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Troubling treatment of first-year performers. WALT DISNEY WORLD, FL — Emil Horton*, 28, has been singing with the Dapper Dans at the Magic Kingdom for almost eleven months. While Horton describes his role as “loads of fun” and “the job of a lifetime,” he tells Uncle Walt’s Insider that rookie “Dans” can be subjected to…
Only one Universal-centered article in two months. UNIVERSAL CITY, CA — Uncle Walt’s Insider has received a written complaint from the offices of Universal Studios, protesting that our website has published only one article about Universal theme parks in the last few months — and even that one seemed to mock Universal for not being…
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Everything old is new again. WALT DISNEY WORLD, FL — Before the Walt Disney World Resort and Spa even opens its Skyliner gondola system, concept artwork has been leaked showing a future part of the system — and it’s a shocker. First, the new route will pass over Disney’s Animal Kingdom Theme Park and Spa….
“True Tales: from the files of Stupid Guest Tricks” is a new series, where we share believable stories of park guests’ unbelievable stupidity. FROM STUPID GUEST TRICKS — StupidGuestTricks.com is a website founded to provide Disney Cast Members and other theme park employees a place to vent about some of the idiots they’ve dealt with….
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“How can you put a price on perfection?” WALT DISNEY WORLD, FL — As several reliable theme park news sites are reporting, Disney Parks and Resorts and Spas have raised prices on food items. (Uncle Walt’s Insider is, of course, the only super-reliable theme park news site, but occasionally the others will stumble onto something.) Price increases reported so…