America
You’re in an eerie city. It’s as if the city has been abandoned. Although everything is clean, and there are plenty of people walking around, the doors on the buildings are all locked. There are no...
View ArticleYesterland: L.A. Cinema Storage
L.A. Cinema Storage isn’t a storage warehouse, but it’s themed as one. Old movie props line the higher parts of the walls and hang from the roof supports. But where you can reach things, it’s a store....
View ArticleEchos at Echo Lake, Disney’s Hollywood Studios Inspirations
It’s now Disney’s Hollywood Studios, but it was Disney-MGM Studios when it opened in 1989. Today, we’ll head into the Echo Park section of the park. Read the full YESTERLAND article HERE: Real...
View ArticleSunset Stroll: Disney Studios Park Inspirations, Part 6
The Imagineering from the park’s early years still brilliantly evokes the “Hollywood that never was—and always will be.” Read the full YESTERLAND article HERE: Real Buildings that Inspired Disney-MGM...
View ArticleDESIGN: Those Were The Times – No.15 Catastrophe Canyon EFX
Let’s go way back in time with Disney Legend Bob Gurr as he takes us to that time of great music and terrible hair, 1987. Disney was in the midst of creating their answer to Universal Studios Florida...
View ArticleCast Blast: Nature Calls of the Wild
Nature Calls of the Wild – Sometimes you just have to go. This week we have three great new stories to share from the jungles of Disneyland to old frontiers at Walt Disney World. If you have a story to...
View ArticleCast Blast: Back in the Saddle
Back in the Saddle! Glad to be back after the flu got the best of us here at Disney Cast Blast! We are putting the finishing touches on our celebrity edition and should have that up this time next...
View ArticleYesterland: Backstage Studio Tour
When Disney-MGM Studios opened, its biggest—and certainly its longest—attraction was the Backstage Studio Tour. Over the years, its importance, popularity, and length diminished. The final day of the...
View ArticleYesterland: Hollywood Holly-Day Parade
If this parade looks strangely familiar, there’s a reason. It’s a holiday—oops, I mean “Holly-Day”—makeover of the Disney Stars & Motor Cars parade. The cars, which are all themed to movies or...
View ArticleYesterland: The Earffel Tower
Your camera is loaded with film. Your goal is to have your family pose in front of the iconic symbol of each of the four parks of Walt Disney World. Cinderella Castle at Magic Kingdom Park. You got it!...
View ArticleYesterland: Studio Catering Co. and High Octane Refreshments
It’s fun when a theme park restaurant has a view into an attraction. Just think of Blue Bayou Restaurant at Disneyland, with a late twilight view of the bayou, boats, and fireflies of Pirates of...
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