“Former friends” got a bit too competitive in the Magic Kingdom. WALT DISNEY WORLD, FL — Leonard “Len” Henry, 69, and Webster Pryor, 71, are lifelong friends from Waterloo, Iowa. Or at, least they were friends, until they found themselves kicked out of the Magic Kingdom on Tuesday for “racing” their electric scooters down Main…
![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…
![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…
![Walt Disney World Railroad before the Tron retheming. Photo by Jackdude101 [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons.](https://unclewalts.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/WDWRR_-_Lilly_Belle_2016_2-768x432.jpg)
“Yes, we are retheming another attraction to Tron. But not the Speedway.” WALT DISNEY WORLD, FL — The Magic Kingdom Park took another step towards construction of the new Tron Lightcycle Power Run roller coaster last week, shutting down the Tomorrowland Speedway and the Walt Disney World Railroad for the duration of the construction. And…