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Werner Weiss

Yesterland: Malibu-Ritos at Paradise Pier

Just thinking about burritos might make you want one. Here at Yester California Adventure, there’s a counter service eatery that specializes in these these...

Yesterland: Disney Stars and Motor Cars

When the stars of Disney’s classic family movies and current television series travel to a red-carpet Hollywood movie premiere, they don’t use boring, conventional...

Yesterland: Retro Space Mountain, Presented by FedEx

It doesn’t really look like copper or bronze. But pretend that it does. And try to like it. After all, colors like this are...

Yesterland: The All-New Woody’s Roundup at the Golden Horseshoe

Hey Howdy Hey! Come and join the fun with fun with Jessie the Yodeling Cowgirl, Bullseye the Horse, Stinky Pete the Prospector, and, of...

Yesterland: Mulholland Madness at DCA

The ride is decorated with a cartoony mural that folds in and out like a roadmap. In fact, it is a roadmap. It shows...

Yesterland: King Triton’s Carousel of the Sea at Paradise Pier

Most carousels have horses. Some also have African land animals. On King Triton’s Carousel of the Sea, the only horses are seahorses, and the...

Yesterland: Original Test Track, Presented by General Motors (1999 –...

It may seem that extolling the virtues of a car company by emphasizing car crashes makes as much sense as promoting an airline by...

Yesterland: The Bell System presents America the Beautiful in Circarama

This presentation puts you “in the middle of everything.” Eleven movie screens form a circle above your head. Eleven perfectly synchronized projectors show eleven...

Yesterland: Disneyland Presents Animazement – The Musical

Animazement begins with four singing, dancing animators working on large paintings. Animators are artists. They’re wearing vests and berets because that’s what artists wear. Read...

Yesterland: Midget Autopia, the third Autopia

Are you too young to drive a Tomorrowland Autopia car or even a Junior Autopia car? If you’re around four years old, the answer...

Yesterland: Innoventions Dream Home at Disneyland

It’s 2008. The park has brought back a new version of the long-gone Monsanto House of the Future—just without Monsanto. Well, actually, there are...

Yesterland: Streets of America at Disney’s Hollywood Studios

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...

Yesterland: Red Wagon Inn at Disneyland

Red Wagon Inn was an opening day restaurant at Disneyland. Swift’s involvement was not just a sponsorship deal. Although the Red Wagon Inn was designed...

Yesterland: ElecTRONica at Disney California Adventure

As they say around here, “Greetings, Programs!” Step into ElecTRONica—a party in the world of the TRON: Legacy, the long-awaited 2010 follow-up to TRON. Read the...

Yesterland: “This Week at WDW” from Summer 1972

It’s summer of 1972. Walt Disney World has been open less than a year. Walt Disney World wants you to know that there’s a...

Yesterland: Engine-Ears Toys at Disney’s California Adventure

It’s a toy store. It’s a candy store. It’s two… two… two stores in one! And there are two sides to Engine-Ears Toys at Yester...

Yesterland: Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride at Magic Kingdom Park

It really should be called Mr. Toad’s Wild Rides—with an “s” at the end. Although it looks like one ride from the outside, there...

Yesterland: Tarzan’s Treehouse at Disneyland

Your first stop is the room where Sabor is ready to pounce on you. Unlike the brilliantly animated Sabor in the film, this Sabor...

Yesterland: Gilbert Gottfried’s Enchanted Tiki Room

Gilbert Gottfried, the comedian and actor who voices Iago, dominates the tone and content of the revised show. It’s essentially become Gilbert Gottfried’s Enchanted...

Yesterland: Lilo & Stitch’s Ohana Luau at California Adventure

It’s 2002 at Yester California Adventure. Lilo and her “dog” Stitch—actually a dangerous extra-terrestrial fugitive—invite you to hang around the Pizza Oom Mow Mow...