What you should know before you ride The theme park intellectual property game is sometimes hard to figure out. Disney’s parks certainly have a certain IP buffer with nostalgia. At Universal Studios Florida, SpongeBob, Harry …
Comparison is inevitable. You’re going on a vacation to one of the premier destinations in the world for theme parks. You have to spend your precious vacation dollars somehow. So what’s it going to be? …
The lifeblood of any theme park is change. In a world that runs on the twin engines of technology and nostalgia, change is inevitable, but it is also dangerous. Pick the wrong attraction to keep, pick …
The modern theme park business is a race for Intellectual Property – or IP. This includes characters from movies, books and/or television shows that gained a large enough following that people would pay significant portions of …
When I was nine, went to visit my family near Cleveland, Ohio and to Cedar Point. At the time, Demon Drop was a shiny new attraction. On the ride, a gondola carried guests straight up, …
I’m Morgan, and I am a (mostly reformed) scaredy cat. For the majority of my childhood, I was underweight, scrawny and scared of most things. So, when it came to theme parks I largely found …
The Animal Kingdom is the oft-forgotten little brother of the Walt Disney World parks. It’s part zoo and part theme park. It opened in 1998 to a lot of fanfare but struggled a little to find its rightful place alongside the …
I was admittedly nervous the first time I rode Walt Disney World’s Guardians of the Galaxy Cosmic Rewind at EPCOT. Especially after reading all of the horror stories on social media about how people were …
It’s a boat, it’s a car … it’s the Amphicar! If you’ve been to Disney Springs, I know you’ve seen them. They are eye-catching, to say the least. The Disney Springs Amphicar Tour is a …
Below the Magic Kingdom, the hierarchy of Disney theme parks is shifting. It’s hard to rank the Magic Kingdom anything other than first in the pecking order. For me, Hollywood Studios comes next with the …