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Top 5: Creepiest Walk-Around Characters At Disneyland/Walt Disney World

  By Ju-osh M. • January 7, 2015 ,

9We all have a pic or two of ourselves posing with a Disney walk-around character. Maybe you were an adult on your first trip to Walt Disney World, or perhaps you were a child visiting Mickey and Minnie ‘where they live’ at Disneyland. Either way, the experience was a right-of-passage of sorts, and one you felt was worth preserving.

But there’s a second set of pictures hidden away in the scrapbooks and smart phones of some Disney fans. These photos forgo sentimental selfies in favor of the hideous, the nightmarish and the truly terrifying walk-around characters. Listed below are the worst of the worst. Continue reading

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TCM To Sponsor Disney’s ‘The Great Movie Ride’

  By Ju-osh M. • November 26, 2014 ,

12Disney’s The Great Movie Ride used to be the centerpiece of their Hollywood Studios theme park. Over the years, though, its popularity has waned in favor of newer, more ‘exciting’ rides like The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror and Toy Story Midway Mania. The ultimate low came in 2001 when Disney execs erected a giant Sorcerer’s Hat in front of the ride to sell low-price souvenirs.

Disney and Turner Classic Movies plan to change all that via a new deal wherein TCM will add their name (and a large cash infusion) to the ride. Not only that, but that damned Sorcerer’s Hat is coming down, too!

So how does this tie into animation?

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Disney Artists’ Influence On WDW

  By Ju-osh M. • April 1, 2014

imagineersImagineering Fun Fact: When Walt Disney World first opened in 1971, its Fantasyland was heavily stylized after the personal art styles of some of some of Imagineering’s most iconic artists — It’s A Small World for Mary Blair, Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride for Rolly Crump and Cinderella’s Castle for Dorothea Redmond & Herb Ryman.

Via: Passport to Dreams

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