“Exploration – Excavation – Exultation!” Take it from the Dino Institute team: there’s an art to digging deep. Uncovering the past isn’t always easy, and making sense of what was only begins at finding evidence of it. Maybe you could say that the same is true of exploring, excavating, and exulting Disney Parks past, too… and that’s …

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September 30, 2025, 6:40 PM · Four of the creative leaders behind Universal Orlando’s new Epic Universe theme park will share their stories during the upcoming IAAPA Expo.Bob Rogers has invited the four to join his Legends panel at the conference this year. The session will be titled “Legends of Epic – The Creators of …

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Telling the story of Disney and Universal’s theme parks isn’t easy. Some of these are parks have lifetimes now measured in decades, generations, or human lifespans. Like people, their stories are full of growth, change, “phases,” mistakes, reversals, triumphs – and often, core pieces of their identities that tend to stick around for their whole lives …

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September 28, 2025, 1:23 PM · Construction has gone vertical on the new Spider-Man-themed land at Shanghai Disneyland.Announced officially at last year’s D23 in Anaheim, Shanghai’s Spider-Man land will feature an all-new roller coaster. Construction started in May, with the first vertical steel column going up today.Photo courtesy Shanghai Disney Resort“As the latest addition and …

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Like most Millennial theme park enthusiasts worth their salt, I cut my teeth for park operations in the industry in that most common of test beds: Roller Coaster Tycoon on a Windows 95 desktop computer while Windows Media Player repeated Michelle Branch’s The Spirit Room in the background. If you were unlucky enough to miss …

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September 27, 2025, 6:03 PM · Silver Dollar City provided updates on its new parade and hotel during its first-ever fan fest today.The Branson, Missouri park previously announced that this year would be the final run for its Rudolph’s Holly Jolly Christmas Light Parade. Today, the park unveiled its replacement for 2026’s An Old Time …

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