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Park Lore✨ @parklore.com · Nov 14

Theme park fans! Armchair Imagineers! EPCOT historians! California Adventure apologists! ✨

Park Lore is my collection of interconnected ride histories, armchair Imagineered park plans, hand-drawn ride layouts, niche diagrams, & quality-over-quantity theme park storytelling! parklore.com/links (1/3)

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Park Lore✨ @parklore.com · 2d

Yep, the lift that allows for Mickey to do the big magical finale where he appears below seems to have not operated since about March. Which is in and of itself unacceptable, but it’s the least of the show’s worries right now which tells you how bad things are.

Park Lore✨ @parklore.com · 2d

That randomly happened, but usually doesn’t in pyro-free shows. So I guess that was lucky!

Park Lore✨ @parklore.com · 2d

I’m gonna NEEEEEED someone to be honest with me about what’s going on here. Fantasmic with ZERO pyro. Not even a cannon blast for Peter Pan. This happens at least weekly now, and it is totally unacceptable. I love Fantasmic, and my feelings rn? Just end it. Let’s be done.

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Park Lore✨ @parklore.com · 3d

It’s on my list!

Park Lore✨ @parklore.com · 5d

The darker line is inflation adjusted through 2015 as of 2021, which I’ll need to get in and refresh this week with the most up to date calculations.

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Park Lore✨ @parklore.com · 5d

I dug into the ebbs, flows, and overall trajectory of Disney Parks ticket prices over the decades in a standalone feature. I'll get to updating it for 2025, but until then, some interesting trends and relationships can be found at parklore.com/vault/ticket...!

Ticket to Paradise: Disney Parks Prices from 1955 to 2024 - Park Lore

Our world moves in cycles; predictable patterns of ebbs and flows, beginnings and endings, life and death… like the phases of the moon, some things can just be counted upon as tried, true, and sure. A...

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Park Lore✨ @parklore.com · 5d

A major expansion to the Y-axis today with Disneyland's annual ticket price hike. A 1-Day, 1-Park ticket now ranges from $104 to $224. Add up to $90 for Park Hopper access and up to nearly $50 for Lightning Lane access.

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Park Lore✨ @parklore.com · 6d

Not when you’re staying at a hotel that charges $30 a night and you walk 🧠

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Park Lore✨ @parklore.com · 6d

TO BE FAIR, it's $210 each without Park Hopper or Lightning Lane, which is definitely what I'll do even though my friends' tickets have both. 🥲 They're gonna have to slum it in standby with me.

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Park Lore✨ @parklore.com · 6d

Don't you start with me @ epcot

Park Lore✨ @parklore.com · 6d

P.S. I realize this is a problem of my own doing because I told my friends to come to town on a weekend my pass is blocked but IT WAS THE ONLY DATES THAT WORKED FOR THEM. 😭 But you reap what you sow!!

Park Lore✨ @parklore.com · 6d

It’s actually wild that my Magic Key is blocked out on Saturday when my friends are in town and I can’t upgrade my pass. The only choice is to buy two 1-day tickets for THREE HUNDRED DOLLARS EACH. 😭 This has really gotten out of hand and I’m embarrassed. BUT my motto will be…

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Park Lore✨ @parklore.com · 6d

You can see how Hong Kong's version of the ride compares to the versions in Anaheim and Orlando in my HERE & THERE hand-illustrated ride layout series! And if you enjoy this kind of "new lens," ad-free theme park storytelling & art, support Park Lore for $2/month at parklore.com/join!

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Reveal rare in-story concept art, podcast extras, and exclusive articles! By supporting Park Lore as a Bronze Member, you’ll empower in-depth, ad-free, quality-over-quantity theme park writing and…

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Park Lore✨ @parklore.com · 6d

NEW! At Hong Kong Disneyland, the JUNGLE RIVER CRUISE was one of just two opening day headliners. Serving as the park's "Rivers of America" (with Tarzan's Treehouse as its Tom Sawyer Island), this unique version ends with a battle of the fire & water gods. #ParkLoreArt #LayoutTuesday

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Park Lore✨ @parklore.com · 11d

Bless u

Park Lore✨ @parklore.com · 11d

If you catch me at Disneyland wearing my own merch over the weekend pls be sure to say in a loud, clear voice how much you enjoy my work so the friends I’m bringing (for their first visit!) will know I’m not a loser and people actually read my stuff! 🥰

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Park Lore✨ @parklore.com · 12d

Yeah I’ll sketch it up next to Drachen Fire I think.

Park Lore✨ @parklore.com · 13d

Once the Big Bad Wolf was felled, a "spiritual sequel" arose in its place. VERBOLTEN is a multi-launch family coaster filled with surprises that literally recreates Big Bad Wolf's finale!

Compare their layouts with a slider at parklore.com/main/then-now #ParkLoreArt #LayoutTuesday

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Park Lore✨ @parklore.com · 13d

You’re right, I finally got the Ninja credit a few months ago and it felt like a full circle moment! Hahah

Park Lore✨ @parklore.com · 13d

You can read the full story of this iconic ride – the "first big coaster" for countless enthusiasts – at parklore.com/main/big-bad-wolf! And check back this afternoon as our two-part #LayoutTuesday looks into its "spiritual sequel"... 👀

Big Bad Wolf: The Classic Coaster That Huffed, Puffed, and Blew a Generation Away - Park Lore

Granny, what big eyes you have… What big teeth you have… What big drops you have! Once upon a time, a legend lived in the darkest woods of Williamsburg… Like the fairy tales carried from the Old…

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Park Lore✨ @parklore.com · 13d

There's maybe no more legendary lost coaster than Busch Gardens Williamsburg's BIG BAD WOLF – a suspended, swinging Arrow classic that turned a generation into a rampaging storybook creature terrorizing a German village. #ParkLoreArt #LayoutTuesday

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Park Lore✨ @parklore.com · 16d

As someone with a Verbolten tattoo..

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Park Lore✨ @parklore.com · 17d

I have heard that, and I think it’s at least possible! Hahah.

Park Lore✨ @parklore.com · 17d

Btw, I would say that a decade in, the pre-projection version of this scene was actually probably stronger. Though Mara's face changing to counter the gift is neat, the projection-free version was eerie, intimidating, and strong in its simplicity. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Grc0...

Ridethrough of Newly Refurbished Indiana Jones

http://www.dapsmagic.com Murray the Bellhop takes a ride through of Indiana Jones after it returns from being refurbished at Disneyland in December of 2012.

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Park Lore✨ @parklore.com · 17d

This voice debuted w the projection mapping in the Hall of Promise, which required different timing. (In the 2013 - today version, Mara "opens his eyes," looks at riders, then rescinds the gift, requiring the audio to start later.) When the OG voice returned, it was pitched up and shortened to fit.

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