When talking about the great mistakes in Disney Park history, a group of attraction replacements inevitably comes up. For many the wounds created by the demolition of Horizons, Winnie the Pooh replacing Mr. Toad, the 20,000 Leagues Lagoon being filled in, or Figment and Dreamfinder being cast aside for Eric…

If you ask any Disney fan what one attraction they would bring back if they could, you will get pretty standard answers. There will be a group of people who talk about the Future World West Triumvirate — World of Motion, Universe of Energy, and Horizons, or those who long…

I want to start this article by making a couple of things clear. The argument that follows is not about the merits of a Princess and the Frog attraction, or even a critique of Disney retheming Splash Mountain in the face of public backlash. …

Welcome back, everyone! It’s been far too long since we dove back into the future that never was. As a quick recap, we began our journey by looking at the history of Tomorrowland, and the problem that the land’s basic concept created. We then hopped in our Wayback Machine and…

If you read last weeks article, we went through the history of Tomorrowland at the various Disney Parks, discussed the Tomorrowland Problem, and then looked at some of the solutions that Disney came up with. Today, I want to take a look back at New Tomorrowland itself, specifically the Avenue…

There is perhaps no more divisive refurbishment among Walt Disney World fans than the 1994 refurbishment of Tomorrowland. Billed as, “the future that never was”, New Tomorrowland went in a radically different direction than the iterations of the land that preceded it. No longer trying to realistically depict the near…

The Mickey Wiki takes a look at how different The Great Movie Ride could’ve been. — With the end of The Great Movie Ride’s run upon us, many have begun to re-examine the attraction’s place in Disney history. Perhaps the last great moment in the lineage of the Audio-Animatronic attraction, The Great Movie Ride was something unique in Disney history. …

The Mickey Wiki is back with five more Disney World attractions that had improbably long runs. — Walt Disney: One Man’s Dream (2001-Present) Before everyone starts yelling at me, let me make one thing clear - I hope Walt Disney: One Man’s Dream never closes. …

When Michael Eisner invited the first guests to the Disney-MGM Studios in 1989, he told them, “We welcome you to a Hollywood that never was — and always will be”. Set in the Golden Age of Hollywood, the Disney-MGM Studios took guests back to a time when Tinseltown reigned supreme…