Steve Diggins

The Sora-Disney Collapse: What Does It Mean? hollywoodreporter.com/business/digit…

Breaking: Disney Exits OpenAI Deal After AI Giant Shutters Sora hollywoodreporter.com/business/digit…

Video / Photos: The famous Bird Cage Theatre has reopened at #KnottsBerryFarm after a beautiful renovation just in time for Boysenberry Festival 2026: laughingplace.com/parks/bird-cag…

Over 150 matte paintings were created for THE BLACK HOLE (1979), supervised by father/son duo Peter and Harrison Ellenshaw. The new Matte Scan System allowed for repeatable camera movements on static matte paintings. Here are several of my favorite shots!

Have you heard of the S.S. Disney? This repurposed oil tanker would have been full of Disney attractions and sailed from city to city around the world. Imagine It’s a Small World, Dumbo, and even Space Mountain pulling up to your city for a two-month run. Would you have visited?

Legoland California is preparing to launch Lego Galaxy, a new space-themed land anchored by the park’s first-ever indoor coaster, Galactic Coaster. ktla.com/news/theme-par…

Better late than never. Next go repair the figures in Bayou Adventure.

#Disneyland #Tomorrowland disneydining.com/disney-imagine…

Walt Disney once described Tomorrowland as “a vista into a world of wondrous ideas” and “a step into the future,” but, according to many Disneyland fans, present-day Tomorrowland is anything but that. ktla.com/news/theme-par…

@KevinSparrow8 Sherman Brothers Carousel of Progress youtu.be/SDJizsfb_B8

In Memory of Eddie Sotto: A Master of Experiential Design airmagique.net/2026/01/13/in-…

An obituary/remembrance for Eddie Sotto, a designer who shaped modern theme parks. Thank you to the former Walt Disney Imagineers who contributed. latimes.com/travel/story/2…

New Post: We lost another legend of our industry. Joe Dunton, MBE, BSC was the consummate inventor, mentor and friend. He had a gift of laughter and the sense that the world of cinema was not mad but in constant fdtimes.com/?p=54812

@WDWNT Very sad to hear this. He was very talented and a great guy.

Eddie Sotto, Legendary Imagineer Behind Best Main Street Ever Made, Has Passed Away wdwnt.news/5bi_25

@laughingplace @boss_angeles Very sad to hear this.

News: Former Disney Imagineer Eddie Sotto (@boss_angeles), one of the guiding designers behind Main Street U.S.A. at Disneyland Paris, has passed away at the age of 67. laughingplace.com/disney-parks/e…

Disney to Invest $1 Billion in OpenAI in Major Deal That Boosts Sora in Hollywood philiplelyveld.com/?p=37628

It is hard to believe that within 8 days two architects who were engulfed by American culture, who embraced that culture, and advanced it, have passed away.  Frank Gehry has followed Bob Stern, two men operating on two different coasts in America. Frank, very early, worked with us at the Walt Disney Company creating excellence in Anaheim and Paris. Frank was honored by everybody: clients, the public, the press as the most important architect worldwide because he was the most important architect. You can point to at least twenty+ buildings that can only be described as amazing, a legacy that one must see with their own eyes. From a hockey rink for the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim to Walt Disney Concert Hall, from a museum in Bilbao Spain to a soaring tower in NYC, and from a meeting/convening  building that Frank designed for our family in Colorado to millions of square feet of “can you believe that” around the world, we have lost someone who was super super super special. RIP Frank

As Hollywood struggles, one of its famous LA landmarks is taken down sfgate.com/la/article/ico… via @SFGate

The little-known story behind one of Disneyland's most recognizable ride songs #piratesofthecaribbean #disneyland #xavieratencio #imagineering latimes.com/travel/story/2…