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Ultimate Photo Tour of Cars Land Part 2: Nighttime

Wednesday, June 13, 2012

On Saturday, Patrick and I got to attend one of the Annual Passholder previews of Cars Land at Disney California Adventure, a week before its official debut. As usual, we took scads of photos, nearly all of which are about to be inflicted upon you. Today's installment covers the nighttime portion of our 6 hours in ...

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Ultimate Photo Tour of Cars Land Part 1: Daytime

Monday, June 11, 2012

On Saturday, Patrick and I got to attend one of the Annual Passholder previews of Cars Land at Disney California Adventure, a week before its official debut. As usual, we took scads of photos, nearly all of which are about to be inflicted upon you. Today's installment covers the daytime portion of our 6 hours ...

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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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Wedding Crasher: 4 Parties in 3 Nights with 2 Cameras and 1 Fabulous Hat!

Monday, February 13, 2012

I have finally migrated my last DIS Boards trip report over to this site! Wedding Crasher: 4 Parties in 3 Nights with 2 Cameras and 1 Fabulous Hat! is the story of my first solo trip to Walt Disney World, in which I attended two private parties as a legitimate guest and stalked not one but TWO ...

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Backstage at the El Capitan Theatre

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

In yesterday's post I detailed the history we learned about the El Capitan Theatre on our Los Angeles Historic Theatre Foundation tour last weekend. After the organ concert and history presentation, we were broken into groups and sent dashing through the narrow halls backstage to try to see everything before the theater opened for business ...

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History of Disney’s El Capitan Theatre

Monday, January 30, 2012

When a Disney movie opens in Los Angeles, it opens at Disney's El Capitan Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard, so Patrick and I find ourselves there often. Seeing a movie at the El Capitan is a real event, complete with a pre-show concert of Disney tunes played on the Mighty Wurlitzer organ, a Disney character-filled stage ...

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