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It's kind of like a stove! Photo by Mark Pellegrini [CC-BY-SA-3.0] via Wikipedia.

Backhead Cuisine dining experience coming to Magic Kingdom

Those steam engine fireboxes generate a lot of heat -- so why not cook with it? MAGIC KINGDOM, FL -- Disney has announced an all-new dining experience coming to the Magic Kingdom: Backhead Cuisine! As everyone in the universe is aware, the Walt Disney World Resort maintains a fleet of authentic, antique steam trains. These trains require large amounts of heat to generate large amounts of steam to not only power the locomotive, but also run the steam press to iron out ...

Chip Gaines to join Disney Imagineering

Now every day at Disney can be Demo Day. GLENDALE, CA -- In a joint press release, The Walt Disney Company and Magnolia Inc. have announced a partnership that brings Chip Gaines to the Imagineering team at Disney. Imagineering spokesperson, Xander "X-Ray" Romano, shared the vision behind the partnership, "We're all huge fans of Chip and the work he has done on the hit HGTV series Fixer Upper. During the design phase for Toy Story Land, now open at Disney's Hollywood Studios located ...

July 16, 2018 by Walt in California, Florida, Other

Artist's conception of the “RunDisney 11.9K at the Walt Disney World Resort & Spa Epcot Line on the resort’s Monorail Transportation System Epcot Loop." Photo courtesy TripAdvisor.

RunDisney 11.9K coming to Epcot monorail loop

Finally an event for everyone who ever looked at a the monorail track and thought, "Gee, I'd really like the climb up there and go for a run." WALT DISNEY WORLD, FL -- Coming this fall to the Walt Disney World Resort is the newest RunDisney event, the "RunDisney 11.9K at the Walt Disney World Resort & Spa Epcot Line on the resort's Monorail Transportation System Epcot Loop." [Ed.: T-shirts with the full event title will only come in 3XL or larger.] Guests will ...

July 14, 2018 by Walt in Florida

More fees for Walt Di$ney World? Photo via Pixabay, modified.

Money-saving tips for your Disney vacation

Let the experts at Uncle Walt's Insider help you to keep more cash in your wallet. UNCLE WALT'S INSIDER H.Q. -- So you want to go to Disney, but don't have a lot of money to burn? Or for that matter, to spend? You've come to the right place! We here at Uncle Walt's Insider are full of great ideas to help you save some cash and have a great vacation as well. [Ed.: We're full of something, that's for sure.] So, without further ...

July 13, 2018 by Marty in California, Florida, Other

Disney tram catches some air. Photo courtesy nmgncp.com & blogmickey.com.

Parking Tram Motocross 2018 season opens

Tram drivers from Disney and other theme parks gather at Redbud to compete. BUCHANAN, MI -- It's mid-summer, and that means the return of the Parking Tram Motocross season, beginning at Michigan's famed Redbud track! The opening event is scheduled at press time to include parking tram drivers from around the world, including for the first time entrants from Universal Studios Idaho and from North Korea's new Disneyland Pyongyang. All will be trying to unseat last year's champion, Dunston "Air Time" Holwood from ...

July 12, 2018 by Marty in Other