Be sure to check out Maternal Instincts: Round One, in which I explain what the Disney Parks Moms Panel is and detail the first part in my attempts to become a Disney Mom myself. When we last left our intrepid hero (that’s me) I had just found out that I was selected to move on to the…
Category: Misadventures
Entertaining things that have happened at me at Walt Disney World.
Maternal Instincts: Round One
Last year, I tried to become a mom. More to the point, I applied to become a Disney Mom. The Disney Parks Moms Panel is a group of men and women hand-picked by Disney to answer questions and assist guests with planning Disney vacations. They’re not employees, more like independent contractors; When a guest goes…
Splashdown
Ah, Splash Mountain. One of the finest thrill rides based upon a racist movie from the 1940s. For those of you unfamiliar with this attraction, it’s a log flume ride in which you ride along a river as characters from Song Of The South–Br’er Rabbit, Br’er Fox, Br’er Bear, and others–sing and are generally entertaining. After…
Disney’s Next Animated Project Revealed!
Let’s jump right into some exciting news! Magic & Misadventures, through an inside source, has managed to get some information about Disney’s next big animated movie project! It’s based on Die Geschichte vom Daumenlutscher, a poem from 1845 German children’s book Der Struwwelpeter by Heinrich Hoffmann, and it’s definitely a different sort of story for the studio. The…
Freefallin’ (The Tower Of Terror Misadventures)
Recently, I reconnected with an old friend via social media. He and I went to college together, and we briefly worked at Walt Disney World together as attractions hosts (a blanket term for those cast members who staff rides, shows, and more) at the Disney/MGM Studios park. Chatting with him sparked some memories, which made…
Traveling The “world”
For as long as I can remember, I’ve had a weird relationship with “it’s a small world” (lowercase in quotes is how Disney writes the attraction’s name). At some point I decided that I didn’t like the attraction, and I’m honestly not sure what triggered this. Maybe it was just the fact that I was a…