Marty, Author at Uncle Walt's Insider - Page 136 of 173
Not-So-Magical Porthole aboard the Disney Dreamship. Photo © 2012 Disney, if you can still believe anything they say.

DCL disappointment: Magic Portholes do not actually use magic

A four-year undercover investigation reveals the truth. CELEBRATION, FL -- The Walt Disney Company uses the word "magic" a lot -- the Magic Kingdom Park; their first cruise ship, the Disney Magic; the Remember the Magic parade; the "magic underwear" worn by Cast Members who work with characters in the parks so they never have to take potty breaks; and that whole Disney's Magical Wizarding World of Harry Potter thing. But to what extent do they actually use magic? Uncle Walt's investigates As our ...
September 10, 2018 by Marty in Other
Read more
Disney exterminates A Bug's Land.

A Bug’s Land closes; giant can of pesticide used

California Adventure rids the land of pests before repurposing the area. ANAHEIM, CA -- In closing the "A Bug's Land" area at Disney's California Adventure, park officials are taking no chances that the infestation may return. "We've seen this happen many times in our offices when we just sweep bugs out of the way," said Disney Parks and Resorts and Spas chairman Bob Chapek. "You think they're gone, and boom, a week or two later the place is crawling with insects. So we've ...
September 7, 2018 by Marty in California
Read more
Disney's Go Away Green - building, speaker, Club 33 door, & Phil

Disney licenses “Go Away Green” to military

Pictured uses of Go Away Green (L-R): 1. show building. 2. speaker. 3. Club 33 door. 4. Phil. BURBANK, CA -- For decades Disney Imagineers have been painting buildings and objects within their parks a dusky shade of bluish-green they call "Go Away Green." It's a color whose entire purpose is to not draw attention, so it can be found on speakers, employees-only gates, a certain Cast Member named Phil that no one likes, and most famously, the original door to the secretive ...
September 6, 2018 by Marty in California, Florida, Other
Read more
Frozen. Not that one, but the other one.

Kids traumatized when grandmother rents 2010 Frozen

This version has no singing snowman. ARVADA, CO -- A Labor Day visit to their grandparents' house turned traumatic for Ben Skyler, 7, and his 5-year-old sister Ariana, when their grandmother showed them the wrong movie. "My daughter and son-in-law had given us this Apple TV thing last Christmas," says Betty Kijek, the kids' maternal grandmother. "I still haven't figured out why they named it after fruit, but I was happy to just leave it on the Weather Channel all the time. Except, ...
September 5, 2018 by Marty in Other
Read more
Third Disneyland park location. Photo © 2018 Google Street View.

Disney to add third park between Disneyland and California Adventure

The as-yet-unthemed park will be sandwiched in the plaza between the two current parks. ANAHEIM, CA -- As Uncle Walt's Insider mentioned yesterday in a brief article intended to lighten our workload on a holiday weekend, Disneyland was considering adding a third park to the Disneyland Resort. And now we can confirm that it is a legitimate rumor! In an effort to stay competitive in the Southern California theme park industry, executives at Disneyland Resort announced this morning that they will be adding ...
September 4, 2018 by Marty in California
Read more