![The Bob Barker cruises at Epcot's World Showcase Lagoon. Photo by Michael Gray [CC BY-SA 2.0] via Flickr & YouTube.](https://unclewalts.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/bob-barker-world-showcase-lagoon-768x432.jpg)
Are the “Friendship” boats a cover for whaling activities? AMSTERDAM, NL — The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, once featured on the Animal Planet series Whale Wars, has announced their newest campaign against alleged Norwegian and Japanese whaling activities: they will attempt to disrupt operations at the those countries’ pavilions in the World Showcase section of…
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…
![Disney's eight dwarfs. Photo by Loren Javier [CC BY-ND 2.0] via Flickr.](https://unclewalts.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/disneys-eight-dwarfs-768x432.jpg)
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…
![Norway (we presume) with a Norwegian flag flying. Photo by mroach [CC BY-SA 2.0] via Flickr.](https://unclewalts.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/norway-flag-768x432.jpg)
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…
![Monsters Inc. Laugh Floor at the Magic Kingdom Park, plus Stitch. Photo by Michael Gray [CC BY-SA 2.0] via Flickr, plus Stitch.](https://unclewalts.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/monsters-inc-laugh-floor-stitch-768x432.jpg)
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…