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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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Uncle Walt's Fact Check.

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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Mug shot of Joe Rohde's Earring. Photo by alchetron.com [CC BY-SA 3.0].

Joe Rohde’s Earring implicated in more deaths

Rohde himself is not a suspect. BURBANK, CA -- Officials with the City of Burbank Police Department have confirmed that several recent deaths just outside the Imagineering headquarters in Glendale have now been officially attributed to Imagineer Joe Rohde's Earring. Rohde himself is not accused of any wrongdoing, and the deaths are being classified as "accidental." The Most Famous Earring in the (Disney) World? Most Disney fans are familiar with Imagineer Joe Rohde. Among many other things, he has worked on Spaceship Earth, The ...
July 10, 2018 by X in California, Florida
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Disney website crashes after news of Escanaba park breaks

Sorry for the inconvenience, folks! THE INTERNET -- Disney's website crased on Friday. Disney spokesperson Barry Poppins (no relation) confirms "Apparently our servers were overloaded. After we got everything back up, we looked at the logs, and all we saw were searches for 'Escanaba', 'Upper Peninsula', and, for some reason, 'Jeff Daniels'. We're not sure of the connection." Well, we here at Uncle Walt's Insider know what the connection is. We recently broke the news that Disney is opening a park in Escanaba. ...
July 9, 2018 by X in Other
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Poorly cropped photo of Jun Disney (no relation) by By Okras [CC BY-SA 4.0] via Wikimedia Commons, modified.

Behind the Magic: An exclusive interview with a Disney Spokesperson

We take a break from theme park news to talk with someone who feeds us theme park news. UNCLE WALT'S HEADQUARTERS -- By now, our regular readers (all 3 of you) [Ed.: What? We're up to 3? Woohoo!] probably feel like you already know Jun Disney (no relation), a Disney (the company) spokesperson frequently cited in our articles. But today, we've got a special treat for you -- Jun has agreed to an exclusive interview with Uncle Walt's Insider! So today, you get to ...
July 7, 2018 by X in Other
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