Category: Disney
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You Still Know What I Did Last Summer
The Orlando Sentinel put up a video covering the Team Possible game at Epcot, and it came out pretty good. You can watch it here (assuming you’re running Windows; I can’t figure out how to get it to play in Safari). The video has a lot of interviews with the VP of Imagineering R&D talking…
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Tropical Depression
When I’ve been to Disney World before, the trips have never been quite long enough, and I’ve wondered how long it would take for me to get tired of all of it. It turns out the answer is two and a half weeks. Entering week three here, I can say that this is the most…
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You Know What I Did Last Summer
It looks like it’s finally safe to talk about what I’ve been working on for the past year. (With the reminder that this is a personal blog and neither I nor this website is a representative of the Disney company. I don’t speak for them, they don’t speak for me, etc.) It’s a playtest for…
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The Brave Little Barfly
Today was the first day I’ve had off in a couple of weeks. I spent the bulk of it napping, interspersed with rides on the Tower of Terror. After being awakened (awoken?) by fireworks, I headed to Downtown Disney to the Adventurers Club. Full disclosure: this was my second night in a row there, and…
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Living at Disney World
Today I moved into what’s going to be my new home for the next month. It’s one of Disney’s timeshares, with a nice tree-obstructed view of Spaceship Earth at Epcot and fireworks visible from my balcony. Even though I didn’t get to sleep last night until around 2, I suddenly woke up at 7am —…
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Speaking of Marketing
Speaking of the ineffable genius of marketing types: By way of The Disney Blog, here’s Kroger’s press release for Old Yeller Chunk Style Dog Food. You can go ahead and read that press release without fear of spoilers; for some reason, they don’t mention how the movie ends. So look forward to a long life…
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Walt Disney’s Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass
I must be all kinds of dense, because I’m having a hell of a time making it through The Odyssey. I was meaning to be reading it for pleasure but I can’t tell one name from the next and it just feels like homework. So I switched to The Once and Future King. And it…
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Decompression
The day after crunch mode ends on a project is like a bullet train hitting a concrete mammoth. “Brick wall” seemed too mundane. You’d think I’d be used to it by now, instead of finding myself sitting in a hotel room with nothing to do and too bored even to nap. There’s still plenty to…
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Crimes Against the Internets: The Re-Imagineering Blog
The internet is full-to-bursting with self-important nerds who are simultaneously obsessed beyond reason with the minutiae of their chosen hobby and convinced that they could do a better job than the people currently in charge of that hobby. This isn’t breaking news. It happens with movies, comic books, television series (somehow, Joss Whedon remains exempt),…
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A Brief Layover
Disney magic has transformed a week-long business trip into a two-week-long business trip, since I’ve got to leave Monday morning for a week down in LA. On the plus side, I’m… well, saving on groceries, I guess. Of course, it’s hard to feel too sorry for myself when last week ended up being as nice…
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Expedition Everest
As it turns out, the rumors of the total lack of internet access were greatly exaggerated. When I was ironing a shirt this morning, I found an ethernet cable hiding in the back of the closet, and I grabbed it like a kid opening a Christmas present. It doesn’t make that much of a difference,…