Yesterland: Epcot’s Icon Tower at Spaceship Earth
Cinderella Castle doesn’t have a giant “Magic Kingdom” sign above it. The Tree of Life doesn’t have a giant “Animal Kingdom” sign above it....
Yesterland: The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror at California Adventure
From a distance, the Hollywood Tower Hotel is an elegant, if oddly shaped, edifice. As you get closer, you notice that something went terribly...
Yesterland: “Honey, I Shrunk the Kids” Movie Set Adventure at Disney-MGM...
“Honey, I Shrunk the Kids” Movie Set Adventure opened at Disney-MGM Studios (now Disney’s Hollywood Studios) on December 17, 1990. It had been less...
Yesterland: Disneyland Signs, Part 1 and Part 2
When you think of the Disneyland sign, what do you visualize? It probably depends on when you first visited Disneyland or became aware of...
Legendary Disney Imagineers and Landmark Entertainment!
Since 1980, Landmark Entertainment has designed some of the world's most iconic themed attractions. And, over those decades, many Disney Imagineers have gone on...
Yesterland: Splash Mountain at Disneyland — now in Yesterland
It’s 52 ½ feet down at a 47-degree slope. Logs reach a top speed of more than 40 m.p.h. Yikes! Do you still want...
Yesterland: Aladdin’s Oasis Dinner Show at Disneyland
It’s a warm summer night in Yesterland. The year is 1993. You could have an ordinary dinner in the park, but consider the Aladdin’s...
Meet Tania McKnight Norris: Walt Disney’s Secret Imagineering Weapon
We know a lot about the Imagineering legends who were instrumental in creating Disneyland, including Marc and Alice Davis, Rolly Crump, Bob Gurr, Mary...
Yesterland: Heimlich’s Chew Chew Train at Flik’s Fun Fair
You’re at Flick’s Fun Fair. You—and all the other human guests—are the size of bugs. Clover leaves tower over your head. Heimlich, the voracious...
Yesterland: Indian Village at Disneyland
Wander among teepees of the Plains Indians, an Iroquois birch bark longhouse, and a cedar plank house and totem poles of Indians of the...
Yesterland: L.A. Cinema Storage at Disney-MGM / Disney’s Hollywood Studios
It’s been Trolley Car Café, an in-park Starbucks since February 4, 2015. During the first two years of the park, it had three different...
Yesterland: Wonders of Life at Epcot
A golden dome houses Wonders of Life, Presented by MetLife. It’s not an attraction in the traditional sense. It’s more like a whole theme...
Pacific Ocean Park: L.A.’s Lost Amusement Park with Disneyland Ties
If you're a California theme park fan, you'll know that Disneyland opened in 1955, and although it began in 1923 as a roadside berry...
Mickey’s Toontown Fair Train Station at Magic Kingdom Park
For the most part, this park is all about putting you into detailed environments that immerse you in another place and time. Sorry, folks....
Yesterland: Catal Restaurant, Uva Bar & Café at Downtown Disney
You may have heard that Catal is the indoor part and Uva Bar is the outoor part. It would be more accurate to say...
Yesterland: “35 Years of Magic” – Disneyland in 1990
It’s 1990 at Disneyland. Upon entering through the park’s turnstiles, you receive a commemorative “35th Anniversary Dream Machine” ticket. A prize box on the...
Yesterland: Mule Pack, Rainbow Ridge Pack Mules, & Pack Mules Through...
Mules are unpredictable. Sometimes they move right along; sometimes they barely move at all; sometimes they just stop; and sometimes they even back up....
Yesterland: 45 Years of Magic…Parade of the Stars
This parade is a cross between a Fantasia 2000 movie tie-in, a Disney character cavalcade, and a “see other park guests look silly” parade....
Disney100: The Exhibition Hits The Road & The Small Screen
One hundred years is an exceptional milestone, so to mark the extra-momentous occasion, The Walt Disney Archives put together its most comprehensive exhibit to...
Yesterland: Maelstrom at Epcot’s Norway Pavilion
“You are not the first to pass this way, nor shall you be the last. Those who seek the spirit of Norway face peril...