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"Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria!" Photo by Random UWI Fan, used with permission. We think.

Mariachi ‘invasion’ of America Gardens Theatre prompts new border wall

The President vowed to get right on this. EPCOT, FL -- Walt Disney World guests, already reeling from so many changes, found a new disturbance at EPCOT's World Showcase. The America Pavilion's normal patriotic music, backed by the incredibly talented Voices of Liberty, has been replaced by the sounds of mariachi. Tensions were already running high in World Showcase, what with the UK Pavilion pulling out, the invasion of the French Pavilion, and the protests after Applebee's took the riblets off the menu ...

True Tales of Stupid Guests: Episode 15

"True Tales: from the files of Stupid Guest Tricks" is an ongoing series, where we share believable stories of park guests' unbelievable stupidity. FROM STUPID GUEST TRICKS -- StupidGuestTricks.com was a website founded to provide Disney Cast Members and other theme park employees a place to vent about some of the idiots they've dealt with. Most Cast Members will tell you that 99% of the guests they deal with are wonderful, but there's always that 1% that lead to aggravation -- and ...

December 10, 2019 by Marty in Spotlight

A newly Bahamian-registered Friendship boat at Epcot. Photo via DepositPhotos.

Disney reflags Friendship boats, requiring foreign port call

Docking at the Morocco and Germany Pavilions may not satisfy the "non-U.S. port of call" requirement, though. WALT DISNEY WORLD, FL -- In what is being called a cost-saving measure, the Walt Disney World Resort and Spa has reflagged its fleet of "Friendship boats." The boats now are officially registered in the Bahamas. Having foreign-flagged vessels operating in U.S. waters is not unusual. Most cruise lines, including Disney's, have non-U.S. flagged ships, so that U.S. labor laws will not apply to their crew. Foreign ...

October 11, 2019 by Marty in Florida

Concept art for the new Moana themed entrance to the Epcot restrooms. Photo © Disney via Disney Parks Blog.

Epcot Moana disaster: “Maybe we shouldn’t have closed all the restrooms”

"We're installing more bushes." WALT DISNEY WORLD, FL -- Walt Disney once faced a choice, just before the opening of Disneyland, of whether to have plumbers finish connecting the drinking fountains or the restrooms. In his most famous quote (the one carved on his headstone), Walt Disney said, "They can drink Coke and Pepsi, but they can’t pee in the streets." After closing all the Epcot restrooms to retheme them as Moana's Journey of Water, panicked Imagineers have realized that guests can do both. In ...

September 3, 2019 by Marty in Florida

Journey of Water: new Moana-themed restrooms at Epcot

The D23 announcement has everyone dancing on one leg in anticipation! ANAHEIM, CA -- More exciting news out of the D23 Expo at the Anaheim Convention Center. On Thursday of last week, Disney officials announced that Moana-themed restrooms are coming to Epcot! Officially described as an "attraction" called "Journey of Water," the restrooms are part of the multi-hundred dollar renovations to the park. This is great news, especially for Moana fans disappointed that the Tiki Room overlay is to be Guardians of the ...

August 26, 2019 by Marty in Florida