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Olaf and Sven... well, just Sven now. Photo © 2016 Disney.

A/C failure at Epcot’s Norway pavilion; Olaf missing

Last heard saying, "Some people are worth mel-glblblb..." WALT DISNEY WORLD, FL -- The Norway Pavilion in Epcot's World Showcase experienced an air conditioning outage on Sunday. But what would have been a mere inconvenience in most places quickly turned to tragedy as beloved snowman Olaf has disappeared. The Norway Pavilion is home to the popular "Frozen Ever After" boat ride, which is appropriate because Norway is a real Scandinavian country, and the movie Frozen is set in the fictional country of Arendale, which ...
August 27, 2018 by Marty in Florida
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Churros. Mmm... churros. Photo by Mark Mitchell [CC BY 2.0] via Flickr. Churros. Mmmmm....

Festival of the Churro coming to EPCOT

To be fair, every day is a Churro Festival to us. E.P.C.O.T., FL -- The annual Epcot International Food & Wine Festival is just days from starting, but Walt Disney World aficionados are already planning for a new event that promises to be even more popular: the EPCOT Centre Festival of the Churro! Epcot - Rotten with Festivals EPCOT Center is known for its award winning festivals and events that turn Walt Disney World's second-oldest Park & Spa into a major attraction, loved by ...
August 25, 2018 by Walt in Florida
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Disney's eight dwarfs. Photo by Loren Javier [CC BY-ND 2.0] via Flickr.

Confusion at Disney: Pluto named as “Eighth Dwarf”

Is there a mixup between Pluto the dog and Pluto the planet? BURBANK, CA -- There were plenty of raised eyebrows -- many of them animated -- at the Burbank headquarters of the Walt Disney Company when it announced yesterday that Pluto had been named the "Eighth Dwarf." Disney (the company) spokesperson Jun Disney (no relation) made the announcement. "It really didn't start with us," Disney (no relation) tells Uncle Walt's Insider. "It was the International Astronomical Union who made that call. They decided ...
August 24, 2018 by Marty in Other
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Norway (we presume) with a Norwegian flag flying. Photo by mroach [CC BY-SA 2.0] via Flickr.

Uncle Walt’s welcomes our readers from Norway

A message to our first Scandinavian fan club! UNCLE WALT'S INSIDER H.Q. -- Following the revelation that the headquarters of Uncle Walt's Insider was currently located in Svalbard for tax purposes, we received a surprise visit from the head of our Norwegian Fan Club! (A surprise, because not only did we not know we had a Norwegian Fan Club, we didn't even know anyone in Norway actually read Uncle Walt's, or knew how to find our headquarters. May be time to move again.) And so, ...
August 23, 2018 by Marty in World
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Monsters Inc. Laugh Floor at the Magic Kingdom Park, plus Stitch. Photo by Michael Gray [CC BY-SA 2.0] via Flickr, plus Stitch.

Monsters Inc. Laugh Floor adds Stitch as heckler

Why let a perfectly good animatronic go to waste? WALT DISNEY WORLD, FL -- Rumors continue to fly around major changes coming to the Walt Disney World Resort -- from gifts shops in the new Skyliner gondola cars and attraction queues, to a Tron retheming of the steam trains, to changing sky colors on the overhead weather dome. But now, shortly after Disney announced the addition of an adults-only late-night comedy show at the Monsters Inc. Laugh Floor, that attraction is getting ...
August 22, 2018 by Marty in Florida
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