The Manimal

“I hope you’re all satisfied. You bankrupted a multi-million dollar hotel. They weren’t thinking about the money. They just wanted to tell a story. A story about a “Galactic Starcruiser” and you slick small-towners took ‘em for all they were worth.”

@webmaster_major @RetroNewsNow I have the first two

@RetroNewsNow Nice!! @WorldofManimal

1980s Walt Disney World, EPCOT Center and Disney MGM Studios Pennants

Calling it: WDW will bring back the Swan Boats to give “Disney Adults” something to do as they get “too old for Space Mountain.”

*me, hanging on to 1983 rather than embracing 2026*

No big deal, just Chris Runco talking about the final scene of WORLD OF MOTION. Turns out he was actually WORKING under CenterCore on opening day!! #retromagic

It takes a Village #retromagic

#retromagic WDW Village presentation @webmaster_major

Tom Nabbe becomes the inaugural member of the LBVHS “5 Timers Club!” #retromagic

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Original staff of WDW! #retromagic

Welcome to #retromagic 2025!!

@Savethedmagic @Parkeology @boss_angeles @WorldofManimal Thought it might interest some of your followers to see my three WDW Lake Buena Vista Shopping Village employment photos from 1976 & 1977, at Lite Bite & Heidelberger's Deli:

When EPCOT Center meets the WDW Village, you get the 1982 International Festival! Pre-World Showcase event that was definitely the prototype of EPCOT’s vibe for the next 4 decades. R.I.P. to artist Ed French.

@bunny_wars Stop what you’re doing. Locate a copy of THE COMPLEAT BEATLES (1982) Watch the part when they play “Tomorrow Never Knows” while they zoom around that album cover in a psychedelic freakout. Now, imagine being a kid like I was.

10 years ago today, on August 1, 2015 - #Rush plays the final show of the "R40 Live" tour at the LA Forum, in what would prove to be their final live show *ever*. Many rock celebs were on hand, and the band treated the crowd to "Losing It" with Jonny Dinklage on electric violin rushisaband.com/blog/2015/08/0…

@webmaster_major Ooooo. Need to check that one out. Music is a powerful thing for sure.

@WorldofManimal I’m listening to early 70s Disney music (Mike Curb Congregation album) and it’s making me very nostalgic for those days back then when I was practically living for WDW, right before my employment there. Music is so powerful in what it can conjure up!

Many recent uploads to my YouTube channel including this commercial block from the NBC broadcast of @joe_dante’s GREMLINS in 1990. GREMLINS 1990 NBC broadcast commercials youtu.be/blmNNPialOQ

Listening to the @RetroWDW podcast on “The Disney Difference” Here’s a few oddities from my archives. @BrianPMiles @GoAwayGreen @wdwms @LS1jt