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Trip Report Update: Celebrating Epcot’s Birthday With Its Movies

Monday, November 12, 2012

Today's installment covers the first half of Epcot's actual birthday, October 1. I decided to celebrate it by revisiting all the films in World Showcase, buying all my anniversary merchandise 3 days earlier on the Interwebz, and stalking Epcot historian @ProgressCityUSA. Also, by eating my way around the World Showcase's Food & Wine Festival booths. What ...

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Trip Report Update: D23 Dessert Party at the Siemens Lounge

Monday, November 5, 2012

Today I'm finally wrapping up the saga of the second day of my trip, which was jam-packed with Epcot-aversary goodness by D23. The last part of the day was the World Key dessert reception in Siemens' corporate lounge inside Spaceship Earth. The only other time I'd had a chance to visit the lounge, most of it ...

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Trip Report: D23’s Epcot 30th Anniversary Celebration – Part 2!

Monday, October 29, 2012

Today I bring you the rest of my account of D23's Epcot 30th Anniversary event. The second half of the day featured a comedy trio of Imagineers uncovering overlooked attractions and little-known facts around Epcot, a panel of entertainers who created Epcot's Spandextraordinary opening ceremony, a look at the Illusioneering that created some of Epcot's best ...

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Trip Report: D23’s Epcot 30th Anniversary Celebration, Part I

Monday, October 22, 2012

Today I give you not one, but one-and-a-HALF updates, since I just discovered that part of the last update didn't make it into the post. To read all of Day 1, click HERE! Then you can read about Day 2, which D23 had scheduled so full that it will take me two or maybe even three ...

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Brand-new Trip Report: Epcot’s 30th Anniversary Celebration!

Tuesday, October 16, 2012

At long last, I've started a brand-new trip report! Not only have you never read this one before on the DIS (I mean, before yesterday), but the trip it chronicles happened not one year ago, not one month ago, but just TWO WEEKS ago! This one is the story of my six jammy-packed days at Walt ...

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Richard Sherman Performs the Orange Bird Theme

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

In honor of today's return of the Orange Bird to Sunshine Tree Terrace at the Magic Kingdom, here's a clip of Richard Sherman performing the Orange Bird Theme at D23's Destination D 2011. Sherman launched into the tune spontaneously, so I missed the first line of the song, but I'll bet you can guess what ...

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