How Bowers
@goawaygreen
Frequent WDW visitor from ’72-’99. Co-host of RetroWDW podcast. Cocktail maker, tiki fan, font finder, and UX/UI professional. Witty theme park-inspired merch at
Wake up babe, a new Mandela effect just dropped. In The Buggles, “Video Killed the Radio Star,” what does he put the blame on?
It’s ketchup. Ketchup doesn’t need a story. It’s not even the hero of the food you’re eating. It’s a side character at best.
I know why Washday Marvel girl disappeared: demographics. With industrialization the sizes of families dropped dramatically from the 1900s to the 1920s. With appliances you didn’t need as many kids to get things done around the house. Thanks for coming to my WED Talk.
Great mysteries of the Carousel of Progress… 1) Why do the grandparents suddenly look different in Act IV? 2) Why does James age from being years younger than Patty to a few years older than Patty in Act IV? 3) Who has an oven in their home that can reach 950°?
I’m hoping the new show keeps this scene in more modern context. Maybe Cousin Orville shares it as a life hack on his TikTok account. Photo by Dave Ensign
I don’t think people were necessarily more engaged in 1976, but it didn’t hurt that the reason for the celebration was included as part of the logo, potentially at the suggestion of Richard Nixon.
In the Pirates of the Caribbean movie, possessing the coin doesn’t kill you, nor does it stop you from moving, nor does it turn you into a skeleton. You become undead and appear in skeletal form only in moonlight. Tell us again, WDI, how storytelling is behind everything you do.
I’m curious about Imagineering using AI to iterate design choices faster, as typically in design you only have to do this when you haven’t solved the problem and don’t know how to, so you throw things on the wall to see if anything sticks.
“Hey humans, monsters aren’t scary, we’re just going about our daily lives.” Also:
The conundrum: Disney no longer wants to make “tiki” mugs but also doesn’t want to stop making money by selling tiki mugs either.
Tonight’s the night! See “Stolen Kingdom” in Tampa at the Sun-Ray Cinema at 7pm. You’ll see me as a talking head in the movie and then live in person answering questions with director Josh Bailey. See you there! #waltdisneyworld #buzzy
Stolen Kingdom, @josh-bailey.bsky.social’s incredible documentary about sneaking around Walt Disney World, Hoot & Chief, and the disappearance of Buzzy will be playing for one night only in Tampa, next Wednesday at 7 pm. Get your tickets now: www.sunraycinema.com/movies/10000...
It looks like the right arm was duplicated and cast in reverse for the Disneyland queue, but the full sculpt was used outside the attraction at Disneyland and eventually brought to Florida. I never looked closely before.
The art is from the It’s a Small World LP (both the World’s Fair and Disneyland versions).