The Secret Recording Career of George Bruns
One of the troubles with being canonized as a Disney Legend is that all of the rest of your life's output tends to become a sidenote to that studio in Burbank. There's a handful of artists like Rolly...
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Marc Davis' Adventure House
You don't often get to break the news on genuine lost classic attractions. Although unbuilt concepts are still a matter of particular interest for certain Disney fans, the deeper you dig, the more...
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A Personal Magic Kingdom Wish List
One of the troubles with writing a blog like this is that although the posts that I push out onto it stay there to be read in the future, one can't go back even a few years without immediately starting...
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The Music of the Tropical Serenade
🎶 Let's all sing like the birdies sing...🎶No, not that music of the Tropical Serenade. Today let's get detailed and talk about the music that played outside of the attraction throughout its...
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Magic Kingdom in Early 1972
Let's take a break this month and enjoy some vintage photography.I don't do this sort of thing all that often, not only because it's fairly time consuming, but most often vintage vacation slides aren't...
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Let's Have A Drink On It! Adventureland Punch
I tried hard, I really did. After the last, surprisingly successful installment of this series, I knew summer was coming soon and a nice, summery WDW drink would be appreciated. The Monorail Yellow, a...
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Weird WDW: Eulogy For A Dancing Hippo
It doesn't feel like it anymore, but there's still a lot of weirdness left at Walt Disney World. The past ten years have seen a shocking amount of expansions, reboots, reconstructions and rejiggering,...
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Musically Setting the Stage
(It's BGM catch-up month here at Passport to Dreams, with two shorter posts this month to get a record of the remaining fully identified original loops online!)The Main Entrance music at Disneyland and...
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Caribbean Plaza: The Sound of the Sun
(It's BGM catch-up month here at Passport to Dreams, with two shorter posts this month to get a record of the remaining fully identified original loops online!)Caribbean Plaza had its signature...
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Five Batshit Crazy Rides
Okay everybody, put on your silly hats, because today we're all about really weird rides.As a Disney World-obsessed child growing up on the other side of the country, although Disney was a major...
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Meet Beverly: The Italian Connection
If you've been to Epcot in the past 20 years, you've almost certainly come across it at the Coca-Cola free soda exhibit... a clear, odorless, intensely bitter soda being dispensed under the amusingly...
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Dead Media from Tokyo Disneyland
Once, a long time ago, listening to music at home meant buying records. And, in those days, Disney records were in a league of their own. The Disneyland record label consistently made something that...
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Disney World's Universal Decade
As far as theme park fans are concerned, the decade of the 2010s began in June, when The Wizarding World of Harry Potter opened at Islands of Adventure. As far as national media coverage was concerned,...
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Haunted Mansion Video Treasures
To this author, perhaps the greatest boon to my life afforded by the modern internet is video streaming - the ability to watch nearly anything at any time for reasonable cost in decent quality. And...
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Harold's Lost World of Snow
"It will be going the same speed it always has, but it will seem faster." - John Hench, Disneyland Line, December 1977In 2003, I took my first trip to Disneyland, and Disneyland is one of those places...
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Now Available! Boundless Realm: Deep Explorations Inside Disney’s Haunted...
Great News! My first book is now available through Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and other sellers! Click here to grab it, or keep reading to find out what went into this massive project!In September 2014,...
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The Weird History of Ports O' Call Village
Today, I'm bringing you back. Back to a time when, in a relaxed milieu of quaint shingle structures embracing a body of water, sophisticated adult shoppers could mingle through boutiques like a...
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The Mall as Disney; Disney as the Mall
"What [Disneyland] is all about is inhabitation, the human act of being somewhere where we are protected, even engaged, by a space ennobled by our presence Inhabitation is a powerful reality that...
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Sonic the Hedgehog Could've Saved DisneyQuest
In the 1980s and 90s, Sega was the king of arcades in Japan, and they had a plan.Sega - SErvice GAmes - was actually originally an American company, distributing and servicing pinball machines in...
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The Passport Free Library
Welcome!This hub page on the blog Passport to Dreams Old & New is a collection of free primary source resources for Disney fans and historians looking to do some research into aspects of...
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Disney Annual Reports 1965 - 1975
As a Disney parks fan, it can be easy to feel like I missed all the good stuff. Adventure Thru Inner Space! Mine Train Thru Nature's Wonderland! America Sings! Cinderella Castle Mystery Tour!This, of...
View ArticleOff Site: The Haunted Mansion and Inventing Halloween
In the interest of maintaining a complete index here, I'm cross-linking to the articles I'e done for MiceChat while writing my second book. I did this piece in 2021 - for what was supposed to be...
View ArticleOff Site: Disney World's Bermuda Triangle
In the interest of maintaining a complete index here, I'm cross-linking to the articles I've done for MiceChat while writing my second book. This is one of my recent favorites, an imaginative...
View ArticleOff Site: Walt Disney World Vs. Their Own Customers
This article written for MiceChat in April and June 2023 explores all of the ways Disney has tried (and mostly failed) to control their paying customers, from 1955 and leading to the present day. It...
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The Lost Music of Frontierland, 1971 - 1990
Eleven years ago I began to document my journey to recreate and collect old music loops which played at Walt Disney World in its early days. I started with a few easy ones, proceeded through...
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