Our little-known facts series continues, in spite of underwhelming demand! It’s a hotel! It’s a spaceship! It’s a hotel! No, it’s a spaceship! Settle down, there’s no need to argue. It’s a hotel and a (pretend) spaceship! And whatever you think of Walt Disney World’s new Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser, we can all agree on one thing:…
Rest in peace, poor churro, we hardly knew ye. HARAMBE, FL — A riot broke out in the Africa section of Disney’s Animal Kingdom after a man was spotted throwing away an entire churro. Our very own Uncle Walt witnessed this atrocity first hand. “I was taking note of a bit of paint chipped off…
![Next: a "Poutine on the Ritz" meme. Photo by Camelia.boban [CC BY-SA 4.0] via Wikimedia.](https://unclewalts.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/putin-poutine-768x403.jpg)
A dish named for its inventor, Vladimir Poutine. WALT DISNEY WORLD, FL — Epcot Centre’s Canada Pavilion has been in the news several times recently (here, here & here), and not always for positive reasons. Today, however, in a move certain to impact Russia almost as much as the banning of its cats from international competition,…
![Coming soon - the new Ukraine Pavilion at Epcot Center! Photo [CC0] via Wikimedia.](https://unclewalts.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/disney-epcot-centre-ukraine-pavilion-768x403.jpg)
They probably shouldn’t build it next to the Russia Pavilion. WORLD SHOWCASE LAGOON, FL — Bob “Bob” Chapek has announced that he intends to bring a new country to EPCOT: Ukraine! Chapek probably said this in a phone call with our own Uncle Walt. “As I was counting money with the news playing in the…
![Aw, is Vlad going to miss out on his parade down Main Street USA? Photo by Darcy [CC BY 2.0] via Flickr, Kremlin.ru [CC BY 3.0] via Wikimedia, and [CC0] via Pexels.com. Yes, it cracks us up that we're using a Kremlin photograph.](https://unclewalts.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/putin-not-going-to-walt-disney-world-768x403.jpg)
To be fair, it might have been in bad taste for Disney to run the ad. MOSCOW — Sources say that a dejected Vladimir Putin has canceled his planned “I’m going to Disney World” commercial. “It was going to be epic,” our source reported Putin saying (but in Russian). “We invade Ukraine, and Kyiv falls…