Category: Disney
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Museum of the Weird
Reading Rolly Crump’s book convinced me I’ve been wrong about Disney’s tension between originality and familiarity.
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Everything is Counterfactual
Changes to Splash Mountain reveal how a Disney-loving southern boy came to have false memories of his childhood
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Disney Blasphemy Featuring IPCOT
Second-guessing some truths that Disney fans hold to be self-evident.
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A New Hope, or, We Would Like to See the Baby
Ending a week of Star Wars obsession by acknowledging that everything is going to be fine.
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One Thing I Already Love About Rise of the Resistance
I have opinions about a ride I haven’t even been on yet.
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But Not For Me
Thoughts on living in a world where both The Force Awakens and Rogue One exist, and each has huge fans.
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Frozen II: More and Less of the Same
Frozen II has all the baggage you’d expect from the sequel to a runaway Disney fairytale blockbuster, but insists on having its characters grow and change.
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Won’t Someone Think of the Phoenicians?!
Or, “If We Can Dream It, Then We Can Complain About It.” I am a middle-aged man who has strong opinions about Epcot.
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No Toy Left Hanging
Toy Story 4 is my favorite in the series, a perfect farewell to the characters and the more satisfying conclusion I didn’t know I needed.
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One Thing I Love About Millennium Falcon: Smuggler’s Run
The new Millennium Falcon ride at Galaxy’s Edge in Disneyland reminded me a lot of the source of all dark side evil on Dagobah, but in a good way.