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Around the World: July news tidbits from WDW

There are a lot of news items that aren't funny enough or long enough for their own article! WALT DISNEY WORLD, FL -- While you've been lounging in your pajamas enjoying your summer vacation, Uncle Walt's Insider's intrepid reporters have been hard at work, surfing the internet for Disney news we can spoof, or failing that, just making stuff up. Also in your pajamas. (Sorry, we'll give them back eventually.)  Here are a few of the stories we're "covering": Rivers of Light Dessert Party Disney's ...
July 19, 2018 by Marty in Florida
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Be Our Guest Restaurant under a blood red sky. Photo by HarshLight [CC BY 2.0] via Wikimedia Commons.

Be Our Guest closes; End Times are near

The Beast in the Book of Revelation may be more literal than we thought. WALT DISNEY WORLD, FL -- The popular Magic Kingdom restaurant Be Our Guest will be closing its doors temporarily in August, leading to a great outcry among the nations and weeping and gnashing of teeth. Various prophecy groups have seized on this news as a sign of the impending Apocalypse. WDWMagic.com reported on Sunday that the Beauty and the Beast-themed eatery will be shuttered for five days, from August ...
July 18, 2018 by Marty in Florida
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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
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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
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FACT CHECK: Did Snopes.com get our article right?

An obscure fact-checking website managed to fool both of their readers with an inaccurate analysis of Uncle Walt's Insider. Claim In July 2018, Snopes.com characterized a news story on Uncle Walt's Insider (Disney to build park in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula) as "FALSE." Rating MOSTLY FALSE Origin In the summer of 2018, a relatively obscure fact-checking website managed to create an online buzz and trick some readers into believing that Uncle Walt's article about the new Disney theme park being built in Escanaba, Michigan, was fabricated, rating the ...
July 11, 2018 by Marty in Other
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